If that Motorola Droid that is aiming directly at the iPhone has piqued your interest, we have some good news for you today. Someone over at Motorola has posted the official Droid page live to the Motorola website and then quickly pulled it down.

Before the site was pulled, we had enough time to glean the important specs of the phone along with some clear shots of the handset. The device has a 3.7-inch 480 x 854 touchscreen, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with 4x digital zoom and dual LED flash, and gets a 1400mAh battery.

Vonage, a provider of VoIP home phone services, has announced a new mobile application designed specifically for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and RIM’s Blackberry devices providing alternative discounted rates for international calls. The application is a free download available today available from the Vonage site or through the iTunes App Store.

The application will allow mobile users to dial international calls as they normally would with no extra steps or special numbers to enter, and those receiving the calls will see the mobile number in their callerID just like a regular international call. In the future Vonage plans on extending the offering to a monthly flat rate, but for now the discounted per-minute charges will apply.

Verizon and HTC have a new smartphone in their lineup with the launch of the HTC Imagio. The Imagio will be a Verizon exclusive available from October the 6th. Some features include a 3.6 inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5 megapixel camera with built in auto focus, WiFi, EV-DO Rev A, quad-band EDGE and 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA.

The HTC Imagio runs Windows Mobile 6.5, and comes with HTC’s TouchFLO 3D UI, a 3.5mm audio jack and a microSD card slot. Any takers?

AT&T and TerreStar have teamed up to unveil the new TerreStar Genus hybrid smartphone. This one will be able to use both AT&T’s network and TerreStar’s satellite network when you want to make or receive calls. What this means to you is that you will be able to take advantage of the satellite network when there isn’t a cellular signal. So you will always be available.

It’s a Windows Mobile-powered handset with GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA connectivity, a 2.6″ touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi support, GPS navigation and Bluetooth.

There’s news today that the HTC HD2 is launching on October 12th. The HD2 was previously known as the HTC Leo. The smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and sports a 4.3 inch capacitive touchscreen that runs at a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

The HD2 will run the TouchFlo 3D navigation overlay. According Engadget’s tipster, the O2 intranet site lists the “HTC HD2″ on its future products list with an October 12th launch date.

Gizmodo has the skinny on the Pink.Project Pink is Microsoft’s new phone for regular joes. We heard rumors about the software months ago, but the hardware, as well as who’s making it has been a mystery. Anyhow, check out the first pictures of these Pink phones, the Turtle and Pure.

The phones will be made by Sharp and Pink will be aimed at the same market that uses the Sidekick. The Turtle kind of looks like a toy Palm Pre, while the Pure seems like your typical standard slider. Both are very…round-ish, with soft angles. Obviously plastic.

The latest offering from Motorola is this Windows Mobile-powered smartphone, the MC9500. This one is for tough industrial situations where you need a rugged Phone. The MC9500 also sports an accelerometer so you can tip the device toward a delivery customer and have the screen flip around for signing and has five swappable keypads.

Charging requires it to hook up into a modular, “form factor agnostic” charging system with LED indicators on the 4800 mAh batteries that show the current level of juice in the batteries. Some other features include a 3-megapixel camera, EV-DO and HSPA modules, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a 3.7? 640 x 480 display.

Check out this leaked image of the upcoming HTC Leo smartphone in the wild. It’s larger than the HTC Touch Pro2 and the Touch HD, with a roomy 4.3″ touchscreen display. This one is powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 and runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor.

This one is so slick and shiny that it’s going to collect fingerprints like the LAPD. Some other features of the HTC Leo include a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, 320MB RAM, 512MB ROM and a microSD memory card slot.

RIM makes some of the hottest smartphones out there with its line of Blackberry devices. The Blackberry is popular with business users and consumers alike and is one of the best selling smartphone lines in the world.

Alltel has announced that the Blackberry Tour is now available on its network and can be picked up in all retail stores and online. At the time of this writing, the device isn’t on their website. The handset supports the Alltel 3G network and works on 3G networks around the world.

We have some more details on HTC’s upcoming high end smartphone, the HTC Leo, including some new pictures. Here’s the skinny: The HTC Leo runs a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, is only 11mm thin, features a 4.3 inch screen, and will run Windows Mobile 6.5, as well as sporting a 5 megapixel camera with built in auto focus and a 2 LED flash.

Some other specs include HSDPA connectivity, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.1. No word on pricing or an exact launch date, but we are looking at September or October.

The folks at the FCC have just approved the latest Windows Mobile 6.1-powered smartphone from LG, the LG GW600. The new phone will come with Video Share, a half-QWERTY keyboard, a touchscreen display for easy navigation and a stylus.

You’ll also be able to surf with Wi-Fi, use GPS navigation, snap photos with a 3-megapixel camera, a microSD memory card slot and Bluetooth support. It’s too early to talk price or availability of course. This one is too fresh.

Smartphone sales are booming despite the poor economy as users flock to the devices in part because they can perform the tasks of several other devices. One of the tasks many smartphones can perform is GPS navigation.

The recent iPhone OS 3.0 update added the ability for apps that charge on a recurring basis. One of the first apps to do this was the AT&T Navigator app at $9.99 per month. According to ABI research, the global handset navigation market is set to hit 26 million by 2010.

Mio is usually associated with GPS systems, but here they are rolling out a new Windows Mobile 6.5-powered handset dubbed the Mio Amber. It isn’t official just yet, but we do have some specs.

This one packs in a 3.61″ WVGA touchscreen display, GPRS/EDGE and WCDMA/HSPA connectivity, G sensor, GPS/A-GPS navigation, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, FM transmitter, Noise cancellation technology, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, Secondary VGA camera, 528MHz Qualcomm MSM 7201A Turbo processor, 256MB RAM/512MB ROM, and a microSD memory card slot.

Before I owned my iPhone, I had a Motorola Razr. I thought the Razr was a good phone and didn’t think I would ever need a smartphone. Once I tried out the iPhone, I knew that the Razr had really sucked and I didn’t have a clue what a smartphone could do for me. After well over a year with my iPhone, I will never go back to normal phones.

Lots of consumers are seeing the smartphone light it seems. Analytics firm Yankee Group has unveiled the latest trends in the mobile phone industry that show the smartphone is growing by leaps and bounds. According to the firm 41% of consumers say they will make a smartphone their next mobile device purchase.

Palm and Sprint haven’t confirmed the numbers officially, but according to JPMorgan in a Wall Street Journal article, “sales in the first two days probably exceeded 50,000.” The figure was “aligned with expectations, but probably fell short of the 146,000 reported first-gen iPhone sales” during its opening weekend. And that was due to “capacity constraints in manufacturing.”

So it looks like the Pre launch was a success. Next weekend’s sales may put it all in perspective. It’s great news for Palm, but it isn’t all roses. We’ll have to see if new Palm owners are still having problems or not.