Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Smartphone: Motorola Droid

Laptops and cell phones are merging. Here's the new range of options for connected travelers.

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Smartphone: Motorola Droid

SMARTPHONE
BEST FOR: Mountaintop Facebooking
Surfing the Net on most smartphones is tedious. But MOTOROLA's DROID ($300 with contract; verizonwire­less.com) has the processing power and razor-sharp touchscreen for true Web use—and in far more remote areas on Verizon's network than the city-bound iPhone on AT&T. You can scroll fluidly through maps, zoom in on hi-res satellite images, and breeze through complex Web sites. The keypad is flat and typo-prone, but the brilliant 3.7-inch display more than makes up for it.

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