Pre-order the newest Droid family member today at Best Buy or Best Buy Mobile!  Time to go wait in line for the Droid X, people.  As they’ve done previously with the Incredible, BB scooped an early pre-order spot almost 3 weeks before launch which also allows you to avoid that ridiculous $100 mail-in rebate card that Verizon will rarely wave.

Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile have truly become the leading destination this summer for all your mobile smartphone needs – from HTC EVO 4G from Sprint to the iPhone 4 on AT&T to the upcoming DROID X on Verizon. Enthusiasts of the Android platform can be the first to reserve a copy of the new Verizon DROID X by Motorola today at Best Buy. The pre-sale begins June 25 and the smartphone will land in stores on July 15.

“With the buzz we’ve seen around the Android platform, Best Buy is confident that consumers will be thrilled about the Verizon DROID X by Motorola pre-sale,” said Scott Anderson, senior director of merchandising at Best Buy Mobile. “It has been a great summer for smartphones with the HTC EVO and iPhone 4 launches, and the addition of the DROID X adds another strong option for our customers to consider.”

The Verizon DROID X by Motorola features Google’s Android 2.1 operating system, 4.3-inch screen and 720P HD video recording and playback. Android 2.2 will arrive to customers on the DROID X later this summer. The DROID X is available at Best Buy for $199.99 with 2-year activation, with no mail-in rebate hassle.

Anyone on their way right now?

Source: Engadget

Cheers Eggo and Tabe!

Source: MotoDev

Cheers @RealDurangoJim!

More Droid X goodies!  (Multi-touch keyboard and Wallpapers.)   This time, one of our readers pointed out the new boot animation from the Droid X system dump that’s floating around and gave some quick instructions on how anyone (both rooted and non-rooted) can install it.  Check out the quick video of it in action and then follow up with the instructions.  I love system dumps.

Oh, and yes, this should work on both the Motorola Droid and Droid Incredible.

Video action…

Download: bootanimation.zip (alt link)

Instructions…

*Note 1* – Need to have the Android SDK installed.  Instructions here.

*Note 2* – If you are rooted, you can just follow these instructions.

1.  Open up your Android SDK folder
2.  Download the bootanimation.zip above to your PC and drop it in your SDK\tools folder.
3.  In your SDK tools folder, hold SHIFT and right click in a blank area.
4.  Select “Open command window here.”
5.  Type the following command:

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

6.  Once it finishes, reboot your phone and watch the new boot animation in action!

Let me know if you run into issues on any device.

Cheers droiddev!  Via comment.

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More Droid X Goodies: Multi-touch Keyboard | Boot Animation | Wallpapers | Live Wallpaper

More Droid X goodies for you to use and pimp out your Droid 1 or Droid Incredible!  (If you missed the new multi-touch keyboard, grab it here.)

The guys at Alldroid have snagged all of the new wallpapers featured on the Droid X.  There are definitely some good ones and you might as well add them to your device to see if they meet your needs.  Who doesn’t love a shiny new background?

Oh, and the live wallpapers are in the hands of developers as we speak.  Hopefully we’ll see them soon.

Download: xpapers.zip

Source: Alldroid

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More Droid X Goodies: Multi-touch Keyboard | Boot Animation | Wallpapers | Live Wallpaper

That was quick.  Phone just got released to media members yesterday and someone has already started ripping goodies from it.  First up, the multi-touch keyboard.  Yay!

I was able to get this to work on my non-rooted Droid Incredible flawlessly and should also work on a 2.1 Droid.  With that said, I was unable to get it to work on my 2.2 Froyo Droid.  Apparently it will work with Froyo, but my JRummy’d version didn’t like it.

Video action…

Instructions…

*For all users.  Rooted and non-rooted.

1. Download this file to your SD card:  repackaged-signed.apk
2. Once it finishes, tap on it and then click “Install.”
3. When that finishes, exit out and go into Settings>Language & Keyboard
4. Check the box for “Multi-touch keyboad.”
5. Exit out and open a text box, long press and choose “input method.”
6. Select “multi-touch keyboard.”
7. Done!

Please let us know in the comments if you get this to work on a 2.2 ROM or stock 2.1 Droid.  Thanks!

And another big thanks is in store for the guys at XDA Forums for porting this over.  Amazing work again.

This has also been added to our downloads page.

Source: XDA Forums

Cheers Greg!

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More Droid X Goodies: Multi-touch Keyboard | Boot Animation | Wallpapers | Live Wallpaper

After the launch of the Droid X yesterday, it also made an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show last night courtesy of Joshua Topolsky (Engadget Editor) to battle the iPhone 4.  Not that we’re Fallon lovers, but he did profess his newly found love of Android and admitted he will not be getting the new version of the enemy phone…

(Can’t see the Flash video?  Get Froyo on your Droid now!)

Another win for Android.

Cheers Ed and Renzo!

Just so you know, Google has the power to remotely access your phone whenever they need to.  Don’t freak out.  It’s a good thing.  They were recently made aware of a couple of applications released onto the market that were being using for security testing purposes and to protect all of the users who had downloaded these apps, Google stepped up and manually removed them…

Recently, we became aware of two free applications built by a security researcher for research purposes. These applications intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user downloads, but they were not designed to be used maliciously, and did not have permission to access private data — or system resources beyond permission.INTERNET. As the applications were practically useless, most users uninstalled the applications shortly after downloading them.

After the researcher voluntarily removed these applications from Android Market, we decided to exercise our remote application removal feature on the remaining installed copies to complete the cleanup.

The remote application removal feature is one of many security controls Android possesses to help protect users from malicious applications. In case of an emergency, a dangerous application could be removed from active circulation in a rapid and scalable manner to prevent further exposure to users. While we hope to not have to use it, we know that we have the capability to take swift action on behalf of users’ safety when needed.

Like they said, it’s nice to know they have the capability should they ever need to use it.  Thoughts?

Source: Android Developers Blog