The guys over at Engadget have managed to get a first hands on look at the new Motorola Droid. The Droid is set to become the first real Android competitor with the iPhone from Motorola and will be available with Verizon.
Motorola claim it is the worlds thinnest phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and it really looks the part. Engadget have said the following about it:
- That big screen is killer. Bright, crisp, and tons of room for your icons and widgets.
- Speed is noticeably improved — particularly when moving from app to app. We did notice that some of the home screen scrolling looked laggy.
- Android 2.0 is definitely cleaned up — but it’s most definitely still Android
- The browser seems significantly improved — pages now load up in a fully zoomed-out mode, and the load times and scrolling are way snappier.
- The keyboard takes some getting used to, and it suffers from a similar hand-position issue as the G1, but it’s fairly usable. We think it’ll be second nature once we spend some time with it.
- Facebook is integrated into accounts, which means some of that BLUR functionality is here. We’re hoping they’ve figured out some way to keep contacts managed, though.
It really does seem to be nice smart phone from the videos they’ve posted. Have a look at them here. They also carried out a browser speed test with the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone was still ahead, see that here as well
Verizon have recently been running adverts for the Droid aimed directly at the iPhone so it’s clear the are trying to take down the iPhone with this phone, but some how I don’t think they will be able to do it.
What are your comments on it?
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