Let's be honest, we've seen
more Droid X /
Xtreme /
Shadow spy shots than we can keep track of at this point, but for the latest batch, Mr. Blurrycam must've forgot his trademark blur filter and delivered us the cleanest images yet -- for shame, we know. Here's what the current owners of the super-secret phone,
Gadget University, are claiming: 4.3-inch screen (it seems to jump between 4.3 and 4.1, depending on whom you ask), 1GHz Snapdragon processor, HDMI out, HD video recording, Android 2.1 with a "new version of Motoblur" (
Ninjablur, you say?), and hardware navigation buttons. The Verizon logo is again unmistakably clear, and according to the site's "inside information," the Droid X (as the Model number says) is coming next month, with training beginning at the end of this month.
[Thanks, Sean]
Update: And
here it is alongside some of its contemporaries. Thanks, Jeremey!
posted June 11th 2010 3:58PM
@mbg19
BTW im currently without contract with sprint... happily playing $98 for 3 lines
I really hope they come up with a better implementation of BLUR on this device like they say they're going to....
@r34p3r
Thanks Mr.Blurrycam...
for upgrading your camera!
@r34p3r
This is really nice looking, I might have to hold off on my iPhone 4 pre order.
@uckApple
Same. Hard decision. Wait till next year for contract to be over and just stick with at&t and hope they'll start coming out with nice and big android phones....
These guys drive me nuts, spend time putting stock FROYO on this instead of wasting time on BLUR FFS. 99% of the people who buy this would have 10x better experience with the phone.
@r34p3r It says 'with Google' on the back, I thought that meant vanilla android but the launcher icon isn't the standard one.
@treats
Yeah, I don't get it. Unlike Windows Mobile, which looks ugly in its stock form and was never very finger-friendly, stock Android at least looks a bit more on the stylish side AND works quite well with finger input.
It seems that all these overlaying software solutions end up doing is hindering performance or usability of a device (HTC Sense on the Evo, for example)
@lookseehear No. Google has some specific criteria that allows one to use the "withGoogle" branding. My understanding is it has nothing to do with the UI, but depends on whether all the google apps etc are unchanged on the device. For example, a gimped Moto Cliq with Yahoo search wouldn't be a withGoogle device and so on.
@r34p3r
How could you compare an OS that develop years before Android when adroid is only about a year old. c'mon guys stop comparing winmo with new shinny OS with touch in mind.
@snottgoblin
I'm glad to see a bunch of top of the line phones coming to each carrier. This competition makes phone pricing and features better and better each year. So far it seems like the top lineup is EVO, iPhone, Droid, and N1 for carriers.
4 years ago I paid $350 for a craptastic WinMo flip phone on Nextel. I don't want to get into details how much that combination sucked.
@r34p3r
Agreed, hope this talk of "ninjablur" is up to snuff.
That phone is nice, thin, and sleek though. Really thin actually.
@rutter9
Does the N1 work on CDMA networks?
looking at my Evo now, I doubt that the eXtreme has a 4.3in screen unless the phone is significantly taller, there just seems to be way too much space between the bottom of the screen and the bottom of the phone.
@rutter9
4 years ago??
$350??
WinMo??
flip phone??
NexTel??
BOOM!!!!!!!!!FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!
@r34p3r No, only for GSM
@r34p3r
ATT and the likes will never get a good Android device, and even if they advertise it as so, doesn't make it so...
The Xtreme looks slick though.
@shadowj0
The mental image I have of you is a 14 year old drinking redbull or monster jumping up and down behind a keyboard actually thinking commenting is an intense matter.
@shadowj0 Yerp, me too...i930.. Dare I say craptastic? o_O
@lookseehear they changed the "with google" standards a while ago. all the newer sense phones have it.
@rutter9
hey, it's a joke, you idiot. take it easy, will ya?
I pictured Homer Simpson saying what I commented while I commented. It was funnier in my head than on here. You gotta think about that situation. Go ahead. Think about it.
Nextel, however... ridiculous, and everyone knows it.
@r34p3r
The back of the device is ugly as hell. What were they thinking.
@acp I've seen the X measures just over 5" long, which is indeed longer than the Evo.
The plus side would be that it's pretty darn thin except for the bump on the back around the lens. which I'm not so hot on. With the possible exception that if it somehow actually allows the thing to shoot passable 720p video and not the jerky over compressed crap that is coming out of the Evo and all the other new so-called 720p phone cams - that would be a win.
@r34p3r
No, because you can get an Incredible or EVO that is equivalent or better. (Raw Android notwithstanding)
@treats I gotta say it looks like one impressive piece of machinery.
The new Motoblur looks FAR better than the old one, but still, 2.2 comes with a 2x-5x performance boost, in addition to Jacascript V8 mobile browsing, and flash..... COM'ON. There isn't really room for choice here.
@r34p3r
OMG so that this is faster than NEXUS ONE and GALAXY S with 2.1?
With 2.2 is going to be really flash
@who said what
You are welcome.
@rutter9
Holy shit that was hilarious
@r34p3r
Does it really matter though? You can turn it off.
@treats
To me it doesn't really matter. I'm running Froyo on my Droid right now; I'll be happy to get this phone with more RAM, faster processor, and bigger screen, wait for it to be rooted, then install whatever ROM I want. I'm loving this!
@snottgoblin
i dont think that accurate at all because the sprint hero first shipped w/o the branding and a week later boom, they all have "with google" on the back. And dont forget that these are modified heavily with sense ui
@JAG i have run the diagnostics on this phone with quadrant and i can say that the only phone that is currently faster is the nexus 1 with froyo. the galaxy s is not even close whatsoever
@uckApple I held off of my EVO order so hell yea you better consider it. This thing will probably have mind blowing specs.
@who said what Looks like Mr. Blurrycam's using Ninjablur as well.
@r34p3r
damn... that front looks sick!
@r34p3r
YAY! REAL BUTTONS!!! Biggest touchscreen phone flaw IMO,keep bumping the frackin things with my palm and knuckles!!
@r34p3r Blur is gross looking an useless. They should just ship stock android phones with custom moto widgets already on the desktops. Choice is a good thing.
@r34p3r The phone will be called the motorola shadow. It will have a TI made 1.2ghz processor. 4.3in screen and will be running a new type of blur which will be a less in your face type blur. It is fairly skinny except near the lens of the camera.
@uckApple
this is coming to verizon.
@r34p3r If "NinjaBlur" turns out to be horrible, I suppose you could just turn Blur off in the settings, like every other skinned phone out there.
Evo still better. Try again.
@Slvrgun
Tsirf oh
On second thought this is cool!
@Slvrgun
Yeah, especially with that 30FPS HTC-imposed frame rate cap!
Oh, wait...
@r34p3r Sense>Blur
@The Geek
30fps+>30fps
battery life>no battery life
sleek design that doesn't look like a black slab > black slab
@Slvrgun Im an EVO owner and your post is dumb, this is a nice device as well, im hoping we get even more monsters at the end of the year. Its like the mentally handicapped post comments on this website.
@tracdoor
this might not look like just a black slab, but because of that it implements the same size screen in a poorer way. If you look at the comparison shot, it's about half an inch longer than the evo. besides, judging by a certain handset, some might like that simplistic black slab design (...cough...iPhone4...)
Wow... more awesome phones!
@beckhams777
I'd like another Google-developed phone on CDMA networks that runs vanilla Android versions.Or, you know, they could actually make a CDMA N1.
@beckhams777
Ahh damn it. I just got the freakin Incredible too.... Too much awesome shit.