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Customer Reviews for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Model: MOTXT862
SKU: 2965384
UPC: 723755000186
This mobile phone features the Android 2.3 operating system that makes it simple to stay connected on the go. The full QWERTY keyboard allows easy text messaging and the touch-screen display makes navigation and viewing a breeze. Requires a voice plan and a data package. Early termination fee of $350.
Average Customer Rating:
3.8
out of 5
(10 Reviews) 10
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80% of customers would recommend this product to a friend
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Customer Reviews for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Review 1 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Extremely disappointed
Customer Rating
1.0
What's great about it: QWERTY keyboard, touch screen, processing power.
What's not so great: GPS, Camera, battery life, random reboots and crashing, instability.
Regardless of the reviews I read, I thought that I would be one of those people that would not experience the technical issues others have experienced. I was dead wrong. I upgraded from a Droid 1 to a Droid 3 and I think I was better off keeping my Droid 1. My Droid 1 was more stable, it rarely ever crashed, the camera worked, and the GPS was more reliable. While yes, the Droid 3 does have some nice features like the screen, keyboard, and processing power, the flaws that it has really does not make this phone worth the purchase. The GPS is extremely unreliable. In many cases, I would be missing turns because you lose GPS connectivity. My Garmin that has outdated maps from 3 years ago is still more reliable. The camera blows. I hope you don't expect to capture the "kodak moment" of an amazing picture because the camera will crash about 90% of the time and it will not save your pictures. The Droid 3 is very unstable. It reboots randomly all the time and by the time the phone realizes its crashing, it takes forever for it to shut down and reboot on its own. Extended battery still fits with case cover and is almost a must buy for your phone to make it through the day.
I would not recommend this phone to anyone.
This product is... Easy to use keypad/keyboard
About me... My phone is my life, Heavy texter
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 2 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Great features, Slow Camera
Customer Rating
4.0
What's great about it: Droid Layout and features
What's not so great: Camera
The processing of the camera function is very slow. With trying to get quick shots off of events, the time it takes to take the shot is entirely too long. I have missed quite a few "moments" due to the lag.
This product is... Easy to use keypad/keyboard, Great picture quality, Good call quality
About me... Heavy texter
I would recommend this to a friend!
-1point
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Review 3 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Love the full QWERTY
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: BMonte
from Phoenix, AZ
on 11/25/2011
What's great about it: Full QWERTY Keyboard
If you only need one reason to buy this phone it is the full QWERTY. I hate the touchscreen keyboard because I always fatfinger and hit the wrong key.
Battery is decent, better than most other smartphones i've seen.
This product is... Easy to use keypad/keyboard, Great picture quality, Tough/durable, Good video quality, Good call quality
About me... Budget Conscious
I would recommend this to a friend!
+10points
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Review 4 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Good phone terrible battery life
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: Henny1986
on 09/28/2011
What's not so great: Super fast.
This is over all a pretty solid phone. Once in a while it randomly shuts off when i lock the screen, not sure why. The battery life is the worst of any phone I've ever had by far. off the charger at 7 am it is dead by 1 sitting idle. I own 5 batteries for this phone now to cure that. Great camera, love the system, very fast and solid as a rock.
This product is... Great screen, Easy to use keypad/keyboard, Lightning fast, Good call quality
About me... My phone is my life, Heavy texter, Heavy apps user
I would recommend this to a friend!
+10points
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Review 5 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Slowly falls apart
Customer Rating
2.0
Posted by: ANTIdroider
from NJ
on 09/25/2011
Phone started out great but over just 2 or 3 months, the phone began to show multiple issues.
- The key board buttons would stick and just either keep deleting my text messages when i hit the backspace or endless trails of periods.
- Was very fast when I received it and even though I installed maybe 2 or 3 apps, the speed of the phone dropped a noticeable amount.
- Text messages don't always send even though I have at least a bar or 2 of signal.
- 2 times I have had the screen refuse to turn on even though the phone was still on receiving messages, I could not read them until I removed the battery and restarted the phone because the power button refused to shut my phone off.
- The key board buttons would stick and just either keep deleting my text messages when i hit the backspace or endless trails of periods.
- Was very fast when I received it and even though I installed maybe 2 or 3 apps, the speed of the phone dropped a noticeable amount.
- Text messages don't always send even though I have at least a bar or 2 of signal.
- 2 times I have had the screen refuse to turn on even though the phone was still on receiving messages, I could not read them until I removed the battery and restarted the phone because the power button refused to shut my phone off.
