Droid X Mobile Phone Review

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The iPhone 4 just got some healthy competion in the form of the Droid X, a new Android phone from Motorola with a large touch screen, an 8 megapixel camera and 720p HD video recording. Find out if this has Apple's new pride and joy beat.

What You Need to Know

• The phone is longer and wider than the new iPhone, but just barely thicker
• It weighs about 1 oz. More
• It feels sturdy
• The phone also has this weird lip, but it didn't bother us too much in our pocket
• Obviously, the phone is bigger all around because of the huge 4.3” screen
• Its screen is almost 1” larger than the iPhone 4's screen, which is 3.5”
• However, the 854 x 480 resolution is lower than the iPhone's (960 x 640)
• Overall, it was nice having more room to work
• It runs on Android 2.1 with an upgraded version of MOTOBLUR (Motorola's social network widgets), and it has a one GHz OMAP processor
• The touch screen is very responsive and supports pinch and zoom
• You have seven home screens to customize and add widgets
• MOTOBLUR has also been vastly improved (each widget is resizable and easier to use. On other phones
• The keyboard is as good as the iPhone's and, of course, you have more room to type; you can even change to the Swype keyboard
• As for speed, it's practically a tie with the iPhone 4 and Droid Incredible when launching apps or loading web pages
• As for the original Droid, it blows it out of the water
• Overall, the Droid X is super fast
• The features have also been heavily upgraded; 8 megapixel camera, 720p HD video recording, 3G mobile hotspot capability and a ton more
• The camera has lots of different scenes and effects, and takes good pictures in normal light, but lower light is where you'll have problems; the flash helps, but not quite enough
• Video looks good, but has the same sorts of problems; the ability to record in 720p along with HDMI output directly on the phone is powerful, though
• You can also stream media from your phone to an Xbox 360 or other device using the DLNA app
• The browser is multi-touch and will support Flash 10.1 later this summer when
• Android is updated to 2.2
• It has no front-facing camera
• Battery life was good in our limited testing

Price

$200 with a contract

go ahead and add $569.99 full retail.

The 3G mobile hotspot is easy to activate and use, but it does cost an extra $20 a month with a data cap of 2 GB

It's fast, pretty, feature rich, and on Verizon, the network with the best coverage

Overall Rating

5 Seals of Approval Out of 5 (How do we rate gadgets?)


Read more And see the Video Review: Droid X Mobile Phone Review - G4tv.com

by: Eugene Morton
on 7.8.2010 at 11:00 am

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[Mario]

5/5 whoop!

[B16]

go ahead and add $569.99 full retail.

[ebidar]

Nice review, and ouch on the 569.99 retail price, but a simple dumb phone can still retail close to 400, so not that bad imo. Of course I don't have 569 lol but just comparing price to lower end phones.

[yurdle]

Lol was kinda a funny review... but yes 5 out of 5.. go droid x =D