Motorola Droid X Caught Running Android 2.3 Gingerbread?

By Matthew Chung on 12/14/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

With the Nexus S set to arrive with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, many Motorola Droid X users out there are wondering when they’ll be able to get hold of the update. While this is far from an official update, a video of the Motorola Droid X running an early alpha build of Gingerbread has surfaced and the phone is touted to be running a build number VZW-TestKeys-280657 and baseband version BP_C_01.09.07P. Of course, some folks also speculate that it might be a custom ROM that has been skinned to look like Android 2.3, and we can’t discount that possibility. Still, hopefully it’s a hint that the Android 2.3 update for this phone is just around the corner.

Update: It has been confirmed that this isn’t a Gingerbread update, rather an update to MotoBLUR.

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Motorola: Motorola is an American telecommunication company that has been split in two: Motorola Mobility (now a Google company) and Motorola Solutions. Motorola Mobility now focuses on handsets and set top boxes, while Motorola Solutions works on infrastructure and enterprise products. Motorola Mobility's best products are the Motorola RAZR M, RAZR HD, and RAZR Maxx HD. In Europe, Motorola has partnered with Intel to build the Motorola RAZR i.

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