Dipped in clarified cyborg testosterone as it comes off the assembly line, The DROID X is simply sci-fi machismo at its best, and all of this packed into a phone. Surely its the purest of coincidences that Verizon, Motorola and Google introduced the Droid X smartphone the day before Apple’s iPhone 4 shipped. And certainly, the companies’ ability to get actual shipping units into reviewers’ hands before most of them could see Apple’s latest had not even a whiff of calculation.

Well, that being said, Droid X is one nice phone. It comes with a 1-GHz processor and 512MB of memory. It’s (comparatively) bigger than an iPhone 4, especially in width .The display is a WVGA 480-by-854-pixel screen — I found it to be very clear and sharp, plus its got an 8 Mega Pixel camera with 720p Video Capture. Sheesh ! If you like physical keypads, you’ll mourn the Droid X’s move to a soft keyboard only. But softkey fans will enjoy the inclusion of the Swype input software, which lets you type quite quickly without having to lift your finger from the keyboard.