There are smartphones. Then there is the Droid. A product from the Motorola stable, it is powered by Android 2 and is the best phone from Motorola yet; it can hold its own against any product from Apple, HTC or BlackBerry. The device is in two sections-a big glass display and then a slightly longish keyboard. It has a 3.7 in screen with a 854x480 display. The screen has great resolution and superb clarity. It has 4 buttons in the lower half of the display: Back, Home, Menu and Search. On top of the device is a 3.5mm headphone jack and the power button. You’ll find on the right a volume rocker; there is a camera button at either end. The phone’s left side has a micro USB port; the rear houses a 5 megapixel camera.
The phone’s main engine is the ARM Cortex A8 TI OMAP 3430-the same stuff that powers the iPhone 3 GS and the Palm Pre. Though you can scroll through apps and perform good multitasking with the phone, you can have a few niggles with the menus and the desktop applications. The phone has a very good web browsing capability. All you need to do is to tap twice on a section of the content to know the content’s boundaries. E-mail is great on the Droid though it does not have a ‘search’ feature-a slight dampener for heavy users of e-mail. For those who like to shoot videos, the phone captures images in 720x 840, which is pretty decent. The Droid is equipped with a 16 GB memory card and has an array of music functions. You can search according to artist, album, song or playlist. You can even perform a search by keyword (just type a letter or two in the music player app).
It has all the usual refinements and is slated to give the iPhone and BlackBerry a run for their money.
The phone’s main engine is the ARM Cortex A8 TI OMAP 3430-the same stuff that powers the iPhone 3 GS and the Palm Pre. Though you can scroll through apps and perform good multitasking with the phone, you can have a few niggles with the menus and the desktop applications. The phone has a very good web browsing capability. All you need to do is to tap twice on a section of the content to know the content’s boundaries. E-mail is great on the Droid though it does not have a ‘search’ feature-a slight dampener for heavy users of e-mail. For those who like to shoot videos, the phone captures images in 720x 840, which is pretty decent. The Droid is equipped with a 16 GB memory card and has an array of music functions. You can search according to artist, album, song or playlist. You can even perform a search by keyword (just type a letter or two in the music player app).
It has all the usual refinements and is slated to give the iPhone and BlackBerry a run for their money.
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