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hey everyone Daniel Webster over park intera comm and this is the software review of the motorola droid x2 on verizon and this device has a dual core processor and we are also running android 2.2 along with the newer build of motoblur so let's get to it so many users in the past to really dislike the motoblur user interface but this newer version is much easier to use and it's similar to an android vanilla build opposed to other builds in the past on less advanced phones so let's go to some of the widgets here we'll just start here and we'll choose some of the motorola widgets that come on the device so here we have some buttons in which we can change some radios on and off we have contacts date and time GPS toggle of course is another radio button our messages news and some of these other information such as weather and stuff like that and let's see what else we also have sticky notes and we have another cool one in the android widgets let's go back to the android widgets and we can actually update news and weather directly from here and we can even have some of our bookmarks lower those at let me check here again think they're in the here we are bookmark widget which is pretty cool because you can add your own bookmarked widgets directly from the home screen so if you go to a website that you want to view a lot all you do is click on one of these widgets and it will launch that website so it's a pretty neat feature to have directly on the home screen so now we can just go to some of the live wallpapers and there's nothing to original for the droid x2 the only thing we have is the generic android live wallpapers they come on pretty much every other android phone out there that comes with 2.1 or higher so let's just get out here and we can view some of the other wallpapers let's see here these are other ones that come with the droid x2 and there's just a few other graphics um synonymous with the a droid product line because the droid product line is somewhat kind of a dark and of course we all know that lucasfilm's and George Lucas is behind the droid name for verizon so we just get here let's go to some of the applications so we'll go down here and we have an alarm and timer it's a little bit different than what comes on a stock Android device pretty similar but a little bit different we have our alarm hairs we can set alarms we can also go down to the menu button and we can hide the clock if you'd like you can also change some of the settings that's what a timer and I changed a timer if you'd like for cooking or whatnot so let's just get out of here and we have Amazon Kindle which allows you to read amazon books directly from this I droid x2 so if I go in here I don't have anything synced up right now but we'll just see how it works of course it wants to input our information so that's something you will have to try out if you decide to get this device we have our browser which does have flash 10.3 right now we have a reskin calculator which is pretty similar to the stock android and if i turn it sideways it does give me 80 I thought it would give me a scientific elit see or vans panel so uh not too advanced but a pretty nice I guess if you're going to do some quick calculations we have our calendar which will sync up with google calendars and here we can use some are our events and we can also add other things to the calendar directly from here and it will sync up with google if you assign it to let's see we have our camcorder which is a pretty nice camera this device is capable of recording up to 720p HD resolution and it also will Geo tag your photos and your videos directly from the camera application so here we're on the video camera and if I like I can just switch it to the camera right here and we can view some of the effects that come with this droid x2 so here we probably can't see too many great things just aiming at the bottom of this table here so a few other effects we can just go back we noticed a zoom in and zoom out and take a photo unlike the droid x which had a dedicated camera button at the top we have this on screen camera shutter button right here so let's just go back to the applications we have our contacts so we can view all of our context one nice thing about this is it we go to the dialer we can start dialing a phone number and it will start it'll bring up the phone number because it has smart dial so it's nice feature to have I'm surprised that other Android devices don't have this which is a very nice feature to have in specific here and make a phone call and then you call a lot instead of having to search through all your contacts so let's see what else you know we're DLNA which is a nice great thing to have if you like to watch videos or upload media directly from your device or download things to your device from your network drive so here we can play media if I'd like let's see if it will work so I need to connect one of my media servers let's see here and just choose this and put a video all video let's see if there's nothing on the device right now but you get the gist you can also connect this to an xbox 360 and play media directly from the FR on the xbox from the droid x2 we have our email with many different clients in which you can set up so we'll just leave this loads with all these clients in which can set up and you can also specify which one do you want if you have all the settings for the server to the email client so the emergency alerts which doesn't really have anything on there right now we can view our files directly from the device so we can view the internal phone storage we can also do SD cards let's go here see if there's anything have no photos on here right now but you can see how it's easy to search through your files and if you've noticed the screen transitions on the droid x2 are very quick and we'll do some benchmark tests at the end of this little review here we have FM player of course we will need a headset plugged in in order to use the FM antenna and let's see it doesn't come with this headset which is a little disappointing but it is nice that you are still able to have the FM radio so let's see here we cannot change it to let me go back where was I at ok go here it also change it to the speaker so you can listen work right there from the from the speakers in the back of the phone so just get out of here we have our gallery which I don't have any photos on here right now but it's a little bit different than the actual stock Android gallery we have our camera roll we ever my library off online so we can upload or download photos from various minus sources such as a Facebook or Twitter or whatnot we have our friends photos and we can also access our DLNA servers directly from the gallery application we have our Gmail which we probably all seen before we have google search which is a pretty basic and we can search for web pages or not find things directly from there we have our Help Center which does give nice guided tutorials on how to set up the droid x2 and also answer some common questions if you have some questions about this device I'm go to instant messaging and there are three instant messaging clients to choose from we have aim windows live messenger and yahoo unfortunately don't have facebook I am are some of those other ones we have google latitude which is just other layers on the google map so let's just