<div id="subtitle">Hungry for Android handsets, Verizon Wireless announces Motorola Devour</div><div><p>Verizon Wireless has a second handset from Motorola Inc. that uses Google Inc.'s Android software: The Devour.</p><p>Much like the Motorola Droid, which debuted to much fanfare in November, the Devour has a touch screen that slides away to reveal a keyboard. The screen is slightly smaller, however. Verizon said Wednesday the phone would be on sale in March, but did not say what it would cost.</p><p>The Devour also features Motoblur, a software package from Motorola that displays e-mails and content from such sites as Twitter and Facebook on one screen. Motorola's Cliq, which launched through T-Mobile USA last year, also used Motoblur, but the Droid did not.</p><p>Verizon Wireless has positioned Android phones as its main alternative to the iPhone, available in the U.S. exclusively through AT&T Inc.</p><p>Motorola, for its part, sees Android-powered smart phones as the way out of a deep multiyear sales slump. It has said it plans to launch about 20 models this year, of which the Devour would be the first.</p><p>Verizon also sells a smaller, keyboard-less Android phone made by HTC Corp., the Droid Eris.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68402329&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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