Droid X review

[t.crawford714]

Here is my review of the Droid X

Motorola Droid X

Pros—Blazing fast, Wi-Fi hotspot, and noise cancellation

Cons—Big, sometimes runs hot, low battery depending on how you use it

Verdict—I think the phone is worth it especially if you like the Android platform.

Release date—July 15th 2010

Price—$199 after $100 mail-in-rebate

Camera—Yes 8mp with auto focus and dual LED flash

Video camera—Yes 720p HD

Mobile Hotspot—Yes (up to 5 devices)

Wi-Fi—802.11 b/g/n/i

Processor—1Ghz Texas Instruments

Ram—512mb

Storage—8gb internal, 16gb micro SD card built in (expandable up to 32gb)

Screen—4.3” 854x480 LCD capacitive touch screen

Phone size—2.6” x 5.0” x 0.4”

Operating system—Android 2.1 (mine came with the 2.2

Service Provider—Verizon Wireless

Unboxing—The phone didn’t come in some fancy box (I didn’t expect that) It was only just bigger than the phone its in width. You got your USB charge cord with AC adapter. How they talked about the amazing screen for watching videos it would have been nice to see a HDMI cable in the box as well.

Software—There is NO “Motoblur” which I found nice. You didn’t have to set up any accounts (except for your Google account to be able to access the phone)

Browser—The Droid X browser has a pinch zoom option for zooming, that I found useful. It is pretty fast, almost like a mini-super computer in my mind.

Performance and Battery—The X has a 1540 mAh battery which is required for running the fast processor and the huge screen. So far the X has about 480 minutes of talk time and 220 hours of standby. If you keep your screen as bright as possible and your GPS always on you won’t get as good as results.

Camera—The camera is 8 MP capable of taking HD video. The shutter is fast (1/1000 second nice for taking fast action pictures) 4x digital zoom and dual LED flash. There are a few other features like different shot stylings, picture tagging (for the city your in) and face detection.

Keyboard—The keyboard is very nice. It spaces the keys out farther apart for those that have bigger fingers. You can also touch two keys in quick succession, along with the “Swype” option. This enables you to drag one finger across the keyboard to type the word. You just have to get almost the right letters almost like “T9 Word” on other phones. You do have to pick your finger up and tap the spacebar but I haven’t really noticed that it is too hard.

Keys—The on-screen keys have a fair touch radius so you don’t have to touch exactly the icon you can be on the edge a little bit. On the bottom of the phone there are four hard keys (from left to right) “Menu” Push it to bring up a menu list for that screen or app. You can also long press on this button to pull up a keyboard. “Home” Push this one to bring you home from anything, from a different screen or app. When your screen is dark (standby) you can push it to bring up the “unlock” screen, or if you have the phone on you can long press it to bring up eight of your recent apps you have just used. “Back” I haven’t found any cool things to do with this yet, its just simply a back button. Lastly, the “Search” button, press it and it will bring up a Google search.

-t.crawford714

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