Motorola Droid (aka Sholes) - Finally, an ULTRA-SLIM form QWERTY Android phone!
It’s running Android 2.0.
It’s thin. Just slightly thicker than an iPhone 3GS and the thinnest QWERTY-slider we’ve ever seen. **a QWERTY-slider THAT thin?? I've never seen one before!
It is the fastest Android device we’ve ever used. (It’s running a TI OMAP3430 processor)
The feel of the device is very reminiscent of the OQO 02 model computer. Just smaller. It’s metal with a non-spring-assisted slide, very sturdy, and half soft-touch plastic.
Awesome capacitive display. Plus it’s huge. Easily the best screen we’ve ever seen on an Android handset, and an amazing screen overall.
The QWERTY keyboard is actually pretty usable and has a soft-touch rubberized finish. We’ve been told the keyboard design isn’t final on this unit, thus the two no-shows.
Have we mentioned this phone flies? It’s the Android device to beat, and easily the most impressive. From what we’ve been told, Google had a direct hand in the Motorola Droid. Something to the point of almost dictating every move Motorola made when designing and making the phone. Interesting, huh?
There’s a desktop cradle/charger that will ship with the Motorola Droid that we’ve been playing around with. It turns your Droid into a “multimedia station” and displays local weather, the time, etc.
No one wants to listen, but it makes the CLIQ looks like a child’s toy (partly because it is, and partly because the Droid, even in its non-final form, is the most impressive phone we’ve used since the iPhone. It’s positively amazing).
1) I don't have an excellent app store
2) I don't have decent video taking capabilities 3) I don't have an apple logo on the back of the phone
FIXED that for you
First, Android needs some awesome SNES,PS1 emulators. The A8 Cortex has shown to be highly capable of PS1 games, as shown on the resource-hungry WinMo already. So it should be even faster on Android.
Apparently Droid specs were posted prematurely to the Moto site. Taken down again but someone made screenshots (at BoyGeniusReport).
Some specs that caught my eye:
- Android 2.0
- Touchscreen with haptics
- 720x480 video capture @ 24fps
- 5MP autofocus cam
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- GPS
- Wifi
- 3.7in 480x854 display
- 60mm x 115.8mm x 13.7mm
- Webkit, HTML5 browser (Flash 10 support in 2010)
Apparently Droid specs were posted prematurely to the Moto site. Taken down again but someone made screenshots (at BoyGeniusReport).
Some specs that caught my eye:
- Android 2.0
- Touchscreen with haptics
- 720x480 video capture @ 24fps
- 5MP autofocus cam
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- GPS
- Wifi
- 3.7in 480x854 display
- 60mm x 115.8mm x 13.7mm
- Webkit, HTML5 browser (Flash 10 support in 2010)
ARM Cortex-8 clocked at 550MHz, but can probably be overclocked to 800MHz
ARM Cortex-8 clocked at 550MHz, but can probably be overclocked to 800MHz
but of course battery will also be drained
yeah but android doesn't seem to be the most battery efficient os. Wonder how long the batt will actually last with such a big screen and all those features.
Hello Moto is back. They have the most well built quality handset that I have used. E398 (first to uiltise rubbery plastic touch), Razr (first to ulitise metallic surfaces), V6 Maxx (first to have outer scratch proof glass exterior with LED lights) and now Droid, read that its quality is extremely well built again,
Hello Moto is back. They have the most well built quality handset that I have used. E398 (first to uiltise rubbery plastic touch), Razr (first to ulitise metallic surfaces), V6 Maxx (first to have outer scratch proof glass exterior with LED lights) and now Droid, read that its quality is extremely well built again,
yes but this being moto i somehow have a slight fear they'll still screw this up in some way. Still, looking forward to the gsm umts version. Hopefully they haven't completely quit singapore.
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