My Motorola Droid X review concludes with thoughts on the phone’s battery life and miscellaneous features. After the smoke clears, I’ll give you my closing thoughts and recommendations. And away we go!
Battery Life
The Droid X comes with a 1,540 mAh lithium ion battery. With its large screen and fast processor, I wasn’t expecting great battery life, so I was surprised that I averaged 15.5 hours a day over the course of a week. With roughly the same setup and usage, I only got 12 hours a day on the comparable HTC Evo 4G.
Your mileage will depend on your usage. For my “moderate nerd” usage — lots of web browsing, 30 minutes of calls a day, lots of messaging, tweeting, foursquare, Facebook, etc. — the battery life was fantastic.
Miscellaneous
I was disappointed that the Droid X lacks a front-facing camera. For a lot of people, this is a non-issue. Some people care about video calls on a mobile phone and some don’t. Then there are people like me — heavy Skype users that can’t wait for video calling on a real Android Skype client. This would be huge for me and the tens of millions of people that use Skype. While consumers like me are in the minority today, video calling is going to take off in a huge way in the immediate future. Will the Droid X be missing a feature that’s big in 2011?
Road warriors (the business kind, not the Hawk and Animal kind) should also consider the phone’s data rates. While Verizon’s CDMA EVDO network is the best in the country, it’s hardly the fastest. Sprint is rolling out its 4G WiMax network, while AT&T and T-Mobile are deploying faster versions of their 3G networks. If you travel extensively and tether a lot then there’s a good chance the Droid X will feel slow (in terms of data) in a year.
Closing Thoughts and Recommendations
Along with the HTC Evo 4G for Sprint, the Motorola Droid X for Verizon is one of the best Google Android phones available today. If your priorities are excellent call quality and strong battery life then this is the best Android phone for you. You’ll have to deal with an interface that’s a little clunky, data rates that aren’t the fastest, and the lack of video calls, but if you’re fine with that then you’ll be well served by this excellent handset from Motorola.
If there’s anything I didn’t cover in my review, please let me know in the comments section. I’ll do my best to answer your questions.
Related Articles
- Motorola Droid X Unboxing
- Motorola Droid X Review Part I: Build, UI, Storage Options and Call Quality
- Motorola Droid X Review Part II: Screen, Keyboard, and WiFi Hotspot
- Motorola Droid X Review Part III: Camera, Pictures, and Video
so which one are you keeping raymond?
I await your Samsung Vibrant review. I'm gonna go look at one on Saturday at the TMo store. If I can pull 4-5mbps on the phone, I might go ahead and give my gf my new iphone and grab that lol.
So the EVO it is?
@Ray
I find this very discouraging about Droid X
http://m.gizmodo.com/5587801/motorola-is-willing-…
I wonder if that was a Verizon mandate? I can't see how Moto benefits from it. That honestly should be criminal. I also think if that was VZ then they are as bad as ATT about Android now lol.
@thundercracker That will be addressed in the vs. article. Ha!
@smartguy I was going to cover that in the vs. article too. I'm not a fan of he move.
@Ray
Oh sorry.
@smartguy No need to be sorry. It's an important issue for some users.