Have your Droid X already? Verizon figured out how to activate it

Word on the street is that only 170 Droid X handsets have leaked out from the mothership so far, but in the off chance you're in that elite group of early early adopters, it seems Verizon has cured a snag that was preventing you from activating the phone on its network. As of Friday afternoon, it's said that "system provisions were put in place" to allow the beasts to be used the way Motorola intended, so go forth and put that crusty old V3m out of its misery. Oh, and as for the rest of you: well, keep on waiting a few more days.

[Thanks, Ben R.]

[Nintendoftl Posted Jul 10th 2010 8:12PM]

Can i go to a store and get mine noaww??
Kthxbaiii

[roccoz Posted Jul 10th 2010 8:26PM]

Oh you engadget idiots..What you won't give for a Verizon scandal !!!!!

[roccoz Posted Jul 10th 2010 8:28PM]

Take two iphone 4's and call me in the morning...sorry iphone 4's don't make calls...

[phoneking Posted Jul 10th 2010 8:37PM]

Guess I'll stick with my out dated original droid (it's actually still a pretty nice phone)....should be someLTE droids coming out late this year ;)

[crob Posted Jul 10th 2010 9:25PM]

Reading this thread, and many more like it, you gotta think that one well placed fanboy troll comment can hijack the entire thing. Not that this story was super fascinating anyway, but the trolls shouldn't be given the power. JMHO.

[shugav Posted Jul 10th 2010 11:17PM]

I played with the dummy phone in the store ! and the physical buttons were kind off deep and hard to press! I hope this is because it was a dummy phone.
I will be at 9:00 on the 15th at the Verizon store to get me one!

[codepink Posted Jul 10th 2010 11:53PM]

Not impressed with this eyesore of a device. All phones are starting to look identical these days *shruggs*

[MrH Posted Jul 11th 2010 5:47AM]

The fanboi comments here and all the iPhone 4.0 jokes have been used up and to be fair, they aren't even funny!
Pretending to be a news site with informative views and 'intelligent' readership just doesn't cut it.
I have reached the conclusion (a couple of times prior to this post as well) that this is not a site I wish to hang out on... Permanently logged out..

[ironlion7777 Posted Jul 11th 2010 8:16AM]

Who's ass do I gotta kiss to get a brickphone that looks like an NES controller, HUH?!

[pixelator Posted Jul 11th 2010 9:57AM]

@ironlion7777
The Droid was pretty close to that. A little modding and you could have it... :-)

[USSLiberty Posted Jul 11th 2010 6:29PM]

"Activate"?
Does this apply to all Android phones, or what's it about?

Never had to activate anything to use my beloved Nokia N900.

[Obtuse Posted Jul 12th 2010 10:31AM]

@USSLiberty
If you bought it in a store, they more than likely did the activation for you. Basically it's just a call into an automated line that lets your phone get on the network.

[web250 Posted Jul 11th 2010 7:30PM]

Getting this on Friday...

Finally a smartphone after 2 years with my horrid enV2.

[Nintendoftl Posted Jul 12th 2010 11:42PM]

@web250 Ha!