It’s bigger, semi-lighter but ss the third time a charm for Verizon and Androids?

My long frustration with Android phones: they come out to quickly to keep consumers happy. No sooner did the Nexus One hit the streets, the HTC Incredible was out offering an ever slicker package and nicer screen. And no sooner did I finish wiping the drool from my mouth over the Incredible and telling everyone who could hear me they should consider it as a viable alternative to the iPhone on Verizon, then the X comes out.

Note to Android developers: work together and slow down. Apple at least gets more anticipation for a new product with their annual roll outs-- even if it’s just to throw in a bunch of features that most phones on the market already have.

The Droid X is impressive.. but the size might seem a bit much at first, but it might be the best 5-inches you jam in your pocket and it’s about a half inch bigger than the BlackBerry curve.

That said, at 640x360, which is about the size most of your video’s will be seen, it’s quality is pretty decent-- the subject matter helps, but for a quick upload to YouTube or your web site, which you can do with a few taps from the video playback screen, it’s good.

The X also has Swype, which lets you simply drag one finger over the keyboard to input text. I have to say-- it’s very user intuitive, I figured out using it the first time. I feel like it just gets me, and when it doesn’t, it asks and learns quickly. It was developed by the guy who created T9, so we can blame him for the rise of TXTing, and thank him for this even faster way that actually lets us spell out words.

Also cool: Onboard WiFi hotspot. So you can jump on Verizon’s 3G data network and then use WiFI to share that connection with up to 5 devices-- think of it like the MiFi but with a phone attached. The concept actually makes more sense than the MiFi which always resulted in the question: yeah, why not just get a USB card for my laptop. This way-- it’s a device you already have and it will work with a device you may already have-- including Apple’s iPad, and that way it’ll get it on a more reliable data network.

The Big Screen will also come to the Droid X’s big screen with Blockbuster. They’ve got there On Demand on the handset. The store interface is pretty clean and easy to use, but here’s the thing: you have to have a WiFi connection to get the movies to download to the handset. For a flight, you can cache video’s , but to get them there in the first place, you can’t jump on the likely-more-available 3G network. I guess that’s okay, considering the movies are several hundred megabytes to a gig or two, which would eat into your precious data.

And like previous Android phones, it pulls in your Google Gmail info with ease, syncs your Facebook contacts into your phone-- both handy and dangerous if you have more friends on Facebook that you don’t want to be texting late at night. And unlike it’s 10-less sibling Droid, it does not have a slide out keyboard. Which is fine-- it’s slimmer for the loss and better in your pocket.