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.