Motorola DROID X2 User Reviews

Mike12mt posted on 02 Feb 2012, 19:45

Average 6

Rawr! Why did I break my Droid X and get stuck getting this one as its replacement?

Mike12mt has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

My overall thoughts on this phone have been mostly towards the software which its currently using android 2.3.1 With updated software or alternative options currently available on the android market they have improved many of the issues I have had with this phone. Though the market is not a complete savior of the phone's flaws including that I don't see much of a performance increase with the dual-core chip over the droid x's single core chip. Whatever improvements the hardware in this phone can do, it certainly does not show in its stock UI performance.

The camera is another major issue for me. It picks and chooses when it wants to take a photo or video. This problem was not found on the droid x.

My only hope with Ice Cream Sandwich if it show up on the X2 is that it will improve many of the handicaps OS 2.3 inhibits on this phone. With so many alternative apps at our disposal, the apps have improved the phones basic functionally greatly.

A great phone with the right software!

Build quality 9/10
I love the solid metal feel the x,x2 have. Though not bulletproof of course, this phone can take medium abuse so long as you do not intentionally toss this phone at a wall. lol

Reception 7/10
Living in Westchester County, specifically near the scarsdale golf course and pool... Verizon swears they have full coverage of both phone reception as well as 3g reception. It must just be the location my house is in or the building materials this house is made out of but since 2003 all phones that I have used through verizon all had bad cell reception. Overall when I have good reception, I never had dropped calls on my end.

Call quality 9/10
call quality is great when another droid user calls me. However most likely not the flaw of the phone, when a user on a blackberry calls me, I can hear everything like wind, buses, trains, you name it, its there in the background. In a way the clear quality on my side as well as the blackberry not canceling out the background sounds made conversations difficult to maintain. If you ask me, the phone has too good of a call quality. lol

Internet 8/10
When using the right app, the internet can be super quick on this phone. Using the stock browser I found the experience to be very slow. Even when the browser defaults to the mobile version of a website. While using the dolphin browser I found loading the full websites to be extremely fast. This leads me to believe that the 2.3 android software can sometimes hinder the full potential this phone has.

Multimedia 6/10
The built-in multimedia functions of the phone are decent but not great. If you are a lossless user there is no stock option to play FLAC files. (recommend poweramp) Recording video and taking pictures are decent if a little lackluster in their overall quality. Playback through recorded video was somewhat choppy, as was watching streamed videos from the official netflix app. This didn't ruin my experience with video viewing on the phone. With software tweaks, I'm sure video playback will smooth out.

Camera 4/10
This phone's camera takes too long for the lens to "initialize" a shot let alone getting it to focus then actually snap the photo. This wasn't as bad on the Droid X. I could have a faulty camera on my phone but sometimes it would fail to even capture my first shot or video after putting the phone down. This happens too frequently and it could be a defect in the hardware or maybe the software itself. Camera quality however is a far better experience. Pictures came out almost as good as my fujifilm 7.1MP camera. Good quality in a pinch when it wants to corporate.

UI speed 4/10
The 2.3 update to androids OS helped very little in regards to boosting the smoothness from the stock home launcher. The saving grace about a android is if you don't like the stock software... "there's a app for that" with additional market options for alternative launcher apps you can vastly improve the UI speed. I had assumed with a dual-core chip that the stock experience would have improved from the Droid X. I was wrong.

Everyday usage 4/10
Everyday use of this phone makes me wish for the upcoming quad-core phones. 512MB of memory is also not enough with the amount of apps I use, (background apps as well) Its sluggish during most basic functions. The experience only slightly improves if I control the amount of ram my apps use. Overall, carrier and phone companies should give users more choices in what bloatware we can remove from the phone. PS - I only run three aps in the background. Weather, Anti-virus, and a data counter.

Text input 6/10
The phone in the beginning was very picky about how I type on it. Market apps at first helped with this until I updated to Android 2.3 which guesses how you would finish your sentences to help ease the amount of words you end up actually typing. If my wordy review is any indication of how much I write you may notice this feature would have been very helpful to me but instead it made typing worse. Once the feature was turned off, typing is fine on the device.

