Motorola Droid 2 Car Dock Review

Quick review of the new car dock for the Motorola Droid 2, or as they like to call it, the Navigation/Music Vehicle Mount. Also, this may also be interesting to owners of the original Droid as an upgrade from the original dock. If you have a question on the dock, leave a comment.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• motorola
• droid
• droid2
• car
• dock
• vehicle
• mount

[JLai1969]

Is there a USB plug on the mount to plug in a car charger? Or will you have to take the phone off the mount to charge?

[bigbill25]

@JLai1969 There is a plug in the dock. When you slide the phone in, it connects automatically. There is a micro-USB port on the back of the dock, so you can plug in a car charger and leave it there. This means you just slide your phone in and it starts charging. When leaving the car just slide the phone out. No cables to mess with. Works great.

[silentkillzr]

Does the camera have an open view when in dock... :)

[bigbill25]

@silentkillzr It does. Sorry I didn't get a shot of that in the video...

[traysonharmon]

Did you test the droid 2 in the Droid 1's car dock to verify that it for sure doesn't work? Also, the droid 1 in the car dock still allowed you to slide open and use the hard keyboard. with the clip on the top of the phone in landscape mode on the droid 2, can you still use the keyboard while the phone is in the dock???

[bigbill25]

@traysonharmon - The Droid2 does NOT work in the old original Droid dock.

You can slide the keyboard out using the new Droid 2 dock with both the original Droid and the Droid 2.

[sandqwert]

I've 2 questions...

1) Can you rotate the phone once mounted?... All pics i've seen about this car-mount, the phone ends up horizontal... Is it a fixed arm?.

2) I've noticied the camera lens is in the open... If you record a video while the phone is mounted, is the picture clear?, or some parts of the holder is seen?.

Thanks!

[JLai1969]

@bigbill25 - Ah ok that answers my 2nd question too. It doesn't come with a car charger haha.

Thanks!

[ilaizamantilla]

wirefly.com is offering droid 2 global for free whenever you sign up for a verizon plan, together with that is a free windshield and dashboard suction mount and multimedia station. just so you know :)

[gmyaya57]

I bought the Droid X in Jan. and then bought the Car & Home mounts (kit) in March. The car mount lacks in quality and design. It comes apart easily when trying to unmount the phone plus after some use it stops charging the phone.

This may be due to the short coiled cort which pulls the plug and probably caused the connector to bend.

I am really dissapointed in Motorola. They should copy Garmin's GPS car mounts which never fail & are user friendly. I hope they do some QC quick!

[espeyswims]

I really wish that they would have mentioned that the Motorola case will not fit in the original Droid car dock, because now I have around 100 dollars in products that I can only use half of the time.

[ThereIsNoDSoTM]

you spoke and presented very well, if you do future videos though, be aware that your hand motions appear nervous and can be distracting to your presentation

[JoeK20A3]

@JoeK20A3 Nm! Pressed to lower corners and it popper right out. 

[JoeK20A3]

Hi! Thanks for the vid! One quick question: I cannot for the life of me get the original insert out. You seem to do it effortlessly in the video. Did you do anything in particular to get it to come out? I'm trying to use this mount with a case... Thanks!