The new 3G-CDMA-WiFi Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless is without a doubt one of the sexiest touch-screens smart-phones out on the market right now. The Droid doesn’t  just have a good looking touch-screen, but it also comes with a slide-out qwerty key-board which you can use instead of your virtual keyboard whenever you feel like it (I’m all about the options; the more the better).  I had a chance to get one a couple of days before the actual release (which happened on Friday, November 6th), and let me tell you that the phone is  problem free out of the box (which is extremely rare now a days on the smartphone world). The OS is very smooth and fluid, but if you are coming from a Blackberry there is for sure a learning curve, but nothing in this beast is too hard to learn.

On the Droid not only the combo of the OS and the UI are a great, but the hardware will also leave you with your mouth open; The 5 MP camera with dual flash, the LCD screen that has twice the resolution than the one on the iPhone, the slide-out qwerty keyboard with a very useful D-Pad, the “golden accents” on the back and on the sides of the phone, and an overall weight of the phone will  immediately let you know that you are in the presence of something special.

They couldn’t have done a better job with the software, and although it looks complicated at first, learning how to use it and getting used to it will take you only a couple hours (if so). The phone is running on Android 2.0, which is the newest OS version that  Android put out, and the UI is just great; fresh, fun, sexy, and elegant in its very own way. Whether you are navigating through your 3 home-screens or using your apps the phone is fast, and very fluid. The call quality on the phone is also great, and even when using the speaker-phone the sound is loud, clear, and crisp. The overall experience when using the Internet Browser on the phone is as good as the one in your computer at home; very snappy browsing, clicking, zooming in or out, and rendering every page is extremely fast due to the fact that is using a Web-Kit Browser. On the Droid just like in any other smart-phone you have access an App called “Market”; which is the equal to App World for Blackberry or the App Store for the iPhone. Market already has over 12,000 apps and keeps growing rapidly day by day, so if you are an “App Type of Person” this is great news for you. The only thing on the Droid that doesn’t cut it for me coming from a Blackberry is the e-mail services, but of course we are comparing it to the best e-mailing services in the world, which is Blackberry. Other than that this phone is a lot of fun, reliable, and very slick. If you haven’t check it out at your local Verizon Store.