Display 8/10
I enjoyed the resolution on this phone better then on the droid x. My only wish was that they didn't change the resolution of the screen to its odd size that prevented me from watching my high quality collection of music videos off youtube which came up as a invalid file during playback. Other then the source material, video quality on the screen is excellent given its a modern video source.

Battery 5/10
If you are a high multimedia user, my advice is carry three batteries with you! I found myself recharging this phone every 6 hours. I tried apps after apps to anaylze and help reduce the amount of data which apps were using and lowering my screens brightness to barely legible to increase its life to no avail. In the end I just learned not to have the data intensive apps on my phone. Manually killing backround apps was the best way to improve battery life. Overall, I miss the flip phone days of not charging my phone for a week.

gadawgs2601 posted on 21 Dec 2011, 15:11

Average 6

Ok phone

gadawgs2601 has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

I purchased this to replace my original Droid; while the X2 is an improvement over such a dinosaur...I really expected better. I've had to download several apps to compensate for poor quality apps on the phone. Wish it were unlocked / rooted so that I could remove the pre-installed software.
No matter what app I've tried.....the camera still sucks.

Build quality 2/10
phone over heats, locks up, and randomly shuts down

Reception 9/10
Always has a good signal

Call quality 9/10
No problems with call quality

Internet 8/10
Internet works pretty well, best with wi-fi though.

Multimedia 8/10

Camera 2/10
Not impressed

UI speed 5/10
Downloaded EX Launcher - helped some

Everyday usage 8/10

Text input 6/10
Rather frustrating. Downloaded SwiftKey X Keyboard - helped some.

Display 8/10
Like the larger screen; would like to resolution like the iPhone though

Battery 6/10
Battery has good days & bad. Downloaded Juice Defender to help.

Pros

• Screen size
• HDMI port
• Google Maps / Navigation

Cons

• OVERHEATING!!!!!!!!
• Random shutdown

gadawgs2601 alternatives:

Motorola DROID RAZR

Samsung GALAXY Nexus

c.hack posted on 02 Dec 2011, 14:31

Good 7

Disappointed

c.hack has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

VZW upgraded me to the DX2 after my DX kept crashing after the GB upgrade. As it turns out the cause was the initial GB releases from Motorola - the DX2 would crash at least daily also. The GB patch from Moto in October fixed the stability issues after much pain.

The phone can be rooted, but the bootloader is locked so it is hard to customize.

I compared the DX and DX2 screens side by side. The DX2 is much brighter but noticeably pixelated. When using small red or green fonts (like many of my widgets) the pixelation made them unreadable.

I also noticed that even with dual cores, live wallpaper makes screen response sluggish.

This was a disappointing phone

Pros:
- Large, bright screen
- Great reception
- Solid build and don't even need a case
- Turn by turn nav

Cons:
- Unstable
- Locked bootloader
- Poor quality screen
- May not get ICS upgrade (may already be obsolete)
- poor camera

Build quality 8/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 7/10

Internet 7/10

Multimedia 6/10

Camera 3/10
slow, poor quality camera

UI speed 7/10

Everyday usage 7/10

Text input 6/10

Display 4/10
Bright but pixelated

Battery 8/10

asrr62 posted on 26 Jan 2012, 05:03

Good 8

Decent phone

asrr62 has owned it for less then 3 months before publishing this review

the droid x2 is a pretty good phone. it may not be the most durable phone out there. very speedy, there is never any lag with this phone. the build quality isn't the best though, the digitizer is coming up around the bottom of the screen. The screen is pentile so it is not the best display on the market, it trails when you scroll down a page and certain colors look bad.

Build quality 3/10

Reception 9/10

Call quality 9/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 9/10

Camera 9/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 4/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• tegra 2 is speedy

Cons

• VZW bloatware
• Buttons are not capacitive
• Display is not as good as it could be

nighttime2 posted on 27 Jul 2011, 12:12

Good 8

Ok Phone... Has several issues though.

nighttime2 has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

This phone has lots of features..... Unfortunately, Motorola went for quantity over quality when it comes to them. Photos are fuzzy if you use the zoom feature at all, even on the highest quality setting. The UI reaction time has a lag which is annoying sometimes. I have personalized ringtones set for different people, and it will often play the wrong ringtone for people. Sometimes when choosing a contact from the recently called list, it will bring up the wrong contact. The swype feature is cool... When it works right. You have to keep an eye on what you type on the screen though, as the auto-correct will change your entire message if you're not carefuI. I think it is a very buggy phone, and needs better software, firmware, or both. Very sorry I bought it, as other Droids have far better reviews.

