Droid X

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Motorola Droid X
Motorola Motoroi X
Microphones (3)
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Magnetometer
SARHead 1.43 W/kg
Body 1.41 W/kg
Hearing aid compatibilityM4, T3
References[2][3][4]
Motorola Droid X2
AVRCP
DLNA

micro-
A-GPS
S-GPS
Microphone
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
SARHead 0.74 W/kg
Body 1.5 W/kg
Hearing aid compatibilityM4, T3
References[5][6]

The Droid X is a

Iusacell
in Mexico.

Motorola ceased production of the Droid X on March 31, 2011. Less than two months later on May 26, 2011, Motorola released its successor, the Droid X2, which featured an upgraded dual-core processor called the

Nvidia Tegra 2
. These were the only products

History

Motorola released the Droid X on July 15, 2010, at an initial price of

Iusacell customers in Mexico, where it was released as Motoroi X on November 9, 2010.[7]

A leaked end-of-life document from Verizon showed that production of the Droid X would end on March 31, 2011.[8] It was succeeded by the Droid X2 on May 26, 2011.[9]

Specifications

Hardware

The Droid X features a 1.0 GHz

microSDHC card, and is compatible with microSDHC cards up to 32 GB. When the Droid X was first released it came standard with a microSDHC card of 16 GB, but Motorola reduced the size to 2 GB. Users input data to the phone via a multi-touch capacitive touchscreen. The Droid X includes an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash and can record video at 720p resolution up to 24 fps also.[4]

Reception

The Droid X received favorable reviews.

PC Magazine gave the phone 8.7/10 and said that the Droid X was a true iPhone 4 competitor.[11]
The phone became the second-highest-selling phone of August 2010, right behind the iPhone 4.

The smartphone received significant attention from the ROM development community, for example from CyanogenMod.[12] As of November 2015, periodic conversation still appears on development forums.[13][14] The smartphone has received updates to Ice Cream Sandwich and KitKat as of May 2019.

Droid X2

The second generation Droid X2 is physically similar in every respect, even sharing the same battery, except that it lacks a physical camera button. Motorola's decision to drop the camera button has been met with both praise and ridicule. Some say it lends the phone a sleeker look, while others report that the lack of a physical button makes taking steady pictures more difficult. Internally, it is built around the

qHD resolution. The X2 comes standard from Verizon with an 8 GB SD card and 8 GB of internal memory. Although the major specifications of the 8-megapixel camera and 720p HD video recorder are unchanged, image quality has been improved and video is now recorded at 30 fps thanks to a revised camera sensor.[16][17]

While the Droid X had already been upgraded to Android 2.3 at the X2's launch, the X2 was released with 2.2 and a promise for an update to 2.3.[18] 2.3.3 was released in batches starting on July 28, 2011, and available to pull over-the-air on August 1, 2011.[19] Android 2.3.4 was soak tested to most users on October 12 to fix various bugs. Android 2.3.5 soak was started early May to some users (verizon 1.3.418.) As of May 2012, the US Verizon version has been updated to 2.3.5. The non-Verizon and International version, the Milestone X2 has been updated by Motorola Mobility to 2.3.6. Verizon promises a 2.3.6 update but Motorola Mobility has confirmed it will never see Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

The Droid X2 was a disappointment to fans of Official Motorola Droid devices and was met with equally lackluster sales. For Droid X owners, the lack of significant improvements and number of reported performance issues discouraged upgrades to the new phone. It was not the spiritual successor to the Droid and the Droid X that Verizon and Motorola Mobility had hoped it would be. Instead, the

Droid RAZR
released six months later became the next flagship model of the Motorola Droid lineup.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Motorola for Consumers". Motorola Mobility. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  2. ^ a b Verizon Wireless 2010.
  3. ^ a b Verizon Wireless 2011.
  4. ^ a b Motorola Mobility 2011.
  5. ^ "Motorola Droid X2". Verizon Wireless. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  6. ^ "Droid X2 by Motorola Fact Sheet" (PDF). Alexi's Tech Blog. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  7. ^ Chester, Simon (November 10, 2010). "Motorola Droid X making its way to Mexico, rebranded as Motoroi X". TechCrunch. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  8. ^ Baker, Aaron (August 24, 2010). "Confirmed: End-of-life approaching for Verizon Pre Plus, Curve 8530, and Storm2". PhoneDog. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  9. ^ Nickinson, Phil (May 18, 2011). "Droid X2 officially announced, available May 26 for $199". Android Central. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  10. ^ "Motorola Droid X Review". CNET. 23 June 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  11. ^ Nusca, Andrew (23 June 2010). "Motorola Droid X review: bigger, badder, better". ZDNet. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  12. ^ "Information: Motorola Droid X ("shadow") - CyanogenMod". Archived from the original on 2015-09-18. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  13. ^ "Droid X". 9 September 2015.
  14. ^ "Motorola Droid X". 18 December 2022.
  15. ^ "DROID X2 by Motorola Coming to Verizon Wireless with Double the Power, Double the Does". Press Release. Motorola Mobility. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  16. ^ "Droid X2 review". engadget. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  17. ^ "Motorola Droid X2 Review - A Droid X with Tegra 2". Anand Tech. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  18. ^ "DROID X2 by Motorola Fact Sheet". Motorola Mobility. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  19. ^ "Verizon Support: DROIDX2 Gingerbread Update Starts Rolling Out Today". Droid Life. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  20. ^ "Motorola Milestone XT702 - Motorola Mobility Hong Kong Limited". Motorola Mobility. Retrieved 19 April 2012.

External links

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