Droid Does website points to imminent Froyo update for Droid X… but what does it mean?
Just as Paul Vasquez would have us do, we're questioning the true meaning behind a curious page that has popped up over at the Droid Does website -- a very authentic portal that Verizon Wireless itself has been pushing for nearly a year. Put simply, the splash page details "great news!" surrounding a heretofore unannounced Android 2.2 update for the arguably gigantic Droid X.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: droid, droidx, entry, froyo, mobileos, news, portal, tipster, verizon
Prepaid Droid, BlackBerry and Palm phones coming to Verizon? (update: box spotting)
We'd heard a few rumors of some new prepaid offerings from Verizon recently, but it now looks like the carrier could really be about to expand things in a big way -- at least if some purportedly authentic leaked documents are any indication. Apparently received by Android Does from a helpful tipster, the documents list a whole new lineup of prepaid phones, including a slew of BlackBerrys, the Palm Pre and Pixi Plus, and just about every Android-based phone Verizon offers (including all of the Droids and even the yet-to-be released Samsung Fascinate -- again listed for September 9th ).
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, curve, droid, droid2, droidx, entry, handful, leak, offerings, palm, phones, pre, prepaid-droid, samsung, samsungfascinate
Custom Droid X ROMs starting to break loose, eFuse be damned
Despite Motorola's best intentions to the contrary , the Droid X has been making steady progress toward viable custom ROMs, first with root access , then with a recovery method ...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: benefits, contrary, custom rom, custom-droid, droid, droidx, efuse, motorola, progress-toward, result, standard-builds
Droid X upgrade to Android 2.2 leaks out
What we're looking at here is allegedly the leaked over-the-air update to Froyo that Verizon plans on deploying to Droid X customers in the next few weeks, which means two critical things for customers: it should generally be faster all the way around, and -- of course -- you've got support for Flash, which was a big topic of interest at Motorola's launch event for the phone a couple months back.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: droidx, flash, fri, launch, launch-event, leaked, leaks, luck, update, upgrade, verizon
Droid X owners being showered with gifts?
You might recall that Verizon handed out "Droid Does" t-shirts to some early buyers of the original Motorola Droid -- but if you thought the Android-themed gratitude from Big Red ended there, you'd apparently be quite wrong. Droid Life is reporting that some Droid X owners are now receiving packages with seemingly badass new eye exam-themed shirts and coupons good for 25 percent off accessories, perfect for that silicone case you know you've had your eye on
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: coupons, droid, droid x, droidx, engadget, gift package, gratitude, motorola, now-receiving, result, shirt, Silicone, verizon, version-enough
Motorola Milestone XT720 pops up stateside courtesy of Newegg
It may not look too appealing in the face of some of Motorola's more recent wares -- most notably the Droid X -- but if you're still looking to score that elusive Motorola Milestone XT720 in the US, it looks like retailer Newegg has you covered with an unlocked version (which they interestingly refer to as the "Milestone II") for $540. Sadly, there's no indication of the 3G bands supported, so far all we know, you're going to be brokenhearted when you discover that your AT&T (or T-Mobile) SIM tops out with EDGE data -- and for over half a grand, HSPA is the least we'd expect.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: droidx, friend-via, milestone, motorola, newegg, result, wares, xt 720, xt720
Motorola turns Droid X’s source code loose — some of it, anyhow
This might not have a ton of relevance as long as we've got a nearly airtight bootloader lock standing in our way, but we suppose it's a start: Motorola has outed the Droid X's source code, though it's apparently left some key bits out, just as it's entitled to do under the terms of Android's Apache License. Of course, this isn't anything new -- HTC does the same, mainly releasing only stuff that it has to by virtue of the kernel's GPL licensing -- and considering the customizations all these guys are doing, it's not an entirely surprising way to go about it. In other words, don't expect custom firmware to start popping up left and right -- not until our ever-trusty hacking community figures out a way to fully circumvent the eFuse noise.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apache, apparently-left, bits, customizations, droidx, engadget, expect-custom, htc, nearly-airtight, result, virtue, words
Motorola takes another shot at the iPhone 4, says Droid X is ‘no jacket required’
Well this is getting good . Motorola was one of the first to take a subtle swipe at Apple's iPhone 4 antenna dilemma with an ad saying you could hold the Droid X "any way you like," Apple came right back with a video purportedly showing the Droid X suffering similar attenuation issues when held in the right hand, and now Moto's responded with this cheeky ad that plays off Apple's free iPhone case solution by saying the Droid X can make calls "without a bulky phone jacket." Yeah, it's pretty good -- particularly because unlike most other phones, we haven't been able to death grip the Droid X with any noticeable effect on 3G reception. (Although, truth be told, we can drop the WiFi signal by a few bars pretty easily.) Either way, we're certainly enjoying this little slice of swagger from Moto -- check a larger version after the break
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: advertising, antenna, apple, dilemma, droidx, effect, entry, grip-the-droid, iphone, no jacket required, nojacketrequired, swipe, wifi
Android 2.2 upgrade for Droid X may already be trickling out, other Droids shortly?
We've already gathered that Verizon, Moto, and HTC all seem to be pretty well committed to bumping most of their Droid models to Froyo (as well they should), but things are starting to get real -- really real. First off, we've been fed a shot of a tipster's Droid X that has apparently already been blessed with 2.2 over the air; the baseband version is a tick older than the one in a shot leaked over on My Droid Life , but it's anyone's guess how Motorola is staging this and what the final gold binary really contains. We've also seen a 2.2 ROM for the Droid Incredible leak recently ( and the Droid before that ), so uncorroborated rumors we're seeing that three of the four retail Droids will be getting 2.2 by the 15th of next month aren't necessarily crazy
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: droid, droidincredible, droidx, entry, froyo, incredible, motorola, positive, think-positive, update, verizon, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless
Droid X can now be counted among the rooted
It's recently come to our attention that Birdman over at the AllDroid.org forums has rooted the Droid X . By all accounts (which, at the time of this writing, consists of two forum posts that exclaim "it works!") things are going beautifully, so what do you think?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: birdman, cellphones, droidx, recently-come, smartphone, source, time, underbelly, verizon