When Motorola first unveiled the Droid X, it garnered a lot of attention because of the massive display. Larger displays on Android phones have since become rather standard, though. What, then, will Motorola do to differentiate the next iteration of the Droid X line?
Not much, as it turns out from the latest leaks of what is purported (and certainly seems to be) the soon-to-be-announced Droid X 2. Leaked in a forum post over at the MobiZone, then quickly pulled, here’s the hardware we’re looking at in the Droid X 2.
Inside the Droid X 2, you’ll find a rather standard NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor clocked at 1GHz, as well as 1GB of RAM. The display is a QHD LCD affair running at a resolution of 960 x 540… somewhat lackluster in our post-Retina age, especially for the Droid X 2’s size.
Also lackluster? The Droid X 2 won’t run Gingerbread. Instead, it’s locked down at Android 2.2 Froyo. You’ll have a hard time upgrading the device yourself, too, since it comes with a locked and encrypted bootloader, making jailbreaking all the more difficult.
Otherwise, an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with no front camera, an FM radio and a 3G radio round-off the specs.
Not terribly impressive, especially for a phone that is due to launch in Q2… and if Engadget is to be believed, the specs might be even worse than the leak reported: they claim that the Droid X 2 will only have a 1.2GHz single-core CPU, 768MB of RAM and 4.3-inch WVGA (854 x 480) display. Either way, pretty disappointing.
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