Anyway, reports have indicated that the Motorola Shadow was left behind in a corporate gym in Washington that is owned by US phone network Verizon. The device was, of course, picked up and taken images of –but Motorola also has a failsafe for their prototypes; the phone can be locked remotely. Also, Motorola gets a one up over Apple since they were actually able to recover the handset on the very same time, in the very same gym, without having to get REACT operatives busting down doors. Also, no one had to get paid for the story.

Moving on to the Shadow itself, the new Motorola handset is practically all that it has been hyped up to be, and this time, the phone in the images show a more classic looking black chassis –as compared to the less interesting all white frame shown in the initial images last January. Also, it appears that the Motorola staff who claimed the device back was also a little generous with the spec details, it has been confirmed that the handset comes with a 4.3 inch capacitive touch screen, an 8 mega pixel snapper, a Snapdragon CPU, an HDMI port, 16GB of internal storage and of course, will be running the Android 2.2 Froyo when it comes out in June.

While the exact details on the Snapdragon CPU was not given, we are certainly hoping that that this might be the newer 1.3 GHz version (QSD-A, which will also be used in the HTC Mondrian WP7 handset) as opposed to the regular 1GHz version. An expected, no release date of the Shadow has been given; and there is also the possibility that like the DROID, it might come out first as a Verizon exclusive before a renamed UK version comes out.