wait for this to load so here we have google latitude and we can connect with our friends and view our friends directly from our google maps application so let's get out here for just a second we have let's valve 2 which is just a demo game and I've showed this before on other devices we have google maps which we just saw but we can view it again we can change the layers i would go up here and we'll choose a satellite layer and google maps is really nice now especially on android devices because you're able to get the 3d city views and we can also get the street views and all those other great things that are associated with google maps we have the android market which is similar to other android market markets on other android devices except we have the verizon vcast apps so from here we can view all the dedicated verizon apps and we'll just go back and see what else we have we have my verizon mobile which will give you some account information we have google navigation which is a very nice application it's probably what makes Android one of the best platforms to have is just the way that everything is integrated all you have to do is search for something call them to make a reservation let's see we're calling a restaurant you just make a reservation get the address type navigation and go directly to their and it's a really quick and that that's probably the best thing about android is the way that everything is integrated into each other we have our news which is a motoblur application here we can view some of our news and can scribe to other things who like just go back news and weather which is an android ab wait for that to load so here we can view our weather and our top stories and some other interesting news out in the world right now so let's see what NFL mobile unfortunately the NFL isn't going on right now but when they start their new season this would be a great application to have if you are a football fan so we can view some news and videos scores let's go apparently I'm too fast for this device so let's see just go back let's see here what else do we have the other little videos and whatnot and it looks like it's going to try to play a video right now so the video quality is really great on this device it's are pretty fast right now I'm connected to a Wi-Fi connection will just get out of here and go back to some other applications need for speed shift which is another demo game and I'm not really going to go into that right now we have google places which is a nice app if you want to find something in your area and it's a great if you just want to explore nearby let's say you are in an unknown area and you want to find something to do all I do is explore nearby and find something to do it's a pretty great application to have on any Android device click office which allows you to view app you documents directly from the droid x2 and we can also update and explore the let's here we have anything on the SD cards tray probably nothing so we'll just get out of here and quick office is a nice application if you just want to view some documents we have our settings we're going to it just a few seconds skype mobile and as you probably know verizon has teamed up with skype to have a integrated system on their android devices and this a skype application is a great thing to have if you're in another country you need to make a phone call or something like that or if you just want to make some phone calls and you don't want to use your minutes you can use a the Wi-Fi on your device so we're scatter there we have google talk which allows us to connect to our gmail or google contacts directly from this application unfortunately we can't make phone calls with this particular version we have a task manager which is nice to have on any device especially one that is so power hungry like the droid x2 here's we can end applications we can also set things to auto end if we have an application we can set it to end after two minutes or just go there we have our tasks so these are a list of uh I guess events that you wouldn't do or something like that task that you would have and you can set them by priority and you can also update them directly from this application so cal have text messaging which is just a similar text message so here we have one then I signed up for NFL mobile alerts or just get out of there voice commands which is a built into this particular device it's different than the voices through call work so that's how that application works was like no and we'll just get out of here we also a voice search like I said before and this is a nice great application and another great thing that makes Android so awesome so we'll just click here pocketnow calm and it looks as though it found exactly what I was looking for so launch the browser and it's a nice great feature to have on any Android device so we'll just go back home to the last few applications we have here we have visual voicemail which i don't think is set up right now I don't know if it'll work over a Wi-Fi connection either so we'll see if this works so I have no voicemails and I can call my voicemail and I can also subscribe to visual voicemail let's go back and we have YouTube which is our final application that's brought on this particular device and all these applications unfortunately aren't able to be removed unless you root your device which is pretty easy to do and i will post a link on the pocketnow.com website is how to root this droid x2 so let's go to some speed tests and we'll be right back okay so we'll run the quadrant standard benchmark and we'll be right back after this is finished okay so our benchmark results i should mention that i did end all of the applications that were running I got 2545 which is a pretty fast device in here you can see the nexus one with android 2.2 it's a almost double the speed as the nexus one so let's do another one I will do smart bench 2011 so we'll launch that application ok so our device on smart bench 2011 got 2344 on proc and productivity index in our game index we've got 2508 so a pretty quick device let's see what's comparable to that all these other ones have 1.5 gigahertz so it looks as though the other one with a 1 gigahertz a processor let's see the first one is right about here it got 3,000 and around the same for the game score so we'll do linpack finally so on linpack we got 36.9 96 mflops in 2.2 7 seconds so that's very fast of course this device does have the dual core tegra 2 processor running at one gig yards processing speed so it is a pretty quick device so let's go into some of the settings here so we can change many settings and let me go down to about information and oh I didn't want to go there let me just go back ok so where are running android 2.2 point to which is the latest Froy you'll build unfortunately this device doesn't have gingerbread but hopefully it does get updated in the near future can also go back we can change some other settings in here we can view the HDMI location normally other great features that android 2.2 has to offer so this has been a software review of the motorola droid x2 and if you like our videos make sure you give us a thumbs up and also leave comments down below in case you missed it you can check out the unboxing link right about here and you can check out the hardware tour right about here and stay tuned for the final review coming up next thanks for watching