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Motorola Droid First Hands On: It's a Terminator [Droid]

Source: Gizmodo

Oct 28, 2009

Summary

The Motorola Droid. Not to mix droid metaphors here, but I feel like it's the phone Darth Vader would use. And after a couple of minutes using it, I'm still excited about it.

Some quick points:

• The sliding mechanism feels heavy, not snappy
• It's not a light phone—it's mostly metal and glass, which is why it has that little chin on the bottom (for the RF antennas)
• There's a sorta 80s feeling to the black metal and gold accents and glass, I think (I like it)
• You can really feel the screen's extra resolution—it's nicer than the Moment's AMOLED screen, I think
• The keyboard seems okay, even though it looks a little flat
• It's pretty damn quick, moving between apps, scrolling and the like. Maybe the fastest Android phone yet. (We'll see.)
• The dock and widget software—which is neat—is apparently exclusive to Motorola Android devices.
• Google Navigation looks great, though I'll defer to Brian here
• Facebook powers are built-in, and contacts integration isn't all or nothing like the Pre—you can assign by groups and stuff
• Motorola has desktop software

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