Verizon Wireless’ Droid 2 officially launches August 12th. It is currently available for pre-order today. This is a very exciting time for the cell phone market and especially for Droid fans out there. The Droid 2 ships out with Android 2.2, nicknamed “Froyo,” and comes with a rather large performance upgrade from the original Droid.
Following are a few of the performance updates compared to the Droid:
- Increased memory from 256MB to 512MB
- On-board storage increased from 256MB to 8GB, expandable to 32GB
- Updated processor from 550MHz to 1Ghz
- Video recording from 720×480, 24fps to 720×480, 30fps
- Battery life talk time extended from 6.4 hours to 9.6 hours
- Battery life standby extended from 11.3 days to 13.1 days
The Droid 2 has a 3.7″ TouchScreen with a display resolution of 854×480 and has a 5MP camera. The Droid 2, like the Droid X, includes support for Wi-Fi hotspot functionality. However, it requires an extra $20.00 per month. The Droid 2 sports revised QWERTY keyboard with raised keys that are designed to increase the speed of your typing. I am interested to hear if this does in fact help in typing speed.
