The Motorola Droid 2 is the first smartphone to ship with Froyo. You will be getting Flash Player, voice dialing over Bluetooth. The Droid 2 allows you to sync multiple e-mail accounts like Gmail, POP3, IMAP, and Exchange, as well as facebook, myspace, twitter. When you first boot up the phone, you’ll have the option to add accounts. If you’re syncing up your corporate e-mail, you’ll need additional information.
The original Motorola Droid was released about a year ago, and android phone have captured the smart phone market. Enter the Motorola Droid 2. As the successor to the Droid, the handset offers a number of improvements, including a sleeker design, better keyboard, faster processor, and the latest version of Android Froyo. It misses a few of the higher-end features of the Droid X, but it’s still an great device. There are enough improvements to make it worth the upgrade. The Motorola Droid 2 is available now for $199.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Verizon will also release a limited edition R2-D2 version of the Droid 2 in September.
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- Droid 2 front view
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- Droid 2 with keypad open
The Motorola Droid 2 reveals a more refined design. Sporting rounder, more-tapered edges, the Droid 2 doesn’t have such an disconnected look, and the silver-and-blue color combo. The handset measures 4.58 inches tall by 2.38 inches wide by 0.54 inch thick, It’s slightly heavy at 5.96 ounces.
On front, you’ve got the same 3.7-inch touch screen. It’s a good size; It makes reading text and viewing Web pages, pictures, and video simple. Droid 2 offers pinch-to-zoom and a built-in accelerometer. Motorola fixed a lot of the faults this time around. They did away with the D-pad, this makes more comfortable to hold. Second, the buttons have a slight bulge to them, so they’re easier to press.
The Motorola Droid 2 is running the new Motoblur software. You still get widgets for your social-networking updates, weather, photo gallery, and favorite contacts, but they don’t take up a lot of space, and you can even resize the widgets. It works a much better. You can also add Android widgets as well as shortcuts and folders to the seven home screens.
Overall, the new Motoblur is sophisticated, and works well. Some original users may not like motoblur remember like all other android phone it’s completely customizable.