Motorola and Sprintannounced the Motorola XPRT at the beginning of Mayand the price and availability for the smartphone referred to $130 and June 5. As announced the Motorola XPRT is now available from Sprint for $129.99 with a two-year agreement. You get a world phone that runs Android 2.2 Froyo with the latest version of MOTOBLUR. It packs a 3.1-inch HVGA 320x480 display, full QWERTY keyboard, 1GHz processor, five-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR1, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, 2GB ROM, 512MB RAM, microSD slot with 2GB microSD card included and support for up to 32GB total as well as a huge 1860 mAh battery with advertised talk time of up to 9 hours. Source:Sprint Via:TheDroidGuy
In this video we go through all the hardware of the Motorola Droid X2 for Verizon. The Droid X2 has some pretty impressive specifications and is the first Verizon Android smartphone that has a dual-core processor and a qHD display. If the Droid X2 was able to accesses Verizon’s 4G LTE network it would probably be the must have Android powered smartphone for this year.
The Droid X2 is very similar in form factor to the predecessor Droid X from 2010. The Droid X2 gets it processing power from a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor combined with 512MB of RAM. The internal memory is 8GB of which 4GB is accessible. Secondary memory comes from the 8GB microSD Card preinstalled which is expandable up to 32GB, giving a maximum of 40GB. The screen is a 4.3 inch qHD (540x960) LCD behind a glass capacitive multi-touch digitizer. Like the iPhone 4’s Retina display, the pixels of the Droid X2 are very small and nearly indistinguishable with the naked eye. Still photos are captured at a maximum 8.1MP resolution and video may be recorded up to 720p HD. The radios of theDroid X2 include CDMA 800/1900, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, FM, and aGPS. The sensors include a proximity, light, accelerometer, and digital compass. The battery is a 1500mAh lithium-ion that Verizon states should deliver up to 480 minutes of usage and 220 hours of standby time.
Stays tuned for the software and final review coming up next and watch the unboxing video in case it was missed.
The third version of the phone that started the Droid revolution onVerizon, the Droid 3, is bound to start shipping soon as we've been seeing hints of the device in bothBest Buy'sinventory, and also that ofVerizon. The device is likely to ship with Android 2.3, a dual-core 1GHz TI CPU, and a qHD 960x540 4.0" display. A handful of official-looking tutorials for the Droid 3 have surfaced. With it, we get confirmation of a couple features of theDroid3 that were previously not known: 1080p video recording, and a separate number row in gray on the hardware keyboard. Take a look at the three videos below!
We say the Motorola XT882, dubbed Swordfish, is the King of Duals because it has everything in pairs! The smartphone was announced back in May by Motorola and designed specifically for China where it will be available this month -- and we wish we've got it too! TheMotorolaXT882 runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is referred to by the manufacturer as the first dual-core, dual-mode, dual-standbyAndroidsmartphone -- "the triple dual". It sports a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 4-inch qHD display, eight-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 1080p video capture and playback capability, front facer for video chat, 8GB of internal memory, HDMI port, and a huge 1880 mAh battery. The great feature here is CDMA EV-DO/GSM dual-mode dual-standby since the smartphone has dual SIM support. There's Motorola's ownMOTOBLURincluded of course and the smartphone will be available this month for around $830 with China Telecom. Source:Motorola Via:Blog of Mobile
Just asexpected for a June 3 release, theSprint HTC EVO 4Ggot its Android 2.3Gingerbreadupdate but seems like you have to manually check for a refresh in order to get the notification and download the updated ROM The update, besides the new version of GoogleAndroid, brings lots of bugfixes and performance improvements as well as updated Google applications. Unfortunately though, the platform refresh breaks Netflix functionality which, after several reports, has been acknowledged byNetflixitself on Twitter. Let's hope they find the bug and iron it out quickly!
