Google Maps with Voice Navigation on Motorola Droid, Android 2.0 on Verizon Wireless Full Droid Review: pocketnow.com Google Maps Navigation Review: pocketnow.com
March 20, 2010
March 17, 2010
Motorola Droid Accessory Walkthrough
Check out the Motorola Droid displaying the time, date, weather, photos, music, and more
March 16, 2010
Droid Compared To Iphone – Who Wins?
With the recent release of the Motorola Droid this month, Apple’s iPhone has its best competition yet. The Droid competes highly with the iPhone and really shines overall.
Available on Verizon’s massive 3G wireless network’We got a map for that’, a slap in At&t’s face, when it comes to showing there coverage map, for there’We have an app for that’ campaigns. Also the first handset running Google’s 2.0 android software. I’ve been testing out that Droid, MSRP $199, and these are my first few bad and good impressions.
Droid’s Great Features:
Turn by turn GPS and street level maps in most places. This simply replaces your need of a Nuvi or cheap GPS solution, and to top it off has extraordinary maps that load up within.
Verizon’s high speed reliable network is amazing. I don’t believe I had 1 dropped call, Vs. My T-Mobile that dropped on a daily basis, especially at my home.
Web browsing, using the built in web browser in the Droid, it is the fastest pages have ever loaded off and on a wifi network. Pages load way faster than my 2G iPhone, and blow away each other phonephone like the blackberry and there built in browser on page load times.
Google’s integration to this telephone are extraordinary, on adding my pals name to my contact book it added his e-mail to the contact. Unless you have mates with the same names, then I am sure it will guess right a hundred percent of the time when it comes to auto-assigning folks to there names.
Droid’s Good features:
battery lifespan is better than some Smartphone’s I’ve seen, but isn’t the greatest. I run an application from the android market that closes applications that have not been used ; this saves on my battery life-span significantly, but becomes a little trouble closing apps after a certain time. Auto close should be built in for later use with this phonephone.
Android marketplace has a great assortment of free apps and paid apps. Most top apps were altered within days of Droid’s release and had 100% working droid updates for them. Slight modifications were needed running 2.0 vs. The other Android versions.
Choice of slide out physical keyboard, or touch-sensitive screen keyboard. I don’t see why two keyboards are needed, but there are just times that you do not want to type out every letter and you can just use the fast onscreen keyboard that recognizes words well.
Droid’s Bad features:
Music and video are a bit strange using the media player, especially with absence of a stop button and have to pause music to stop it, and the setup might be better.
visual voice mail is also a great feature but at an added value of $2.99 a month it simply isn’t worthwhile to me particularly on a phonephone that offers so many competing things that iPhone cannot deliver on.
Overall the Droid may not be the’iPhone Killer’ that some hype it up to be. It’s a certain competing entry in the dash for the best. With local Free GPS features and Verizon’s rock solid wireless network, you will be tough to compare iPhone to droid. Its comparing an apple to oranges, and now a days I assume I am swayed towards oranges, thanks to the strings it has cut away from how I use my cell phonephone, and how well it blows away the competition.
Overall Grade A- other than a few small issues this phonephone is my choice and will stay my choice for years to come. I’m sure I will have Droid 2-3, and whatever replaces it after.
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March 14, 2010
How To Root Motorola Droid (Android 2.0.1)
TEXT TUTORIAL: fbgstudios.com This tutorial works on both the original Android 2.0 Rom which ships with Droid, and the latest Android 2.0.1 OTA (over the air) software update which is the most recent release as of December 11th, 2009. Root access will enable you to mod the phones firmware to whatever you want to have on your phone like themes, apps and custom ROMS and uis just like you do on the jailbroken G1, iphone, etc.
March 11, 2010
March 10, 2010
Enjoy DVD and video on popular Google Android phone: Sony X3, Moto Droid, Samsung i7500
Enjoy DVD and video on popular Google Android phone: Sony X3, Moto Droid, Samsung i7500
Android system has been taken into our memory early, many friends favor Smartphone input more energy to concern and discuss. The operating system of mobile Google was just come in, many firms are involved in its ranks. Although several Android system model, but from many large communication exhibition and conference, we can feel the intelligent system is brewing powerful planning and this program will allow rival felt unprecedented pressure. First, it is released- the recent Android 2.0 improving many functions in the basis of the original version. Further more, many using the Android system and budding Smart phones, from many world famous big mobile phone manufacturer, will give the arrival of the mobile phone market nowadays squabble. Today is for everyone to collect three typical phones of the Android phone system, if you are focused on a new system, so might as well see below, which can allure you?
