With the highly anticipated release of the Droid 2, it was expected that this would be a must have smartphone. Granted, it is a very good smartphone that is more than capable to hold its own, but its lack of overall improvement over the original Droid left many early reviewers wanting more. To begin with, the keyboard on the Droid 2 is still difficult to type with, with the keys not being particularly easy to press. The keyboard overall is still an improvement, but most were hoping Motorola would make it as perfect as possible. Bigger problems than they keyboard however include buggy wifi operation and mediocre call quality. There have also been reports of inconsistent Flash performance.
One lacking feature that is surprisingly missing: no HDMI.
Another disappointment for some users is that unlike the original Droid, the Droid 2 uses Motoblur. Many people have said they prefer the vanilla version of Android.
Not everything is bad though. The Droid 2 is the first phone to ship with Android 2.2 Froyo, runs a 1Ghz processor, has a 5 megapixel camera, and a relatively sleek design.
In comparison to its Droid X cousin, the Droid 2 is just not that upgrade worthy. Its a good phone, but it does not differentiate itself from the original Droid enough to make it a real hot item.
The one cool thing about this phone though, is that Verizon and Motorola are going to release a R2D2 version of this device in tribute from the character in Star Wars.
