It’s August 12^th, and you know what that means.  Don’t you?  That’s right everyone, if you’ve been waiting to purchase the Droid 2, the wait is over.  Verizon and Motorola have officially welcomed Droid 2 to the growing Droid family.

The original Droid was one of the most popular and best selling Android phones.  Now, the Droid 2 appears to be picking up where the Droid left off.  A few key improvements likely have Droid owners drooling.  Among these improvements is a redesigned QWERTY keyboard that includes raised and separated keys.  The keyboard is also spread out along the slide out portion of the phone.  They were able to accomplish this by removing the “d-pad” that the original Droid had which allowed them more room to spread out the keys and create a separation between letters that would have reduced some of the most common complaints about the original model.

Motorola has sent word that the new Droid X at Verizon is scheduled to get Android 2.2 (Froyo) in early September of 2010.

The Droid X is Motorola’s most recently launched super phone.  It was released at Verizon on July 15^th.  The consensus is that this is among the most powerful if not the most powerful phone on the market right now.  It has a 1GHz processor, a 4.3” high resolution display, 8GB of built in memory and is preloaded with a 16GB MicroSD card, expandable to 32GB for a total of 40GB of memory.  It currently comes equipped with Android 2.1 (Éclair), which while snappy in its own right, is significantly slower than Froyo.

Potential good news for all you Android users out there.  It appears we might be on the verge of a mass rollout of Froyo, Google’s Android 2.2 OS release, as early as next week for some models.

This has long been rumored, but many are suggesting that it has now been confirmed that the original Motorola Droid from Verizon and the recently launched Sprint HTC Evo 4G will be the first two to receive the over the air update.

All the recent press has been about the big iPhone 4 and iOS 4 launches, both occurring this week, however the most recent member of the Motorola Droid family will not be ignored.  On Wednesday, Verizon, Google, Motorola, Adobe and others got together to announce the upcoming Motorola Droid X.

Android phones are very popular and it seems like carriers are having difficulty keeping them on the shelves.  The last two major Android releases have been consistently out-of-stock since their release and it is unclear when we’ll see appropriate quantities necessary to meet current demand.

The other day, we reported that Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G sold out only days after its initial release to the public.  The device, according to Sprint, set new release sales records in the first full day it was available.