Motorola Droid 2 (Verizon)

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Late last year, the original Motorola Droid brought Sony VGP-BPS9/B Battery Android into the mainstream. Since then, a new generation of keyboardless "superphones" with larger screens and faster processors have captured the public's imagination. And yet there are still plenty of shoppers who prefer the feel of a physical keyboard. Motorola's Droid 2 tries to deliver the best of both world by combining a better full QWERTY than the original along with a speedy processor and cutting-edge features like Android 2.2 (Froyo), Voice Sony VGP-BPS9/S battery Actions, mobile Flash support, and mobile hotspot capability. It's a more powerful and better looking package than the Droid Sony VGP-BPS9A/B Battery that started it all, but this follow-up is not without its flaws.
Design

At 4.6 x 2.4 x 0.5 inches, the Droid 2 has the same Dell GD761 Battery dimensions as the original Droid and, at 6 ounces, carries the same weight. However, the Droid 2 felt much better in our hands. Though the two devices have the same rectangular shape, the Droid 2 is much more attractive because of its rounded corners and new color scheme, which includes a silver screen bezel, and a navy blue back and sides. The golden grill on the back of the original Droid has been replaced with an identical silver one, to match the color theme. As with PA3534U-1BRS Battery the original Droid, the chassis has a rubberized back and side material that make it easy to grip and help it stay cool. This is an easy phone to pick up and a hard phone to accidentally drop.

Sitting next to the 5 x 2.6 x 0.4 -inch Droid X, the Droid 2 looks both pleasantly compact Thinkpad R60E Battery and strangely dwarfed. However, the Droid X is actually .1 inches thinner and .5 ounces lighter. The Droid X certainly has a slightly sleeker look, but it's considerably taller and a bit wider. Which design you prefer will depend on the size of your hands and how much phone you want in your pocket.

Like the original Droid, the Droid 2 has a micro USB Thinkpad X60S Battery port on the left side, a 3.5-inch headphone jack and power button on the top, and a volume rocker and camera button on the right side. However, its four Android buttons are arranged in a different order below the screen, with the Menu, Home, Back, and Search buttons appearing from left to right respectively. Unlike the Droid X, which has physical buttons, the Droid 2's are all capacitive/touch sensitive.

Keyboard

One of the biggest complaints Droid owners had about the device was its flat keyboard, whose keys were too close together. By contrast, the Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad R60 Battery Droid 2's slide-out QWERTY keyboard is one of the best we've used on an Android handset. Unlike its competitors, Motorola doesn't make rookie mistakes like putting letter keys on the same row as the spacebar. The 4-row keyboard has great key placement, with extremely wide left shift and alt keys. You also Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad R61 Battery get a voice command shortcut key and a dedicated @ symbol key that sits next to the spacebar, so you can easily enter Web and Twitter addresses without hitting a key combo.

In lieu of the large dictional pad that ate up so much Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T60P Battery space on the original Droid's keyboard, Motorola has added arrow keys to the Droid 2. All the letter keys are much wider than on the original Droid and they have pleasant, rounded feel that makes them easy to touch with the tip of your finger. They also offer a really strong level of feedback too.

For those times when you don't want to slide it open, the Droid 2's virtual keyboard is a solid alternative. Its large keys are easy to target and also well placed. Though disabled by default, the layout supports haptic feedback. Swype keyboard software, which allows you to type words by tracing lines between the keys, comes preinstalled, though Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad R60E Battery you need to enable it in the control panel. That option is ideal for one-handed typing.

Overall, we much prefer typing on the physical keyboard and using the Droid 2 with its slider Vostro 1710 Battery open; this Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T61 Battery allowed us to get a better grip on the phone without touching its screen.
Display

The 3.7-inch, 854 x 480 display is bright and colorful. Viewing Vostro 1720 Battery angles were good, even in bright light or when staring at the phone from a distance. As one might expect, however, the AMOLED screen on the HTC Droid Incredible offers more vibrant colors.

The capacitive touch-enabled panel was extremely responsive, both Apple Laptop Battery when we single tapped for icons/buttons and when we pinched to zoom in/out in the browser. However, we prefer the touch experience on the 4.3-inch Droid X, which seemed even more responsive and had larger icons and buttons good battery that were easy to target. With vibrations turned on for the virtual keyboard, the screen provided strong haptic feedback but we prefer the even stronger response provided by the Droid X.