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X2 is the first dual-core 1GHz Android smartphone on the Verizon network

Motorola has made a big comeback thanks to Google’s Android operating system. The latest offering from Motorola is heading to the Verizon network very soon and it is an impressive device.

The smartphone is the Motorola Droid X2 and it will be available online starting tomorrow. It will land in stores to purchase on May 26. The smartphone will cost $199.99 with a new 2-year agreement and the purchase of a compatible data plan. The X2 has a bunch of very nice features.

It will be the first dual-core 1GHz smartphone to operate on the Verizon network. It also has a 4.3-inch qHD screen that is covered by Gorilla Glass. The X2 will be powered by Android 2.2 at launch and will later get an update to Android 2.3. The phone has an 8-megapixel rear camera and can record HD video.

Other features include a mirror mode for sharing photos and other content on a big screen TV. The device supports enterprise security policies and has support for all the Google services expected of an Android smartphone. The Droid X2 can also act as a mobile hotspot for sharing the 3G connection with up to five other devices.

The required voice plan will cost $39.99 monthly and the unlimited data plan will cost $29.99 monthly.

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RE: 2.2?
By MozeeToby on 5/18/2011 12:47:37 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Every single phone/phone maker has to recompile their own version of the Android software. That is the reason why almost none of Androids phones even run 2.3. This is the drawback with an "open" standard like Android.
And yet, hackers in their spare time manage to put out versions of the ROMs within weeks of their being available for almost every phone available. Now granted, Verizon and Motorola are going to put more effort into testing and verification than the people working on Cyanogen, but the idea that a bunch of hobbyists can have a build done in matter of days while the experts with unlimited access to hardware can't have it done in months is a little hard to accept.


RE: 2.2?
By dguy6789 on 5/18/2011 12:52:15 PM , Rating: 4
Hackers don't have this fancy thing called QC that they have to adhere to.


RE: 2.2?
By Chadder007 on 5/18/2011 12:56:47 PM , Rating: 3
I wouldn't call what Verizon and Motorola does QC either though....


RE: 2.2?
By Souka on 5/18/2011 6:06:43 PM , Rating: 3
Months ago I put a Froyo rom on my Droid Eris

Wow...made the Eris an awesome phone...soo much faster except for one little problem... the camera app crashed everytime I tried to open it.

Tried another "stable" rom... same problem.

Ended up going back to stock 2.1 until I got my DroidX


RE: 2.2?
By omnicronx on 5/18/2011 2:27:34 PM , Rating: 2
Clearly you've never used a stock ROM or you would not be making those statements..

Cyanogenmod in general only supports fully working devices with stable builds, and have nightly, experimental and stable builds. They go through just as much if not better QC than most of the stock ROM's you will ever touch.

Even with my device in which CM is not a true solution, we have ROM kitchens with beta and stable releases, and only when everything is working correctly are they promoted to a stable release. (and in the case of small bugs, they are fixed quickly on a much faster release cycle then you wille ever see from the carriers)

I've been running 2.3.3 on my device for the last while without issue (I only run stable ROM's), and I would never go back to using a stock ROM.

P.S everyone please stop calling them hackers.. 99.99% of them are developers and re-packagers, hardly anything is being truly 'hacked'.. CM in general is a the true vanilla Android experience compiled from scratch. These are hard working developers maintaining these projects, not some 17 year old kids hacking up a storm.


RE: 2.2?
By SkullOne on 5/18/2011 3:10:58 PM , Rating: 2
Yep. Couldn't have said it better myself. There's a reason why CyanogenMod is the number 1 third party ROM.

Huge kudos to all of those devs on the CM team (and any ROM in general). I don't know when some of them even find time to sleep with as fast as they push out updates. I know one of the CM team devs has 6 kids and he still finds time to code.

Honestly, companies like HTC, Motorola, and Samsung should be ashamed of themselves when it comes to their incredibly mediocre updating.


RE: 2.2?
By Aloonatic on 5/18/2011 3:27:26 PM , Rating: 2
Don't the careers have to take a fairly big chunk of the responsibility for the delays in updates? Or is that all a thing of the past now?


RE: 2.2?
By phantom505 on 5/18/2011 7:20:12 PM , Rating: 2
It's a rare day I agree with you, but today I do; on this at least.

I've been using CM7 on an Incredible for couple months now. Even their "beta" was better than what I had stock by a long shot.

I have been getting every free app that Amazon has put up since they launched the store. I have yet to have one fail plus all my older apps that I actually use. I have very few problems except a couple programs like Facebook which are notoriously bad. Even then it's better than stock.


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