Motorola and Sprint Nextel unveiled plans to launch the ruggedized Motorola i1 push-to-talk smartphone based on Google's Android 1.5 operating system for the Nextel iDEN network.

The device includes a 3.1-inch touch screen, 5.0 megapixel camera with flash and geotagging, video, Opera's Mini 5 browser and WiFi. Sprint Nextel's iDEN network offers minimal packet data Internet access, but its WiFi capability could do the heavy lifting. The device also features two-way email and text messaging and wireless modem capabilities along with Google search, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Gmail. Microsoft Document Viewer and corporate sync are also available to enable users to access Word or PowerPoint files.

Sprint Nextel has not released pricing information.

 For more:
- see this eWeek article

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