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hey guys its brand am in a min from pocket now calm and this is the hardware review of the motorola droid 2 on verizon let's get to it okay so before getting into the characteristics of the device let's talk about the specifications it's running with a 1 gigahertz texas instruments omap processor compared to a 550 megahertz processor found on the droid 1 so you're getting about double the clock speed there you're also getting double the ram so on the droid two you have 512 megabytes of RAM compared to 256 megabytes on the original droid inside in terms of storage space you get 8 gigabytes and you also get an 8 gigabyte micro-sd card although you can of course expand that to 32 gigabytes so a lot of storage on the droid 2 which is quite nice you of 802 11 n assisted GPS the camera is 5 megapixels with dual LED flash although oddly it doesn't do HD video it can only do 720 x 480 which is technically 480p so let's take a look at the hardware on the droid 2 first you may be noticing a green blinking light so you do get that green notification light that let you know and you have new emails very handy the screen is the same size as the original droid 3.7 inches and the resolution is 854 down by 480 across so that's the highest resolution that Android can support and if you put this device next to the droid x which also has the same resolution but a much larger screen the screen on the droid 2 looks a lot crisper because the pixels are smaller you're packing the same number of pixels inside of a smaller area 3.7 inches compared to 4.3 in other words the screen on the droid 2 looks really really good really sharp up here we have a proximity sensor a light sensor no front facing camera and of course the speaker down here we have the standard Android buttons surrounded by this nice kind of dark silvery chrome that goes all around the screen it's really attractive and if you turn the device over you'll notice that it's actually a dark blue it probably looks black on the camera but the blue extends on the sides and on the back if blue is not your color then you're out of luck you know it looks nice to see on a device has a lot of devices now are either black grey or silver and not blue so that is a pretty cool feature let's go around the side here we have a micro USB port with a charging indicator the bottom is the microphone on the side is the dough action camera button so you can actually hold the phone like a real camera then with the volume up and down rocker and then we have the stand my button and 3.5 millimeter headphone jack now the camera as mentioned does not take HD video oddly but it does take photos at five megapixels has a dual flash here to illuminate dark subjects and let's flip off the battery see what we have under there to kind of push down and slide and here we have the battery next to the 8 gigabyte microSD card although you have to take out the battery to access the card which is a little bit annoying but most people probably don't change their micro SD card too often ok I'm going to pop that back and let's talk about the keyboard okay let's talk about the keyboard because if you're interested in the droid two you probably care a lot about the hardware keyboard or else you would have been looking at the droid incredible or the droid x which of course don't have the slide-out keyboard so let's slide out the keyboard and what you'll notice is that it's not spring assisted like the original droid so you can pause it in the middle or you can sort of give it a little bit more effort and it will open all the way not too big of a deal although a lot of keyboards from the windows mobile side our spring assisted like on the HTC touch pro2 so it's very handy to have anyway minor Greg let's get to the keyboard now what you'll notice about the droid two compared to the droid one is that the entire screen entire facade of the device moves when you slide up in the keyboard compared to the original droid which left a little element a little part where it's at verizon down here so it kind of had a sidekick like look you know the the t-mobile sidekick devices but this is a new design and it's it's a little cleaner and more simple and what we have here is a wider keyboard because they took away this d-pad to the right which makes a lot of sense you really don't need to occupy so much room for the d-pad so instead now we have a four-way arrow key here which you can use for the same functions you can use it to move the cursor around on the screen or to scroll or what have you now because the deep has been removed the keyboard is wider the keys are larger so those with large hands or medium-sized hands will really appreciate the larger key style also different about the keyboard is that the the layout of the keys aren't in a grid now they're offset in a more natural way not as natural and ergonomic as the touch pro 2 but definitely an improvement and the keyboard feels pretty good especially with some practice if you like a clicky keyboard the droid 2 is not for you because the keyboard go you can hear that doesn't make that much noise when you type it's kind of a little bit numb feeling but it also won't bother people around you when you're typing out a text message so if you look closely you can see that the keys are slightly raised not too much though the numbers take place in the upper row here instead of embedded within the letters which can be annoying so of course if you want to access one you hold down alt and you press the number we have a quick shortcut to the voice command feature and that's really all you get on the keyboard it's a very simple keyboard without any keyboard shortcuts or things like that which may be a good thing for you now what's great about the droid x and the original droids that it's well balanced and it has a good amount of weight so that when I'm typing I'm rescuing my fingers here behind the screen and it just feels good it feels like a messaging device and actually let's turn over to the back here unfortunately this area back here if you touch it enough it's going to pick up a lot of fingerprints they used a very very glossy plastic behind the screen which is kind of silly but not that big of a deal so that's the keyboard definitely an improvement over the original droid and it will appease those who like to have a hardware keyboard on their smartphone so if you are a fan of the original droid and you like the way the hardware looked on how the hardware felt you're really going to like to drew it too because it builds on what made the original droid great again if you want something sleek slimmer the droid incredible and the droid x are probably better solutions for you coming up soon we're going to talk about the software on the droid to see how fast it is with froyo and the faster processor and more RAM please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and thanks for watching that's it for now