The Incredible S, announced by HTC at MWC 2011 will soon be available in the US via Verizon. The largest  US carrier will include the new smartphone in the Droid family – HTC Droid Incredible 2/ Droid Incredible 2 by HTC.

The photo we have confirms Droid Incredible 2 handset looks like the Incredible S.

The features are similar, as well, including 4-inch WVGA S-LCD display, 8MP rear camera with HD video recording, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 768MB of RAM, and a 1GHz Qualcomm processor. It will run Android 2.3 at launch. The launch date is still under shadows. So keep tuned!

Full keyboard

One of the features that make Motorola Droid a success was the full Qwerty keyboard. Everyone  knows that typing on full Qwerty keyboard is faster and easier than the touch screen keyboard. If you have an Android phone that comes with full Qwerty keyboard, master these shortcuts and start opening apps faster and perform other functions quicker.  You can also create your own keyboard shortcuts.

Shortcuts for opening Android apps

• Search + B: Open Browser
• Search + C: Open Contacts
• Search + E: Open E-mail
• Search + G: Open Gmail
• Search + P: Open Music
• Search + S: Open Text messaging
• Search + Y: Open YouTube

You can add or change these shortcuts through  Settings > Applications > Quick launch

Typing shortcuts

• Shift + Del: Delete the character to the right of the cursor
• Alt + Del: Delete an entire line
• Shift + Shift (press it twice): Activate caps-lock; press shift once more to exit
• Alt + Trackball-Left: Move cursor to beginning of line
• Alt + Trackball-Right: Move cursor to end of line
• Alt + Trackball-Up: Move cursor to top of page
• Alt + Trackball-Down: Move cursor to bottom of page
• Shift + Trackball-Left/Right: Highlight text for cutting or copying

Browser Short cut Keys

• Menu + J: Go back a page
• Menu + K: Go forward a page
• Menu + R: Refresh current page
• Menu + F: Find on page
• Menu + B: Open bookmarks
• Menu+ A: Add bookmarks
• Menu + S: Open social network sharing menu
• Menu + H: View browsing history
• Menu + S: Open browser settings
• Menu + D: Downloads
• Menu + G: Page info
• Menu + E: Select Text

Gmail Android Shortcuts

• R: Reply to current message
• A: Reply-all to current message
• Y: Archive message
• Menu + U: Refresh inbox
• Menu + C: Compose new e-mail
• Enter: Open an e-mail
• Alt + Trackball-Up: Jump to top of inbox
• Alt + Trackball-Down: Jump to bottom of inbox

Shortcut keys may vary from device to device. The above should work on most of android devices. Also don’t be afraid to create shortcut for your favorite apps.

The following Android phones come with full Qwerty keyboard:
Intercept (Moment 2), Droid 2, myTouch 3G Slide, FlipOut, Optimus Q,Devour, Backflip, lg Eve, Moment, DROID/Milestone, CLIQ

How to root motorola droid 2

Are you still waiting to root your newly acquired Motorola Droid 2? Your wait is over. One of the Android genius over at Xda-forum found the solution. Don’t forget that rooting could damage your phone or void your warranty.

***NOTE: Proceed at your own risk. I and the providers of this code are not responsible for anything you do to your phone! Also, I would advise against removing any bloatware until we have a working recovery or sbf file (though I heard a rumor one may be coming shortly )***

Setup:
- Install adb (here) and Motorola drivers for windows(32-bit or 64-bit)
- Download attached archive
- Extract to a directory, I used c:\Droid2Root
- Make sure you have USB degugging enabled
- Change connection to PC Mode

Process:
- Open command prompt
- cd c:/wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder-is
- adb devices (to verify the connection)
- cd c:/Droid2Root
- adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/Superuser.apk
- adb push su /sdcard/su
- adb push busybox /sdcard/busybox
- adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- adb shell
- cd data/local/tmp
- chmod 0755 rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
- ./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin

- let the process run until it returns you to c:/Droid2Root (be patient, but may need to reboot the phone)
- cd c:/wherever-your-sdk-tools-folder-is
- adb devices (to verify the connection)
- adb shell (you should now have a # prompt)
- mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
- cp /sdcard/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
- cp /sdcard/su /system/bin/su
- cp /sdcard/busybox /system/bin/busybox
- chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
- chmod 4755 /system/bin/busybox
- mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
- exit
- exit

Below is the link to how to root Motorola Droid 2 file and forum.