Motorola just released the much anticipated Droid Smartphone for Verizon. This was supposed to be the phone that would kill the iPhone. After using the phone for a mere one day during this Motorola Droid review, I have to give a resounding two thumbs up to this awesome piece of technology. It very simply blows the iPhone away.

The first thing that I noticed was while taking the phone out of the package. This is not some lightweight, weak, dainty phone. The Droid is wrapped in metal almost entirely, and is rock solid. It just feels good in your hand. Being the thinnest QWERTY slider phone ever, I figured it would be frail. Not even close.

When I powered the phone up, a blazing red eye greeted me, accompanied by the phone announcing its presence by saying, “Droid!” in a robotic voice. Awesome touch. While conducting this Droid review, I was drawn to the capacitive screen, which has the best display with the sharpest, most vivid colors I have ever seen on a phone. The aps pre-loaded, like Facebook, move quickly to and from, and everything seems to flow very well. Good interface.

A short tap on the search button, and Google search comes up, but what was really cool was touching and holding over the search button brings up Google’s voice search. I was very happy with the effectiveness; I had several people try it with different voices and it responded very well.

I didn’t like the arrangement of some keys, it seems I was hitting search when I didn’t want to. Also, there is no button to begin or end a call. You have to access it from a different screen. Not hard, just bothersome.

I did not care for the slider keyboard, the keys seem a little cramped, but I do have large hands and have problems with other keyboards that most people did not mind. But it is really no problem because I liked the onscreen keyboard better.

Those were really the only negatives I found during this Motorola Droid review. The Android 2.0 operating system is blazing fast, and I liked the double tap zoom feature as opposed to the pinch screen zoom on the i-Phone. And the GPS Google Maps that is loaded is absolutely going to keep you from buying a GPS.

The Droid carries a whopping 6+ hours of talk time, and 11+ days of standby, and can be replaced, though it does not seem that you would ever have to. And don’t forget that you will not be dropping calls like the iPhone does on their smaller network. With Verizon’s 3G network, the largest of any cell phone company, you are never out of touch.

I have reviewed a lot of electronics, but this Motorola Droid Review was a joy. It just feels good, looks great, and blazes, with massive battery life, and sweet aps. I can highly recommend the motoral Droid phone, and give it an overall score of 9 / 10.

If you are considering purchasing the Motorola Droid, review the pluses, minuses and testimonials from 19 Droid owners located in the in-depth Droid review located at the link below.

Get the real down and dirty Droid review positives and negatives from 19 actual droid owners at Droid Review.

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