DROID REVIEW: Droid Does Deer in Busse Woods Cook County Forest Preserve

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DROID by Motorola arrived Nov. 6, 2009 . In this camera review, the video and camera was pretty quick on the draw -- catching deer feeding in Busse Woods near Golf Road and Route 53.

For those of you who want an idea how well the Motorola Droid performs capturing video, check out the outdoor video that captured some deer near a bike path. Pretty challenging imaging because of the motion of the deer and the multiple shades of colors of the field and forest in the background.

The 5-megapixel cameral shoots pretty nice pictures as well. Camera access is also faster than iPhone, so the time from getting your camera in position to shutter click is acceptable.

The DROID DOES campaign, effective or not, is high on what the DROID DOES and what the iPhone doesn't -- quick little run-down. Overall look and feel is about as good as the iPhone, overall nobody can beat Apple's human interface design, yet. The DROID interface takes a little getting used to ... I've had a couple of accidental callbacks from the phone log -- you just have to learn to keep your fingers away form the phone icon on the right of the phone log list.

Phone quality and speakerphone are good.

Integration with Google apps or services works flawlessly so far. Google Mail contacts integration and updating is fast. Calendar integration is fast, too.

Map Navigation is much better than iPhone with a free built-in app and automatic speakerphone giving out directions. Works very well.

Not as many 'home screens' as iPhone. Don't know why Motorola and Android 2.0 chinced users out on that one. Replaceable battery on DROID, but the back cover falls off pretty easily. With the way many people go through new phones for the latest technology, having a replaceable battery is probably not much of an issue. I would go for the sealed battery -- much preferred to a battery cover you occasionally find lying on your car seat or worse can't find at all.

Getting news apps from the Market Place works pretty well, but not as nice and solid as Apple iTunes Music Store.

The phone seems to crash more than an iPhone. It's done a few weird things like freeze up and not be able to dial. Also, at one point it didn't have any sound during Verizon's visual voice playback. It required turning the phone off and back on to hear the visual voice mail.

Text messages stamp the time with something like a 2 point font. The size of the font is nothing short of ridiculous. Good luck seeing what time someone text'd you if you aren't wearing your glasses. SMS messages from a prior day omit the time on the 'date stamp'. How come it's less important to know the time if the message came in at 10 minutes before midnight compared to 10 minutes after midnight? Can any engineers out their hit a home run on a cell phone? They haven't quite hit it with the DROID, but they are getting closer.

Droid records 720x480, H.264, 24.75 fps
Saves video file as .3gp

3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones and functions on some 2G and 4G phones. UMTS stands for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.

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Science & Technology

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• Motorola
• Droid
• video
• Android
• 2.0
• deer
• outdoors
• wildlife
• cellphone
• camera
• wireless
• bike
• trail
• review

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[johnpa2006]

Dont get any closer, or they will hoof punch you.

or you will end up scaring them into traffic and then you will make someone have to pay for car body repair.

DROID is hungry it wants to eat a deer !!!

[tocoolcar]

niceee

[freemensudhaman]

man the droid is a good phone and an excellent competitior to the iphone.

[mutis1289]

i have the droid and the HTC Eris.. they nice

[c0p555]

ur video taping on your phone