Motorola Droid Review

 

Motorola has unveiled its brand new mobile DROID. Motorola Droid feels solid and nice phone with a 3.7 inch of touch screen display. Its display is attractive and the device is lightning fast, especially for Android phone. Droid comes with Android 2.0 version of operating system. It is powerful communications and web surfing tool meeting the high standards. Its keyboard is shallow and flat and it makes very difficult to type.

Design:

Motorola Droid comes in an 115.8x60x13.7 mm of dimensions and it weighs around 165g. Droid has TFT capacitive touchscreen with the support of 16M colors. It comes with 480x854 pixels of resolutions with full QWERTY keyboard with 5-way navigation keys. The display resolution provides 409,820 pixels which sounds very great. The keyboard of the device doesn’t take the entire length of the device.

The basic interface is similar to the Android users. You can see three Home screens which you can customize each pane with the help of widgets. In the central pane, you can see the Google Search bar using which you can search whatever you need. The Main menu can be accessed via pull tab which is at the bottom of the display. You can also move the icons and add the shortcuts and folders.

On the display, you have four buttons – Back, Menu, Home and Search. The functionality of these buttons is same as on other Android phones. Droid doesn’t have the physical Talk control. Alternatively, you have to access the calling functions via widget on the display. When you open the Droid to show the physical keyboard, the screen orientation will automatically change. The keys of the keyboard are flush and squashed with each other which makes hard to type the text quickly.

The central OK and toggle buttons, which are in the next to display, are easy to use. It assists you in browsing through the menus and selecting items. Motorola Droid contains Volume controller and camera activation/capture buttons on the left side of the panel. You can also use the 3.5 mm headset jack, which is on the top of the panel, to use your own headset. Camera lens, stereo speakers, and flash are on the rare side of the device. You can also use the microSD card slot by removing the battery on the rare side.

Features:

Motorola Droid offers many of the same core features which are in the Android phones. Droid is the first smartphone to run the Android 2.0 OS which gives new features and interface enhancements. Droid uses 600 MHz of ARM Cortex A8 CPU with PowerVR SGX530 graphics. Android 2.0 has expanded the capabilities of the personal information management tool including calendar, contacts, and email.

Motorola Droid offers native Microsoft Exchange synchronization out of the box for calendar, contacts, and email, in addition to the support for Gmail, IMAP and POP3 accounts. Only Microsoft Exchange and Gmail offer the push delivery, whereas the IMAP and POP3 message are retrieved at user-specified time intervals. Droid helps you to merge the contact information from the various accounts like Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, and Facebook, and it combines them on a single contact card for an individual.

Android 2.0 has brought some of the improvements to the web browser. Droid now supports HTML5. You can add the visual bookmarks and you can also toggle between the multiple windows though the simple list view. This browser doesn’t have the Flash Lite support. It has the plug-in which will support the Adobe Flash Player 10. Motorola Droid comes with GPS/A-GPS with the different Google Maps Navigation app. On Google Maps, you can use the voice-guided, text-to-speech directions. Google Maps offers layered maps with traffic data, Google Latitude, and satellite view.

Motorola Droid supports MP3, eAAC+, WMA9, MP4, WMV9, WAV, and other audio formats. Music quality is very good. You can listen to the songs using 3.5mm headset jack. Even, video playback is also smoother. It doesn’t require much rebuffering. Droid comes with 5 megapixel camera with resolution of 2592x1944 pixels. It has autofocus and dual-LED flash. You can record a video for 30 seconds, if you are adding the video to multimedia message, but you can record up to 30 minutes in Normal Mode. The photo quality is decent, but not impressive. You can record the video at 720x480 pixels of resolutions at 24 frames per second.

Motorola Droid comes with 133 MB of internal memory and 256 MB of RAM. It comes with 8 GB of microSD card which can be extended up to 32 GB. Apart from these, it has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, 3G, GPRS, and microUSB v2.0.

Performance:

Motorola Droid makes a big rise in the internal performance. Droid is lighting fast, as compared with other Android processors, when opening any applications and menus, scrolling through lists and switching the displays. The call quality of Droid is excellent. There is no problem with hearing the voice. It gets strong and consistent signal. Unfortunately, Droid doesn’t support Bluetooth Voice commands or dialling. You have to select the icon from the Main menu in order to use the Voice Dialer feature.

Motorola Droid offers the Lithium Ion 1400 mAh battery. It gives Standby up to 350 hours and the Talk time is up to 6 hours 30 minutes.

Motorola Droid doesn’t support the dual-mode capability for domestic GSM networks and CDMA networks abroad. So, this disappoints the user who frequently travels abroad.