Motorola Droid Pro Cell Phone Review

Camera, Music and Extras

With a 5-megapixel camera, a dual LED flash, and auto-focus, you might expect the Droid Pro camera to take great pictures. Although the colors reproduction and saturation was good, some of our pictures turned out fuzzy. This did not seem to be a shaky hand problem, but rather a problem with the camera. Some photos were perfect and others were a slightly blurred. We were never able to determine how to make sure they all turned out well.

Turning on the camera automatically throws the phone into horizontal mode. All camera functionality is by touch screen controls, as shown in Figure 11, which works quite well.

Figure 11: On-screen camera controls

We liked the video camera more than the still camera. Although only 480p video at 30 FPS, the videos looked quite good – clear with good colors. Audio quality of the videos was also good.

Although the Android operating system lacks the pizazz of iTunes for playing music, this phone is a good music player. This is especially true because the speaker is very loud and clear. Although there is not a lot of bass, music still sounded good. The speaker is on the bottom of the phone

The built in speaker phone on the back of the Droid Pro (shown in Figure 12), gets nice and loud, so you don’t even need external speakers unless you want to project to an entire room. Even though the speaker is on the back of the phone, the back of the phone does not lie flat against the surface that it is resting on, so the speaker is not muted.

Figure12: The back of the Droid Pro

If you are into music there are many music streaming apps to try in the Android market, a place that is constantly growing and which any Android phone user should frequent.

Motorola rates the battery at 7 hours and 12 minutes of talk time and 13 days of standby. We didn’t come close to that estimate. You can get a full day’s use out of this phone, but not if you talk a lot and have Bluetooth, GPS, and 3G on. However, 12 hours of use without recharging is not out of reach if you do a little power management by turning off unnecessary features.