Droid Life got a tip of someone who got to spend some time with the Motorola Droid2. They also got some pictures.
They got information on the device too,
- Android 2.2 – The phone was definitely running Froyo as you can see from the screenshot above. As expected, the phone with its 1.0GHz processor was “noticeably more responsive” than his D1, but could have had something to do with 2.2 as well.
- Feel/Look/Weight - Overall feel simply reminded him of the Droid 1. Same weight, same screen, just a new snazzier silver color and a “grill” on the back. Must have meant the speaker which is no longer gold.
- MotoBlur - The phone had the same Blur skin that we have on the Droid X. You can actually see that the notification bar is the same as the DX if you look closely. He mentioned only 5 screens though which matches the current Froyo launcher, but had the new arrow drawer button with the persistent phone and contact buttons a la Blur. He also pointed out the bundle of bloatware including the Blockbuster app, mobile hotspot and all of the Blur widgets.
- Keyboard - He had nothing but great remarks for the keyboard. In fact, these comments stuck out above the rest especially when the word “phenomenal” dropped. Sounds like Motorola fixed one issue at least.
It is almost the exact same as the original Droid. I was left disappointed after I read this because it is just a skinned version of the original Droid.


[...] 2 will run on Motorola’s MotoBlur skin, which is already found on the Droid X and has been rumored to be coming to the Droid 2. The next thing found in the user guide is the keyboard. There is a [...]