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If you lost interest after seeing the picture, we can’t necessarily say we blame you — trackballs are so 2009 — but be that as it may, Motorola still hasn’t declare or released its long-rumored Quench XT5 model. The slate has popped up on Cellpassion today with an apparent diagram (from a user’s manual, it would seem) along with a bunch of specs that would place it squarely in the low- to midrange of the crowded Android arena: Eclair, integrated FM radio, DivX compatibility, and 3.2-inch HVGA display stand out to us, as does triband 7.2Mbps HSDPA radio. Interestingly, 850MHz isn’t one of those 3G bands, which let’s us safely rule out a US launch — logical, of course, considering that the original Quench was a European CLIQ XT in the first place. Around back, you’ve got a 5 megapixel cam with flash, so not all’s lost — but needless to say, it better be priced aggressively to get any traction at this point.

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As is becoming almost customary with high-profile smartphone releases these days, Verizon and Motorola have already gotten around to releasing the Droid 2’s first over-the-air firmware update just days after its initial launch on the 12th. There’s not much in this place — the most important fix seems to be that you can scroll text and picture messages at this time — and most notably, the severe signal strength issues we saw in our review unit don’t seem to have been addressed in this place (and we’ve verified that after updating). All we can hope at this point, we suppose, is that it’s squared away by the time the R2-D2 version or the dual-mode version launches… whichever comes first.

Until at this time, Milestone owners could do nothing but to envy Droid users rocking the Froyo upgrade; however, according to Motorola’s recently published timeline, the former device is at this time slated for the same dessert party in Europe and Korea in Q4 — specifically, “beginning at the end of this year,” which could well mean the majority of users won’t get the update until 2011 (!). Meanwhile, said upgrade is still “under evaluation” for Canada, Latin America, Mexico and Asia-Pacific sans Korea.