Thursday, June 24, 2010

Motorola Droid X first (official) hands-on and unboxing!

Yeah, we kind of already saw this phone, but if you don't tell Motorola and Verizon, we won't. We just got our hands on an official, final Droid X at the NY launch event, and it tastes just as sweet.

Here is few notes

  • It's built of basically the same material as the Droid, but there's something almost kind of "taut" about the phone, where when you thwack it with a finger it resounds like a drum. The phone vibration seems to work on this same principle, giving it much less of the typical buzz (in the funky, cheap sense) you expect.
  • There are three mics, and in video mode you can select between scenes based on which mic you want to use: outward facing for regular shoots, inward facing for narration. The third mic is up top for noise cancellation during calls.
  • Yeah, there's not kickstand, but the EVO 4G really does seem chunky up against the Droid X, and the camera bulge on the latter is not annoying at all.

    PHYSICAL BUTTONS.

  • You get your choice between Swype and Motorola's multitouch keyboard, which is really pretty great.
  • You can tell that the processor is fast, but the UI still has a jerky quality to it
  • The new version of Motoblur is much, much more attractive than before -- the widgets are sleeker, smaller, and less in your face. 
  • You can also resize them, and they rearrange themselves somewhat intelligently.

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