Published on Friday, July 16, 2010 by Kyle Gibb If you have been keeping up with news in the tech world lately, you might have noticed something of a debate concerning signal strength. Antennas looks to do away with the simplistic "bars" measure of signal strength by letting Android users know what towers they are connected to, and roughly where they are. The app uses your phone's GPS along...

Published on Friday, July 16, 2010 by Phil Nickinson The Droid Incredible was a tough nut to crack, but cracked it was, though the method for rooting was a bit, shall we say, difficult. But the Unrevoked team has updated its one-click method for the Dinc, and it's a new day in America, folks. Fear not, and get your root on. [Unrevoked via Twitter] Thanks to everyone, and we mean everyone, who sent this in.Posted origin...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Can't say it's surprising (or necessarily a bad thing), but we're getting reports a plenty via e-mail in in our Droid X forums that Verizon stores are selling out of their Day 1 stock for the Droid X. Above is the coupon that EvanGMan (on Twitter, natch) received in lieu of an actual phone. Hang in there, folks, we're sure Verizon will get a fresh batch in soonest. U...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Kyle Gibb Verizon just updated its Droid website, DroidDoes.com, now that the Droid X has really landed. The new site is packed to the brim with Flash animation and immediately greets users by letting them know "Droidspace is a 3-D web environment". Then, you can (and should!) select the "activate full motion tracking 3-D" option and allow Flash to acce...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Kyle Gibb  Remember how HP has been working on tablets running several OS's? All Things Digital's John Paczkowski has gotten a tip that HP has decided to shelve (at least for the time being) a tablet running Android:"Hewlett Packard is working on a variety of tablet PCs, running a variety of operating systems. Among them, an Android device that was supposed to ar...

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Phil Nickinson OK, you crazy kids. (We've been watching your countdown in the forums.) The Motorola Droid X is now officially available on Verizon's website. So order yours and go to bed. Or at least let us go to bed. You also should be able to get one in the morning at various brick-and-mortar locations. (We'll still be in bed, or possibly eating waffles.) And if you want, you can...

Published on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Sean Brunett Excited for the Droid X release tomorrow? Check out the new teaser that was just released by Verizon. Titled "See you tomorrow," Verizon and Motorola once again are preparing for a big advertising campaign for the new Droids this summer. Check out the video after the break. Enjoy! [Verizon YouTube via Droid Life] Posted originally at Android CentralSponsore...

Published on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Jerry Hildenbrand Here's a sight to make everyone happy -- Motorola Droid X's are beginning to show up in some Verizon stores, ready for tomorrow's big rush.  Android Central forums user NVR2ND shows us a few, noting that another 50 are on their way to that store.  Seeing them on the shelves already is a good sign, we'll keep our fingers crossed that everyone who wants or nee...

Published on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Phil Nickinson Our pals at PhoneScoop are reporting that Verizon is offering a 32GB microSD card for $100 when purchased with a Droid X, which conveniently goes on sale on Thursday for $199. Without a Droid X, the card will cost you $150. That's still a chunk of change either way, but you'll be the first on your block with the largest phone and the largest storage. And can you reall...

Published on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Kyle Gibb   So the bootloader on the Droid X is locked. We know this. For many developers and hackers, it's a bit of a disappointment as the original Motorola Droid became a de facto dev phone because it ran stock Android 2.0 and had an unlocked bootloader. That allowed them (and us) to easily flash new ROMs onto the phone. So what's the deal with the Droid X? Motorol...