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 9/10

Internet 9/10

Multimedia 9/10

Camera 5/10

UI speed 5/10

Everyday usage 8/10

Text input 5/10

Display 10/10

Battery 6/10

Pros

• Big Screen, Lots of Features.

Cons

• Laggy, Poor UI Software/Firmware

anarkie posted on 18 Jul 2011, 08:49

Good 7

It's Going Back

anarkie has owned it for less then 3 months before publishing this review

As a precursor: I've had the Original X since launch day and have never had such a strong, reliable, smartphone. My fiancee was having problems with her phone, so I figured I'd upgrade and give her my trusty, awesome, X. What better replacement for me, than a dual-core, monster upgrade, right?

I was wrong. I know many X2 users are happy with their phones, and that is awesome. I just can't be one.

My first X2 overheated so much (unplugged) that it irritated a burn on my hand from 4 hours before. It went back. The second one froze up too many times, and the radio seemed weaker. Shipped back. The third, I was prepared to enjoy. Until I used the camera. There was a tiny dark smudge on the internal lens.

Verizon is doing me right and allowing me to switch up. Droid3, here I come.

That said, if I take away the issues, here's my take:
Screen: Great, just make sure you don't view it too close (Pentile) and you'll enjoy it.
Battery Life: Great, on par with teh original X, if not, a little better.
Speed: Yep, it's there, however, the motoblur can sometimes require a longer redraw than desired
OS: 2.2?!?! Probably one of the reasons it's not fully performing. 2.3.4 is the release that is supposed to support dual-core on the OS level. I'll know when I get the Droid 3 tomorrow.
Camera: A hair better than the original X
Signal: disappointingly weaker than the original X.

Build quality 10/10

Reception 7/10

Call quality 9/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 9/10

UI speed 7/10

Everyday usage 7/10

Text input 9/10

Display 8/10

Battery 8/10

Pros

• Awesome, Solid build/design
• Great for Gaming
• Higher res screen makes for great web
• Powerful, fast processor

Cons

• Motoblur redraws
• Production issues
• Weaker Signal than Original

anarkie alternatives:

Motorola DROID 3

WD40 posted on 12 Jul 2011, 08:55

Excellent 9

Good all around phone

WD40 has owned it for less then 3 months before publishing this review

Switching to this off of the Thunderbolt (Terrible battery life & poor reception).

Strange, the first few days, the battery wouldn't last through the day. Now I can get 3 days sometimes! Haven't had that kinda battery life since the Nokia 6015i :-). Overall I love the phone. The reception is the best I have had. The screen is huge and looks great, yet the phone is very slim and fits well in my pocket. Visually, the phone looks cool. I am glad Motorola removed the camera button. They have made big improvements on Blur. I still prefer stock Android. The phone is VERY fast and I love all the accessories that go with it (car mount, desktop cradle, HDMI cable).

I wish Blur came with better calendar and messaging widgets. The camera is not very good. I have a problem getting it to focus and there is a delay when taking pictures. I also wish it had a front facing camera. I hope the make a Droid X3 with 4G.

Build quality 9/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 8/10

Multimedia 8/10

Camera 7/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 9/10

Text input 9/10

Display 9/10

Battery 10/10

tagalong2004 posted on 09 Jul 2011, 22:42

Average 5

Keeps locking up.

tagalong2004 has owned it for less then 3 months before publishing this review

Phone is freezing up, shutting down, wont connect to bluetooth, and cant hear my phone calls but on speaker phone only until i take batter out. Have to take battery out like 3 times a day to reset. Other features are good. Just unhappy with the phone due to the flaws. Verizon did a master reset and it worked for a couple days just fine but them started messing up again. And its not what I downloaded to it because I didnt download anything to it at that time.

Build quality 9/10

Reception 8/10

Call quality 8/10

Internet 8/10

Multimedia 8/10

Camera 7/10

UI speed 7/10

Everyday usage 5/10

Text input 8/10

Display 8/10

Battery 8/10

Pros

Cons

• locks up, camera, 3g,

Eugene7897 posted on 27 Jun 2011, 17:48

Excellent 10

Great well built phone

Eugene7897 has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

Had A Droid Incredible 2 for a week. Traded it in on this.Incredible2 cant hold a candle to the Droid X2. Bluetooth in my car wouldnt work with Incredible2, plus poor reception, and terrible battery life right from the start.I have expierienced none of those problems with the X2.

