The Droid 3 is almost as large as the beam HTC ($ 249.99, 4 stars) to 4.8 by 2.5 by 0.5 inches (RDC) and is 6.5 oz heavier, even if the lack of LTE and a screen smaller than 4 inches compared with the ray of 4.3-inch panel. The screen is very nice, however, a sharp turn of 960 x 540 resolution, the highest available on a Verizon phone, exceptionally visible in direct sunlight.
Droid Droid 3 is famous for his "chin", which allows you to slide the side of the screen to reveal a new keyboard to five lines. Like the previous droid, Droid 3 is boiled membrane keyboard, rather than separate those keys, but the buttons are easy to write and clicky. Not a separate row of number keys above the silver.
In my tests, the reception was above average, and voice calls were also the average quality of the Verizon 3G network. Volume of the receiver can be strong, although somewhat distorted loud. There are some good side tone, a reflection of his own voice in the ear, which prevents you from crying. Transmissions were a bit 'wobbly, but with a lot of background noise to come. A speakerphone is poor enough to use in the car, although it also has sent a lot of background noise.The Droid 3 paired with a pain in my Plantronics Voyager Pro + ($ 99, 4 stars), the headphones, but the voice command function seemed buggy. It may take several seconds to activate and to identify the controls that spontaneously out twice, and never recognized the right numbers, just names.
Verizon 3G EVDO Rev A is a very mature technology that allows Droid 3 Pull the amazing life of its battery 1500mAh, I was able to get 9 hours, 53 minutes of airtime, which is spectacular. (Specs of my phone displays a 1540mAh battery, but "1500mAh" is printed on the battery of my review unit.)
Interestingly, three Droid is faster when abroad than when at home. The phone packs a 14.4 modem for HSPA use worldwide, which can reach speeds much higher than Verizon's 3G modem. The handset acts as a modem or Wi-Fi hotspot for a maximum of five units with the right plan. Although it comes with a built-in SIM card with relatively high roaming charges, housing SIM Unlocked after 60 days of Verizon service, so you can use cheaper international SIM cards.
Processor & Apps
The 3 runs on Android Droid IT 2.3.4 OMAP4430 dual-core, 1 GHz Cortex-A9 processor. This material must make damn fast, and did very well in our benchmarks processor pure beat the phones based on two dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets Nvidia Tegra.
However, this reference yield experience does not translate into true satisfaction. Motorola Android custom skin, which changes all the icons and animations, and add widgets for social networks, the phone and launch the welcome screen of all rubber. Complex animations slow to load screens, and testing the phone were less sensitive than the competitor HTC Thunderbolt, which has a slower processor. You can disable some animations, although the configuration of the system is buried deep in the menus of the phone.
A fast modem than a fast processor to surf the Web, too. Use the integrated browser, LTE Power Droid by Samsung ($ 299.99, 4 stars) in charge of web pages about twice as fast as the Droid 3. It's a great projection for Droid 3, in fact, as the dual-core 3G phone is less than one fifth the speed of LTE. However, when all factors are added, LTE phones will provide a better web experience.
Includes Let's Golf 2 demo HD and Nova that looked positively amazing Droid 3 high-resolution screen, but faltered when the phone is multitasking in the background. You also GoToMeeting and Citrix Receiver, highlighting how the office phone is marketed Droid 3. Motorola plug-ins to create mailboxes on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, and even on the phone, so you can monitor and respond to messages coming social networks that the service is the customer.
I also run a number of defects. The battery icon showed that the phone is charging when it was acoustic, and at one point, the camera revealed a distorted picture.
Multimedia and conclusions
The Droid comes with three 11.3GB of free storage and a microSD card slot on the back cover has holes in cards to 32GB. This should be enough for your dreams multimedia. This phone has an excellent 8-megapixel camera that took sharp pictures with good exposure in the balance of about 0.7 seconds in my tests. There is also a VGA front camera. The video recording HD 1080 was a bit of a puzzle. While my video claimed that runs at 30 frames per second inside and outside, the movie does not seem totally smooth on my MacBook Pro
Videos played on the device itself, or by phone HDMI, had more problems. I have seen many jerks in 1080p H.264 video to play on a Samsung HDTV via HDMI and still remarkable leap to 720p. In the device, videos played smoothly, but still showed occasional stutter. I suspect the problem has to do with social networking layer Motorola or multitasking. The phone supports WMV, H.264 and MPEG4 videos up to 1080p resolution, but not DivX or XviD. Motorola custom video player hooks to display your photos Facebook friends of the latest and let you click once on their albums, a nice touch. Music sounded clear when played over a Bluetooth or cable.
Droid 3 is the best phone for a group of niche globetrotting executives who want to be able to perform their smartphone Verizon frequent international tours. For the moment, but we choose not official editors "for a keyboarded smartphone to Verizon Wireless. We will not give the price of a phone without Verizon's new 4G network, not Verizon phone keyboarded 4G. He said something that Verizon already offers the Droid 3 as a purchase, get an appointment for free: It seems that if the company deems necessary to give 'em away.
If you can bear to live without a physical keyboard and overall capacity, Verizon has a lot of good choices. Players will appreciate the Sony Ericsson Xperia game ($ 99.99, 3.5 stars), while the Apple iPhone 4 ($ 199.99, 4 stars) has a wide range of applications and the Ray HTC, the choice of our editorial, gives the most Wireless fast internet connection, you can get in the U.S. today. If you want to experience a luxury keyboard, consider jumping off a T-Mobile, which glide MyTouch 4G (4.5 stars, $ 199) offers dual-core speed, an excellent keyboard and an Internet connection faster than Verizon 3G.
Specification Data :
| Service Provider Verizon Wireless |
| Operating System Android OS |
| Screen Size 4 inches |
| Screen Details 960-by-540 LCD capacitive touch screen |
| Camera Yes |
| Megapixels 8 MP |
| Camera Flash Yes |
| 802.11x Yes |
| Bluetooth Yes |
| Web Browser Yes | ||||
| Form Factor Slider | ||||
| Network GSM, CDMA, UMTS | ||||
| Bands 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100 | ||||
| High-Speed Data GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, EVDO Rev A | ||||
| Storage Capacity (as Tested) 11.35 GB | ||||
| Processor Speed 1 GHz | ||||
| Keyboard Yes | ||||
| Continuous Talk Time 9 hours 53 minutes |
