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hi I'm John Wayne and today we're going to take a look at the verizon wireless motorola droid which will retail for two hundred dollars on november six the droid which actually comes in a very consumer packaging is different from the typical traditional verizon wireless packaging where it flips up and you have the box and the contents inside the droid packaging which we will unbox and do a hardware store in this first video and cover the software tour of android 20 in a second video actually opens up to review the device as such so let's go ahead and take a look at the unboxing and the hardware tour so let's go ahead and remove the device from its packaging by sliding off the cover go ahead and put that to the side and then at the top you have the motorola droid on the front you have what looks to be little markings which shows you what the buttons are and what they do so motorola really consider the consumer for this device we're going to go ahead and set aside the Droid and see what else is in the box you have a micro USB to USB cable which can plug your computer or the power adapter here to charge the device a getting started guide which is in color and expands outward driving precautions presumably for use with google maps for navigation which now includes spoken voice by turn-by-turn guidance you have the FCC radio frequency and product safety and warranty information so we're going to go ahead and set aside all the accessories and take a look at the device the front of the device you have a massive 3.7 inch 854 x 480 screen resolution which actually can slide up to review a contiguous keyboard for windows mobile followers who have been following the HTC devices the keyboard is reminiscent of the Titan or tighten to keyboard for us users that would be the tilt or the fuse on ATT at the top you have a three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack and it looks like a dual purpose power and lock button on the right side of the device you have the volume up and down switch at the top and on the bottom here you have a camera button which you can press once to focus and then press again to capture the image speaking of the camera the camera is actually located on the back and it is a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus the camera can also serve as a camcorder and record 25 frames per second 720 x 480 resolution videos you also have a speaker which is on the bottom of the device if you're looking at it in portrait mode and if you slide off the cover which has a sticker on it right now you have a battery and also it comes with a 16 gigabyte micro SD memory card so let's go ahead and put the back cover back on there's nothing on the left-hand side of the device except for the micro USB charging port and on the bottom here the buttons actually are integrated into the capacitive touchscreen like on the storm to which you can also see on our video channel you have the back button the menu button the home button the search button and also you have some shortcut buttons as well on the keyboard right here which is a shortcut for the menu button and you have a directional pad right here it is not an optical pad like on the samsung moment but it is actually one that you would actually have to manually click through on the front at the top here you have the speaker grill for your piece volume and the volume actually sounds very loud in the next video segment we're going to actually cover the some of the software that Android 20 has and some of the verizon customization it looks like verizon didn't customize this device too much except for including verizon wireless visual voicemail which is a subscription service and also we're going to take a look at google maps navigation which will give you turn by turn direction so this is a quick look at the verizon wireless motorola droid i'm going to go ahead and set the device down and actually power it on so we're going to go ahead and see what it looks like when it turns on so here when it turns on you have the motorola logo and then you see the red eye that's infamous in verizon wireless's marketing campaign for the Droid and it actually says droid when you turn it on and that saying chime actually comes on when you have email coming in as we are getting right now compared to other devices like the HTC hero on cdma carrier sprint on the sprint now network the droid is actually not that much thicker it's actually almost about the same thickness it's a little bit longer and in with it's a little bit wider but the device actually feels solid it has a glass screen and a metal construction for the body so it actually feels good it's actually a heavier device and as you can see right here you can actually rotate on this rotary dial here to actually unlock the screen or turn on and off the volume compared to the 800 x 480 wide vga screen of the HTC imagio which runs on windows mobile 6.5 looks like the droid is a little bit thinner and a little bit shorter and it looks like the droid maybe a little bit thicker but the devices are very comparable the droid actually doesn't feel too wide in the hands the keyboard actually does give a nice click response to it and the screen is relatively bright so stay tuned and we're going to cover some of the software in our next video