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hey everyone I'm Chung win for Pacquiao calm and today we're gonna be taking a look at the Motorola Droid X for Verizon Wireless the Droid X is scheduled to launch on July 15th for $200 after a $100 mil and rebate and a two-year service agreement from Verizon it is a Verizon Wireless exclusive device for right now it is a very slim smartphone as you can see from the profile here it is slim but does have a little protrusion here at the top where the camera bump is let's go ahead and take a look at the hardware of the device at the top here you have the earpiece speaker along with the proximity sensor and light sensor to automatically either dim the screen or turn the screen off when you're in the middle of a phone call the device also has GPS Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies as well there is also an accelerometer on the device who automatically adjusts the orientation of the screen at the top of the device you have one of three microphones at the bottom here you have another microphone and on the back you have another microphone so these microphones serve to help cancel noise and wind sounds when you're in the middle of a call and the back microphone serves when you're shooting a video and once you capture the noise that's coming in front of you rather than catching the noise that you might be making when you're holding the phone up to look at the screen as a viewfinder the at the bottom here you do have physical buttons these unlike on the Droid Incredible and the original Motorola Droid you do have to press in and are not capacitive buttons on the left hand side of the device you have a very clean profile you do have a microUSB port as well as a micro or a mini HDMI port so you do need a mini HDMI cable to HDMI cable to connect to your TV or you can also connect to your TV to share videos and photos with the DLNA technology that's bundled on the device the bottom of the device is clean except for a little lanyard loop here at the lower corner and on the right hand side of the device you have at the top here volumes up and down control which also does dual purpose as a camera zoom in and zoom out control when you're in the camera mode speaking of camera mode here's the shutter button which is in red metallic red color it is a dual press button so you can press in lightly to focus and you can press it harder to capture your image or video the camera is located on the back side where the camera on bump protrudes it is an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and face detection and can record video in 720p HD recording it has dual LED flash and you can store your pictures with the on-board 8 gigs of storage the back battery cover for those who are familiar with the original Droid should not be concerned because this one actually stays on pretty securely and fit snugly so there's no concern of the back battery cover slipping off when you're putting the phone in or taking it out of your pocket the device also ships with 16 gigabytes a micro SDHC card which you can augment to 32 gigs optionally so you can bring the total storage up to 40 gigs on this device the phone has a 1500 milliamp per hour battery which is slightly larger than the one on the original Droid and is a very power efficient smart phone just like the original Droid as far as smart phones go the smart phone is powered by a one gigahertz processor that's made by Ti Texas Instruments it is an OMAP processor and in my experience I found it to be a little bit more zippy than the comparable Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at a similar clock speed it does have 512 megabytes of RAM as well the device actually does not have motoblur although these widgets are very reminiscent of motoblur found on other motorola devices such as the click and the click xt on t-mobile as well as the motorola Devourer on Verizon Wireless these widgets unlike motoblur offered the user a little bit more controlling customization so you can resize the widget to fit your screen and to fit how you want to lay out your screen so this large widget that aggregates from various social media feeds I can go ahead and resize however I want the device also has a number of added services one of which is the blockbuster app right now the blockbuster app is in beta mode so it doesn't launch correctly but hopefully that should be rectified by blockbuster and Verizon Wireless in time for launch on July 15th the blockbuster app will allow users to rent and purchase movies but right now there's no update on the Android Market to get it going other features that are part of the device include a backup assistant that's tied to Verizon Wireless this network and also a 3G mobile hotspot app so you can go ahead and turn on 3G and set up a WEP or WPA password to secure your connection and tether devices once you connect a device it will show up under the connected devices list here and you can go ahead and share your Verizon Wireless mobile broadband 3G connection with up to five other devices these service is an optional service and will cost $20 extra per month for two gigs of data once you go over the two gigs you will be charged overages by Verizon Wireless the phone will require a $30 smartphone data package which is unlimited and according to Verizon Wireless the data begins at the beginning of your billing cycle and ends at the end of the billing cycle so there are no caps another service included by Verizon Wireless would be the V CAST video service which is sort of an on-demand TV streaming service so that you can watch your programs whenever you want so you can choose from entertainment sports and pop culture and once you click on it it will bring you up to a screen that will give you selections for the various different networks on the phone does support a live home screen it is powered by Android 2.1 Motorola and Verizon Wireless has promised an Android 2.2 upgrade which is the Froyo build Froyo will bring with it a number of improvements including the ability to support Adobe Flash 10.1 so you should find most of the video content on the web that has been encoded with newer Adobe Flash formats to be playable and compatible with your smartphone there's also a calendar widget and here we see that Adams birthday is on June 30th which is tomorrow so happy early birthday to Adam Lane who's an editor here at pocketnow.com so this has been a quick look of the hardware on the Motorola Droid X what's also included in the retail packaging box here which I have in front of me would be this would be where the smartphone will sit and also included would be a wall charger which connects to via this USB to micro USB charge and sync cable so you can either charge and sync from your computer or plug it into the wall charger there are a number of leaflets here which is good to get users acquainted a consumer information product safety and warranty as well as some getting started guides in both English and Spanish the getting started guide folds out and is in color so you'll become quickly acquainted with your smart phone as well another widget that's included on the Droid X is Motorola s-- tips and tricks widget here so if you click on see all articles you'll see different tips and tricks to get you started on the device or you can learn about the device as you're getting acquainted with it there's also a news feed aggregator and on the top here you should see an LED notification once you get any new notifications from the notification system on Android which is very robust here you also have a pictures gallery if you have an album loaded or photo album loaded you can go ahead and play through it and it will play in the background here as well I'm John win for pocket calm and thanks for watching this quick unboxing and hardware tour of the Motorola Droid X for Verizon Wireless