Picasa is at it again!  The ultimate leak machine these days for anyone with too much time on their hands, has produced the first pictures from the Motorola Olympus (MB860).  They aren’t much to look at and the resolution or crop job on some of them is about as weird as it gets, but we may still have discovered something special pictured in the image below:  

I keep using the word silly, but seriously it’s just been that kind of week.  Apparently a tipster over at Gizmodo found the phone pictured above which is said to be the Motorola Olympus at a flea market…we’ll just pause here for a second.  

Silliest question ever?  Hear me out for a second.  If you read this site at all, then you know we love us some Motorola phones on Verizon’s network and pretty much ignore everything that is AT&T.  However, with news slowly leaking out each week that Motorola is leaning towards launching two separate dual-core Tegra 2 phones on both of these networks (Olympus for AT&T) (Etna for Verizon) with the AT&T version possibly coming first, we want to know which you would consider?  What if the Olympus launches in January as a 3G AT&T device with specs to crush the world and the Etna doesn’t come out until March, but will run on 4G LTE?

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Did AT&T just slip up?  According to their Facebook admin, the Motorola Olympus, which is codenamed the Etna on Verizon, could hit stores in either December or January?  That was the initial thought until that same response was quickly removed.  While this isn’t incredibly huge news as far as a release date goes (2 months is sort of a wide range), it is huge in the fact that they acknowledged the device’s existent.  Until now, it’s only been a rumor seen on sites like ours that have led the charge to uncover this next big Android device from Motorola.

Source:  Facebook (although it’s been removed)
Via:  BGR

Can you think of a better way to send you all off into a long food filled weekend than with a couple of quick rumors?

The first has to do with those pictures above which is rumored to be the Motorola Olympus, a device headed to AT&T some time early next year.  Well, if you spend any time cruising through the 8,000 Android forums out there, then you may have stumbled across a few threads that have users also referring to it as the “Etna“.  Apparently “Etna” is the code name for the Verizon version and fits nicely into the large mountain theme that Moto chose for this round of devices.  From here forward, we’ll do our best to keep the names separated, but all signs now point to them being the same exact device only running on different networks.  Expect Blur, Android 2.2 and a Tegra 2 packed inside unless a miracle happens and Gingerbread bakes itself on board at the last minute.

The second rumor has to do with a device that seems to be topping everyone’s list for yearly upgrades, the Incredible HD.  The Inc HD, which gained some buzz after a ridiculously rumored original launch date of November 23rd was mentioned, is definitely not coming this month and more than likely won’t see December either.  We had already heard from a VZW player that it had been delayed until the first part of the year and today we’re hearing it again.  Store managers have apparently caught wind of either our site or are hearing it from higher up the chain that it will definitely be a 4G LTE device and not seeing the light of day until January at the earliest.

Recap!  Motorola Etna is what we all care about now.  The Incredible HD is confirmed for the 10th time to be real and won’t be here until January.

Cheers Bob!

Is that the Motorola Olympus?  According to a tipster on the loose with photos it is.

The device looks big, bold and beautiful and about what we expected one of the first Tegra 2 devices to look like.  It’s sporting what appears to be a pretty large screen (bigger than 3.7″), possibly a front facing camera, soft keys, and even a weird jagged edge around the outside.  Or is that sneaky case to help disguise it?  But damn, that screen just gets bigger the more you stare at it.

You guys have fun with it!  Is this your next device even if it goes straight to AT&T?

Via:  Engadget

Our friends at “Motorola” just sent over this interesting screenshot, which appears to be straight from the new Motorola Olympus that we’ve been talking non-stop about over the last few days.  While we’re running on this hunch that the Olympus and Everest are both tablets, our tipster left out any real specifics.  And with that said, this is a shot of an “About” screen which we all know can be doctored fairly easily.  You’ll notice that the notification bar is missing and that the resolution on the image doesn’t necessarily match any of the devices we have, but that could mean a variety of things.  Oh and I blocked out the PRL version which is why you see a giant black space at the bottom.

Is this a 7-inch tablet with weird resolution?  Will we no longer have a notification bar in Gingerbread?  Is this fake?  We’ll leave it up to you to decide.

Update:  As Fira pointed out in the comments, one of Google’s Android peeps (Romain Guy) has posted this screenshot which he calls a “stock” and “unmodified” version of Android running on his device without a notification bar.  Of course he doesn’t mention which version that is and we’re still skeptical…

Digging for more…

-K and Tato