GBTV #657 (HD) | Motorola Droid Review

As you know, the hugely anticipated launch of the Motorola Droid was on Friday. I went to a press event held at a Verizon store to get a hands on with the Droid and some footage to share with you guys. Boring, but I'll take what I can get. Surprise, surprise, Verizon was nice enough to let me hang on to a Droid for two weeks so I'm able to give you a more in-depth review. The Droid runs Android 2.0. Android is an open source mobile operating system, originally developed by, and heavily supported by Google. If you use Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, or Google Voice, having Android is a very good thing. It means those apps are going to run smoothly and you'll get more out of them. More on that in a minute. Verizon has put a lot of effort into their network, and the hope here is that you don't get the amount of dropped calls or inconsistent service a lot of people complain about with AT&T. In my experience with iPhones on AT&T, dropped calls are less of an issue than calls I have to drop because I can't understand the person on the other end of the call or they can't understand me. The Motorola Droid provides vastly better sounding calls than my iPhones. In a perfect world both phones would be available on both networks so I could tell if it's a hardware issue or a network issue. The Motorola Droid has the best screen on any handheld device I've ever seen. It's a 3.7 inch touchscreen with a resolution of 854x480. That's over 400,000 pixels, and you can definitely tell a difference. We're showing you The Droid playing a movie in HD. The Droid screen is brighter and richer and point 2 inches bigger. The downside? No multitouch in the US. It's capable of multitouch, and the GSM version in Europe has multitouch enabled, but we're not allowed here in the US. Instead, you double tap to zoom or use the plus and minus buttons on the screen to zoom in or out. If you've been using an iPhone, you're going to natually want to pinch the screen. The Droid's method of zooming isn't bad. It has nice animation, ...

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[addykj]

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[Tekbuzznet]

Hey Cali Lewis. I love your show I watched every show.. I feel this phone needs a new reviews and few thing you mention is incorrect. Some are Multitouch is enable now. One mistake you made on this review is phone only runs 6 application as multi tasking which is not true. Android runs as many application the system memory can handel. You can run 20 app ore more if you like at no problem the OS automatically shuts the apps down to release memory for more current and up front apps running.

[evilmarc]

That girl needs to eat more.

[MrAj577]

hey you are right but i am not a big fan of the. apple phone so i just wanted a phone that i can do everything. the reason i am not becuase the apple. phone speaker is very low a lot of time you can t. hear nothing

[notor1oustg]

Great straight to the point review. I like your view on the "iPhone killer" I agree. Apple iPhone is great and I want it to succeed and its great that Motorola/Android are coming out with better products such as the Droid to make apple keep changing, same for Droid.

[mynosehurt]

really? sounds like i'll be using the dolphin browser.

ugh, but it doesn't come till tuesday.

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