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Verizon Motorola Droid... in my hands!
- Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 12:55 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I'm sure that other sites will do a better job of reviewing the Droid in-depth, so I will just give some impressions and post a few pictures.
Here are the first pics (note: Jabba is not to scale):
The Droid sitting next to my semi-ancient work-provided BlackBerry:
Likes:
- Verizon network (I've been a long-time Verizon customer)
- QWERTY slide-out keyboard
- Speed and responsiveness of the UI
- Free apps in the Android Marketplace (such as ConnectBot SSH client and Aldiko ebook reader)
- Preloaded with Gmail, YouTube, Facebook
- 5 MegaPixel camera
- Speakerphone quality is good
- Connects to my home WiFi
- Better reception than my old phone
Dislikes:
- Flash player had trouble with some videos due to version (Zero Punction @ The Escapist).
- The phone does not always get the orientation right. Sliding out the keyboard usually fixes this.
- Camera LED flash is better than nothing but indoor pictures are grainier than I hoped.
- The center of each keyboard key is not the backlit letter itself, but somewhere just to the right of it. I found it hard to type in the dark because I kept trying to put my fingers on the lit-up letters (and thus had many typos).
- Cost of data plan.
Compared to Apple iPhone:
Not much to say here except that I like the touchscreen of the Droid better than the iPhone... the few times I have tried to type on an iPhone or iPod touch I quickly got frustrated.
Here are pictures taken by the Droid's built-in 5MP camera (All pictures were taken indoor and at night, I would expect things to look a little better in daylight.):
Compare the above picture to a similar shot taken by a real camera with a real flash which I posted in My Reading Place.
Overall I am impressed and happy with the Verizon Motorola Droid.
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