**See update below… Want the “official” Motorola DROID 2.1 update before it’s actually live? Thanks to Pete from Alldroid, now such things can be had. As is customary with manual updates and ROM trickery, you assume all responsibility if your DROID implodes into a cloud of smoke. So be careful. With the safety fluff out of the way, I’ll add that I can’t contain my excitement. Though it’s worth noting that the custom DROID ROMs...

HTC is one of the hottest smartphone manufacturers right now. What can I say — they’re on it. Pretty much every handset they release, even the mid to lower range handsets look nice to the eye, sit well in the hand, and offer plenty in the software to keep us entertained. HTC’s MWC event is tomorrow (or today if you’re in Barcelona for MWC) so it isn’t that far away. However, we being the impatient gadget aficionados that we are, never turn...

The Sony Xperia X10 is one big collection of hotness save for the abysmal fact that it’s going to ship with Android 1.6. Thankfully Sony has outlined plans to bring it up to snuff with 2.1. But that’s not the point of this article. Noooo sir (and mam). The real deal is the Sony Xperia X10 Mini Pro that made it’s debut last night at Sony’s MWC event. Essentially it’s just a shrunken X10 with a slide out keyboard. I don’t know about...

The on again off again relationship Moto DROID owners are experiencing is frustrating — putting it mildly of course. First we’re told we getting an update this week, the next minute Moto employees are backing down and removing evidence of their little folly left and right leaving DROID owners wondering what the hell is going on. While MOTO might not know exactly what is going on, it seems the cooler heads over at VZW do. The internal document capture above is...

So everyone in DROID land is disappointed at with Motorola after their little 2.1 is ready, wait not it’s not fiasco that occurred earlier this week and eventually imploded yesterday. As is usual in the tech world, yesterday’s news is old, old news. Where does Android 2.1, the DROID, and Motorola stand today? In response to a question sent out by PhoneScoop writer Eric M. Zeman, Motorola acknowledged the fact that they jumped the gun a bit prematurely with the...