Does the Droid warrants all the publicity?
Verizon’s latest smartphone, The Droid, that operates on Google’s hottest Android dais, today strike stores with hordes of hum, and this time a great deal of the murmur is well deserved.
Verizon’s latest Droid is one of the most cool and comprehensible Motorola handsets to utilize Verizon’s 3G network with its glossy styling, responsive touch screen, slider keyboard and the hottest Google Android 2.0 browser and lightning swift processor. An integrated 16 GB SD card, 5.0 megapixel, auto-focus, duel flash are the icing on the cake.
By all of those features and further, it’s easily one of the greatest smartphones to merge business functionality with private computing all in one gadget.
Here are the specs:
• Carrier: Verizon Wireless
• Manufacturer: Motorola
• Operating system: Google Android 2.0
• Processor: 550MHz Cortex-A8
• RAM: 256MB
• Weight: 169g / 5.96oz
• Dimensions: 4.56(h) x 2.36(w) x0.54(d) inches
• Keyboard: Slide-out landscape qwerty; on-screen portrait and landscape keyboards
• Storage: 16GB microSD included; upgradeable to 32GB+
• Display: 3.7″ 854×480 WVGA, capacitive touchscreen, 400K pixels, 16 million colors
• Battery life: Talk time: 385 mins / 6.4 hrs; Standby: 270 hrs / 11.25 days
• Camera: 5.0 megapixel, auto-focus, dual LED flash
• Networks: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, 800/1900MHz CDMA EVDO rev A
• Tethered modem capability: No tethering at launch, but Verizon has promised to add it
• Price: $199 ($299 with a $100 mail-in rebate)
There’s a gorgeous, high-resolution screen too and, for people who adore using their handset to obtain them from point A to point B, there’s also gratis Google turn-by-turn steering, which strikes paying pro a GPS service.
