LauncherPro (Plus) finally received its Gmail widget today along with a couple of new homescreen transitions, and some other fixes.  Been a while since we’ve had an update, right?  No word on the full re-write, but this should hold you over for a while…

New Gmail widget for Plus users!

New “Flip” and “Rotate 2″ homescreen transition effects. The old “Flip” transition is now called “Flip 2″.

Facebook login is now done through the official Facebook app (where available).

Updated the Twitter widget code to fix some issues.

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When the leaked Gingerbread (Android 2.3) builds for the DROID X and DROID 2 were released last night, we couldn’t help but dive right into them and see what Moto had changed.  At first glance it looked like a lot, but after playing with this DX build for a few minutes you quickly realize that alongside the few eye-popping cosmetic changes there are some back-end things that really make the difference here.  The performance increase you’ll see will have you excited even if the new blue Blur isn’t your thing.  We go hands-on after the break.  

Gingerbread (Android 2.3) for the DROID X has been leaked/released and we’ve got the benchmarks for you.  Prepare to be impressed by a phone who still only has a 1GHz single-core processor and 512MB of RAM.  Who would have thought that a software update could make a phone feel and perform better than it ever has?  

Yep, our homies over at My Droid World released Gingerbread for both the DROID X and DROID 2 today.  Please thank them at the source links by donating and then get yourself to downloading from the links and instructions below.  Neither have been rooted, but it’ll give you a taste of Android 2.3 and the new Blur long before Verizon will release them to you.  You can always return to stock using one of the SBF files that is in the wild, so don’t be too scared about upgrading.  We can definitely get you back to stock for the official build.  

QuickOffice Pro HD for Honeycomb is now available for the business users in the building.  It’s starting out at an introductory price of $14.99 (regularly $24.99), but if you signed up for that 30% off discount we shared a week or so ago, you may be able to get it even cheaper once those codes are sent out since they claim it will work on the “introductory” price.    

On Friday, one of our readers received his Motorola XOOM Wi-Fi early from Staples, so we made sure to spread the word which it seems many of you took advantage of.  And when he unboxed it, showed off the black back cover, leaving us to believe that the silver model was a European exclusive.  Or is it?  Another of our readers picked up a wifi-only XOOM (from Staples) down in Southern California and was surprised to see it sporting a silver back cover.  It also appears to be missing the “with Google” text that everyone’s black version has.  So what’s the deal?

Note:  Best Buy’s site says their wifi-only model comes in “Dark Titanium” which we’re assuming is this silver color.  So if you want to be guaranteed a silver version, might want to head to Best Buy.  It sounds like Staples is displaying black versions, but sometimes selling the silver version. (Cheers @ScottHubiak!)

To those of you that picked one up this weekend, what are you seeing?  Silver or black?  

Yesterday we dropped news that the HTC Thunderbolt would be receiving Gingerbread (Android 2.3) some time in Q2 of this year, but many asked about its little brother, the DROID Incredible.  Well, if we are to believe the email below, which is from another HTC rep, it looks like the DI will also see GB in Q2, but towards the end instead.