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hey what's up guys it's Marcus Brownlee here from mkbhd and welcome to the full unboxing and review video of the Motorola Droid with Verizon Wireless Motorola and Google so this is one of Motorola's only phones on the Android network as well as a verizon wireless network and as you can see the packaging does look quite similar to a lot of other smartphones but I'll tell you something what's inside the package is not similar to what you'll find in other smartphone packages so what does come in the box you're probably asking well let me go ahead and show you you'll get a number of things number one is the charger the wall adapter for the United States the second thing you get is the USB 2.0 data cable for both charging and syncing your phone and as you move along you'll see that there is a massive battery that will go into later in this review video that is actually a huge part of why I love this phone so much aside from that you'll get all the rest of the boring stuff you know you're getting started manuals warranties etc and I don't really feel I need to show you that however they are very important for activating your phone as there are several things you do need to read and you might actually have to call Verizon like I did to get it fully activated so once you've activated the phone I'll go ahead and show you what it'll look like and how it'll operate starting up the phone for the first time is not a very pleasing experience it does take several minutes but that's acceptable because it is the first time you're booting up the phone of course it's all worth it in the end when you get that satisfying well yeah so before I get into Android itself I should give you guys a full hardware tour of the Motorola Droid what better place to start then full 3.7 inch high resolution 854 by 480 WVGA display with a massive 40,000 pixels at the bottom there's for haptic buttons which I'll get to in a minute so on the bottom of the phone there's actually no connections and on the right hand side you'll have your camera button and your volume rockers at the top is your three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack and power and on the other side of the phone is your mini USB port and of course this is the world's thinnest full slide-out QWERTY keyboard yep you heard it right the keyboard that a lot of people have been complaining of was actually really easy for me to get you - it is as you can tell very flat however you when you can type on it after a few minutes or a few hours you'll really get used to it and I've actually come to like this keyboard quite a bit as it keeps the phone relatively thin for a slide-out QWERTY keyboard when the phone is closed it measures just thirteen point seven seven millimeters thick which does set the record for the thinnest slider most complaints about the key word came because of the lack of travel this actually has an extremely flat d-pad as you can see as well as all the flat keys there were two blank caves dedicated Menu key and several other different features about it but the lack of a number row actually makes it much easier to fit in the pocket because it extends less so I like the phone for this reason so with all this talk about the keyboard I might as well show you guys in use the keyboard itself so I'll just go ahead and open up a quick test message here and show you guys the actual usage of the keyboard there not bad if you ask me now I'm not exactly the texting your messaging freak but I did make one or two errors on the actual physical keyboard the virtual keyboard is another story it's slightly different and a little bit narrow when you're using a portrait mode but you can definitely get by using the landscape mode which I actually didn't use in this video but it does work very very well now one of my favorite features about the Droid isn't actually part of the software but the hardware itself and that's the battery this thing literally lasts nearly forever I went through an entire day of school with the Droid you know web surfing texting etc and it lasted until the end of the day with 100% battery remaining unfortunately I have to use the Knights to take it off also there's something you should know about behind the battery is a 16 gig microSD card that comes pre-installed with the Droid another one of the best features of the Motorola Droid is the screen so like I mentioned earlier is a 3.7 inch WVGA high-resolution screen coming in at a whopping 854 by 480 which is a total of more than forty thousand pixels more than twice the resolution of the leading competitor if you know who that is so it's one of the lightest taps you really need to use the screen as you can see bios unlock screen here it is not pressure sensitive so you can't use it with the gloves but you can use just the lightest tap of the finger not a stylus and this will move pretty much as smooth as any other phone on the market the snappy processor within the Motorola Droid makes moving around on the phone extremely quick and with the firmware 2.0 point one which at the moment is the most recent firmware is really really responsive and I would go to say most expensive touchscreen Android phone right now the impressive resolution on the Motorola Droid also makes it particularly impressive for switching between screens as you can see on my far right homescreen I have sixteen icons which is the max that you can put on a home screen there are three home screens on Android 2.0 point one but I've heard of upgrades two over six in the future we'll see how that works out another one of the most exciting features on the motorola droid to test out was a five megapixel camera on the back of the phone which can be activated with a long press of the camera key the camera features five megapixel photo resolution dual LED flash image stabilization and four times digital zoom so it was exciting to test out overall photos look great on the motorola droid if you get autofocus right and good lighting also known as outdoors i do recommend this camera the 5 megapixel shots turn out really nicely I don't recommend it however for low-light photos as a flash does tend to be a little bit centered and leave the edges dark but when you do get the photo right with the digital zoom and also the image stabilization they do look good as you can see by us looking through these here I shouldn't show you all these photos though as their upcoming videos there are a number of other photo settings before taking a picture with the Motorola Droid but these I don't usually mess with these include flash mode scene store location whether or not you put it on the memory card white balance color effect and all sorts of other things as well as a live preview in the middle but when here's another cool feature voice search on the Motorola Droid check this out library very very cool overall yes you have to admit the Motorola Droid is a huge touchscreen powerful monster not something for your everyday consumer has enhanced Bluetooth 2.1 a massive marketplace and some serious hardware features not only has a foreign hardware itself been reliable but it's been working perfectly on America's number-one most reliable wireless network and nothing really beats Verizon when it comes to just picking up your phone and making a call well anyway I'm not a YouTube partner so I'll be bumping up against that 11 minute time limit any moment now but remember if you're looking for a Verizon Wireless smartphone that you can show off to your iPhone wielding friends with turn by turn GPS hike Google integration and Android OS that blows other smartphones out of the water you're looking at it right here it's the Motorola Droid thank you for watching this Hardware review of the Motorola Droid mkbhd signing out thanks for watching peace