Build quality 9/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 9/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• Build quality, internet, display

Cons

• nothing so far

cpremmn posted on 21 Jun 2011, 09:11

Good 8

Good Phone But Needs More Work

cpremmn has owned it for less then 3 months before publishing this review

I got me a Droid X2 as a replacement for Droid X (was having serious audio problem during calls). Honestly, I think it is a good phone and not the greatest. The dual core processor needs further update to reduce lag time in opening apps and downloading internet contents. Importantly, the qHD display somewhat produces nearly washed out photos and media playing experience. I think if these two could be corrected in a future software update then we would be saying otherwise.

Build quality 8/10
perfect metallic handle makes carry it comfortable.

Reception 7/10
pretty neat and plain.

Call quality 10/10
clear and distinct

Internet 9/10

Multimedia 5/10
washed out and color unstable.

Camera 5/10
not sharp and clear

UI speed 8/10
still lagging.

Everyday usage 9/10
can withstand heavy usage.

Text input 10/10
easy and responsive.

Display 10/10
clear and penetrating.

Battery 10/10
excellent and long lasting.

Pros

• penetrating call quality, excellent display, improved UI and performance.

Cons

• media player output washed out streaming videos and camera photo display unstable color after a shot is taken.

Unhappy Customer posted on 17 Jun 2011, 13:39

Excellent 9

Very Unhappy with phone

Unhappy Customer has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

It is not much different than the original X. Phone locks on me and I cannot unlock it. I've had to bring it back to Verizon a couple times because of this problem. It is a very big inconvenience when it will not unlock, not to mention unreliable. Also does not have a front camera which I wish it had.

Build quality 9/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 9/10

UI speed 9/10

Everyday usage 9/10

Text input 9/10

Display 9/10

Battery 9/10

insp posted on 05 Jun 2011, 04:52

Excellent 10

Motorola Droid X2 - Excellent

insp has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

I've had the Droid X2 for a few weeks now running it through it's paces and have been very happy with my findings. I don't have 4G in my area and don't expect it anytime soon so that is not a factor. The lack of a front facing camera for video chatting is no loss for me, more of a gimmick. Overall the phone is fast with good battery life, a very pleasant screen, and well designed user interface.

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 9/10

Multimedia 9/10

Camera 8/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• Reception, Excellent
• Sound Quality, Excellent
• Screen, very nice with a superior viewing angle in all lighting conditions
• Build, feels solid
• Battery, very good...haven't found the short battery life that others have complained about.

Cons

• Camera is a little disappointing, pictures seem a little washed out

trini-s2k posted on 24 May 2011, 18:27

Excellent 10

Droid X2 review

trini-s2k has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

Ok i got my DX2 in the mail today, now mind you i had the DX1 before, its not a great up grade to it but definitely a good one, just by browing through the phone the speed is noticeable the qhd screen is brilliant ,texting is so responsive and fast,moto blur is nice i like the little change is the phone, its definitely a great phone , minor things why they lowered the memory card is beyond me and they should of def added the front facing camera , other then that im happy!!

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 10/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 8/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 8/10

Pros

• Dual Core , updated moto blur, camera responsiveness and the texting responsiveness, and the screen resolution!

Cons

• Less memory then da DX1 and no front facing camera!

DJORDAN posted on 21 May 2011, 10:10

Excellent 10

Droid X2 - Not Bad MOTO

DJORDAN has owned it for less then month before publishing this review

Nice phone! Fast and good battery life, 14 hours of hard use and battery still 30%. Sold Tbolt to buy and I'm very pleased. Front camera would have been nice but no deal breaker most front cameras over rated anyway. Don't miss the four 4g of the Tbolt, it "s fast but not reliable. I carried four batteries for the Tbolt and used three daily. Nice job MOTO but where's the BIONIC?

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 8/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• Entire phone!

Cons

• Front camera and Gingerbread

DJORDAN alternatives:

Motorola DROID X

HTC Droid Incredible

Samsung Fascinate