Comments on: Motorola Droid: Hardware Review

By: Michael Husar

Michael Husar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:14:31 +0000

When you take pictures, the only way I’ve found to transfer them to my computer is by emailing them. The only thing the USB connection seams to do is charge the battery. I claims to mount but you do not see the phones memory like you would with a memory stick. I have not tried removing the SD card and transfering it to a card slot on my computer. I’d need an adapter to do that since the card is smaller than any port I have.

By: ColdFusionFlashlight

ColdFusionFlashlight — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:17:50 +0000

MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT: In the past few years I moved from Razer, to BlackBerry, to the Droid. I bought the Droid for the speed on the web, the 10,000 apps and assumed it would have most of the features of previous phones, since this was more “evolved.” BUT, along the way part of its brain shrunk. NO SPELL CHECK! Spell check has been around forever! What happened? Somebody, PLEASE HELP with this! Is there anything out there? I can’t wait for Droid-3. Might go back to BlackBerry. Any solutions?

NOT A DEAL BREAKER: The pull out key pad’s too small for my man-fingers (size regular). I’m constanly hitting adjacent keys & having to back space – what a waste of real estate! (Even a penstylist easily slips off the slick, flat keypad.) Fortunatly, landscape touchpad fits my fingers a little better. This could be a deal breaker for others. MAKE SURE YOU TRY TYPING ON THE THING b4 you shell out the cash.

PLEASE STOP WHINING: I miss the programble keys the BlkBerry had on its side that instantly took me to apps I needed fast and often.

Droid is good, but it has some serious flaws that need to be addressed fast. If I let go of one tool, I want the next I use to work better, or as well as the one I just had.

By: Tonedef

Tonedef — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:58:30 +0000

I meant to put 3GS sorry about that. 3Gs 32 GB Apple Iphone

By: Tonedef

Tonedef — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:57:45 +0000

Hi Guys and Gals. Im in a bit of a quandary. Im in the process of looking for a smart phone and would like your honest opinion as to whether to get an Iphone #GS 32GB or the Motorola Droid. Whats your honest opinion. What would be better?

By: htx

htx — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:51:22 +0000

Thanks for the great reveiw. I was actually looking for the memory discussion as it related to the droid and your review gave an excellent picture of the issues. I couldn’t click into the battery discussion though – perhaps its my fault in some way. For those questioning memory issues, I am having problems with my normal unrooted hero where i can’t add more of those wonderful apps w/o deleting something. It is irritating. Those who don’t use many apps – no problem, but that isn’t a useful solution for those who do. So Yes, a general solution in the future is a good idea.
And then the disclude discussion. from Ashcanpete’s comment, I think disclude was used to express that the chin is removed from the sprint model, no? – sort of from the older latin shut apart concept? Perhaps not, but Either way, it was heartening the really nice way you and Bill handled the obvious difficulties that befall Dale and in a smaller sense viklov. I was ready to go head on into battle with their inappropriate (mostly Dale’s) comments, but now have also relaxed myself! thanks! That said, the droid does appear to be awesome!

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:18:21 +0000

Main Entry: disclude
Part of Speech: v
Definition: to disclose, make known
Etymology: Latin discludere ‘to shut apart’

Next time look it up before you bash someone for their choice of word.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:43:28 +0000

I had the same problem with my Droid slide not sitting snuggly to the lower keyboard. It was highly annoying b/c you could feel movement as you pressed on the touch screen as the review describes. I didn’t notice this problem until after I dropped it on the second day I had the phone. After carefully examining how the slide worked I decided to try a quick remedy. With the slide open I applied light even pressure on the four corners of the screen and then slid the phone shut again. I kept doing this and applying slightly more pressure. Eventually the gap went away. That was 4 days ago and still fine. I’m not sure if I was actually bending the screen(scary!!) or the supporting brackets. Either way, it corrected the issue for me.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:42:12 +0000

I’m not sure what you’re talking about when you write about the screen coming into contact with the keyboard below when the four touch-sensitive buttons are pressed.

There’s no way that’s happening with my Droid. It’s very solid.

You should be getting some nice haptic feedback vibration when those keys are pressed. Could you be misinterpreting that vibration as actual movement of the screen against the keyboard?

By: ashcanpete

ashcanpete — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:20:41 +0000

I like your review, its much more in depth and on point then most of the other ones out there. Just ordered my droid (switched from ATT) after reading your article.

@viklove: you clearly didn’t read the article or don’t understand what onboard memory is.

@Dale: Actually discluded is a word, just not the word he meant to use, I think. Regardless, you definitely need to relax, Dale.

Anyway, I’m hoping the screen bouncing isn’t too bad, but the droid looks like a pretty amazing piece of hardware overall.

By: Dave Hansan

Dave Hansan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:05:29 +0000

Great review. Does anyone know where I can find a 32 gig card for the Droid?

By: viklove

viklove — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:56:01 +0000

Great review, I accept your opinion, but work on your talking skills! Oh, and also, the 256 mb of memory you were talking about is not from the SD card, its from the RAM, which is different. So before you give a review for a product, you should know what you are talking about.

The review was actually kind of pathetic.

By: Dale Strickland-Clark

Dale Strickland-Clark — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:38:27 +0000

“discluded”? Do you just make up words when you can’t be bothered to think of the correct one? The English language has a rich variety of words and several would have been a perfect fit for your needs so you didn’t leave your reader with the puzzle of trying to work out what the hell you’re on about. Learn to use a dictionary, you inane, slackwitted numbskull.

By: a

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:08:30 +0000

Awesome review! Thanks.

By: Loophole

Loophole — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:50:28 +0000

I have a huge 7200 person contact database in my Outlook. will it be stored on the 16g chip for access by Outlook?

By: greg @ heavy duty hinges

greg @ heavy duty hinges — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:51:09 +0000

hey mate.. thanks for the terrific blog about this phone.. i have a phone like this but the keyboard is alot harder to get used to that the normal txt phones im sure ill get it though. the applications are great im just a little slow at the moment