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what's up everyone John retinue from TechnoBuffalo here's an unboxing of the newest Android smartphone and Verizon's lineup this is the sequel to the widely popular original droid this is of course the Droid 2 so I'm very excited take a look at this I was a big fan of the original enjoy it sort of ushered in the Android era on Verizon and it really embraced the operating system ever since let's go ahead and dig in of course we will use the obligatory big ol knife to dig into the review unit sent from the folks at Verizon will hack into the Fed Ex pack after usual push that off to the side we'll go over all the specs and such as well so here we have the Droid alright so the box here looks very similar to the original Droid it's got the number 2 right there I tell you apart droid to Verizon Google by motor I'll go over all the specs as we get further into the phone but here's a little bit more about it adobe flash player included so it's full flash support a DLNA which is quite nice for watching some of your content on other devices a little bit more about it hearing aid capable what's in the box we will see all that in just a minute and on the back another picture so let's talk about specs real quickly first this is going to run you $1.99 99 after rebates in a two-year contract on Verizon it is running the most current build of Android Android 2.2 with Motorola's revamped and very useful actually motoblur I've done a full overview of what this looks like when we first took a look at the Droid X 3.7 inch WVGA touch screen and we'll talk about that when we get to the phone which is right here so we're talking about that WVGA touch screen which means it's got a resolution of 480 by 854 capable of 16 and million colors so let's take a look at the device before we go look at the accessories usually I do that in Reverse so it's a very familiar streamlined droid form factor you can definitely tell if this is part of the Droid family so you've got the motoblur of icons you got a menu icon home button the back and a search a really nice screen it's got a nice feel to it go ahead and slide it out because does have a full QWERTY keyboard a revised Corti keyboard one of the things that I really didn't like about the initial droid was a keyboard particularly the d-pad seemed to take up a lot of unnecessary space motorola has fixed that and now some arrow keys here into the d-pad and you get a bit more flush keyboard you take a look at the side there's not all that much room I will take a look at the keyboard though when we do a review of it when I first blush does appear to be relatively useful on the back we have a five megapixel camera and this phone is powered by a t-mobile TI OMAP processor clocked at one gigahertz so if we're gonna keep up with snapdragons of the world there is eight gigabytes of on-board storage as well as a gigabyte micro sd card we'll see in a minute and the battery should be about 1400 milliamp hours so take a look at what else we got on the side there is the charging microUSB port for a typical jury looking for in fact on the back of the speaker grill the battery that slides off you have a dual LED flash on the right-hand side volume up and down and dedicated camera button top we've got power and lock 3.5 millimeter headset jack bottom we've got microphone let's go ahead and see what else we're gonna get in the box when you go ahead and pick up your droid to pull up a plastic we have the charger which is pretty common we've seen quite a bit plugs into the wall here's a USB cord I think this one's probably already been reviewed nothing else in the box other than some paperwork which means the battery must already be in here it's go ahead and take a look looks like the battery door has also been improved initial droid one of the complaints people had was that the battery door would slide out this one nearly got it looks like you have to give it a bit of a push to get it to slide out go ahead and take a look at the battery and make sure it is indeed 14 out of 14 hundred million hours and I am NOT a liar there's the 8 gigabyte card you can see it already installed right there this is 3.7 volts and fourteen hundred million power hours so I did tell you the truth go ahead and slide this back on it's attempt to and this has been a first look at the Droid 2 again stay tuned to the channel for a ton of coverage on the Droid 2 we'll be putting it through its paces and comparing it with some of the competition go ahead and slide that right back into place and really you have to give it a nice push I've just quite nice over the initial Droid there we go got it in place let's take a look at how us is going to compare to some of the stablemates Verizon lineup on the Android family to consider which Verizon Android phone is best for you so here we've got the much larger Droid X considered the big brother the little brother of the Droid 2 both mean by Motorola running the blur operating system or the blur skin rather on the Android operating system and see the size difference here between the two you know for having a full slide-out keyboard the Droid 2 is actually very thin here we have the Droid Incredible and see these two side-by-side probably - you may be considering the incredible is a very thin phone and actually surprised at how thin the Droid 2 looks by comparison and let's bring in the iPhone 4 he doesn't see what this looks like as you decide perhaps which one might be best for you and you can see them both right there I should mention it does have support for a Verizon's mobile hotspot you connect up to and believe five devices using Verizon's EVDO Rev a service which is quite fast so stay tuned to the channel for a full you know overview of the operating system and some more hardware and looks on a ton of other droid 2 coverage I'm John Grainger TechnoBuffalo see in the next video bye bye you