Motorola Droid X Specs And Release Date Revealed

After months of Droid fans anxiously awaiting the release of the second iteration, we yesterday announced that the Motorola Droid 2 would be officially announced on June 23. Today we bring you some even more exciting news.

Yes, the phone is being teased on Verizon’s website. Officially named “Droid X”, the phone is getting very close to its release date, which will likely be June 23rd, when the phone is “officially” announced by Verizon.

We don’t know for sure yet whether the phone will be released on the 23rd, though it seems very likely given that they’re already teasing it. In any case, Verizon’s website gives some very limited specs on the phone, and they are as follows:

• 4.3″ Display
• HDMI Output
• Captures 720p (HD Video Recording!)

This should be an excellent improvement on the features of the original Droid, and we can wait to see it hit stores!

What other features do you think the Droid X will have?

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HTC confirms Droid Incredible browser issue, plans fix

HTC just let us know that their team has been able to replicate the browser privacy issue we posted about a couple of days ago. Here’s the official statement:

HTC has identified the root cause of the DROID Incredible not deleting web page thumbnails after a factory reset, and is creating an update which will eliminate this issue. This will be distributed through a software maintenance release that will be pushed to devices in the near future. Until this time, consumers who wish to manually delete these thumbnails can do so by following these steps:

1) Go to the “Settings” menu
2) Select “SD Card and Phone Storage”
3) Select “Format Phone Storage”

*NOTE* This will delete all files in internal storage, including music and image files. So these files should be backed up before taking these steps.

Other Android devices with HTC Sense, like the DROID Eris, save these thumbnails to the SD card, instead of internal memory, so users can easily keep this information from being shared simply by removing the SD card from their device before trading in the device, sending in for repair, etc.

Since the Incredible memory is built in, it makes sense that this would happen, but it should be all good in no time.

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O2 UK to initially sell the iPhone 4 to current customers only

O2 UK announced today that it will only offer the iPhone 4 to current customers when the handset launches on June 24th. The wireless carrier cites extremely limited stock as the basis for this potentially controversial decision. Folks looking to score an iPhone by signing up now with O2 are out of luck as the iPhone will only be offered to wireless, home broadband, and home phone customers who have been with O2 since May 24th, 2010. Current customers will have to travel to a brick and mortar store to snag an iPhone as the incredibly hot handset will not be available online from O2 until the end of July. Once the supply of iPhones is no longer limited, O2 will finally make the handset available to new customers.

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Police to investigate Google data

New Zealand police are investigating whether Google committed a criminal offence when it gathered personal wireless Internet data during filming for its Street View feature in New Zealand.

Last month, Google acknowledged it had mistakenly collected data from public WiFi networks in more than 30 countries, including New Zealand.

The admission has sparked fears that Google intercepted personal e-mails, passwords, personal banking details and even web browsing histories at home addresses.

New Zealand's Crimes Act makes it an offence to intercept data. Assistant Privacy Commissioner Katrine Evans said earlier the commission had formally referred the issue to police. "They can consider whether Google has committed a criminal offence by collecting payload data from WiFi networks during its Street View filming," she said in a statement following a meeting with police officials.

Police spokesman John Neilson said the police national cyber crime center was investigating the complaint to determine "whether any criminality has been committed." Law firm Taylor Shaw privacy specialist Kathryn Dalziel said it would be a breach of the Crimes Act if Google was found to have intercepted any communication. "This will create an interesting issue in terms of international law, since the company is based outside of New Zealand," she said.

Penalties of fines and imprisonment can be imposed for breaches of the Crimes Act. Google New Zealand spokeswoman Annie Baxter said in an email the company was "profoundly sorry" for the mistake and that the data collection would have been limited by the fact that the Google cars "were on the move."

Internet users would have needed to be using their network as a car passed their house.

"Our in-car WiFi equipment automatically changes channels five times a second. That said, it's possible that the fragments of data we collected could contain entire e-mails or other content if a user broadcast personal information over an open network at that moment," she said.

"We will work with all the relevant authorities to answer any questions they might have," she said.

Baxter, Google's publicity manager based in Australia, said the equipment used was bought from a third party and though the software would have recognised encrypted transmissions, that particular data would have been discarded immediately. Encrypted data includes banking and other commercial transaction details.

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Hydrogen car to be tested on roads

A hydrogen fuel-cell powered car is to be tested on British roads by the public for the first time, it has been announced.

Thirty of the cars, which have a top speed of 50mph and can go 200 miles on one tank of hydrogen, will be leased to motorists in Leicester from spring 2012.

The two-seater car has been developed by Riversimple, a small British manufacturer based in Ludlow, Shropshire. The prototype was built at Silverstone, Northamptonshire.

If the trials are successful, the company will consider building a factory in Leicester which would employ 250 people and manufacture 5,000 of the cars each year.

The cars would not be sold but instead leased out to drivers for about £200 a month plus mileage.

So far the company has spent around £3 million developing the technology and the car, which goes from 0-30mph in 5.5 seconds and does the petrol-equivalent of 300 miles per gallon.

It has now signed a deal with Leicester City Council for a 12-month pilot which will see 30 of the cars rented out to private customers, businesses, car-share schemes and local government officials in the city.

Part of the project involves identifying suitable places for hydrogen pumps where drivers can refuel.

Hugo Spowers, the founder of Riversimple, said: "The age of fossil-fuelled cars may not be over yet but it is surely dying.

"Contrary to what we usually hear, sustainable, near pollution-free transport is possible, here and now, using existing technology."

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