Verizon Wireless Confirms Droid 2 Release

Tomorrows the day.

Verizon Wireless acknowledged whats been floating out there for a few weeks now the highly anticipated follow-up to the original Droid smartphone, the Droid 2 from Motorola, will go on sale Wednesday via the Verizon Wireless website. If you can wait a day, you can get one from a Verizon Wireless retail outlet on Aug. 12.

The Droid 2, running on the Android 2.2 OS, features an enhanced QWERTY keyboard, 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities, intuitive social messaging, ultra high-speed Web browsing and Adobe Flash 10.1.

The DROID by Motorola was our first Android device, so it is important for us to include the successor to that phone in our portfolio,” said Jeffrey Dietel, vice president wireless device, marketing and development for Verizon Wireless.  DROID 2 is not only a continuation of our commitment to Android but offers customers the features and form-factor they crave on the Verizon Wireless network.”

Droid 2 will no doubt be praised for its super-slim design. It also features speech-to-text in put and a virtual multi-touch keyboard for quick messaging. The screen is 3.7 inches and the phone includes a 5-megapixel camera as well as DVD-quality video capture.

Apps can be downloaded from the Android market, which, while no Apple App Store, has increased its number of applications to 70,000. The Droid 2 comes with 8GB or preloaded memory that is expandable to 32GB.