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It is official! The Motorola Droid phone is available at Verizon today for $200 with a two-year contract. The Motorola Droid equipped with 3.7-inch touchscreen and Android 2.0 operating system. This OS is powerful for fast web surfing. The screen has a resolution of 480 x 854 pixel display.

The Droid is about 0.54 inch thick, a little bit thicker than the iPhone 3GS (0.48-inch thick). It has a 40-key, slide out QWERTY keypad. The QWERTY keypad is a bit flat and shallow, which may be harder to feel the buttons when typing. Also, the “End” and “Talk” keys are missing on the keypad (design error?). With a standard battery, the Motorola Droid weights about 6 ounces (iPhone 3GS is about 5 ounces). The dimensions are about 4.56 L x 2.36 W.

The Motorola Droid supports both the 19ooMhz and 800Mhz CDMA EvDO, which are the standard bands for Verizon. For those of you who don’t know, CDMA EvDO is another form of 3G technology used by Verizon and Sprint networks. The battery of the Motorola Droid is rated at 270 hours of standby time and 385 minutes of talk time. That is enough time to carry out a conversation for 6.4 hours, that is if you still have saliva left. The phone has excellent call quality with noise filter out even in noisy places. Calls are crystal clear, this may be due to the Verizon network also.

If you a web surfer, the Droid’s Web browser loads very quick by a 550 Mhz processor and integrated graphics processor. Given that your connection is good, web surfing is fast as well as live streaming videos from Youtube and others. Additionally, if you like to shoot videos and take pictures, the Droid phone has an integrated 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash. It has the ability to record DVD quality video and playback at 720 x 480 pixels. Although not as good as a regular digital camera, but it does a decent job at taking photos and videos. The videos look a bit over blown due to the dual flash when filming indoors. Otherwise, the picture quality is still better than any other phone cameras.

Another big part of the Droid is the GPS device comes with the phone. It has a turn by turn direction, hey, who needs a Tom Tom? What I also love about this phone is Google search by voice, although the voice recognition takes a bit of learning.

Hilights of Motorola Droid
Big, bright, crips screen
Android 2.0 is speedier and cleaned
Browser is significant faster than previous Android 1.6
Facebook account is integrated
5-megapixel camera with dual flash
Run mutiple applications at the same time
Google search by voice

So if you have the bucks, grap one now at your nearest Verizon store. Who needs an iPhone or a netbook when you got one of these.

[via CrackApple]