Droid 2 is New

In the summer of 2010, languishing at the end of the Smartphone, Verizon Wireless and Motorola have renewed their product range with Droid 2 ($ 200 with a two-year contract), the update of the popular 10 months Droid slider phone.

It's a good update - the first Android phone to send 2.2 (aka Frøya) - with a good touch. However, after spending a few days, I have concluded that it is unlikely that your heart will pit pat.

Physically, the phone is almost indistinguishable from its predecessor. At 2.4 x 4.6 x 0.5 inches, is approximately the same size as the iPhone in April - just in +0.1. thicker, thanks to the sliding keyboard. Although, 6 oz, is slightly heavier than the droid X (again, keyboard), is half an inch shorter and about a quarter of an inch narrower, with 3.7-in. screen instead of 4.3 x -. screen. It is a good size for one-hand.

Objectives of the four function keys at the bottom on the function instead of actual buttons that move when you press them, as the droid X, but are slightly different to the Droid Droid 2 than in the original.

If you press X on a physical wake Droid that phone, as a result Droid two buttons buttons where you have hard to find on-off along the top edge of the phone to wake up from sleep. And because the phone is rectangular, may be a bit difficult to find the key.

Physical keyboard, landscape-oriented problem on the left side, that slides behind the screen, is a remarkable improvement over the original droid. The keys are domed, there are now inverted-T cursor keys instead of the previous square pad and other buttons have more space now. Open the keypad automatically causes the presentation to focus on it. Keyboard feels much more important than, say, Palm Pre, but not as refined as the BlackBerry. Moreover, in both hands (or hands) operation.

If you are engaged in a hands-droid 2 also has an excellent soft keyboard, you can use the system gave excellent input. But the smaller size of the droids 2 compared to X is a software keyboard are a bit narrow. For this feature, a little more would have been a little better.

Despite its 1 GHz processor, a major upgrade over its predecessor the 550 MHz, during testing Droid two often feel slow and underpowered. Contact details are sometimes slow to come - particularly disappointed that the software meets the brilliance of contact information and recent activity.

Similarly, a strong K-9 e-mail program, freely available via the Android Market, sometimes slow to the point of seeming charms. When you stand on the corner waiting for a taxi, do not want to delay the phone software.

Stress

Finally a droid to 2 are much more important for Verizon Wireless and Motorola customers. Smart phone business is moving very quickly, after just 10 months, the original droid is a bit old. Droid 2 fills a gap in its product line: hard keyboard Android phone.

If you like the Verizon network and you want the hard keyboard Android phone droid two of your child. But if the keyboard is negotiable and do not mind a slightly larger phone, you might want to step forward and X. Droid

Dan Rosenbaum, an expert tactician day in search and content, a review of mobile technologies from the 1990th Your MicroTAC and StarTAC phones are still in a box somewhere.