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Nick: Motorola unveiled the Droid mobile phone on Wednesday, the first Android based phone offered by Verizon Wireless and according to the company’s first smart phone powered by Android 2.0. It won't go on sale though until November 6th and will be available exclusively through Verizon for 199 US dollars with a 2 year contract and after a 100 dollar mailing rebate. The phone has a 3.7 inch screen with a resolution of 480 by 854 pixels. The Droid has both a slide out physical corded keyboard and a virtual one in the phone’s screen. It also has 3 customizable home screen panels.
Cesar: So I fully customized the three panels to my own liking, so on your left hand side here, you’ll see that I have my Facebook which is at top, and I’ve got four applications beneath it along with sports tap on the bottom. Sports tap gives you live scores coming straight to your desktop via the widget. If I just pan to the right hand screen, I’ve got a weather widget, a music widget and a bunch of other shortcuts to applications that I most like, Youtube, music, and more. The Droid is very easy to customize, just long press anywhere, and you can easily customized, remove or add. So feel free to just hold and drag and drop.
Nick: The Droid is what the company’s call a unified contact list in phone book that pulls information from Gmail, Exchange and Facebook. There’s also voice activated search through Google. It has a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash for photos and can also shoots standard definition video at 24 frames per second. It has a standard 3.5 millimeter head phone jack and Motorola says the battery can last for almost 6 and a half hours of usage and 270 hours of stand by time. The underlying chip on the Droid is a 550 megahertz processor, but there isn’t any built in storage. The device includes a 16 gig SD card, and their support for up to 32 gigs of storage. It also supports 802.11BMG wi-fi, Bluetooth and GPS. With reporting by Dan Morrin in Mac world, I’m Nick Barber, IDG News Service.
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