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Motorola Droid RAZR First Boot

2011-11-11
hey guys it's joe with pocketnow.com so far we've shown you the unboxing the hardware walk around of the motorola droid razr in today's video we are going to show you the first boot which is a little bit different than what you've seen in the past and just a very quick overview of what comes pre-installed on your droid razr so you don't have to be wondering when you go to your verizon store and pick one up for yourself let's go ahead and get this thing booted up so when we fire up the motorola droid razr for the first time you see it is very very nice looking boot animation the intro sequence is just really kind of cool and then it switches over to the the standard boot up I which just loops and loops and loops until the device is booted up that initial sequence has some sound with it that you can't really hear all that well here but even with the initial boot it boots up very fast comes up to the touch the android to begin screen which we're familiar with so we go ahead and touch the android at that point I since this is a cdma phone what it needs to do is synchronize and activate with the carrier in this case verizon wireless USA now this process does take a couple minutes in my experience usually takes between two and five minutes depending on how strong your CDMA signal is it has to do this over CDMA it cannot do it over LTE to the best of my knowledge and it cannot do it over Wi-Fi so you just got to wait Wow and this isn't your sim this is the imei of the phone while that's activated on the 3g cdma network just kind of hang out with it and wait for it to happen you only have to do it once well up in the time barter you can see that a couple minutes have passed it's been successfully activated and we can go ahead and continue the process have a nice little weight indicator has the I don't know exactly what that is is that supposed to be a sawtooth isn't an eye aperture I don't know let me know in the comments if you guys know what it is or if you think it's something different than that but that then brings us right back to the touch the android to begin you go ahead and do that and that this is very similar to what you've seen in the past we go ahead and put in our google account information i'll do that off screen for you once that's done it's bringing you up to essentially sign up for Motorola's backup service it's really a nice service we'll skip that for this process and then we're brought to something that's not a standard Android interface this is the social networking and accounts page that that Motorola's put in their most recent phones from this one page you can configure your device to use almost all of your social networks out there from facebook flickr linkedin twitter the whole thing very nice all in one place if you ever need to add an account you can come back and do it now or you can add them all right up front we'll go ahead and skip this for the time being because it's just stuff lying credentials go ahead and continue through this all right now we're at the verizon and motorola location sharing screen this asks you how you want to get your information regarding geolocation since i like as precise and geolocation is possible i'm going to select them all and accept the disclaimers will then continue through to the next screen have you guys take a look at that real fast then we'll continue through continuing through the next device this is just initial setup like you used to but where things get interesting is once you're past that now you're brought to kind of a how to use your device screen this is your first smartphone let alone your first Android one two three here's where you get your stuff notifications on screen and buttons and then of course we can close that down somewhat quickly it ties in with those videos that we saw before that just kind of teaches you how to use the device now something interesting you'll see here this is a cyanogenmod rom wallpaper and now i'm not running cyanogenmod on this device this is stock from from motorola but it's imported into my wallpaper from from my previous device which was kind of neat Devlin that I had set up on my bionic by the way you can see here just like the Bionic you have the very smooth we be like horizontal pagination on the home screens you have five of them too to begin with very nice very quick down at the bottom a little bit different application of how to get into your app drawer there's just an app button down there that guy that button bar looks a little bit different from what we're accustomed to it looks like just another row of icons on the home screen but it's not a little bit disappointing that you can't add stuff down there the same way but you can modify those however you want relatively easily looking through the apps this is a horizontal paginator just like honeycomb just like ice cream sandwich is going to have when it's released hopefully in a few days here on the same network I might add you can see that we don't have very much pre-installed apps there's not a lot of bloatware it comes with a full Google suite of stuff of course there are the google apps that you can download and install but the stuff you need like market and maps and gmail comfy installed on top of that we have a few games and these are level limited games we also have this really cool of moto active I don't know help happen essentially lets you keep track of your fitness it does come with netflix pre-installed which is great because it's LTE and it has a nice beautiful screen we do have some NFL apps as well because verizon that is the official wireless carrier of the National Football League so we get to have those on there disappointing that we can't put those on other devices on other networks but such as the case of exclusivity and then of course we have a few verizon specific apps as well some of them are redundant some of them help you get into your account information of course you've got some apps that take you back in and let you watch the tutorials that we skip through and also lets you set up their device again you can launch right back into that setup wizard if you would like the home screen is 3d like we mentioned it has kind of 3d apps than 3d widgets they are scrollable just like we've come to expect with Motorola it is not a true Android UI it's not a true Android launcher not a stock launcher I should say but it's very very close so there we saw what was pre-loaded on the motorola droid razr it's very very light as far as bloatware goes a few NFL apps that we could do without a few verizon apps that are kind of redundant but we've come to expect that with verizon phones and in all honesty this phone has a lot of space on it so it's not really bloating up your phone and hampering what you can install and what you can put on there there's plenty of room to grow especially with that 16 gig micro SD card pre-installed that you could always swap out with a 32 gig if you needed to overall very nice if you like seeing videos that tell you what kind of stuff comes pre-loaded on your phones before you go in and get it make sure you give this video a big thumbs up if you want to see future videos about the motorola droid razr and other smart phones Android Windows Phone iOS you name it make sure you subscribe to our video channel it'll keep you up to date and it'll let you know things your friends don't know unless you get them to subscribe to and of course head on over to pocketnow.com so that you can check out all of our cool articles and news as it happens for pocket now showing up the motorola droid razr i'm joe levi
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