Review: Motorola Droid Pro
Bluetooth
Bluetooth pairing worked just fine on the Motorola Droid Pro. I was able to pair with a Bluetooth headset with no trouble. Sound quality was okay, but there were some reception issues that caused my voice to cut occasionally. Sound quality was much better paired with Bluetooth stereo speakers, and I only heard the music break up when I was handling the phone and moving it from pocket to pocket. I was able to send an image file from the gallery to my laptop over Bluetooth, and the transfer was very quick.
Clock
There is a large digital clock on the Droid Pro's lock screen. Once you unlock the phone, you also get a clock in the notification bar, but that bar disappears in some apps. You can place a wide variety of clock widgets on the homescreen panels, including a world clock that lets you set two different time zones.
GPS
GPS was kind of wonky with the Droid Pro. Occasionally, the phone mistakenly thought I was in Oklahoma, when I really live north of Dallas, Texas. When I was using Google Maps, this usually corrected itself after a couple minutes. But when I loaded the Maps live wallpaper on the homescreen, it never gave me my proper location. It always believed I was in Tulsa.
That glitch aside, once Google Maps had my proper location, it handled turn-by-turn navigation nicely. The phone followed me through the unnamed country roads in my area, and helped correct me when I drove off course. Some of the newer spots in my area have not started to appear in the Places location search, but businesses open for a year or more usually popped up when I looked for them.
Other Extras
In addition to the standard offerings in the Android App Market, Verizon has its own section in Market where you can find V Cast apps. I'd skip the V Cast Music and Videos, but the NFL Mobile app is quite appealing if you're a football fan. Verizon snagged this app from Sprint, and it's the only official mobile app with NFL branding. You can read news and stats information about your team, watch video clips, and even keep up with the NFL Red Zone channel on Sunday afternoons. This channel switches from game to game as each team playing on Sunday comes close to the end zone, so theoretically you could just watch every touchdown and skip the boring stuff that happens mid-field.
CTIA Fall 2010
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Motorola Droid Pro
