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greetings all this is deke Adams with pocketnow.com and today we're taking a closer look at the hardware on the verizon motorola droid 3 so sit back relax and enjoy the show after spending a couple of days with the droid 3 i have to say this is actually a very reasonable device I don't know that it's a must-have or a powerhouse sort of device there are a couple of items will go over in this hardware review that I found to be kind of concerning but really the let's just go right to the the most important thing the battery life on this today I ran it completely by itself running all of my communications through it all my email that sort of thing and if we take a look here under the batter and battery and data manager twenty percent right now I'm burning running for 13 hours we're just now getting at ten-forty at night the fifteen percent or less battery life remaining and I got the battery right now that this displays on full brightness specifically for this review but as you can see here normally the display especially on my epic 4g is right up at the top for the percentage usage and it's cell standby that's the the number one item there so really battery life has been outstanding I'm gonna do a little few more phone calls and I'll update the review with any more information there as we get it as for the keyboard itself I found it it's nice and backlit it's it it's a little swishy I mean I'm going to move that the device up to the next the microphone so you can hear this so that's what you get when you are listening to typing on this device a lot of swishy almost like you're wearing corduroy pants while typing it's not too terribly annoying unless you're have problems with those sort of noises the other thing I found with this keyboard while it's pretty easy to type on I'm finding that I'm hitting the V button more than the C button probably because I'm used to the epic 4g and this particular the tail over here actually causes my hand to be shifted over slightly so it's a little different to type when things aren't lined up exactly where I want them I keep wanting to push my hand over further to line my fingers up with the keyboard a little bit better since my epic 4g does have a top row number keys that's not it hasn't been too big of an issue between myself but compared to the other droid devices this is a very handy keyboard and actually a pleasure to use considering call volume and call a call reception on this particular device has been received very well by the people who have been listening on the other end I haven't had any complaints and personally I haven't had any dropped calls at all not surprising with a verizon phone they're usually very solid the one thing i did find with the keyboard is that on this particular device and I did go and check on another device at the verizon store that it steams to stick right there it's a little harder to force there and if if you've got a web page up and you are trying to push this up any angle other than very the tips of your thumbs you're going to press keys like this if you're used to being able to slide this open there's no spring load mechanism for this on the store demo unit it was very very smooth all the way through no complications or problems on that device so it may just be this review unit the other thing I found is that while it locks very nicely up here so there's if I put a little pressure here it doesn't collapse automatically when I put this in my pocket I often find the device when I pull it out is a bit like this slightly askew and I've also found that at this depth right about here the screen does wiggle a little bit now this is normal for a slider phone in my opinion well the epic 4g does this wiggle as well that the oreo effect is as it's called so wish there was a little bit more locking mechanism down on this end battery cover we talked about before is just extremely difficult to get loose but there really hasn't been a reason to pull the battery other reviewers have complained that they've had to reboot the device I haven't had that anything like that happen with this particular reviewing it so that's that's a positive power button has been pretty easy to use it's a little different spot that I'm used to with the epic 4g but it hasn't caused me problems the volume rockers and the volume on both the media and calls have been outstanding headphone jack on the top has also been caused no problems the headphone jack their head phone plugged in very easily no problems with Bluetooth connectivity we'll get more into Bluetooth and some of the voice commands that it has when we get there charging on this device has been very fast actually compared to the last review I did with the LG revolution this device charges up very nicely which I appreciate greatly especially when you're here on the road and need to get your device back up to full charge a couple of other items of note with the droid 3 there is no gyroscope on this device and it's a bit of a surprise considering there's a lot of games that can use that functionality there is a seller ometer up here with their sensors you've got the light sensor you've got a multi-colored LED which you can see blinking here it does change color according to what the alert is but there's no way at least in the software that I've been able to find yet to change that manually we talked about the vga camera and we'll go into that a little more depth when we talk about cameras in the full review and then on the back we've got an 8 megapixel camera interesting about this may megapixel camera is that in order to be able to use the Amite megapixels you actually have to choose the square framing rather than the wide frame in wide framing mode it's actually six megapixels so you have to set that yourself in the software but we'll go over that more later in the software view weight wise this device is actually heavier than the epic 4g by about 30 grams which in the hand it doesn't feel too terribly different in the pocket it doesn't feel too terribly different so it's not well it's not that much of a deal and while it is thinner than the epic 4g it is heavier by and large it is also longer than the epic 4g by just a smidge due to the tail down here side by side really they're about the same depth let's take a quick look at the screen differences here between these two devices the epic 4g and the droid 3 the colors on the epic 4g are much more brilliant and accurate the Reds here are truly red and may be hard to see in this video but in the droid 3 screen they are noticeably purple in hue and the greens in the background are not the green at all they're there they're actually very muted compared to the original photo that I took so even the black so you can see here they're kind of a gray maybe a little bit difficult to tell in this picture but in the droid 3 the blacks are not really black they're kind of a light gray Motorola does a really good job of kind of hiding this fact in the main menu and a lot of the menu options by creating kind of this hashed pattern effect in the background now that's not to be confused with the qhd pixel the pintail sorry pentile display that this device has and if you're wondering what pin tiles display does it's still a little difficult to see in this particular view but if you look in the high-def version of this image here in the text and also if we look up here in the clock section there's a lot of other I images online that can demonstrate this pixilation that happens there there's kind of you can see the detailed pixel edges which when you're looking at a screen full of text makes it extremely difficult to focus on it it's really hard to actually look at the text all if you're scrolling very quickly compared to a Super AMOLED screen again that said we're probably seeing a lot of the battery life savings in this device because of that pin tile display well it's difficult to see here the back keys are the home row buttons the buttons in Android and the menu home back and search are backlit it's just that the sensor to make them backlit is really super sensitive it has to be almost pitch-black for them to light up same thing with the keyboard backlighting going into the another item that it's important to note on this device is the haptic feedback which is extremely strong it almost shakes the device every time it comes on when it's when you use the keyboard or when you get a notification or when it just decides to vibrate when you slide across the screen it's super super intense there doesn't seem to be a way to turn that down in any way shape or form it just shakes the device almost like the it's akin to a gaming pad losing its functionality with a vibration function shakes audibly and almost wobbles device it's so strong that wraps up the hardware review of the motorola droid 3 from verizon if you have any questions or comments leave them down below and we'll get back to them as soon as possible try to answer those for you otherwise thanks for watching you hmm