[0]Hey everybody, PhoneScoop here, taking a look at the new Motorola Droid. The first Android phone for the Verizon wireless network. We are going to unbox it for you here, and take you through the device so you can get an idea for what its like. Pull the lid off and you can see the device is already falling out on the floor. Here it is right here Very simple styling here, we got black on black. We got soft touch surfaces, metal surfaces, plastic surfaces, feels very good. And what else is in the box. We have got just a charger and a data cable and thats it. Charger and data cable. No other extra accessories are in the box. So thats kind of, kind of annoying but thats what it is I guess. So here it is, lets peel of the stickers and take a look. So you can see the Droid is a very large screen. 3.7" high resolution 854 [1]pixels by 480, pretty impressive. And you have got four touch capacitive buttons here. that provide haptic feedback when you press them. Then this little ledge here which is actually reserved for the RF radios and antennas and such. On the left side we got a microUSB port. Nothing along the bottom. On the right we got a dedicated camera key. A volume toggle. And on the top you will see a 3.5mm headset port. As well as the power and lock key. On the back we will zoom in a little bit here 5MP camera which has image stabilization, autofocus and flash. And can shoot DVD quality video which not many phones can claim to do. Of course its a slider and we have got a full QWERTY keyboard here. The keyboard feels OK. Its a little on the flat side and the keys dont have very good definition I would prefer there to be more definition on this keyboard and its also, you know, a straight up and down keyboard. Its not offset, offset keyboards are a little bit easier to use. We spoke [2]to Motorola's engineers and they said it was a space issue because they wanted to be able to include the navigation pad and that prohibited them from using an offset keyboard. But still it works OK. Travel and feedback is not bad. So lets turn the phone on and give you a look at the user interface. So now we have had a chance to fire up the phone and lets hit the lock key. Here is the basic lock screen and you can see, you can go either way with this little dial pad. You can put it to the right unlock or the left to silence it if you get an incoming call for example, and dialing it over here brings up the basic home screen. Now because this is a Android with Google phone it runs the basic configuration of Android. So you have got one home screen here and one to the right and one to the left. And there are no additional screens, you know, the Motorola CLIQ for example has five home screens. So these buttons here are [3]capacitive buttons and they provide haptic feedback. Whats really nice is they require just a slightly different amount of pressure than the screen itself. The screen here is very responsive This is a little bit less responsive and that, it terms of usability, actually it is a better thing. So you wont accidentally push any of these buttons when you mean to just grab the bottom of the phone. So for example, push the menu button there and the menu will pop up there. You can see it if I zoom in a little bit. Get rid of the menu. Of course it has the same home screen, and menu system that any basic Android phone comes with. And whats interesting is that they have done some neat things with the contacts application. The contacts application which is part of Android 2.0 supports a lot of Facebook APIs so you can integrate your Facebook applications with the phone's applications and merge contacts on the device itself. Since we dont have [4]any data loaded on this particular device we cant show you that. Its hard to show you just how amazing the screen is. The screen is simply phenomenal Google maps application, which offers turn by turn navigation and direction guidance which is a really neat thing to have on this device. We have also got car home, which is a user interface specific for cars. And actually they will be offering a dock for this device that will go into your car. And you know, this is a good user interface to use in a car because its very easy to tell what you are doing with your fingers and you can just very simply push any of these buttons and get what you need. And of course you can just go home quite simply if you tap the button there. The camera offers improved features. You can see launch time was much faster there and you can see the user interface is definitely different [5]You got a nice little switch that will take it from camera mode to video mode and back There is the keys, we are going to settings here. And you see, brand new user interface. Its a half screen, set a full screen, and they got a lot of different settings to adjust here Flash, scene, white balance, color effect and so on. So nice that the camera software has been updated So that is a quick take on the Motorola Droid. PhoneScoop will be offering a more in depth report in the coming days. So Motorola Droid for the Verizon wireless network. Verizon's first Android phone, and there it is.
Channel: phonescoop
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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