Motorola Droid – your questions and requests

Posted at 12:54 am CST, November 21st, 2009 by John Walton

John Walton

I’m covering all of the questions and requests you good people have sent in right here and now. Well, except for those that apply to all Android devices and have been covered already. I’ll be shipping this phone off very soon, so I’ve got to wrap this up. I promised I’d get this video up before I went to bed tonight.

Unfortunately, I only have one computer for editing/processing video, and only 24 hours in the day. Since I have what will probably turn out to be 4 videos worth of footage, I’m posting what I can now and will add the other parts to this post as I finish editing/processing/uploading them. I’ll send out a tweet with link whenever a new one is ready. If you hit this post on the home page, you’ll need to click the “Continue Reading” link under video #1 to see the rest.


Part 1:
In-depth tour of the Market
iPhone Killer?
Gameplay on Droid
Best Android buy?
Fastest processor?




Part 2:
Surfing through the bog
Long-presses
Jump from Storm to Droid?
My last use of the term, “iPhone Killer” I’ll shut up now, promise.
Oh yeah, the screen is amazing.
Custom LED colors?



Part 3: the last Droid Q&A vid:
Email notification speed
Music player
Droid vs Eris in email
Dogfight? No
Milestone
Apps2SD, rooted?
Yahoo Messenger
Car Home for Android or just Droid?




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  • Princessprtygrl84
    i LOVE MY MOTOROLA DROID PHONE BUT I HAVE A QUESTON? HOW DO YOU RECORD AUDIO ON TO IT?
  • Cheryl Falletti
    Can u tell me why my videos are in very slow motion on my droid please>>
  • alan
    I like my new droid phone however have two guestions. First how do you turn off the intermittant spoken "droid" that plays throughout the day at unscheduled times. Second after you uninstall an app. It still stays on your bookmark if you accidently bookmarked it. How do you delete from your bookmark items?
  • sher4848
    A question on the mobile networks under settings...options for roaming and networks..Question is should you check data roaming? and under system select should you choose home or automatic?? Went to verizon store and they could not help me with this question. The reason I ask is on a recent trip out of state when I tried to connect to a favmily member in my home state when I used my contact list, I got roaming, roaming, roaming on my screen, but when I direct dialed the number, I was able to conplete the call. Can you possibly help me with this question?? I appreciate any tips.
  • taxijohn
    Is it true that with the eris you have to get unlimited data in order to use text ?
  • AlexWalter
    John Walton . . .
    Re: Motorola Droid A855
    1) Have you performed a drop test on the A855? AND the results please???
    2) What do you consider to be the best protection for the A855 against bumps, drops, dusty or dirty environments?
    3) What is the first thing to do if an A855 is dropped into water or other liquid?
  • AlexWalter
    John Walton . . .
    For the Motorola Droid A855 . . .
    1) Do you think screen protectors are worth having?
    2) What are the pluses and minuses of screen protectors?
    3) Which are the best screen protectors of what is available?
  • dylan
    can you play music in the backround while performing other tasks? like the ipod touch and iphone
  • dylan
    haha nvm i finished watching the video :)
  • atienpo
    who you download music in the fhone from the computer
  • A man
    A quick note on Android's music player if you're not familiar with it. If you noticed when John selected an artist, it displayed the albums he had from that artist. At first glance it would appear that you can only listen to one album at a time rather than listening to all songs from an artist. If you long press the artist's name, four options come up: Play, Add to Playlist, Delete, and Search. Selecting play allows you to play all of the artist's songs. That said, most of you will probably replace the stock music player anyway. =P
  • bryant16319
    I love these videos. You have to start doing these more often with future android phones. Noah has his own signature videos (Dogfight). This can be easily be yours (Questions & Request).
  • bryant16319
    I love these videos. You have to start doing these more often with future android phones. Noah has his own signature videos (Dogfight). This can be easily be yours (Questions & Request).
  • Yaniv C
    John,
    Actually you can use the HTC keyboard on the Droid. Ive been using it since day one of having the phone.
    The problem lies in the fact that you cant use the 1.5 version of the keyboard.
    If you do a search for HTC_IME 1.6 or HTC_IME donuts you will find the download all over the net and it works just fine.
    The only weird thing is that since the keyboard was created for a different resolution, the keyboard does not fill up the whole screen. Im sure there will be fixes available soon.
  • I can't wait until the rest of the review, I really am LOVING the way 2.0 is working out, I just hope some sprint phones get this update soon, hopefully before my upgrade date comes. If not I'll just have to deal with 1.5
  • saturn_vk
    The youtube videos have a misspelled title (the word requets => requests)
  • A man
    About the LED Notifcation. You can download apps in the market that basically customize your notifications. I haven't used any because it really doesn't appeal to me, but I just did a quick search in the market and found some that enable/disable LED blink, the interval between blinks, and the color. Missed Reminder (Denis Solonenko) is for missed sms/mms and missed calls, but some of the comments are saying it doesn't work well with the Droid yet. As far as market apps go, it looks like missed messages and phone calls are the only things you can customize the LED for at the moment, unless there is another app in the market that isn't obvious.
  • Chris
    I'm not sure why you keep saying that HTC's sense IME doesn't run on the droid...

    http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?...

    Try that one. I've been running it since the droid was released.
  • A man
    OMAP3430 processor vs. the old qualcomm arm-11 based processors is really a no contest. Clockspeeds don't matter, and you can overclock the OMAP's clockspeed to almost 1GHz anyway, though I don't really see the need for it. OMAP is also dual core (550MHz cpu/430MHz gpu). On paper the OMAP is 3 times faster at least. I'll be looking forward to more Snapdragon vs. OMAP results coming up.
  • Tagon42
    You had a little pop up saying you want it to have Itunes support, but even if Android would have tried Apple would have updated itunes to stop it after all that is the battle they are having with Palm to the point that the most recent Pre patch doesn't even try and get they Itunes support working again.
  • What I would really like to see is an Android equivalent. If something turned up that could compete with most of iTune's features (I could live without Genius and some other perks), I would be happy. Maybe Doubletwist will grow quickly in 2010?
  • saturn_vk
    I'm not familiar enough with itunes, but banshee _might_ be a good contender for android phones. from the feature list it has android sync. I use it to sync music to my winmo phone right now and its doing a good job. though I can't imagine how hard it is to copy music around. however, its currently not running on windows , but they seem to be working on that part
  • Great video! The Market looks awesome, but it really needs a better way to search through apps (like you showed), though the ability to save apps to the SD card would be the biggest improvement I think, since most potential Android users are probably not too keen on rooting their brand new phones haha.
  • amd12
    cool ..waiting for this to finish *excited* LOL
    Thanks John
  • Light Racer 3D looks even more awesome than I thought.
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