> The [Droid X](http://phones.verizonwireless.com/droid/x/) will ship with Android 2.1, which will be updated to so-called [Froyo, or Android 2.2](http://www.macworld.com/article/150902/2010/04/android_flash.html), later. That means that it initially won’t have Flash Player 10.1, the latest version of that software that became available this week for Android 2.2. Onlookers had hoped the Droid X would come with Android 2.2.
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> The phone will become available on July 15 and will get Android 2.2 and Flash Player 10.1 later in the summer, Verizon said. It will retail for $199 after a $100 rebate.
via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/152242/2010/06/droid_x.html?lsrc=rss_main)
I’m just trying to think what the reaction would be if Apple shipped the iPhone 4 tomorrow with version 3.1.3 of the OS, instead of iOS 4. And then told people that even though many current customers already have downloaded 4 for free, that they’d have to wait until “later this summer” to get the latest OS for their shiny new phone.
Yet somehow I’m guessing Google is going to get a pass on this, as they always do.
And what’s with the jumbo phones lately on the Android side, anyway? Are they trying to limit sales to ultra-geeks with giant pockets?
