Gadgetory

hey everyone it's Jeffrey and with pocket now calm and so far we've unboxed the droid pro and we've given you a look at the hardware of the droid pro now what would an overview be if we didn't take a look at the software so let's dig in alright as promised we are back and it's time to take a look at the software on the droid pro now one of the main things that should be sticking out to you almost right away is actually the implementation of the motorola blur custom user interface that Motorola has developed here it's something that they actually do not advertise on the packaging but it is here and that's actually going to show right in this menu down here you're going to have the up arrow which will bring up the menu but once you actually swipe side to side you're going to see those typical blur icons which will bring you to the different home screens actually pop right up now blur may or may not be for you and this device it's actually a pretty good combination because if you are a business user who may travel a lot it's going to allow you to get your work done get your business done throughout the day and then on your off time whether it be at night maybe on breaks maybe even during a workday or on the weekends whatever it may be you're going to be able to bring in that social networking and that fun aspect as well which is what Blair is there to do so this does really give you the best of both worlds in that case to show you one main difference that Blair has at least on this device compared to many other devices is going to be actually the color scheme of the menu now as you'll see many of the froyo devices this is actually an android 2.2 so it is a froyo device it's very colorful when you go to the settings menu this is just a typical black and white very plain and simple keep it straightforward but keep it happening and that's really what this is doing right here once again it's black and white no color whatsoever no fancy icons just very simple whatever it may be and just to confirm that actual software version will let down to the about phone and we'll show you the android version 2.2 which will confirm the froyo implementation here now by implementing blair over the android operating system you have the ability to not only add the android widgets but Motorola's own widgets as well so if actually scroll over here these are all examples of those widgets as you can see we can actually press this here and we will go to motorola widgets and you can see what we have to offer many different widgets that you really have not seen before if you've never experienced Blair but let's say you want to go back to that experience that you're used to you can go to your Android widgets and add those typical widgets as well now there's a few other very cool but very useful features on the droid pro that we want to point out that you typically don't see on other devices now one of them if we go to the settings menu will actually be what's called a quick launch so if we go to the actual applications menu here we have the quick launch buttons now in our Hardware overview we actually pointed out this side button to you that is user programmable so you can actually change it to automatically launch an application of your choosing in this case we've actually set it to use Twitter now you can also choose a search plus a letter to launch that application so for example we have calculator as B and calendar as C so those are just some quick ones that we've set up and now will actually give you a dry run of these so we have the quick launch button here we're going to go ahead and press that and Twitter opens right up the snap of a finger it's very quick now the same thing we're plausibly hold down the search key and press C so we'll do that real quick and press C and there's calendar once again very snappy and we'll do the same thing for the calculator and then there you go the calculator as well if we want to go back to twitter we can and it's that fast so navigating through this device if you are a power user or if you have to essentially multitask but switch very frequently this is great for that if you have an application that you use multiple times a day on a daily basis whatever it may be you can set a shortcut to get to that application very easily another is going to be a pretty creative way to actually lock your device that you don't accidentally press a shortcut open up an email or make it even a quick phone call and that's going to be essentially a pocket protector tool that they've included on here now if we actually go to the display menu and we scroll all the way down you're going to see in pocket detection so this basically locks your device automatically when it's put into your pocket now we can just guess that this use is most likely the ambient light sensor as well as the accelerometer to detect the position the phone is at hence upside down dark whatever it may be we've actually used this before we've actually tested we've turned it on we just basically will take the device put it right in our pocket and it actually works fairly well so this is a safeguard if you are someone who forgets to lock your phone before you put it into your pocket but pre-installed apps and abilities are going to be of course the 3g mobile hotspot you can actually use this device as a mobile hotspot perfect if you are an on-the-go user who has to use this device as a connectivity option for a laptop computer or any computer for that matter there's also going to be the deal on a support so you can actually stream media from this to a networked TV that supports DLNA or another device that supports DLNA and then there's also going to be the quick to office which is pre-installed which will let you open up different document types as well as spreadsheets PDFs that sort of thing now if you're curious about the gaming potential we're going to go ahead and actually open up a trial game that's Prince tallness device and that is need for speed shift so will actually give you a quick run on how the gaming performs and we'll actually zoom in a little bit further here so you can see the screen now one cool thing about this game is as you crash your car actually sustains damage you'll see your windshield scratch your car will actually have worse handling it will drive slower that sort of thing and here we are about to kick things off now this is going to put you in a first-person view of the car you have to actually tilt your screen to steer and what we found playing this game is the frame rate tends to suffer and we hope that you can see this well enough but as you'll see it does suffer some framerate slow down from time to time especially once your windshield does start cracking which will actually use some nitrous directly into the wall so you can see the windshield crack in here we're going to purposely keep crashing and the windshield is getting cracked up again Mike are performing pretty poorly right now but as you consider as you continue to sustain damage you will see the framerate perform worse and worse now of course this is only a trial on the phone is brand new so there could be an update on both the application the phone itself to fix this and that is only one game if you're really someone who just picks up a game every now and then to kill some time you're really not going to notice it if you play games on a more avid basis you will notice that frame rate slowed down and it may be frustrating to you overall navigation to the UI is fairly snappy there are some slow down periods when it appears that the device is syncing up and connecting to the actual server may be pulling down contact information through the Facebook or through the Twitter applications to possibly give you an update on their status the keyboard however does perform flawlessly when typing a message there is no complaints to be had there it does feel very similar to a blackberry keyboard however those have been successful for a reason if you have any questions about the Droid Pro please post a comment on either this video or on the actual article page on pocket now calm and if we can we will definitely try and answer your questions if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and as always thank you very much for watching everyone