Inside the Droid 2 lurks a Droid X

From CNET News.com: Motorola's Droid 2 will be in stores Thursday for $199.99 with a two-year contract, after a $100 mail-in rebate (like the Droid X). The phone packs the Android 2.2 operating system, which has support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1. (The Droid X shipped with Android 2.1.)

Though the two phones differ physically--the Droid 2 is a slider smartphone, the Droid X eschews the physical keyboard--there's a lot inside that's the same, if not identical.

So, what's inside the newest high-end offering from Motorola and Verizon? Like the Droid X, it uses Texas Instruments' OMAP 3630 1GHz processor. This is a step up from TI's OMAP 3430 processor inside the original Droid, which ran at 550MHz.

And the Droid 2 sports the TI chip that supports a built-in Wi-Fi hot spot, a nifty feature also on the Droid X. TI's WiLink chip allows a user to create a hot spot similar to the access point in a Starbucks. Except, of course, that it's not as fast as a typical hot spot since it's 3G--not a DSL, cable, or T1 connection--and limited to five devices. (The hot spot costs an extra $20 per month.)

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