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hey guys it's four and a minimun from pocket now calm if you like a hardware keyboard on your Android you still don't have that many options but early - is the newest option and it's probably a very good one it comes with Froyo Android 2.2 a faster processor than the original droid and a much improved keyboard so let's get to the unboxing of the Motorola Droid 2 on Verizon let's get to it alright and let's unbox the Droid 2 there you go alright here it is very very similar box to the Droid X in fact here's the Box to the Droid X basically the same the Droid X box is a little bit bigger very small boxes it's quite interesting so let's take a look at the box what we have here so we've got the Motorola Droid I've there see see we have here includes adobe flash player built in with Froyo DLNA support which is nice to have comes with an 8 gigabyte micro SD card which is which is good let's take a look at the Motorola Droid 2 and instead of looking at the accessories we're gonna write to the device this time in fact we actually need to get the battery because usually by now you know exactly what's going to come in the box there's going to be headphones probably and a charger and a user guide so there's really no point in looking at what's inside of the box no case included I can tell you that so let's take out this back battery cover pop it in the Droid 2 and turn it on while we do some comparisons to some other devices so this is a small battery it looks like let's see what the sizes it's actually fourteen hundred and twenty milliamp hours which is quite deceiving because it looks so tiny compared to other mobile device batteries so pretty big size actually which should give pretty good battery life so here's the 8 gigabyte microSD card slot it's a very square device like the original Droid so it has that same sort of look and it's got a metal back battery cover with plastic on the back very sturdy feeling and then let's pop this in okay so we got it in and it clicks up very smooth it feels extremely high-quality and it's already turning on so we're gonna let that turn on let's take a look at this keyboard very smooth although check this out it's not spring-assisted which is a little bit annoying so it takes a little bit more effort than the average slide-out QWERTY device very big keyboard here full keyboard has a good amount of weight in the hand very well balanced it feels like very solid has a lot of weight to it but that's what you get with a slide-out keyboard so we have a micro USB here on the side 3.5 millimeter on the top so we have some more plastic here nope volume on the right side which is the typical placement and a nice button for the camera which is probably dual action it is one press for focus and one press to take the the picture so I'm going to turn off the screen here so that we can compare this to other devices and next to the Big Daddy the Droid X obviously the screen on the Droid 2 is a lot smaller and it's going to be a thicker device because it has the slide-out keyboard which turns on the screen by the way let's turn off the screen again okay here it is next to another Android phone the Google Nexus One same size screen here of course we have the five megapixel camera with dual flash on the Droid 2 and next to the HTC hd2 for good measure a windows mobile device with a 4.3 inch display the the Droid 2 can fit sort of inside the boundaries of the HD 2 and obviously the Droid 2 is going to be thicker and next to the iPhone with the bumper on you can tell that the screen of the Droid 2 is actually taller it is indeed larger it's got a longer aspect ratio so very good let's go through the first time set up real quick on the Droid 2 now you can actually go past this start up screen by tapping in the four edges of the corner we posted about this on pocket now so it should be like that and so we moved right past this the setup if you don't want to do that and so it's communicating with the server it's going to set up the device so we'll wait a minute looks like there is an heiress off to look into that something I'm noticing right away is how incredibly shiny the screen is I don't know if you can tell let's see if you can tell I'm gonna turn off the screen and I'm gonna show show you the reflection though Here I am and then look at this device it's hard to tell through the through the video but take my word for it the screen is extremely shining which may impact outdoor screen visibility so running on Froyo here not much we can do at the moment because we have to activate the phone we'll be back with a lot more videos on the motorola droid 2 if you are on Verizon and you have the Droid 1 this may be an awesome upgrade for you or if you're looking to get into the world of Android it's maybe a really good start please thumbs up the video if you liked it and check out pocketnow.com for the latest in smartphone news and reviews that's it for now thanks for watching