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what's up everyone John retinue from techno buffoon here before review the Android phone a lot of you have been waiting for this is a Motorola Droid Pro let's go ahead and dig in and see if your weights gonna be rewarded so before I start my phone reviews I always start with call quality no matter what the phone can do for a future standpoint it's not gonna make good phone calls for you it's just not gonna be worth your money so when I do my phone test I do a twenty call test in various areas of Southern California test for signal strength called degradation and dropped calls so at my twenty call test I had no drop call was able to maintain a very strong signal strength compared to other Verizon phones and certainly using the bar method so by appending a how many bars of service you have is certainly arbitrary and relies on sort of proprietary algorithms but the reception here was very strong again no drop calls I had no white noise on my end the other end the call had no white noise there was no popping the Bluetooth illness was actually outstanding connected to the Bluetooth speaker in my car I was able to take the phone very far away and still maintain a static free connection it sounds probably one of the strongest Bluetooth radios of any phone that I've tested speaker phone volume was average if you speakerphone a while in a loud place you're gonna be able to hear it it's not gonna be booming loud but you will probably be able to hear the caller on the other end the microphone seems to be very sensitive so if there is a lot of background noise going on the caller is most definitely going to hear it so from a call standpoint this phone has actually been one of the best that I've tested it was loud crisp and clear so now let's go ahead and talk about the specs let me run through them real quickly it's not a three point one inch TFT experience the resolution of 320 by 480 which will most definitely talk about it's got a 1412 20 milliamp hour battery good for and advertised supposedly seven hours of battery life on the back of the phone it has a five megapixel camera with autofocus an actually dual LED flash from design standpoint serve as that Motorola humph seeing on a few other devices and most notably the Droid X it is running Android 2.2 with motoblur sitting on top of it it's the less obtrusive version of motoblur it's actually the version that I prefer most that doesn't have the sort of color arrays at the bottom and in some versions of modal blur you don't have the four capacitive Android buttons you're missing the search but that is of course a present here as well it's being powered by a TI OMAP processor plucking in at 1 gigahertz and it's got 512 megabytes of RAM camera quality was average about what you'd expect from a 5 megapixel phone it does take HD video at 720p it was again just about average and comparable with other cameras of similar quality but that's not the reason that most you are considering the Droid Pro the reason probably you're looking at this phone is because of what sits below that 3.1 inch screen and that is this fantastic full QWERTY keyboard a very reminiscent of BlackBerry Bold devices that's sort of that dual angled key so it's almost slanted on each side so while there is an actually physical space between each two you can feel each button very nicely it's got a really nice big space bar which I really enjoy using I like the voice search function right on here on the phone and the keyboard is absolutely fantastic you can use on-screen keyboards if you choose to but I don't know why you would with the keyboard this good this is the form factor a lot of people have been waiting for and I found it to be just quite nice and easy to use and as you're typing you get the autocorrect at the bottom as opposed to maybe showing up the top where you may have seen it before it's a lot easier for your eyes as you're looking down at the keyboard to type and you've got the correction showing right up at top so a keyboard wise this is definitely one of the better phones out there if you need a full QWERTY physical keyboard I know a lot of you do this is really one of your best choices it's got that familiar blackberry form factor a lot of these slide-out Android phones that we've seen have a slide mechanism that comes out from the side revealing the screen so one of the sacrifices that you do make for that full QWERTY keyboard is in screen real estate 3 point the screen is very very very small but unfortunately there's not much that Motorola and Verizon can do about the screen size because you have over three inch screen and a full keyboard below it the phone is gonna be a bit on the larger side if I bring in a 4.3 inch phone here like the Evo 4G you'll notice that there's really not that much difference lengthwise so you can't have a phone any bigger and you can't really ask for a bigger screen because the phone's not going to fit in your pocket the resolution on the screen the 320 by 480 really was disappointing looking at websites and looking at pictures the text wasn't as clear as I would have liked it to have been and the screen did appear a bit washed out now that maybe to the fact that this phone probably shows brightness and gets brighter than many other phones I've tested I've got the brightness here right now turned down almost all the way down actually I'll show you how far down it is in the phone is still extremely bright I'm kicking the brightness up all the way it's almost going to be blinding see how far down it is right there all right let's go ahead and take a look at a website as I was mentioning here when launched yet we've got we should have TechnoBuffalo you're queuing and loading and you will see Flash content actually loading here as well which is quite nice this does have Android 2 points you want it so you will have full flash 10.1 support and it works very well it's smooth the TI OMAP processor really does a nice job keeping up the 512 megabytes of RAM certainly helped aid in that so Willow TechnoBuffalo here and we are on Verizon's EVDO network which i guess with the announcement of LTE you can almost call legacy network so here it is loading the flash clock that takes a bit longer to load you can turn the flash content off if you like you can don't want to view and save your battery life we can see it here working on a lot of underpowered phones that do show flash content pinch-to-zoom is very slow and a little bit laggy not so on the Droid Pro really does work very well despite flash content there it almost does the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch gestures as if flash content wasn't even there so a big I guess thumbs up to Motorola for really a maximum the hardware and the software put together in a really outstanding package battery life on the phone has not been outstanding they claim seven hours of battery life I'm a pretty heavy phone user so I'm using email on watching an occasional YouTube video a lot of web browsing and texting and I had a hard time getting through today generally by the time the day ended I'd have about 10 ish percent now other people who have used this phone I've got a few friends who use the Droid Pro have to charge the phone almost twice a day in fact Motorola and Verizon offer larger capacity batteries because that may be a known problem so if you are a heavy user you may want to that explore a bigger battery option or you're going to have to very diligently manage your battery life overall on sort of put this package together really is the phone that a lot of business professionals we're looking for people love the BlackBerry S form factor of the QWERTY keyboard below touch screen and or blow a screen rather and the Droid Pro is really the only phone that offers that and it doesn't a very nice package even though the phone and the screen is a little bit smaller than I would have liked it's really the biggest again that Motorola can do I work like the higher resolution screen on I think it would make the text pop a little bit more but it definitely is forgivable so on a one to five scale this to form fax you're looking for this phone is going to get a very solid four and a half losing out on that half because of the low resolution screen and the knock-on battery life if this is a four factor for you you can pick up this phone and be very confident that you're getting a very modern really capable Android phone there's a lot of phones out there to choose from and this one really does a nice job of rising to the surface above the rest of the Android phones so I love to hear what you guys think about the Droid pros at the phone for you not for you if you like the form factor you want a bigger screen you can give up the QWERTY keyboard you know a lot of options here I know you guys I'm John Bret endure from TechnoBuffalo for exclusive content just matter Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers fryer cluesive tech content should I check out 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