Presenting my latest book, Droid X2 For Dummies. It’s an update to my popular Droid X For Dummies, which covers the new Droid X2 but also covers the Gingerbread operating system update to the original Droid X.

Sorry about missing Monday’s blog post. Time-Warner, my cable provider, suffered a massive outage this past Sunday, and into parts of Monday. They still don’t know what caused it.

The outage was weird: The cable modem was on and working, but the Time Warner DNS servers were down. Nothing was coming in or out. An article in today’s paper mentioned the outage and that T-W still has no clue what caused it.

And that just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy paying them what I pay them each month.

Back to the book.

The Droid X2 is a heckuva improvement over the original Droid X. At first look, it’s the Droid X’s twin. The only thing missing is the Camera button, which I never use anyway. (The touchscreen shutter button seems to respond faster on the original Droid X.)

What’s lovely about the Droid X2 is its screen and its speed. It’s really peppy. So the gizmo is effectively a hardware update to the original machine, kind of like the IBM PC AT was an update to the original IBM PC and the IBM PC-XT.

Random Quiz. Anyone out there old enough to remember the basic difference between the original IBM PC and the IBM PC-XT? Probably not.

My job now is to pour through the Droid X2 book and ensure that things are still relatively up-to-date. Various software updates and such render some of my information obsolete, which is the downside of writing about such leading edge technology.

Any changes, updates, or errata can be found on my support page for the Droid X2, here.