Pay More For A Motorola Droid That May Not Work Motorola Droid Engineering Prototype For Sale On Ebay

Ever want to own a (supposed) piece of cell phone history? An alleged
engineering prototype of the Motorola Droid has shown up on eBay, with a
starting bid of $485. The Droid, which runs Google's Android 2.0 OS, was
released earlier this month, with a price of $200 (subsided with a
service plan, of course) by American provider Verizon.
According to the eBay listing, the prototype is 'a pre-release verison'
and 'was made strictly for Motorola engineers'. The seller doesn't
exactly speculate on where he got the phone, but judging by the wording
of the eBay listing, he doesn't appear to be a Motorola engineer.
The seller says the phone is 'working perfectly' and can be used with an
cellular network. The pictures of the operating system appear to be
running the regularย versionย of Google Android. If you were even
concerned, it comes with a phone charger. Despite the seller's claims
that the phone works well, he does say can'tย guaranteeย it will work
perfectly.
This really appears to be the real deal. The pictures on the eBay
listing show the phone looks slightly different from the off-the-shelf
one and instead of the provider logo near the mouthpiece, the phone
features an apt warning, Confidental: Motorola Restricted Property: Not
For Sale . Ooops.
Note that this probably isn't a debug unit that will let you hack into
Verizon's network and cause havoc, it simply appears to be a pre-release
regular unit. Despite some mild coverage over the tech blogosphere
today, there STILL aren't any bids, so if you're interested in paying
more for a regular Motorola Droid, albeit one with an interesting story,
then you better fire up that PayPal account.