Motorola Droid Tips & Specs

Google recently promoted the new Motorola Droid on their homepage which caused quite the stir. Although i’m an iPhone advocate and a happy AT&T customer, the new Droid looks pretty enticing. Here are some tips for some basic and advanced functionality:

Droid tips

Touch and drag icons to where you want them on the screen, similar to iPhone, drag to trash can for shortcut
To remove widgets, drag down to bottom of screen
Double tap browswer window to zoom
Press and hold home screen to load a quick launch menu which shows the last six programs you’ve used
Use turn by turn navigation for audible navigation
Use for business (corporate) email which iPhone isn’t very compatible with
Turn it into an alarm clock- Plug into docking station to get large visible clock display
Turn Droid into MP3 player- set on docking station and hook up to computer with speakers, you’ve got yourself a cool docking station
Easily set an MP3 as your ringtone- while song is playing, simply choose “menu” and “set as ringtone.”
Bookmark a page or save a picture- just tap on screen or the picture and use menu on screen to save

Features

Real and virtual keyboard option
Google search by voice to find anything
More than 12,000 apps from the Android Market
Smart notification panel with email, text Facebook updates etc.
High speed mobile browsing
Gmail- Undo button for basic functionality
Real time chat- Search chat histroy, switch between chats, preview video embedded within chats
Google search- also search apps, contacts and bookmarks
Maps- turn by turn navigation
Calendar sync
YouTube video viewing and browsing