Was very excited to get this phone because the Droid 1 was great with the exception of the speed so I thought this would be a perfect phone. Even though the speed is a little better than the Droid 1, the failure and problems that arose in other areas was not worth the purchase.
About me... Heavy texter
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
+4points
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Review 6 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Good, will be better
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: CamSpanners
on 09/22/2011
What's great about it: Keyboard, Screen (Mostly), CPU, Build Quality
What's not so great: RAM, Bloatware, Software (until OTA)
Great phone, even though it shipped with a few significant software glitches.
Keyboard is incredible, typing on it is incredibly easy and it feels extremely sturdy.
Screen is great, very readable outdoors, although in direct sunlight you can sometimes see the pixel matrix.
Innards are also great, the dual-core processor really makes a big difference. The RAM is a touch low, and with all of VZW's bloatware it can get bogged down sometimes, but it can still play every game I've tried on it smoothly.
According to forums, the software update that's coming out soon fixes all of the software glitches, so I won't mention them. What would really make this phone five stars, however, would be an unlocked bootloader...
This product is... Great screen, Easy to use keypad/keyboard, Lightning fast, Tough/durable, Good call quality
About me... My phone is my life, Heavy texter, Heavy apps user
I would recommend this to a friend!
+7points
10out of 13found this review helpful.
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Review 7 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
The best phone I have ever owned
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: pieface315
from Ilion NY
on 09/21/2011
It took a few days getting used to it but I now love it. I like the fact that the touch screen is not activated until I press the button on the top. My other touch screen phone would constantly turn on and go to who knows where all the time. Very easy to use. Great large screen. Camera takes great pics and videos. Speaker is very clear and the volume is sufficient. I love it and recommend it to everyone.
This product is... Great screen, Easy to use keypad/keyboard, Lightning fast, Tough/durable, Good call quality, great camera and videos
About me... Budget Conscious, great keyboard for texting
I would recommend this to a friend!
+14points
15out of 16found this review helpful.
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Review 8 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Pretty good, Little problems
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: Anonymous
on 09/20/2011
What's great about it: Decent batter, great memory, Great camera & videocamera, large keyboard
What's not so great: Keyboard sticks, not 4g, kind of tough to slide out.
Great phone, battery is basic for a smart phone. All the reviews you see are "TERRIBLE BATTERY," OR "BATTERY COULD IMPROVE" But those are coming from people who have never had a smart phone, so going from a regular phone that you charge twice a week to a phone that you need to charge every night, they like to complain. the phone is nice and fast, I've had for like, 2 months now, and it has reset on me like 3 times, and the problem i'm getting now is that they keys on the keyboard will get stick and hit the key over and over. thats until you the back button, and have to back ALL the way up, gets quite annoying, but not that big of a problem. Great memory, great speaker, i have about 800 songs on my phone, and listen to them all the time. great screen, decent keyboard. Wish that the phone was 4g though. Only thing i could complain about is they keyboard is a little hard to slide out.
This product is... Great screen, Easy to use keypad/keyboard, Lightning fast, Tough/durable
About me... My phone is my life, Heavy texter, Heavy apps user
I would recommend this to a friend!
+16points
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Review 9 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
Best full keyboard on a phone
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: theGekko
from St. Paul, MN
on 08/25/2011
What's great about it: full keyboard, 1080p video, dual core processing
What's not so great: Motorolas user interface
This is great phone; the full five row keyboard is really nice for fast typing, however the UI that Motorola puts over Android is very buggy. I often find myself having to close the full keyboard just to get rid of the auto-text field when done typing a text message. And for some reason every now and then I'll lose a data connection even though I have full bars. i.e. nothing will sync, I can't send or receive text messages and I can't access the internet. This problem can only be solved by turning the phone off and on again. I would love to Root this phone as that would make it a five star phone.
Other than that, the dual core processor is very fast and the phone is very solid. I've dropped it twice already and still no scratches or chips.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+22points
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Review 10 for Motorola DROID 3 Mobile Phone - Black
coming from D1 this is great!!!!!
Customer Rating
5.0
What's great about it: much improved keyboard, 1080p video recording, dual core and its business ready
What's not so great: screen isnt as sharp, its not 4G
The phone is blazing fast. I hate that verizon is being very quiet about this phone. Its probably their best phone or one of the better phones. Instead they are very vocal of their 4G phones. The screen on this phone isn't the best compared to my old phone or some of the Samsung phones. The camera takes great photos out the box. Video is great @1080p which is cool filming important events at that resolution. If you care about 4G then pass this phone up. Wait on the bionic. If not buy this phone its great. Btw I typed this from my phone.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+141points
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