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First Looks at Moto’s Droid X

Posted by Zealot on Jun 16, 2010

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motoroladroidx03 Once upon a time people said that as phones became more advanced, they would become smaller and smaller. Surprise! The opposite is taking place, as phones just keep getting larger, so that the new crop of superphones are more MID than smartphones, large, gorgeous internet tablets with 4 or 5 inch screens. Consider the EVO 4G and now it’s new competitor, Motorola’s Droid X which is being previewed all over the net today.

Due to be announced on the 23rd by Verizon, the Droid X packs:

  • A 4.4 inch multitouch screen with 854 x 480-resolution
  • Android 2.1
  • An 8MP Cam
  • A 1GHz ARM7 chip

Engadget is saying that the Droid X is already making them forget the Incredible, last weeks new hotness. Watch a video of the phone in action and tell me, is Android really overtaking iOS in the smartphone sweepstakes, or does it just look like it.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, HP Mini 311, iPod Touch 3G, iPad 16G or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Wil Wheaton!).

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    • http://www.google.com/profiles/116333709033748211378 doogald

      Actually, this tendency for Android phone getting larger and larger worries me, as an Android user. I do think that the EVO is too big for me, and I deliberately chose an Eris over the Droid (knowing the hardware limitations) mostly because the Droid is such a brick.

      the Droid X looks better in that regard, but I'd love something powerful that is, well, iPhone-sized for a change.

      This should be an interesting sale quarter, with the new iPhone 4 (which sounds like it's already a winner, based on the problems that Apple and AT&T are having taking preorders) and the Evo, the Droid X and apparently the Droid 2 as well coming out, if not other new handsets. I think that everybody's a winner here, particularly we users. I'd just love a small and thin Android superphone, thank you very much, for summer 2011…

    • http://bardhaven.wordpress.com Zealot

      I agree this is shaping up to be a great year to be cellphone shopping.

      I have about one to two years left with my Treo Pro, then I admit it, I will likely switch to an Android “tabletphone” like the Droid X. If not, then I could easily go iPhone 4 (well, by the 5). I am impressed with what I have seen from windows Phone 7, but sadly it isn't tempting me. I feel the way I did when I left PalmOS for a WinMo PDA, like it is time to move on.

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