Mobile telecommunication companies, Verizon and Motorola have jointly announced their latest smartphones that will hit the market this year: the Droid Pro and the Citrus.

The Droid Pro is geared up to be a business phone while the Citrus is an entry level phone for casual mobile users.

The Droid Pro will feature a 3.1-inch touch screen and a full qwerty keyboard. It has a 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and auto-focus, a 1GHz processor, 512MB of memory and 2GB of on-board storage. It likewise has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 and tri-band UMTS.

Meanwhile, the Citrus comes as a small touch-screen phone that will run on the Android operating system. Tech blog, Engadget, says that it will have a 524MHz MSM7525 processor and a 3-inch screen.

Both smartphones are expected to be released towards the end of the year.