Motorola DROID 3 hands-on

By on Jul 14, 2011 at 12:28 PM
mobile July 14, 2011

Verizon Wireless just shot us over its latest flagship DROID handset, the Motorola DROID 3, and it’s pretty intense. Specs-wise, it features a whopping 4-inch qHD display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, a fully redesigned slide-out QWERTY keyboard, an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture, global roaming capabilities, and it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The device is thicker and heavier than we’d imagined, but that’s not to say it’s too chunky. It’s actually thinner than the DROID 2 and even the original DROID, though the bigger display certainly makes the overall footprint feel very large. Motorola’s qHD displays are PenTile displays, and unfortunately they all look pretty pixelated. Despite all those pixels, the DROID 3′s display is no exception, though it most likely won’t matter for the majority of consumers. The phone feels nice and solid, and the keyboard is incredibly spacious. In fact, the DROID 3 easily sports the best QWERTY of any of Verizon’s Android devices. Check out photos of the Motorola DROID 3 in our gallery below, and be on the look out for our full review soon!

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  • JohnPA2006

    EPIC DOG !
    EPIC PHONE !!!

    I miss my Droid 1.
    Will get another Droid soon.

  • Anonymous

    Moto sure loves em some Droids – lmao 

    Moto > Droid 3

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2XRVGNKZMP6H46O4MQZJKAP4RI Naomi Leonard

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • Anonymous

    I am a big fan of android, but not the Droid 3, which I just had the chance to test out today at a local Verizon store.  Here is what I don’t like: 
    1.  It is STILL missing gyros.  This is important for augmented reality apps and any apps that use the motion sensors on the phone.  Does Moto make ANY Droids yet with the ever important gyros?  Samsung and HTC both install them, and motion-sensing apps are much better on those phones!
    2.  512MB of RAM is not enough – I routinely would run close to peak usage.  I still have a Droid 1, and my 256MB is horrid enough (when I bought it is was adequate, right?), and I have had the chance to play with a Samsung Galaxy S II and find that for newer apps and widgets that one would want with a dual-core processor phone, really 768MB of RAM should be the minimum these days.  Think what you may need in a year from now.  Egad.
    3.  The pentile display ONLY looks good for whites and blues.  The reds and greens look horrible – all pixelated.  It’s as if there is a reduction in resolution for those colors.

    Here is what I like (but who cares – the dislikes are all deal-breakers):
    The keyboard is fantastic.
    The size is right, and I did not find it heavy like other reviewers seemed to feel.
    The screen glass is nicer than older models.
    It’s fast at rendering, I did not notice any performance issues at all.
    HDMI out is nice, although I did not get to test it.

  • http://twitter.com/palfrei Peter Palfrei

    The pup got bigger.

    Akita Inus are very territorial; how does he feel around your iPhone being the Droid his favourite toy?

  • Anonymous

    I hate to rat on him, but your shiba inu was looking up naked dogs while you weren’t looking.  You know the company policy on pornography at work, right? :)

  • Anonymous

    that looks like the broccoli dog.

    eric b

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