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Since it came out this past July 15th, the Motorola Droid X immediately became the hot item. After hearing it sold out the very first day, what else can we say about this little “hottie,” but that it is the object of secret (or totally open) desire of many people all over the world. Even now, while writing this article, we secretly hope that Motorola reads it and likes it so much so they decide to honor us with a couple of little Droids.

It seems that this time Motorola easily managed to close the mouths of even the biggest critics they have. How can a phone be that good, you may ask? Read on.

To start with, the Droid X has in our humble opinion “to die for” looks. And, even though it is the largest phone on the US market today, with its dimensions being 5 by 2.6 by 0.4 inches, its features make its size a minor flaw on the possible cons list. One more possible advantage of its size? You will have a reason (if you are looking for one) not to buy this phone for your kids, because it will not comfortably fit in small pockets therefore being more easy to lose. (We are sure Motorola can recommend something more appropriate for your tweens and teens.)

Its screen of 4.3-inch, 854 by 480 has a slightly higher resolution than other Android phones. And no need to panic button-lovers, because below the screen there are still four hardware buttons. The Droid X has the Swype text-entry method, which can make your typing even faster and easier. If you have to type in URLs, passwords, or (proper) names of course, you will have to type them by yourself.

We found another feature, an improvement you will love, the noise elimination. This time Motorola tried something new, they installed three microphones, two of which are used to cancel out the noise. In comparison to the HDC Incredible, we felt the Droid was better. However, if we talk about the earpiece, the Incredible’s is slightly better than the Droid’s, but the difference is pretty small.

Two extra features we think you should be happy about are, first accurate voice dialing over Bluetooth, which is thus far not so common among Android phones, second is Adobe Flash, which is about to come out as a software upgrade later this summer. This makes the Droid one of the first phones to run Adobe Flash.

Now because the Droid X uses Verizon’s EV-DO Rev A network, it has excellent download speed, and it works as a WPA2-protected, 802.11g Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five devices, so you could have up to 2Mbps to download onto a PC. Uploads for now are around 350Kbps. The cost of hotspot usage is per month, this is an extra on your contract and you get only 2GB of hotspot usage, therefore every extra GB is an additional .

The Droid uses the 1570 mAh battery, which gives you hours and hours of talk time. We do think that because of its big screen you might want to charge it on a daily basis, however, we are pretty sure that a dying battery will be the last thing you will have to complain about. Moreover, Motorola will launch an even bigger 1930 mAh extended battery, which is 1mm thicker, but more powerful obviously, than the 1570 one.

Now let us move onto the operating system and software. The Droid X uses the Android 2.1 with the latest version of Motorola’s MotoBlur extensions. It offers a single interface to sign into lots of different mail services, as well as social networks such as Facebook, and photo sharing services. Again, later this summer they’re launching an Android 2.2 update, which supports Adobe Flash 10.1. To make it even easier for you, the Droid mixes Google and Exchange calendars, as well as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, so you can see all of your friends’ updates. However, if you find your phonebook’s mixed list is too big, you can always choose to see only one of them. So, even though you might find “all-in-one” features very useful, you may come to the same conclusion we did: up-to-the-minute updates from Twitter and support for Facebook walls can be overwhelming. Blur, however, you cannot turn off, but you can try not signing into various accou nts at once, so it won’t add that information. You also might find that Blur slows down the Droid’s performance and Web browsing, and freezes occasionally. On the other hand, Google Maps Navigation works like a Swiss watch.

In conclusion, even though we think the Droid still needs improvement on some minor things, it is one of the best Android phones available on the market. For all the techies out there, we say keep your hopes up, because Motorola is planning on launching the Droid 2, and it looks like it will be pretty soon. For the rest of us, who would be satisfied with this not so perfect version, the price is 9.99 with a two-year contract, minus a 0 mail-in rebate. All Verizon Wireless customers whose contracts end in 2010 will have the option of paying 9.99 too. Geeks On Site says: Welcome to the future; long live the Androids!

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