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hey guys it's random in a min from pocket now calm and this is the hardware review of the motorola droid x on verizon wireless let's take a look so before we get started something interesting is that happening i'm sitting at my computer the moto droid x was on standby and suddenly I hear droid you know from the droid commercials and confused I turn on the phone I look to see if there's any sort of pop-up notification nothing is there although I do have this eyes staring at me I turned on the droid x live wallpaper three hours later the exact same thing happens I think it is something to do with this live wallpaper if you happen to know why this droid is saying droid every couple of hours please leave a comment because it's weird and really confusing anyway let's talk about the motorola droid x this device is absolutely large unapologetically large it's got a 4.3 inch display although oddly it looks slightly smaller than what you would find on the HTC hd2 and that is because droid x is slightly taller and less wide because the resolution is actually 854 down by 480 across instead of 800 down and for AV across as you find on a ton of high-end devices these days so up here we have an LED notification light which is super handy to have a lot of phones miss out on this up here we also have the proximity sensor and the light sensor there is the speaker so motorola branding really thin bezel which is quite nice and then we have hardware buttons which is great because a lot of phonies don't have hardware buttons but I wish that Android manufacturers would standardize the layout of the buttons I mean you could go to 10 different Android devices they would all have different layouts so here on the google nexus one the back button is on the left whereas the home button is second from the right just something to relearn if you're used to android you're going to have to relearn where the buttons are not a big deal here is the microphone microphone one of three and i'll talk about why it has three microphones in just a minute over on the side we get this hump for the camera so it's kind of a way that they were able to keep the the rest of the body pretty thin at about nine point nine millimeters they extended this area over here is micro USB for syncing and charging and HDMI type D now this is important because you don't have to go out and buy the cable or the the the dock for the droid x or even for the evo 4G these are the only two devices that have hdmi out you can actually just search ebay for a type D connector that cost between five and ten bucks you get it home and you can connect your flat panel or projector we're going to do a video about that coming soon but very nice that the droid x has the hdmi output here's for the lanyard going around the side yes a camera button a dedicated camera button and it's really in a good place on the droid x because you can hold that hold the device like so and put your fingers on this side of the the device and it's a dual action camera button so press wants to focus and all the way down to take the picture this works for video as well very nice addition and then the volume rocker is on the right side kind of unconventional most devices will have it on the other side but not too big of a deal on the back here we have a dual LED flash with an eight megapixel camera it takes 720p video where and talk more about video quality in a future video there's a microphone up here and a microphone up down here again I'll talk about that in a sec here is the speaker grill to pop off the back battery cover very easy just slides down get the soft touch rubber on the back and the back side of the bed of the battery cover is metal nice material overall in hand the device in my opinion feels a little bit cheap because it just has a light weight about it and it's so large and typically when a device is lightweight and large it feels a little bit cheap compared to say the iphone which is small and heavy it feels high quality so it's a matter of personal preference I've heard other people say that the droid x feels extremely high quality so it may it may feel differently too now let's talk about why there are three microphones well these to this end and this are forward noise cancellation and we're going to post a video or actually a sound track showing the droidx performing canceling noise in various situations then extra mic on the back is for the video feature that lets you switch between the scenes here I'll show you so I'm gonna turn on the device let's give you a preview of the software here and if we go to camcorder go into landscape we can go into what's called scenes and there are four different scenes and they use different microphones so this is called everyday best for capturing video with audio from all directions so this will probably take an audio from all three microphones to the right we have outdoors bet best for capturing video outside reduces wind noise so presumably this will use the top and the back microphone to do some noise cancellation and also hone in on the audio behind the camera swiping to the right we've narrative best for capturing video while commenting on the scene so obviously it will use the microphone in the front and finally subject bet for capturing video with audio from the front of the camera so this will probably utilize just one microphone in the front it won't use the noise cancellation the trouble with scenes is that you can't flip between them when you're filming so I'm going to press this down and I'm filming right now I can't do anything I can't change the scene I can only stop and start the recording so that's a little bit annoying I wish they'd have made this process automatic it's kind of cool that there are three microphones but it's a very manual process you have to stop and say okay should I use the mic on the back and the mic on the front but it's unique no other device has three microphones are pretty cool so overall the droid x is an interesting offering in terms of hardware I like the hardware buttons the three microphones the camera button and the large screen of course as I mentioned I feel that the device is a little bit low quality feeling but that's a very subjective thing overall the the build quality looks to be good when you look around the edges of the phone motorola makes a decent devices so you really don't need to worry about the phone falling apart on you so that was a look at the hardware on the motorola droid x will be back soon with many other videos video tests of the photo quality in the video quality noise cancellation talk about the software and more comparisons with other devices be sure you subscribe to our channel up to link up in the upper right corner of the video now you can hit that and subscribe to our channel and thanks for watching