Do you have a ‘My Business’ login? If so, you can now pick-up up the shiny new Droid X for $169.99 when ordering online.

Please note that your mileage may vary depending on the contract you’re under.

Let us know if you happen to take advantage of this deal since the cheapest we have found the Droid X online to date is $179.99

Trillian is not the only all-in-one solution currently available however it has stood out from day one because of their interface and features. Here are the new features that you can look forward to:

• Tabbed conversation views
• Easy status updates
• Sortable buddy lists
• Emoticon gallery

Does any of the above make you want to dig up those old IM accounts? If so, head over the Trillan’s Android sign up page and get in the know.

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Source: CNET

Ars Technica had this to say about the review they conducted:

“In our recent review of Android 2.2, we conducted some tests on the Nexus One to measure the extent of the JavaScript performance improvements. SunSpider and V8 benchmarks show that JavaScript execution in Froyo’s Web browser is almost three times faster than in the previous version of the platform.”

They compared their finding of the two browsers only to discover that the Android performed significantly faster in terms of JavaScript execution than the iPhone 4. The results were that the Android device (Nexus One) was two to three times faster in their SunSider and V8 test beds.

Oh Froyo how I love thee…thoughts?

Image: Engadget

Source: Ars Technica

Wow, yet another Droid Incredible delay!  This time it is pushed back to sometime in August less than a week ago it was set to be shipping 7/28.

Darn you Samsung for hogging up all the AMOLED screens for your Galaxy lineup…let’s hope HTC reevaluates its screen supplier for their next front runner device.

They have been playing this catch up game from its late April release and haven’t been able to get caught up since.  This is a huge blow to HTC considering the Droid Incredible has well some incredible specs and feature set. Plus it is due to receive the OTA Froyo 2.2 update by years end. I guess Verizon is going to keep distributing those $25 gift cards to customer’s waiting to receive their order.

Reports have been generating about Verizon offering to cancel Droid Incredible orders for Droid X units starting July 15th as an option.  This may be a no brainer for a lot of frustrated customers considering the Droid X is due to receive the Froyo 2.2 update sometime in August. What would you do? Chime in with your comments and let us know.

It’s been made known that HTC will bless its 2010 Smartphones to Android 2.2 Froyo, but the burning question is when?

Rumor has it that the HTC Desire could get Froyo in August, but other Smartphones like the Legend, Wildfire, Incredible and Evo 4G may not be as fortunate.

Eric Lin, global PR and online community manager at HTC, expressed to Pocket-lint that he has faith that the company “would be done with Froyo updates before Christmas.”

Lin gave his explanation and reasoning to what the holdup was by issuing the following statement:

“It takes time to port all of our applications over to Froyo and then make sure that it is running well on each of our devices. That’s not like a one week kind of project. We need to make sure that our applications are taking advantage of the Froyo features. To make sure that they’re all running properly on the OS now that it’s a new version. And then to make sure that it’s running on our hardware as well as we expect”.

Lin also stated that Android Gingerbread could come out in the first quarter of 2011. We should assume that he is right considering he does have an advantage.

Source: phandroid

Things are not looking good for a Nexus Two according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt who was quoted saying:

“The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful; we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticized us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’. We like that flexibility; we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale.”

The horizon is grime for the possibility of a Nexus Two or Android Dev Phone 3; however Google must still be considering putting out a device that pushes the envelope like the Nexus One did. If not then what will developers do for the expansion of future version of the Android OS? Maybe we will see a device showing up around of Google’s next key Android release, Gingerbread.

Source: androidandme

Source: TechCrunch

Here’s hoping your firework show that you’ve looked forward to for decades hasn’t been canceled due to budget cuts! Oh well, I guess we will need to have an extra cold one and mooch off of the neighborhood block parties for entertainment.

A quick note of remembrance:

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt”

Conversely, don’t mistakenly assume that the update applies to all Motorola Droid’s. The soon be released Droid X device that’s scheduled to ship July 15 that is. According to Droidforums.net, the Droid X will receive its upgrade to Android 2.2 sometime in August.  

There’s been no word as to when the update is coming to HTC’s Incredible from Verizon, but HTC insists that it’s on the way at some point in the second half of the year.

The only Smartphone that has received an official Froyo release to date is Google’s very own Nexus One. There are a number of phones that have been ruled out of Android 2.2. For example you won’t be seeing it on T-Mobile’s G1, HTC’s Hero, or Samsung’s Moment.

What will the devices not getting the update miss out on:

Performance boosts

Portable Wi-Fi hotspot functionality

Automatic application updates

Desktop-based music streaming

USB-based tethering

Adobe Flash and Adobe Air support

New camera controls

New Exchange features, including Remote Wipe, Calendars, and Auto-Discovery

Source: PCmag.com

Some of the noteworthy features that Google Music will offer up are:

• Stream to device playback
• Push downloads
• Cloud-based services

We should anticipate on seeing both Google Music and Android 3.0 launched closer to the holiday season or early 2011 at the latest. I guess it all depends on whether or not we will ever see the iPhone on Verizon.  

Source: Gizmodo