You can probably ignore the Droid X2 now

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MrX8503

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Is motorola handicapped when it comes to branding? The droidx is a popular smartphone and instead of capitalizing on that they release their flagship under a name no one knows (Bionic).

Droid X2 has more buying power than Droid Bionic. Instead let's just name our phones a million different things that way consumers don't know what the hell they're buying.
 

ultimatebob

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I recently got my Droid X with a 16 GB MicroSD card for $49. Those poor bastards at Sam's Club are getting screwed.
 

s44

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Is motorola handicapped when it comes to branding? The droidx is a popular smartphone and instead of capitalizing on that they release their flagship under a name no one knows (Bionic).

Droid X2 has more buying power than Droid Bionic. Instead let's just name our phones a million different things that way consumers don't know what the hell they're buying.
Any company that picked "Atrix" (wtf!?) over the great rumor/codenames "Olympus" and "Terminator" is full of branding fail.

They definitely hit gold with the original Droid idea/campaign, but whoever thought of that must have quit or something.
 

notposting

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Couple things. First, VZW unlimited data plans...are unlimited. Their mobile broadband plans are capped at 5GB (modems, mifi, etc) but the phones are unlimited (no tethering though).

Second, this has been out for awhile. It's not the Droid X2. It's the Droid X with a smaller memory card with a super dumb name in that inventory system.
 

Bateluer

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Couple things. First, VZW unlimited data plans...are unlimited. Their mobile broadband plans are capped at 5GB (modems, mifi, etc) but the phones are unlimited (no tethering though).

No, they are actually 5GB. Its not heavily enforced, but it is a 5GB cap. I've received an sms notice from Verizon when I broke the 6GB barrier during a billing cycle.