kushalzone | 
09 1st, 2010| 
I bought Google’s android based Motorola Droid X recently because I am a java developer by profession and I could write virtually any possible apps for this device with it’s open source OS and easy to use Andorid Development Kit. The phone is awesome – compared to iPhone from a techies’ point of view. I even updated my facebook status as soon as I received and reviewed the phone with “I got Droid X . Great Success. Everybody knows iPhone is for Ladies”, a parody of Borat’s quotation.
After using it for a couple of days now, I discovered a few problems/issues with this phone (which was expected). Just letting you know up front, I love this phone and it has tons of features that iPhone does not have. From bigger screen to intelligent apps, from multiple home screens to superb camera and HD Video recorder, you will definitely find this phone worth having at least for a year or two.
But today I am talking about the problems I found with this phone.
Unicode Font Support (Out of box):
By the term unicode font support, I do not mean that it does not support unicode fonts, but it seems to be missing the basic unicode fonts to represent some languages like Hindi, Nepali or Arabic. I operate several blogs in Nepali language and when I browse these blogs, the characters are just the repeated boxes. It was not a problem with iPhone or iPod Touch. Well maybe I will be able to figure out how to install the fonts or how to make it work, but for a general user who likes to have their language support this phone might be a discouragement.
Heating Problem
If you use this phone for a long time(4-5 minutes), the bottom back portion of the handset gets heated. It’s not too hot to make some barbeques but the heat is significant.
Occasional Hangs
Occasionally the handset seems to get hanged and I even experienced once that it automatically restarted when I was trying to play Need for Speed on it. I even had installed the Free Advanced Application Killer to kill any unwanted apps running in the background but still I found the hang or pause of the application now and then. I dont have to return this set for this problem, because the freezing of the set is not very frequent and irritating.
Droid Died and wont turn up (soon):
This happened today. My phone got drained totally. I was driving my car and I did not even have the car charger with me. So I came back to my office and plugged the phone to USB charger. The phone wont turn on. I pressed the power button for longer period, took the battery out and placed it back in. But no way the phone got turned on. It was only after 20 minutes the phone came back up with the battery power showing 5%. That was both shocking and frustrating. Other people also seem to have experienced this problem and their discussions are located at one of the forums here. The lesson is NOT to drain the battery or use a wall charger instead of a USB charger that provides low power that delays your handset charging.
