Love it or pile it, looks like Swype is creation inroads into the mobile space. We’ve seen it upon the few handsets already, and you know how eager a association is to get upon a iPhone, though so it doesn’t look like Apple’s ready to punch. In a meantime, it seems which the company is some-more than happy to make due with a likes of HTC, Samsung, and Motorola — a latter carrying gone with Swype for a Droid X. According to Swype CEO Mike McSherry, this is the company’s greatest manoeuvre nonetheless, yet positively not a last — he says to look for the app on some fifty phones by .

Let’s be honest, we’ve seen moreDroid X / Xtreme / Shadowspyshots than you can keep track of during this indicate, but for a ultimate collection, Mr. Blurrycam must’ve forgot his trademark blur filter and delivered us a cleanest images yet — for contrition, you know. Here’s what a stream owners of a super-secret phone, Gadget University, are claiming: 4.3-inch shade (it seems to burst between 4.3 as well as 4.1, depending upon whom you ask), 1GHz Snapdragon processor, HDMI out, HD video recording, Android 2.1 with the “brand-new chronicle of Motoblur” (Ninjablur, you contend, and hardware navigation buttons. The Verizon trademark is again unmistakably transparent, and according to a site’s “inside report,” the Droid X (as the Model series says) is coming subsequent month, with training commencement at the finish of this month.

[Thanks, Sean]

While we’ve got no approach to endorse at a moment, here’s some self-evident food for thought. A accessible reader final night published in our criticism thread for a two rumored Verizon-bound Motorola inclination with the on top of picture (subtitles combined by us), claiming a bottom image is a Droid 2’s upgraded QWERTY set of keys. The story goes which his friend had a single though no alternative information is currently accessible — the rise on a keys is matching, as well as a mic icon on the bottom left is distinctively Android. If it’s legit, you gotta contend we’re carefree; the keys look to have the some-more extending center à la a CLIQ, which should have typing upon a little guy much easier than before. And if it’s not a Droid inheritor, well, it’s still something we haven’t seen. Could this be a updated QWERTY-fied Android resolution we’ve been watchful for? Time will discuss it.

Update:Droid Life has what it claims to be the screencap from a Verizon inventory system showing the M1955, a.k.a. Droid 2, hanging out in Ontario, California. Easily fakeable? You betcha, though it’s not similar to a Droid name is going to any alternative conduit. Interesting food for suspicion.

[Thanks, mabbikeel and Tuan Tran]

Why hello there… you. Over at a HowardForums, a sure “wnrussell” has uploaded the design of what looks to be the Getting Started primer for the Verizon-bound MotorolaDroid that you can’t stop ever seeing prior to. There’s unfortunately no alternative report supposing during the impulse, solely maybe the spirit from a filename: Shadow. Is this a same 4.3-inch phone we’ve been seeingrumored for a little time right away? At any rate, we gotta say, this is the flattering tasteful device — as well as if that’s the brand-new hue for Motoblur, we’re all for it. Now how about pulling out a tip slide-out set of keys to have the lives finish…

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All in all, we suspicion a Droid Incredible was the flattering nifty phone, though in the full examination you still called out the couple ways Verizon as well as HTC could make it the small some-more… good, you know. It seems Verizon has taken a single of the suggestions to heart, since we’ve only schooled a association will boat brand-new phones with the 2GB microSD label. No word upon how prolonged a promo suggest will final or either existent pre-orders have been enclosed, though you listen to during slightest a single early adopter got left out. We’ll have to see if some-more verbalize up… similar to you, for example. Let us know in comments if you get shortchanged.

[Thanks, Shawn M.]

We adore an innovative repair to the complaint, as well as so were right away soft by a Game Gripper when you saw it in movement. It’s a small keypad which slaps upon over a set of keys of your Motorola Droid or Milestone, branch it into what looked similar to maybe a many undiluted mix of smartphone as well as moveable gaming machine we’d ever seen. (Sorry, N-Gage.) Naturally you had to try it, and a Gripper’s author, Hyrum Fairbanks, was kind sufficient to send us a single to exam — even customized to compare a Engadget Mobile tone intrigue. Is it value a measly $15 he’s charging for a thing, as well as is it good sufficient to govern the hadouken? Read upon by to find out.
Game Gripper

The Gripper is a elementary rubber thing which only slides upon over a keypad. It’s been some-more or reduction palm done, which most is easy to discuss it, though it feels permanent as well as the distance and coherence equates to it’d be gentle sufficient to hang in the slot or can be tossed into the bag but violation. Our primary fears which a buttons would have hideous feel incited out to be uncalled-for, as they essentially have the decent tactility to them. It’s zero similar to a feel of the standard gamepad, though it’s not indispensably bad.

