Droid Phone Reviews,Droid Accessories
November 7, 2009
Droid Phone Reviews,Droid Accessories:We’re getting this out of the way now: Motorola’s Droid is the best Google phone on the market.
Maybe that’s not saying a whole lot. The Droid’s only competitors in the U.S. are T-Mobile’s 1-year-old G1, its chubby younger brother the MyTouch 3G and HTC’s Droid Eris, a $99 Verizon Wireless phone that comes out Friday — the same day as the Motorola Droid -- with an already-outdated Android operating system.
Here’s another one: Droid is the best phone on Verizon.
As we wrote last week, the Droid marks a notable shift for the nation’s largest carrier. Verizon — often renowned for its service, not its selection of phones — seems to be wisely minimizing its interference with handset makers.
What we get is an attractive and fast smart phone packed to the brim with features for $199 (with a two-year contract).
The Droid hardware is a technical feat. It has a 5-megapixel camera with a flash that doesn’t perform exceptionally well but still pretty great for a phone. The speaker is pleasantly loud. The touch-screen screen is gorgeous — larger than the iPhone’s with way more pixels per inch.
Oh, and it has a keyboard.
After spending plenty of time with the iPhone and MyTouch, we realized just how much we don’t miss physical keyboards. Granted, the Droid’s isn’t as nice as most Blackberry keyboards. We spewed just as many typos on the Droid’s black-and-white-and-brown keyboard as we did on software keyboards. Only problem is that we’re not offered automatic corrections like we get on the touch-screen keyboard.
Impressively, the slide-out keyboard doesn’t add much thickness compared with the iPhone — the Droid is only slightly bigger and noticeably heavier. The keyboard is a nice option (geeks will enjoy the pro shortcuts), but if you’re not digging it, you never have to pull it out.
Motorola takes a step back with its navigation buttons. Competing Android phones use a scroll ball — you know, that little nub that makes the Blackberry so good for e-mail. Instead, the Droid opts for a four-way rocker navigation with a center button, which sits next to the keyboard and provides little utility.more details http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/11/droid-review.html