Sony Ericsson’s Android-Based Xperia X3
Relative to the Sony Ericsson X2, we pay more attention to the next paragraph – Sony Ericsson Smartphone X3 first using Android system smart phone in Sony Ericsson group. At times, we finally got similar official news, this high hardware configuration Smartphone will officially released in November this year.
According to unconfirmed reports, this Smartphone will have a tablet shape dominated by a 4-inch, 800-by-400-pixel touch screen. It will reportedly run the Android OS on a 1 GHz processor Snapdragon processor. Rather than use Google’s standard user interface, Sony Ericsson has created a proprietary one for this device that emphasizes social networking (see here). One of the highlights of the X3 will apparently be its 8 megapixel camera with flash and support for VGA (640 x 480 pixels) video recording at 30 fps. This will offer face and smile detection, as well as image stabilization. It will allegedly be a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) GSM phone with dual-band (900/2100) 3G: 10 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA. Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi g will also be included. In addition, it comes with built in music player. This music player is expected to be simple to use and manage. The music files can be traced according to the name of the song, album, artist or genre. As no proper information is available on the equalizer, we have to wait and watch what the sound control feature would be like. The music player is capable of playing music files based on MP3, AAC and e-AAC+ formats. Music can be enjoyed with wireless stereo Bluetooth also.
Samsung Galaxy I7500
Samsung’s new i7500 Galaxy makes it the first manufacturer after HTC to enter the Android game and it does so with a fairly feature-rich phone. The Samsung i7500 fuselage, using only 11.9 millimeters thickness of design, equipped with a straight HVGA 3.2-inch 480 x 320 level of resolution touchscreen, built-in 500 pixel camera support autofocus, equipped with LED flashlight and using the high MSM7200A CPU, 8G memory.
The Samsung i7500 interface is pretty much the standard Android 1.5 OS platform, with very little in the way of customization. It equipped with 350 mm stereo headphone jacks, battery capacity for 1500mAh, support the global positioning system (GPS), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and all services, including Google search, Google maps, Gmail, Google calendar, YouTube and integrated GPS function of Google Talk. The video player on the Samsung i7500 Galaxy is of decent quality, while not bringing extra functionality (much like the music player). Videos are organized the same way as pictures in the gallery, and the default view makes it hard to search for the video you’re looking for. However, there’s also a dedicated video viewer as well, with the videos listed by name. It support with video format: MPEG4, h. 263, h.264 and audio formats: MP3, WMV, AAC, AAC +, e AAC +, WMA, RA.
Motorola DROID
As time approaches, the “Driod” on the operators of Verizon Wireless official web page will be officially released in the near future. But recently, it was announced that Motorola Sholes will launch with the newest Android2.0 system, for this machine attracting more attention.
The screen on the DROID is a 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen — a full glass display with a WVGA resolution clocking in at a handsome 480 x 854 full QWERTY keyboard. The DROID will be launched by the introduction of dedicated, support and 1XEV CDMA2000 1X CDMA network – A blinding Rev, this also makes this phone become the first CDMA mobile phone of carrying Android system. And it supports A-GPS navigation, Wi-Fi, USB2.0, E-mail, HTML web browsing and send out Google services, etc. Meanwhile This phone will be equipped with 3.5 millimeter earphone interface and stereo headset function, packing a 550MHz OMAP3 CPU, dedicated graphics processor, 512MB of ROM, 256 of RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, a digital compass, and accelerometer. Another, Motorola has smartly outfitted the DROID with a 5 megapixel camera coupled with an LED flash. Video, on the other hand, was somewhat of a pleasant surprise. The DROID is capable of shooting at a 720 x 480 resolution, will support AMR-NB/WB, MP3, PCM/WAV, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA and mpeg-4, H263 H264, video files, WMV formats.
