Thursday is Droid X launch day in the United States, and Android fans across the country are looking to grab the highly anticipated follow up to the original Motorola Droid. Motorola’s Droid X is an impressive new contender in the category of large form-factor touchscreen smartphones.
The device’s high-end hardware specifications and massive 4-inch touchscreen set it apart from the rest of Motorola’s current product lineup. Although the Android-based device has much in common with HTC’s recently launched EVO 4G, the Droid X succeeds where the EVO fell short—by matching an excellent feature set with all-day battery life.
The Droid X comes with a new iteration of Motorola’s custom Android environment, which offers tightly integrated social networking functionality. It has outstanding power management features and the best support for messaging that we have ever seen on an Android handset—characteristics that make up for the rough edges that are present elsewhere in the user experience.
The latest addition to the Android smartphone family includes a 4.3-inch screen with 480-by-854 resolution, an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 720p high-resolution video recording, and 3 microphones for enhanced noise canceling, expandable SD storage and a 1 GHz processor.
If that wasn’t enough, the Droid X is also boasting a healthy battery life, Flash Player capable (coming soon with the Android 2.2 update) all topped off with a new version of Motorola’s Motoblur overlay.
The Droid X isn’t only a hit with Android fans, but the critics like it too. The Droid X will launch with Android 2.1 (eclair), but Motorola plans on issuing an over-the-air update later this summer for the Droid X that will switch it over to Android 2.2 (Froyo), the Flash Player capable version of the Android OS.
Where are you can buy a Motorola’s Droid X? The Motorola Droid X will be available at Verizon stores and Best Buy locations across the United States.
