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Motorola Droid X and EVO 4G sized up next to iPhone

By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, June 12th, 2010 at 3:16 PM

Are you tired of hearing about this Motorola Droid X yet? The Droid X has been flooding the tubes with pictures, showing off all sides. We knew this thing was going to be a large phone, but after seeing it next to the new Sprint HTC Evo 4G,  we can now say that the Droid X will be the largest Android phone to date when it launches on Verizon next month. If you’re not counting the Streak as a phone, that is.

While both share the same screen size as each other, the Droid X is larger than the EVO 4G. There isn’t too much of a difference, but it’s noticeable enough. We know that the two devices are on the larger side, but when you throw the iPhone right next to it, they are starting to look like giants.

I wouldn’t say that Motorola’s upcoming Android phone is too big to not consider it as your next smartphone, as it’s still looking quite slim and sexy. Same goes for the Motorola Droid X, measuring about 9.9 mm thick compared to the EVO’s 13mm thickness.

Unfortunately a big screen doesn’t give you all the bragging rights, the X has no front-facing camera for video-conferencing, and instead of hearing that it has a 1GHx Snapdragon processor, we’re hearing it may have the 750Mhz TI OMAP3630 processor instead. It also suffers the same as the EVO when it comes to software. Both sport customized user interfaces, which in turn delays time in between updates that Google pushes out. The Evo 4G and Droid X both have to get their custom UIs compatible with Froyo, and any other upcoming Android update before they can be pushed out to the devices. That much waiting may make you want to think twice on purchasing such devices, as nice as they might seemingly be over stock Android.

Be prepared to have a dedicated pocket for the Droid X if you decide to pick one up next month, it’s big, and something tells me it doesn’t like to share its space well.

[Via: AndroidAndMe]

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Blake Stimac

Blake was born in Beaumont, Texas, about 100 miles away from Houston. Even as a youngster, technology came to him very naturally, tinkering with anything he could. His passion of technology grew with mobile phones when he dreamed that the capabilities of phones would eventually make one's life much easier. Since then it's been his mission to advocate the push of mobile technology to anyone who will listen.

  • @YuryCassini

    Perfect *–*

  • Oscar

    The HTC EVO is by far the best Andoid phone out in my opinion

  • Woopty

    It is absolutely retarded that the iPhone has a case on it to show comparison of size here. The iPhone is much smaller. Sure a 4.3" screen is cool, but than again these phones are creeping closer and closer to another Apple product, the iPad in size.

  • Kobe

    The Evo is still king of the hill. It is the only 4G phone, has a front facing camera that can video conference in 3G & 4G and can tether 8 different devices simultaneously. Nothing at ATT or Verizon will be able to do the above in 2010. All the spin in the world won't topple this phone until you can match its specs.

  • Diego!

    I agree with you Woopty.
    HTC EVO 4G / HTC HD2 is the limit., beyond that it's not a cellphone, it's a pad.

    I hope Motorola checks this out and try to smaller Droid X's design before delivering to the market.

  • marzocchi

    Cuanto mas grande, mejor! Much bigger, much better! Ustedes sigan con el iphone feo ese mariquitas!

  • Vargas

    Eh, it's really not that terrible. I have an EVO 4G and it really doesn't seem that large.

  • leonffs

    I have an Evo as well. It doesn't seem that big to me, but now when I pick up my old iPhone it feels really tiny.

  • andrei

    It seams Motorola, Google and Verizon will be a big competitior for HTC and Apple. Droid X has some nice improvements and MotoBlur is always a plus. We made a preview here, http://www.itsagadget.com/2010/06/motorola-droid-…

  • mat

    i have an evo too and it dosent seem too big ……..i do hope that phones dont continue to grow if they do that it midaswell be a land line phone