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what's up everyone jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here at the full review for you of the Samsung Droid Charge let's go ahead and see if the things got enough juice to earn a spot in your pocket that was a bad charge joke be prepared for those all right so let me run through the specs this guy very quickly and then we will get into the review it has a 4.3 inch and that's a measure diagonal super amoled plus display and we'll talk a bit about the screen with a resolution of 480 x 800 it's being powered by a 1 gigahertz single core hummingbird processor it's got android 2.2 with TouchWiz on it we will also talk about TouchWiz and the OS it's not 512 megabytes of ram rom on the backs got an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash can shoot video in 720p but that's not the only camera is also a 1.3 megapixel shooter on the front and all this is being powered by a 1600 milliamp hour battery so all these specs are great and fine but if it's not going to make good phone calls it's not really going to matter for you and I'm happy to report as in the case with most verizon phones i've tested kolkata is absolutely outstanding most importantly i did not have dropped calls during the 4g 2 3g transition or even from the 3g on down to the legacy network of transitions at all no dropped calls during those transition periods which is quite nice during my 20 call test I did whatever have to drop calls while maintaining a very strong 4g signal so let's go ahead and talk about speaker quality I use speakerphone quite a bit i'm guessing you do as well i'm also going to take this as an opportunity to show you whether or not and put the debate to rest the droid charge can handle voice and data at the same time so we're going to go ahead and jump into the phone here and we're going to call the samsung support line you guys will hear what the speaker quality will sound like and also whether or not that's going to do voice and data so i'm going to put this on speaker so only it's going to get a bit distorted as it goes through camera I suppose you too but it is very very loud so while we're on this call let me go ahead hit home let's say I want to do some browsing let's go ahead and jump into the web browser good sweet oriental screen notice there's no Wi-Fi going on yet so jump into technobuffalo let's go ahead and launch that and we'll see if we watch it and it is launching so we are launching their men hang up on us right back but join the speaker speaker volume is very loud and it can do simultaneous voice and data to very very nice thing this is probably one of the loudest speakers that I've used on a phone surprisingly and the speaker grill isn't even that big very little but that hump when its resting especially on the back leaves a little bit of avenue for the noise to escape kind of nice all right so let's talk about this super amoled plus display if you've ever used a galaxy s device you probably know the screen is beautiful but had a little bit of a blue tint to it that blue tint has sort of been eliminated with the super amoled plus and you're left with just a gorgeous gorgeous display without any hint of discoloration of images so let me go ahead and show you what some of the images quality look like on the screen so I've got a wallpaper right here you can see you know that standard things look like let me show you a few others will go ahead and jump into wallpaper wallpaper gallery and things and images just look very very pretty and more important than images is text and text here looks very nice on the galaxy s and the original Galaxy S series the phone that should say text looked a little bit off for me it wasn't as crisp as i would have liked it to been a text here is going to be very very very crisp regardless of the background that you are on so if i were to say go to a page that has a white background we're looking at one a techno buffalos infographics that we did for the imax launch I've looking at a white background that tint is gone and you just have very very clear crisp easy to read font on there something to keep in mind all right so let's go ahead and talk a bit about TouchWiz this is running android 2.2 froyo we don't have any gingerbread action here TouchWiz we've seen it for quite a while I love it or hate it this is a newer version of TouchWiz you got some increased functionality here you can set your home screen move things around it is what it is the applications array or sort of confined to these square icons some would say iOS like Apple would definitely say iOS light since they are suing but exactly functional and works well nice thing about android if you don't like it there are always things like launcherpro out there to change the way the phone looks not the biggest fan of TouchWiz but the charge is one of the phones that are used from Samsung that I could definitely live with it so I like that it has four physical buttons across the bottom not with the passage of variety their actual button set deep breaths although I wished that it had back lid on it I thought I was in a movie theater or something I couldn't quite see the button so I would have liked to have seen those backlit here the phone is very fast I'm surprised and I know some of you guys might be surprised as well you know you hear single quarry ago I want double core more cores the better despite not the fastest quadrant scores the phone guan's relatively quick and behave just about whatever I needed to do so when I was you know browsing the web or when I was you know I'm multitasking or pinching and zooming things worked very well so web page here that has flash content pinch to zoom works very well scrolling smooth the phone kept up with everything i needed to do no problem oral is don't get caught up on quadrant scores and benchmarking those are certainly fun things to do but how the phone works for you is going to be most important they're not going to set the world on fire with a stock rom here and a quadrant score you know under a thousand but you are going to get a phone that's going to be very quick able to keep up with most of the things that you're going to need to do this is by no means a slow phone in fact it's one of the quicker phones that I've tested so if you're concerned about speed definitely don't be with the droid chart one of the things that I didn't like about the phone is the back this hard plastic it sort of looked similar to Samsung's own nexus s just that sort of a cheap fuel to me often times when there's a bit of a gap between the back and when the battery is underneath there get that almost concerted hear it hollow sound on the phone and for a phone this high quality and behaves as well I would have liked a bit of a higher quality material on the back images from the camera were okay they were just about average what you'd expect from a spark smartphone with that 8 megapixel shooter on it not get set the world on fire it's not going to replace your camera and certainly not going to be Ansel Adams or whatever other famous photographer you want to pick but if you snap a few shots your friends of club you know you're not going to have any problems one complaint that I did have about it or another complaint rather was the back of the phone got very warm while I was on 3g 4g i'm speaking up for g one of my big concerns actually using that Thunderbolt was going to be battery life so how is this battery life going to do for you so it's got a 1600 milliamp hour battery a little bit bigger than what we usually see Samsung claim you can get 11 hours of talk time at 280 hours of standby time the thick thing for me was I need to make it through a full day I don't mind charge of my phone every night in fact I generally do charge my phone every night but I need the phone to work and have enough juice from when I wake up at around 7-730 that's when i go to bed around midnight and i was quite surprised actually that i was able to do that on the charge with two email accounts being checked every 30 minutes a lot of web browsing probably about three hours of phone calls a day not on the phone to my ear sometimes on bluetooth and watching a couple YouTube videos I was able to get to the end of the day with just around twenty percent of battery so heavier usage you know maybe you'll soft ten percent down less or more you know margin of error of say ten percent but it really did work well I'm surprised late we get through a full day of battery life on this guy so you can put those fears to rest if i was looking to get an android powered phone right now on verizon wire and I lived in a 4g area the jury charge would definitely be the one that I would pick up as you're looking now to get a phone on Verizon getting probably considering whether or not to go 4G or 3g now if you're in an area that even doesn't have 4g service it'd be tough to say don't get a 4g phone because you might have 4G service during that to your course of your contract so definitely give the jury charge a look you might also want to consider the Thunderbolt if you're more swayed to the HTC built variety droid bionic supposedly coming at a much later time in the summer it's going to bring some dual core action so if you need a phone right now definitely the jury charge is highly recommended i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo and i'll see you guys in the next video