Motorola DROID/Milestone, improvement made by motorola to opposite it competitors.Currently the world, especially America again into feverish Droid, the first smartphone using Android operating system version 2.0 aka Eclair. This device seemed to be a new milestone after the resurrection Motorola had been asleep for almost 3 years due to inability to follow the mobile market competition is so tight. But one phone may not be enough to help Motorola, but at least that moment has come to re-fight in the arena of real competition.
Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola, again emphasized that the Droid is only the beginning, and Motorola plans to release no less than 20 phones that use Android operating system. Further, Jha also said that the Android operating system is not only used for high-end devices like Droid, but also will be used for class smartphone with a less expensive line with the levels of different, so will be able to cover for all classes phone.
So far, Nokia is always identical as Uncle Sam's country icon in the mobile world. After the success of next generation ultra-thin RAZR phone in 2004, Motorola as if asleep and unable to bear another new innovation. Drastic deterioration of the program to lead to CEO Ed Zander was overthrown long. And Sanjay Jha who previously worked at the chip maker and a leading processor, Qualcomm was appointed as his successor. Sanjay Jha also found the fact that Motorola's management for success still asleep suddenly generation RAZR, so do not know the development of consumer desire has shifted into another direction, namely Internet access, navigation and text-based communication.
As a first step, Jha decided to streamline the workers at Motorola, not less than 8000 had laid off employees, and then began to form a special team to work for the development and creation of new devices based on Android.
Why choose Android?
Jha believes that the only Android operating system when developed will be able to seriously compete with the popularity of Apple's iPhone, which is phenomenal mobile phone in the U.S. as the basis of Motorola's major markets.
About a year after the announcement of this strategy, Motorola officially introduced Cliq (GSM versions: Dext) and Droid (GSM versions: Milestone). Generally Cliq is a good handset, but Droid was the main actor. Several high technology embedded, such as class processor ARM Cortex A8, 3.7-inch touch screen and high resolution Android operating system version. Support the largest U.S. operator, Verizon and Google in the market seemingly catapulted Droid name in the eyes of American consumers in particular and the world that participate receive the effects.
After knowing the long history of introducing such Droid, we may be the same question. Motorola's how good a Droid?
Let us now a little preview of this handset.
HARDWARE
Motorola Droid or Milestone design firm and solid with a mixture of materials of plastic and metal. 3.7-inch touch screen dominates the front of the phone company below the 4 pieces: back, menu, home and search. If we will look laterally sliding QWERTY keyboard accompanied compact D-PAD 5 direction quite elegantly designed. Besides the phone is a 3.5mm audio port and power button. Right Beside the volume rocker and a camera button, while the left next to a port MicroUSB. 5 megapixel camera equipped with an LED Flash entrenched behind the phone body.
In the body has been implanted Droid tough CPU 600MHz TI OMAP 3430, which processor ARM Cortex A8 species that have been in "downclocked" into 550MHz, 256MB RAM and 512MB ROM. This processor family includes the new generation and third-generation ARM processors made by TI (Texas Instruments) which has completed a dedicated graphics chip. As an illustration, the mobile phones that use TI OMAP 3430, among others: Pre Palm, Samsung i8910 HD, Sony Ericsson Satio and Nokia N900. Apple iPhone 3Gs also uses the ARM Cortex A8 type as the main brain, just a processor that is used is made by Samsung.
MULTIMEDIA
Motorola Droid uses touch-screen 3.7-inch glass screen Capacitive type to reach 854x480 pixel resolution. This resolution is currently the largest for touch screen phones that have the advantage when browsing the Web for more corners of the page displayed, especially those associated with graphical content.
Google has made some significant changes to the camera feature on Android 2.0 (including more control to white balance, focal length, flash settings and effects), and Nokia use this excess was buried 5 megapixel camera with LED flash type . For video recording, is also powerful phone with a resolution capable of recording up to 720x480 pixels or D1/DVD equivalent camera phones latest Samsung and LG.
SOFTWARE
Android 2.0 or Eclair is a major update for the Android operating system, in addition to improvements in terms of camera features, other improvements include support for multiple email or Exchange account, and a new universal inbox that allows us to be able to place all electronic correspondence in one interactive view.
Not just stop here, Google also added the feature "Quick Contact" which has been integrated into our contact list. Quick Contack function allows us to contact our friends in various ways, if he has a Facebook account you can directly contact him via Facebook message, when he got an email we can reach him via email, and so on for SMS, MMS, telephone, etc.. Android 2.0 also improves the experience of SMS and MMS to provide some features such as message search options, and also allows us to set a limit to how many messages should be stored.
In addition to a good solution to messaging, Google also has created a new feature "sync adapter" which allows third parties such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. to be able to sync contacts and calendars with our phone. With these two excellent features, we will get a home screen widget "auto update". In my opinion, this is clearly the features for the BlackBerry is proud of, and now we can get better and "free".