We played the series of games for the series of hours as well as about a usually censure you have is which the Gripper has the bent to slip left-to-right the bit when you’re frantically drumming in games similar to Street Fighter 2. But, which could be seen as the great thing, as a section comes with the rather than frightful notice which pulling as well tough could potentially repairs your phone’s set of keys. Perhaps we’re being the bit optimistic, but which shifting does let you know when you’re removing the bit as well forceful. Regardless, it frequency slid so most as to means us to hit a wrong buttons.

After those hours of play you never beheld any shift in feel upon a keys being pulpy, nor any outlines on them or any alternative pointer of repairs, so we’re pretty certain you can bucket up those emulators to your heart’s enterprise as well as get your diversion upon but fright of permanent repairs — if you can rein in which super-human finger strength you’ve been building all these years.

Wrap-up

For $15 a Game Gripper turns the Droid (or Milestone) into the distant some-more able gaming appurtenance as well as, whilst you do instruct there were a little approach to supplement shoulder buttons to a thing, you were essentially means to map a camera as well as volume up buttons to be R as well as L, respectively, giving the in accord with mock-up for an SNES controller. The feel isn’t undiluted, though we’re confident, as well as after the couple of days with a single you positively don’t wish to game but it.

Oh, as well as if you occur to be personification upon a little alternative device, you’ll be happy to know which there’s the Gripper entrance for a Devour, Backflip, as well as the N900 as well.

While a brand-new Verizon Droid Incredible isn’t ostensible to arrive until April 29th, the couple of sanctified pre-orderers have been removing their units early. From a tune of it, there was the glitch in Verizon’s complement which was permitting a little phone orders to be shipped right divided — sadly, which assumingly has given been plugged. Interestingly, a boxes these have been being shipped in so distant only contend “HTC Incredible,” not which it’s any warn which a Droid Incredible moniker was the late-in-game further. Of march, cries of “feign!” rang out in a forums, so a single of a recipients (appropriately self-dubbed “SoSmarmy”) posted the video of a phone booting up for all to see. Check it out after a mangle. Not working with enviousness nonetheless? Perhaps you should re-read the examination of a brand-new flagship Android handset.

[Thanks, Aaron]

Are you posting this HTC Incredible promo video even yet we’ve already put up the full examination only since a Engadget Android app creates cameo appearances during 1:05 as well as 3:23, most similarto you posted a EVO 4G video since it featured Engadget in a headlines widget? Yes, you have been. Any alternative questions? Video after a mangle.

P.S.- It’s strictly called a Droid Incredible, though Verizon’s dude-man usually ever calls it only “a Incredible.” Odd, no?

[Thanks, Lyndon]

It’s been the rough month or so for Palm, as the usually thing keeping a company’s tanking stock price from descending utterly into a gutter have been buyout rumors — EDGE here, HTC there, even Lenovo, for alittle funny reason. But that’s apparently not sufficient to get CEO Jon Rubinstein down: he only sat down with Fortune for the infewinstances vehement chat, observant which nonetheless his company hasn’t finished so good, he still thinks there’s potential — as well as which he patently wishes some things had gone improved. The large one? The Verizon launch — as well as Jon thinks which if a Droid and Pre had had their launch dates flipped, the Pre would have finished better.
One of the analysts u pon the earnings call asked if we had launched when Droid launched, as well as Droid launched when [we] launched at Verizon, would the story have been opposite? I pronounced I consider you have a improved product than Droid, as well as business would have been happier with it. It’s positively an engaging thought examination, but we’ve always pronounced which a Pre’s selling had a lot to do with the failure on Big Red as good — as well as Palm assumingly agrees, given it’s fired the ad group as well as Jon told Fortune which Verizon’s becoming different their ads as good. As for the buyout rumors? Well, obviously Jon didn’t contend most, though it sounds like he’s not aswell meddlesome — nonetheless which can regularly shift if a right swain comes to a table . We’ll see if Ruby essentially manages to spin things around — we’ve got alittle ideas upon how to have which happen. Hit a source link for a full talk.

The “coming weeks” timeframe that Verizon had promised for 2.0.1 to start pushing to Droids has been mercifully condensed down to just a few days, because a number of folks are starting to report that they’re receiving the update on their retail units today — and we’v e been able to confirm with the company that it’s going down. That’s great news for a Monday, we’d say, and if you haven’t gotten the update just yet, Big Red has now posted update instructions and details on the Droid’s support site that should be enough to tide you over for a few minutes. In bri ef, this looks like bug-fix nirvana with improv ed stability and battery life, better camera and call quality, faster visual voicemail, and a host of o ther goodies — anyone hoping for new features is probably primed for disappointment, but we’ll take what we can get. K eep an eye on your Droid today, owners, and let us know how the experience treats you.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]