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The poster in this place that we’ve received today kind of speaks for itself, we’d say. By all appearances, it seems that T-Mobile intends to continue its tradition of making family plans attractive with blowout handset pricing — and the next model to get the free treatment will be Motorola’s upcoming Charm featuring Android packed into a form factor that you rarely (well, never see) for the platform. Realistically, $100 is probably the high end of the reasonable range for something with the Charm’s specs, but at $0, it’s a downright bargain compared to the typical free-on-contract dumbphone fare. at this time let’s just extend this offer to non-family plans, T-Mobile — and go ahead and make it permanent while you’re at it.

The Droid X isn’t even out yet — at least, not officially — but that’s not stopping Motorola and Verizon from putting the finishing touches on their next superphone prior to launch. All of our review units shipped either with 1.13.514 or 1.13.516, but at this time Moto’s pushing 1.13.604 out to units in the field; we don’t know what’s different, but we’d assume it’s a quickie (just 18MB, in fact) to patch up a few last-minute bugs. Needless to say, if you were expecting Froyo already… well, prepare to be disappointed.

Droid X software update beats the phone to market originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

If you were hoping sort of magical patch that made the Backflip flip normally, replaced Yahoo search with Google, and erased any trace of AT&T crapware, well… you can just keep on hoping, but all things considered, Motorola’s just-released update for the phone seems like a must-have. Most importantly, better battery life and system stability are promised along with improved network and Bluetooth performance and a host of other tweaks — and interestingly, they also make mention of better performance from downloaded apps, though this doesn’t have anything to do with the current sideloading restriction as far as we can tell. It’s also not Android 2.1 just yet, but with any luck, that’s still in the pipeline.

Motorola Backflip gets a software update, still flips the wrong way originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.