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hey guys its brand am in a min from pocket now calm and this is part two of the software review of the motorola droid x on verizon wireless in this video we're going to talk about built-in applications and also we're going to compare the internet speed with that of the iphone 4 and the google nexus one running on froyo it should be fun let's get to it okay so I'm going to turn on the device here we already talked about the home screen interfaces so I'm not going to cover that in this video I'll put a link up at the end of this video if you want to jump back and see where we talk about all of these cool widgets that come on the droid x so let's drill into the applications here's the 3g mobile hotspot application which runs very similarly to what you'll find on froyo the the built-in tethering application in android it costs twenty dollars a month if you want to use it from verizon and that gives you two gigabytes of data transfer speed in my testing it works quite well it provides speeds of about 1.5 to as much as 1.8 megabits per second down and about 800 kilobits per second and upload speed which is really similar to what you will get if you have a verizon my fire sprint mifi or anything like that so right now it's turned on and if i connect a device it will be listed here very very easy to use it's up to you if you want to pay for that added cost every month let's get out of here and jump back over here it's got some basic things here backup assistant is something verizon has added i haven't really used it but it allows you to remotely backup your names phone numbers and email addresses to the cloud it looks to be a free option and you have to create a pin it works off of verizon's network they've obviously contracted a third party to make this happen but it's nice that they offer that solution going down the list we have a built-in blockbuster application but of course you can download this from the android market and if we tap on get it you have to create an account to be able to rent movies to your device although you could always use the netflix application if you our netflix subscriber will talk about browser in a bit we have some video samples up on our youtube channel showing the droid x recording video and of course the droid x has three microphones 12 + + 3 which will allow you to change the scene to hone in on different kinds of audio so be sure to check that out again I'll put a link up at the end of the video so you can jump to that let's go back into the program list so we've got some other things basic email with a file explorer that comes on here we have DLNA which I'll talk about down here through media share now DLNA is a standard that lets you play multimedia across multiple devices so if your computer supports it if your TV supports that your game console supports it plus your phone you can connect all of these devices to play multimedia so right here we can click start I don't have any dianna DLNA connected devices so let's say I did have a television a Sony television or whatnot that supported DN a-- DLNA I could press play it would work together with the device to network my phone with my television really cool so I could actually play videos and put pictures on the screen wirelessly really cool so it's built right into the droid x a lot of smartphone these these days are coming with a DLNA built-in we get need for speed shift but it's actually the trial it's kind of silly obviously verizon and motorola are trying to show off the graphical prowess and a big screen on the droid x but why would they include a trial of this game i can show you how it works nevertheless and it doesn't seem to scale to the 854 x 480 screen so let's go because this feature is not available head can do that ok alright so you get a feel for how the graphics are I'm gonna put the screen back okay here we are and I'll just play this for just a minute again I want you to get a feel for how the graphics are on the droid x so pretty good pretty good this is a really good game cross-platform game so you can actually compare this to the iphone to get a sense for how it performs so that was the need for speed game okay and diving back in here let's continue to scroll down we have some other things from social networking utility built in which will allow you to really look at multiple social networks and update motion multiple social networks in one shot and you can also update your social networks from the home screen which we've already talked about so let's go back here text messaging basic application media share voicemail visual voicemail costs three dollars a month which is crazy they should it should absolutely include this service with such a high-end device like the droid x so you can subscribe to visual voicemail from here and get it right on your device and that's pretty much it in terms of included applications what i want to do now by the way does have an FM radio which is always nice to have you have to plug in your headset to get that to work and one more thing this is pretty cool it's called the my verizon application which allows you to access your data usage and everything right from the device which is a really nice touch and I'm glad verizon connected this or your use this so here we go it tells you this is a demo unit tells you how many minutes i've used having text messages i've used and so on and so forth you can go to balance to see what your bill balances and you get the point so what i'm going to do now is compare the browser on the droid x with that of the nexus one running froyo and the iphone 4 so let's get to the test alright and here we go if all three devices going to launch the browsers and all of these do not have any tabs open they're all going to go to Google from the start so we're going to go to pocketnow.com on all of them and up here too try to do it at the same time it's not always completely possible to get it right so one two three almost there let's see which which goes fastest the froyo or the nexus one was pressed last so it's got a bit of a disadvantage okay the droid x finished first very nice and it looks like the iphone came in last actually so the nexus one just finished even though it had a bit of a lag let's take a look at how it's like to flick down the page and really experience the website so scrolling is smooth on the droid x very smooth it's also smooth on the iphone and on the nexus one smooth on all devices let's test screen rotation speed so i take the droid x and the iphone 4 first the iphone 4 was faster droid x was faster let's try that one more time about about even and droid x i'd say droid x is faster let's take a look at the nexus one so we're going to go into landscape Wow almost exactly the same joy decks was definitely faster okay nexus one was faster inconclusive in terms of these two android devices let's go to another website to see how they compare we're going to go to engadget.com okay and we've got them ready to go so one two three again the nexus one is slightly behind and it looks like we're getting the mobile version here the full version here and the full version here let me just swipe to the bottom and go to the full site you all right in the joy it's finished let's take a look at how they do pinch to zoom so let's say I'm going to zoom all the way out on all of these devices were zoomed out let's say I want to flick down a little bit and I want to hone in on this picture here so pinch-to-zoom smooth very smooth and let's see how it is on the droid x not surprisingly it's smooth on all three devices let's click on a permalink to go to another page and again test these head-to-head in terms of speed maybe I can get them yep got them at the same time let's see which is fastest droid x 1 followed by the nexus one followed by the iphone 4 incredibly the iphone 4 with with all of the the fanfare about the a4 processor is actually not performing that well in terms of rendering web pages and as you can see down here there are no other webpages being loaded so it's got no reason to be slow we're going to go to amazon.com okay we've got all three here so one two three and this will be the last test of speed so it looks like the iphone 4 was about the same speed as the droid x and the the nexus one was slightly behind of course because we tapped it at the last minute I want to jump to the regular site here and we can pan around and see again the differences in web browsing speed and fidelity when we do it that way so let's jump around all these devices are very very very capable internet browsing machines it looks like the droid x is actually the fastest in this test compared to these devices the zooming isn't as smooth as it is on the iphone on the droid x and it's it's likewise on the nexus one but it's it's fast it's really fast so if we go to looks like we're seeing different displays across all of these all of a very very good web experience so we can do tap on the main headlines may take us to different places so the iphone finished first although it went to a different page and then we're on the same page here on the google nexus one and on the droid x and i just tried to play this video and let's see what happens it doesn't have flash it has flash light but it doesn't really play a lot of flash video if I press play over here I should get better results although I may have flash turned off I do so what I have to do is go to settings and turn back on nable plugins but you get the point so overall from a software front the motorola droid x is a fantastic offering verizon has added a lot of very helpful utilities to check our account bounce to tether to another device and to get your visual voicemail but unfortunately it cost three others a month and the internet browsing speed on the droid x is possibly the best of any device that we've tested yet in most cases does a really fantastic job the flash support isn't there yet but in terms of speed of rendering pages and panning around and zooming around is really really great and it's fantastic that have such a large screen to do this all with and plus the massive resolution 854 x 480 really makes a difference when you're moving around a web page trying to see as much screen information as possible if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and keep an eye on pocket now calm for the full droid x review coming very soon thanks for watching