Comments on: Motorola Droid: Browser and Media Review

By: Zeeshan A Zakaria

Zeeshan A Zakaria — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:01:18 +0000

I got mines end of March, Android 2.1, and it does have pinch and zoom, on top of double tap, so no problems with zoom in or out.

By: corcor

corcor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:30:31 +0000

Big upgrade from my Moto Q touchscreen will take some getting used to, but I’m loving my new droid!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:49:50 +0000

The browser-zooming issue is infuriating and stupid. However there is an App -Dolphin Browser- available in the Android Market which does seem to support pinch zoom.

By: Margo

Margo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:41:19 +0000

I just got the Motorola Droid and I’m not finding a video player for movies that I upload. Looking for how to upload movies I own (digital copies) and watch them. Is there an app for that? I just got the phone and any help appreciated.

By: CharlesInCharge

CharlesInCharge — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:55:37 +0000

I just played around with a DROID for the 2nd time at a VZW store, and I gotta say I was really disappointed with web video playback. I went to cnet.com and tried to watch one of their cnet tv videos, but it just looked awful (square rather than full screen, elongated display … unwatchable), pretty much the same for youtube (!). The 2nd time round I noticed that one of the menu options while watching a youtube clip is ‘watch in high quality.’ Pressing that button made all the difference, although I’m not quite sure why the player wouldn’t default to high quality all the time – battery life?. (Btw, this option was unavailable while watching a cnet tv clip during this 2nd investigation.) Rob, I noticed in your clip above that when you play something from youtube, it *did* default to high quality. How does one get the DROID to play that way all the time?

By: TK

TK — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:58:28 +0000

I’m a proponent of pinch to zoom. Without it, the device just doesn’t FEEL like a multitouch device. It seems outdated and offers no competition for the iPhone in this area. In my wife’s iPhone, I can pinch to zoom in on Safari, Photos, Maps, etc. On the Droid, I can’t do it anywhere. It’s a proven method that works. Use it.

Other than that, the Droid feels pretty good in your hand. If the UI can be sped up to be reasonable, then as far as I’m concerned, the droid is the perfect phone. It just doesn’t feel as snappy as an iPhone.

I hate to compare the Droid to the iPhone because they’re clearly different beasts, but I believe it’s fair to compare framerate and overall feel of the phone regardless of platform/manufacturer.

By: Halsey Stickel

Halsey Stickel — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:32:14 +0000

I’ve been using style sheets(CSS) to good effect on the web sites I’ve built, since 2000. I’ve been wanting to try style sheets for handhelds for almost as long. The Droid just came out, so I got one to test modifications to my web sites, specifically for the small devices. Unfortunately, the Droid browser doesn’t seem to understand the HTML CSS link directive: media=”handheld”, or the CSS directive: @media handheld { }. The browser works well, and my sites look good, and very crisp in the display, but if the browser can’t understand standard media-restricting style sheet directives, which were designed just for this purpose, I’ll have to use some trick to get handhelds to behave differently than desktops. Do you know anything about this? Do other handheld browsers support handheld-specific style sheets? I really like the Droid. I just hope the Droid/Android browser supports the CSS Style-Sheet Standard.

By: a

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:51:52 +0000

It is indeed the greatest Moto Droid review.

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:21:56 +0000

I just got mine and I love it so far, of course I am still learning about all it can do. However, I have one small problem: I can’t view push-server images. Specifically, I wanted to view the webcam that overlooks Disneyland Park at the Howard Johnson’s in Anaheim and the image never loads. Also, I browsed to Earthcam.com and tried to view the Timberline Lodge webcam image. The rest of the page loaded fine but there was a big blank spot where the webcam image should be.

By: Marco Baxemyr

Marco Baxemyr — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:04:22 +0000

Otherwise — GREAT REVIEWS! Thanks. :)

By: Marco Baxemyr

Marco Baxemyr — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:56:32 +0000

Like Ron said, you need to press the “proceed”-link at the wave warning page. That page showed up when I briefly tested wave on the iPhone, but I got past it and tried some out – although it didn’t seem to work well so I gave up at the time (the iPhone was briefly borrowed).

By: Teemu

Teemu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:13:10 +0000

Hi!

Do you happen to know if the notification bar on the top can be hidden while browsing like on the Hero?

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:42:19 +0000

Do you think you could touch on the media players a bit more?

How does the music and video players work? Is it acceptable as an MP3 player, or is it a half-assed featured? Can you throw up some video footage of the music/video app?

Thanks!

By: Stefan Hållén

Stefan Hållén — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:43:08 +0000

Regarding an app for google documents, what about GDocs?
http://sites.google.com/site/gdocsforandroid/

By: miike

miike — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:39:02 +0000

why cant we zoom the videos like on a iphone. they have a 2 mp camera and can make there videos full screen. or if your watching a youtube video, just tap it and it fits the whole screen. not 80% i thought this phone was WVGA (480 x 854 pixels); 16:9 widescreen.. didnt seem widescreen to me.. what gives?

also when u made you video for you tube.. it didnt fit the whole screen on the phone…what happened to the DVD quality (720×480 resolution) up to 24 fps capture; up to 30 fps playback?? not too happy about video playback so far.