Motorola Milestone Gets UK Debut Today

The Motorola Milestone, otherwise known as the US Droid, is already available in the UK through Expansys for as little as £450 with an estimated delivery window of two days.

The phone is exclusive to Expansys for now and is a genuine localised version complete with UK keyboard. The online retailer has also managed to get the Milestone on T-Mobile for £35 per month with a £50 initial outlay.

Included in the 18-month contract package are 700 minutes, unlimited texts and 1GB data per month and for those who trade in their old smartphones can get up to £100 cashback until the 31st of December (ed: not really worth it though, they offer a measly £100 for an Apple 3GS).

An Expansys spokesperson reportedly told T3 that they have had a "huge number of pre-orders" with "everyone" calling about the Motorola smartphone.

As a reminder, it has a 528Mhz processor, significantly less than say, the HTC HD2's 1GHz Snapdragon chipset. It comes with a slide out QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, a 5-megapixel camera and a gorgeous 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen display.

The phone is the first one to come with Google's next generation Android platform, version 2.0 and is tipped to be a serious contender for the seat of "best iPhone rival yet".