Motorola Droid 3 Cell Phone Review

Other Features

Other phone features include the standard amenities like text and multimedia messaging, Wi-Fi, speakerphone, call waiting, call forwarding, conference calling, and voice dialing. Stereo Bluetooth and GPS capabilities are also included.

The Droid 3 can also be a mobile hot-spot for up to five devices with a Mobile Broadband plan from Verizon. This plan currently costs USD 20 per month for 2 GB of data with overage fees of 5 cents of US dollar per megabyte.

The Droid 3 uses the standard Android music player and browser. The stereo headset jack makes listening to music pleasurable. Although browsing was slower than when using a 4G LTE handset, we were able to browse the web without a hitch. The GPS also locked on quickly and easily.

There Droid 3 comes preloaded with more than 50 different apps. Besides the usual email, Gmail, clock, and alarm, there is also Amazon Kindle, VCAST apps, VZ Navigator, Let’s Golf 2, Slacker, and many others. For the business user, there is also Quickoffice and MOTOPRINT (that allows you to print from your Droid 3), GoToMeeting, and Citrix Receiver, a desktop virtualization application. Lack of applications is no longer a problem with an Android phone as the Android marketplace now has just about every app you can think of.

The Droid 3 has a rear-facing eight-megapixel camera and a front-facing VGA camera. The 8-megapixel camera produces crisp, still photos. Although colors were slightly washed out in bright sunlight, generally, color representation was good. There is no dedicated camera button and the auto-focus was a bit slow (especially in low light), so the Droid 3 won’t be terribly useful when you need a really quick shot. It does, however, do well when you have the time to setup the shot. The single LED flash seemed to be as powerful as many of the dual-flash units that we’ve seen.

The camera settings give you the ability to shoot in the full eight-megapixel resolution or a six-megapixel widescreen mode which fills the Droid 3 screen quite well.

The Droid 3 records video in full 1080p and our test videos turned out very well. This is a strong point for those who want to use the camera to capture motion scenes.