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Driod on the go

I’ve been playing around a little more the last couple days with the Droid RAZR than I was able to last week. One thing I’m finding myself doing more and more is using the camera built in the phone.

Now I normally use my iPhone to snap photos of anything. But I have to give it up to the RAZR, the camera built in this thing is pretty good.

Here are a couple shots I snapped from my desk yesterday afternoon.

And another of my little desk pal….

I plan to do another update later today. I am getting a gift from Verizon according to an email I got last week. I missed FedEx the first two times but not today! I’m very excited to see what it is (though I hear it is a tablet thanks to the folks Tweeting about it!).

February 28, 2012/0 Comments/by Andrew Epperley

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More Fun With the Droid

I’ve had a couple more weeks with the Droid RAZR. After my initial post on the phone, some of my initial thoughts have changes.

For one, the battery is a little better when both the Bluetooth, the LTE and various apps that require location services aren’t running at the same time. Common sense really I suppose. Should have known not to have all of those things running at the same time during the day.

As for the LTE experience, it is still pretty sweet. I have vastly enjoyed being able to ride around Dallas with a phone that has such a fast internet speed. It certainly makes lunchtime more fun to be able to surf the web.

I’ve also finally done some customization to the phone, just general theming really. I’ll try to post some photos whenever I can figure out how to take a screen shot of the phone.

One final note for this post, nothing new on the Ice Cream Sandwich to the RAZR though. I still would really like to play around with that on this round of testing.

February 14, 2012/0 Comments/by Andrew Epperley

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Verizon Ambassador Program

So recently I became a Verizon Wireless Ambassador. A pretty nifty program where I get to try out devices and service from Verizon and then review it.

The first device I get to try is the Driod RAZR. This is my first experience with an Android phone. I’ve had an iPhone since the original so having “the other” kind of phone is totally new to me.

So far my experience has been a bit mixed with the RAZR.

The good:

The new 4G LTE network is ridiculously fast. One speed test and it was remarkably faster than my home’s wireless network. In fact it was nearly double. Very impressive.
The call quality on Verizon – something also new to me – was good as well. Not a lot of dead spots that I could see.
The Android OS is pretty nifty when you get down to it. Lots of different, yet, cool features to it.
The phone itself is pretty quick, apps load fairly quickly and run pretty smooth.
Having flash on a phone is pretty interesting. I was able to get ESPN3.com to work, which was awesome.
Speaking of streaming video, the quality on the RAZR screen is remarkable. It’s a bigger screen than the iPhone that I have right now and the quality is very nice.
The “turn-off when phone goes in to pocket” feature is a nice touch.
Widgets are pretty cool, and can be customized pretty easily.

The eh-not-so-great

Battery life on the RAZR is pretty pathetic. It takes a while to charge for one thing and either its because I don’t know how to turn some processes off or something but the battery just drains even when you aren’t using the phone.
Just like with most devices during heavy use, it gets fairly warm. Almost laptop warm.
No Ice Cream Sandwich loaded on the phone was a pretty big disappointment. I’ve read/heard great things about that update.
Too much crapware loaded on the phone that you can’t remove.
The back of the phone has a weird plastic that doesn’t seem to be removable yet bubbles up real easy.

I’ll do a few more of these blog posts about the RAZR until the device has to be returned in late March.

January 28, 2012/0 Comments/by Andrew Epperley