Wireless Wednesday: Not All About iPhone!

Hey BluePrints, it's been a while since we've had a legit Wireless Wednesday, so let's get back into the swing of things!

First off, the iPhone 4 does launch tomorrow. And hopefully launch day will be less catastrophic as every other part of this launch has been. The day preordering started, AT&T servers crashed, leaving hopeful buyers to just wait, or try valiantly to get through to the ordering screen. In store preorders were done on good old paper, and those who did get through later received emails saying they had been cancelled without a real explanation. AT&T's response: It was because of the hug demand. Well no kidding. It's not like this should have been a shock. iPhones have always sold a ton at launch. Or did you suddenly forget all those current owners that are currently raping your network? Oh, and that new shiny white iPhone? Don't hold your breath, since they won't be available until mid to late July. Why? Apple's official answer:

White models of Apple's new iPhone® 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.



Really? You've introduced new colors to your existing products before, and you'd think green, orange, purple, etc. would be more challenging than white. And speaking of white things, Best Buy announced that they will start carrying a white HTC EVO on Sprint starting July 11. It'll still be $200 with a contract.



Now let's end on a high note. The big news of today is the announcement of the Motorola Droid X. Think of it as the Verizon EVO, rocking a 4.3" touchscreen, 8mp camera with 720p video recording, 1GHz processor, Android 2.1 (running a new, less kiddy version of MotoBlur), HDMI out slot. It lacks the front-facing camera for video conferencing, but instead it has 8GB of internal storage, which means the Droid X can have a total of 40GB of memory, when added to the microSD card slot. It also comes preinstalled with Swype, the awesome gesture-based typing app. Unfortunately, despite the Adobe CEO's presence at the unveiling, the Droid X won't launch with Android 2.2 or Flash 10.1. Verizon did tell us that Froyo will launch later this summer, hopefully not too long after the July 15 release date. You can pick this bad boy up for $200 on contract. The good part: It also will have WiFi tethering. The bad news: You only get 2GB of tethering, despite the unlimited non-tethering data. Bad move Verizon. Don't be like AT&T.