HTC Droid Eris – Takes Customization to a Whole New Level

Following the Motorola Droid, the HTC Droid Eris is now available as the second Google Android phone on Verizon Wireless. It combines Android features with HTC’s breakthrough Sense user interface, creating an individual mobile experience customized to suit your lifestyle.

You may think the Droid Eris looks familiar, because it is in fact a remodeled version of Sprint’s HTC Hero. They share the similar rounded-corner design and size, with the Droid Eris measuring 4.45" by 2.19" by 0.51" and weighing 4.23 ounces, making it a slim and compact device that easily slips into your pocket.

Its 3.2-inch 320x480-pixel capacitive touchscreen provides haptic feedback and works well with the trackball. With a built-in accelerometer, the screen orientation will change automatically when you rotate the phone to use its full QWERTY keyboard. Light and proximity sensors are embedded as well.

As mentioned, the Android phone is integrated with the Sense interface. Users can customize a seven-panel home screen with widgets and shortcuts such as Facebook status updates and photos. Besides, you can change the theme using the Scenes feature, which allows you to personalize the phone to match your work, play and travel life.

Like other Android 1.5 handsets, the Droid Eris is loaded with a lot of Google services, such as Google Maps, Google Search with voice, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Gmail. More goodies like Google Navigation will be available when the 1.6 and 2.0 versions arrive. Of course, you can always find a wide selection of additional applications and programs on the rapidly-growing Android Market.

As for messaging and email, the Droid Eris supports Office Outlook Mobile and Microsoft Exchange with Direct Push email delivery. Apart from Gmail, users can access corporate and personal POP3 email accounts like Hotmail and Yahoo. With QuickOffice and a PDF viewer, the phone lets you attach and view a variety of file types. You will also find SMS, MMS and instant messaging (IM) onboard.

Moreover, its full HTML browser with Wi-Fi displays flash-based sites and supports multiple windows and visual bookmarks. Its multi-touch capability gives you a better Internet surfing experience, as you can pinch to zoom in and out of Web pages or images, or flick to scroll.

Aside from the above-mentioned, the Droid Eris comes with plenty of entertainment and functional features: a music player, a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera/camcorder, a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, integrated GPS, a digital compass, Bluetooth 2.0, Smart dialer, visual voice mail, USB mass storage and more. It has a microSD card slot supporting up to 16GB while offering 512MB internal memory.

Offering an array of attractive features, an intuitive interface and a slim design all at a bargain price, the HTC Droid Eris is a respectable Android device that can be considered as a nice alternative to the Motorola Droid.

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