The first Droid was excellent, while great for what it could do it was fairly chunky and had “ok” battery life. It ran an old Android 2.0(I guess that version would be considered old) operating system and the keyboard wasn’t the easiest to use. Motorola listened to the complaints and went back to the lab and they are coming out with a second version of the Droid.
The first thing they did was double the speed of the CPU from 500MHz to 1 GHz. They were able to do this because the Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 inside was built on a 45 nanometer process. Smaller transistors enable raw clock frequency to go up, while at the same time they also require less power to operate. The Apple A4 chip for example, or the Samsung chip inside their flagship Bada powered S8500, both use 45 nanometer processes.
The directional pad got replaced with arrow keys. The gold trimming, which I though was gorgeous, but many of you complained looked tacky, or worse yet a poor attempt at imitating something out of a Batman comic, has been replaced with silver trimming. Speaking of trimming, the device got a bit thinner, and … well that’s it really.
Expect this device to launch some time in the summer of 2010, probably right before back to school season
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