Droid X is the latest incarnation of the Droid series from Motorola. It is a phone with many improvements over the original Droid. The phone has a 4.3 inch captive touch screen with multi-touch. The phones user interface has seen an improvement over the older Droid which I guess is the reason for the phone being a bit sluggish in response. It has an 8 mega pixel camera with HD video capture without any front facing camera. It comes with a HDMI and DLNA support but sadly no 4G support.

The phone has the good build quality associated with Motorola devices and fits into the bigger android phones category. It is very light considering the large size and fits perfectly in to tight jeans pockets. Has a little camera bump on the back which is not that much of a problem. There is no QQWERTY keyboard as the original droid but has a virtual onscreen keyboard and the latest Swype typing software already in-built. You also get a 16GB micro SD card which is very considerate of Motorola to give free with the phone. The phone comes with a 2.1 android built, with a promise of a 2.2 froyo release later this year which is going to heat things a little bit.

Microsoft not a very long while back released the two social networking phones with a windows 7 themed operating system. These phones were targeted at 20 something’s and teens who feel the need to stay connected all the time. Sadly now Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on these two phones and merge this division into mobile windows 7’s direction. This decision was taken just a few weeks after the launch of these two phones saw little sales and the migration of Andy Lees to the Windows Phone 7 development section. It most probably will be followed by a large number of pink slips who were working on the pink phone. Hence the supposed launch of the phone in Europe this fall is scrapped and eventually to the rest of the world.

The phones were forced to launch before their complete development and were filled with shortcoming. And the data plan charges were too high for the demographic it was targeting, hence it never took off. And the absence of a dedicated application store along with no release of developer package had to see the phones to the grave.