Motorola Droid Cell Phone Review

The Other Hardware

On the top of the Droid, shown in Figure 7, you will see the power key. You can press the power key to turn the display on or to put it to sleep. You can also press and hold this button to turn the Droid on and/or off, put it in airplane mode, or to mute the speakers. Next to the power key is a standard 3.5-mm headset jack.

Figure 7: The top of the Droid.

The left side of the Droid, shown in Figure 8, has the mini-USB jack for charging and/or attaching to the computer.

Figure 8: The left side of the Droid.

Figure 9 shows the right side of the Droid where you can see the camera button and the up/down volume key.

Figure 9: The right side of the Droid.

The back of the Droid shows the Verizon and Motorola logos on the battery door which slides open for easy access. Across the back is a thin strip with a crosshatch design. This is the Droid’s speaker. We found the sound quality to be excellent and the speaker to be capable of an excellent level of volume. In the upper corner is the 5 Megapixel camera.

Figure 10: The back of the Droid.

Although the Droid’s camera has 5-megapixels and a flash, pictures were just average. Low light pictures were somewhat grainy. However, we were impressed by the videos. At 720-by-480 and 25 frames per second, they were better than most camera phones. The videos that the Droid produced were much smoother than we have seen on other phones. They could easily be used for posting on the Web.