Motorola Droid X^2 (X-Squared) Press Images Emerge; Phone Not Out of Hiding Yet [Motorola Droid X 2 Makes a Semi-Official Appearance, Goes for a Squared Name Change]

Posted on TFTS by Chris Smith on Friday, 22. April 2011 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

The Motorola Droid X 2 has been spotted in the wild so far, so we already know the next Droid X Android smartphone will be a nearly identical copy of its predecessor. But today we actually have the first official images of the smartphone and its official name, which we can’t say we’re that thrilled about.

The Droid X 2 is a decent name for a phone that’s basically the successor of the original Droid X especially since it won’t bring a whole lot of changes when it comes to specs and features, not to mention overall looks. But the Droid X^2 (that’s Droid X-Squared, if you were wondering) is a very strange name choice and I can only wonder who decided to go for, Motorola or Verizon?

The Droid X^2 is supposed to bring a much better Android smartphone experience to the masses, if current benchmarks are to be believed, and we expect it to offer a 1.2GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, a 4.3-inch touchscreen display with 960 x 640 resolution, 768MB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera with 720p video recording, HDMI support and Android 2.2 Froyo if not Gingerbread on board on launch date.

Speaking about that launch date, we still have no idea when this Android smartphone is coming out. The Droid Bionic, Motorola’s first 4G LTE smartphone heading to Verizon, was postponed due to unknown circumstances, but since the Droid X^2 won’t be an LTE handset we’d expect it to hit in the very near future, and, hopefully, before the original Droid X gets its own Gingerbread fix.

The Droid X^2 will have some tough competition out there, including the HTC Thunderbolt, the HTC Sensation, the T-Mobile G2x, the Samsung Galaxy S II, not to mention the iPhones, both the iPhone 4 and, most importantly, the next-gen iPhone 5. Anyone already saving up cash for the Droid X 2 upgrade?