Folks in the UK will be able to get their hands on two new QWERTY smartphones next month. First is the Motorola Pro, an Android based phone with a candybar design and a QWERTY keypad and the second is the HP Pre 3, which is based on Palm’s webOS and a has a portrait sliding QWERTY keypad.

Motorola PRO is a candybar shaped device and features a portrait oriented QWERTY keyboard underneath the model’s 3.1 inch capacitive touchscreen display. Under the hood is a 1GHz processor, running the show including the 5MP camera with AF and flash. The Motorola DROID PRO will ship with Android 2.2 on board along with Adobe Flash Player 10.1.
The Motorola Pro is slated for launch in mid-July, according to a retailer in UK. The phone on pre-order on site for £350 ($567), even though the price isn’t confirmed.

The HP Pre 3 Specifications: The gadget is designed with HP web OS 2.2 and 1.4 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8655 chipset. It has display type of 3.58 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen in 16M colors. Other design features includes QWERTY keyboard, Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Multi-touch input method and Proximity sensor for auto turn-off.
As for the HP Pre 3, another retailer has put the phone up for pre-order for the same price as the Motorola Pro, i.e., £350 and expects the handset to release by July 8.

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