CNET - Samsung's Droid Charge and HTC's Droid Incredible 2 may be Verizon's top "Droid" series smartphones today, but it appears that the carrier is ready to circle back around to the manufacturer that started the droid name.
Best Buy's internal Cellebrite system now shows the Motorola Droid 3 (XT862) and Motorola Droid X2 (MB870) as coming handset options. While neither device has been officially announced by Moto or Verizon, the listings indicate a nearing launch.
The Droid 3 looks to feature the familiar sliding QWERTY form factor but with a twist. Among the improvements are a slightly larger, 4-inch display and front-facing camera, while gone is the lip that protrudes below the display for a more flush appearance than previous iterations. For processor speed and performance, we should expect to see a dual-core chipset, likely in the realm of a 1GHz Tegra 2. Read More