All of these three phones are excellent smartphone. Here I should explain my smartphone requirements. I’m looking for a device to serve as my personal telephone, media player, mini computer and business assistant. For personal telephone, it is used for daily contact, to make calls and receive calls. All of these were easy to use and very convenient to dial a number. But if it is possible to watch dvds in these phones? I search this question on Google. And I find a good software to solve this problem – [url=http://www.nidesoft.com/dvd-ripper.html]Nidesoft DVD Ripper[/url] which could rip DVD movies to most popular formats easily and quickly, such as: Rip DVD to MP4, 3GP, iPod/PSP/Zune, MOV, WMV, AVI, etc which these phone supports formats. Now I have tried it.
Firstly, download this software from: http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/dvd-ripper.exe
Install and run it !
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive.
Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, and find the DVD folder of the movie. (It is not only load DVD disc, but also could open a disk backup’s directory.)
Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the format for your player.
Step 3: Click the “convert” button. Please wait before the conversion succeeds!
Now, I could enjoy the videos with any other player. In addition, I also find [url=http://www.nidesoft.com/video-converter.html]Nidesoft Video Converter[/url] could convert video or audio files between all popular formats. It can help us to convert video formats for players. Both softwares are good assistant for Smartphone.
Conclusion
All of these three phones are good android smartphone that a modern user would expect. Through the above simply introduce, we are not hard to find it will be a good choice that no matter chose which kind of mobile phones. We expect Android to take more and more rich system products, hope each manufacturer could take out excellent products. So ultimately benefit will be our consumers.
March 8, 2010
Motorola Droid Shell Holster Combo
Official Motorola Droid Shell/Holster Combo available at Verizon Wireless stores across the country and www.verizonwireless.com. This case is much better than the Body Glove case that also retails at the same places for the same price!
March 5, 2010
Android 2.1 Launcher on my Motorola Droid 2.0.1 – NO ROOT Req.
This is just a quick video showing how to install some of the UI features of 2.1 on the motorola droid with 2.0.1 Firmware and without having to root the DROID. Hope you like. Wallpaper: i40.photobucket.com DO AT YOUR OWN RISK. LINK TO APK: www.sendspace.com
March 4, 2010
How To Get A Free Droid Phone
If all the techie people across the globe came up with their wish lists, there will always be a touchscreen phone included in it. However, most of these people could have gone for the expensive iPhone which is, to be honest, a bit overrated. Despite being a status symbol, it doesnt do that much besides its great texting capacity and wonderful apps. It is a good thing that numerous cellular phone manufacturers came up with their own touchscreen phones. One of them would be Motorola, which has been in the business for years now.
Motorola became one of the pioneers of cellular phones when the world went gaga over the RAZR phones, which started the trend of flip-top phones. Now, despite the fact that they didnt start the touchscreen mania, they definitely came up with a touchscreen phone that is sure to put iPhone in exchange of its place the Motorola Droid.
Getting this phone for free is definitely a great thing.
How can one avail of a free Droid phone?
Of course, the person should be aware of any promos that are available not only on the internet, but also on the different stores nationwide. Some stores run promos that will enable people to avail of things for free, including mobile phones. The ones offline are better than the ones online, however. This is because most of the online promos require the participation of one user in terms of money and completing offers, whereas the ones offline may or may not require the purchase of a set of items.
If the one wanting a free Droid phone is a kid, then he can ask for it from his parents. What he can do is do well in all aspects as a son, as a student, as a sports enthusiast, or even as a citizen of this country. If parents see the effort of their child, they might at least grant his wish of having a free Droid phone. The same thing applies for aunts and uncles that always give gifts during Christmas and other special occasions.
Lastly, the person should also not solely depend on the freebies. Nothing beats working for something that one wants to achieve. Although working for it isnt really a way of getting a free Droid phone, the glorious feeling of getting what one wants through hardwork and perseverance still cannot beat the great but non-lasting feeling of getting the thing for free. Besides, everything pays off through hardwork. It is not only with the material things where one can experience the fulfillment, but also with the things that money cannot buy in the first place.
For those people who are into free stuff or into doing things that will bring them free stuff, then they should be really ready for anything that the promo people may tell them to do to get the coveted prize, such as a free Droid phone. Of course, they should not forget that they also have a life other than just doing that.
For more information on Free Droid Phone, visit Free Android Phone offer collection site.
March 2, 2010
Motorola Droid Tips and Tricks – Neat Applications
Here are three neat applications for the Motorola Droid – beautifulwidgets ($.99), screenmodewidget (free) and SMS Unread Count (free). Great apps.