Inside the Droid 2? A lot of upgraded silicon

Elpida supplies the 512MB DRAM memory module, twice that of the original Droid. That Qualcomm chip is the CDMA processor.(Credit: iFixit)

Under the hood, the Motorola-Verizon Droid 2 is really a hopped-up version of the original Droid.

While practically a clone of the original Droid on the outside, the Droid 2 is not the same inside. As a previous post spelled out, underneath the skin beats a new Texas Instruments processor that is about twice as fast (based on the megahertz rating) of the original Droid 550MHz (Droid) versus 1,000MHz, i.e., 1GHz (Droid 2).

And as seen in the iFixit photo, Japan-based Elpida Memory supplies the 512MB DRAM module, twice the capacity of the original Droid. As if to prove how tightly linked RAM is to the processor, the TI OMAP 3630 chip is buried underneath Elpida module, according to iFixit.

What else is inside? An 8GB flash memory module from SanDisk and more TI silicon. Namely, TI's power management and WLAN Bluetooth/FM chips--the latter a major upgrade from the original Droid.

Making this link more explicit:

Inside the Droid 2 lurks a Droid X

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August 10, 2010 7:38 PM PDT

by Brooke Crothers

Inside, the Droid 2 has some striking similarities to the Droid X--which isn't a bad thing.

Motorola's Droid 2 packs Texas Instruments' silicon that's the spitting image of the Droid X.(Credit: Motorola)

Motorola's Droid 2 will be in stores Thursday for $199.99 with a two-year contract, after a $100 mail-in rebate (like the Droid X). The phone packs the Android 2.2 operating system, which has support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1. (The Droid X shipped with Android 2.1.)

Though the two phones differ physically--the Droid 2 is a slider smartphone, the Droid X eschews the physical keyboard--there's a lot inside that's the same, if not identical. (And note that the Droid 2 is quite similar to the original Droid physically, with the exception of relatively minor tweaks such as changes to the keyboard, as this animation shows.)

Processor: So, what's inside the newest high-end offering from Motorola and Verizon? Like the Droid X, it uses Texas Instruments' OMAP 3630 1GHz processor. This is a step up from TI's OMAP 3430 processor inside the original Droid, which ran at 550MHz.

Every smartphone I’ve examined seems to have issues syncing data with the desktop. It is a huge pain in the rump to deal with these idiotic sync issues and for the life of me, I can’t understand why this is even an issue.

It is so bad trying to reliably sync contact information that this next year, I’m going to get busy and write my own sync’ing app for the Mac.

Thanks, appreciate the report.

Any more thoughts or evaluations on the Droid X or Droid 2 you might develop, “ahm all ears, folks.”

Just got another “prepare to be assimilated” note from AT&T. I guess I will have to fish or cut bait by the end of the year.

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