Motorola Droid Review

It's hard to look at the DROID without looking at the company which brought the device to life. Is it the device that will pull Motorola back from the brink? The DROID is an odd and beautiful device. Instead of taking its cues (and lines) from current contenders in the smartphone space, the DROID is all hard edges and angular slopes. The basic structure of the phone is made up of two main pieces, the large, glass display up top, and the slightly longer keyboard / mainboard lower half. It's almost like Motorola's version of the HTC chin... though tempered somewhat. Atop the phone is a 3.5mm headphone jack and a power / sleep button; along the right edge is a volume rocker, and camera button on opposite ends; the left side houses a MicroUSB port; around back the 5 megapixel camera (and flash) are revealed, along with a thin, gold, crosshatch strip that hides the DROID's speaker.

Let’s say it right off the bat: the Motorola DROID, winner of our TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award, is the best Google Android based smartphone phone to date.
Features:
On first glance, the Motorola DROID seems just a little bit clunky by today’s standards. The touch screen works well with the notably improved user interface for the Android 2.0 OS and features haptic feedback for some functions but still lacks of the most popular features of a multitouch screen like the pinch to zoom function.
Better yet, there’s a slide out physical keyboard. The Android 2.0 OS also provides a substantial performance boost compared to previous Android devices, especially when taking advantage of the devices enviable multitasking capabilities. Android apps tend to be more useful.
The DROID successfully leverages the relationship with Google to offer perhaps the single coolest unique feature of this phone…a terrific, turn-by-turn GPS navigation system that doesn’t require a monthly subscription.
Pretty much every email platform is supported by the DROID including MS Exchange synchronization for enterprise users.

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