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Review: Motorola's Droid X

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Jun 25, 2010, 11:04 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Motorola swings for the fences and hits a home run with the Droid X. Verizon Wireless' new flagship device delivers on almost every feature, making it one of Motorola's best-ever phones.

The Motorola Droid is the new King of the Hill over at Verizon Wireless. You want to do battle with other Android handsets? The Droid X is the phone to pick. It boasts top specs and top performance in a hardware design that is probably the best to come out of Motorola's engineering labs. The Droid X is big, beautiful, and bound to steal some hearts.

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About the author, Eric M. Zeman:

Eric has been covering the mobile telecommunications industry for 17 years at various print and online publications. He studied at Rutgers Newark and University of Kentucky, and has a degree in writing. He likes playing guitar, attending concerts, listening to music, and driving sports cars.

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Today Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Google and Adobe took the stage at a press conference in New York City to announced the new Droid X, Verizon's latest in its series of Android devices. The Droid X is a slab-style touch phone.

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Verizon Wireless has published support documentation outlining the Android 2.3 Gingerbread system update for the Motorola Droid X. Gingerbread brings a wide number of updates and changes to the Droid X, including new user interface colors and schemes, customizable dock icons, better word prediction and dictionary support, more calendar options, numerous updates and fixes for the email application, better low-light camera performance, and improved battery life with Bluetooth.

Droid X Firmware Update Adds Verizon Apps

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Verizon Wireless is rolling out a firmware update to the Motorola Droid X. Most of the changes reflected make improvements to bugs or other issues on the existing Droid X software.

Droid X Owners Will Get Android FroYo Tomorrow

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Verizon Wireless sent word that Motorola Droid X owners will see the Android 2.2 FroYo update starting tomorrow. Users can manually update through the About Phone > System Updates menu.

Motorola Droid X

4.3" display 480 x 854 pixels
TI OMAP 3630 processor
1,540 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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James.Brannon

Jul 15, 2010, 10:43 AM

vs HTC Incredible

would you recommend the Droid X over the HTC Incredible?

drwiremore

Jul 8, 2010, 11:17 AM

Sound Quality (muffled) and number of screens (configurable)

Sound quality: slightly muffled. Would you clarify if this is what you heard (speaker, speaker-phone, headset) or what the other person hears (microphone.)

👀 The reason I ask, is that the Motorola support forums, and my practical experience with the Droid (1 / Classic) is a muffled sound (microphone) heard by the other party. It seems to be user specific in that all of the people (20%-40% of users) who have reported muffled sound, when trying a different (or multiple) Motorola Droids, still had the muffled sound issue. The majority of users (60-80%)are not reporting muffled sound issues. 😲 Motorola has not acknowledged this as an issue; but believes if there is a "muffled perception" it is most likely location specific, ho...
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jackmccarron

Jul 3, 2010, 7:55 PM

External Antenna on Droid X?

I need an external antenna since I frequently travel in low signal areas. I know that the Droid (without X) has an antenna connector on the back under the battery cover (under a small plastic plug).

Does the Droid X have this connector? Do you know what size/type connector it is? Do you know where I can buy an "antenna adapter cable" for this connector (if there is one)?

Thanks,
Jack

Ctromm

Jun 30, 2010, 11:17 AM

Hdmi output on the phone

Does anyone know if the Droid Xs Video output capabilities will include being able to watch Blockbuster rented movies on an external screen ? I asked a Motorola Rep about it the other day, and they were not sure about the answer.

Ctromm

Nevermind, I found the answer. Protected media will not work on the HDMI output 😢

jacobd

Jun 25, 2010, 12:49 PM

browser speed comparison

is droid x's browser faster than the evo 4g or nexus one with 2.2?

Menno

the evo, yes (from the review here), the n1 with 2.2 maybe not. Remember, the n1 has the new browser with better scripting.

But the droid is GETTING that browser soon. Androidcentral.com is going to run some benchmarks soon, but they said that on...
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Eric M. Zeman

Unfortunately I don't have an evo4g or nexus 1 to test it against.

Overmann

Jun 25, 2010, 11:29 AM

Made of Win

Seems Motorola has learned from the past. It's win!

iDeNoh

Extensive quantities of it.

Dataflashsabot

Jun 26, 2010, 8:28 AM

What's the 3D performance like?

How well do 3D games run on the Droid X? Does it have a dedicated GPU like the original Droid/Milestone?

Menno

Yes, it has a dedicated GPU, and from the benchmarks sites like androidcentral are showing, it's a 3d beast.

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