Motorola Droid X video

Alexander Goode Elementary School was the only city school in York to make adequate yearly progress on state exams in reading and math.

Motorola Droid X video

Stacey Farmer was murdered eight years ago, York Area Regional Police Chief Tom Gross said Monday.

And that murder had nothing to do with the murder of Hopethan "Flex" Johnson on the same Windsor Township property a month earlier, Gross said.

Gross held a news conference Monday with Acting York County Coroner Claude Stabley and First Assistant District Attorney David MacVeigh to publicly update the Farmer investigation and ask that anyone with any information come forward.

Gross said that, while there are "several people we are suspicious about," there are no suspects in Farmer's murder at this time.

Anyone with information about Stacey Farmer's death is asked to call Detective Kathleen Burke at 741-1259.

My conclusion after two weeks with the the Droid 2 is that I love Adobe Flash on a phone with the hardware and operating system to support it.

I hope it comes to the big screen on my Droid X soon with it's expected late summer upgrade to Android 2.2.

Yeah I know, Flash is dying and all that but the reality is that without it websites are left with alot of holes and not every outlet has a custom app outside of YouTube's dual streams for web and mobile.

Last week I wanted to check in on a C-SPAN raw feed while working under my truck.

There is something magical just to stream a Flash feed over a 3G connection on a handheld mobile device without translating it or apping it. I just opened the CSPAN website and I had mini live TV in my hand.

Motorola's Droid 2 interface reminds me alot of the Droid X.

• Simplification of the power management tools over the Droid X.
• Secondary email (Yahoo, pop, etc.) on both these phones is better than native Google
• Same number of desktops and function, same Moto widgets
• Same camera interface

The major difference between these phones lies in the size, physical keyboard and video capturing.ability.

If you have an issue with the size of the Droid X and don't mind loosing the larger video/still file sizes and multi-mic system and like a physical keyboard, the 2 may be your Android device.

Droid 2 evolves the physical keyboard of the original

Motorola Droid 2, Droid 1, and Droid X still cameras compared

Motorola Droid 2, Droid 1, and Droid X video capture compared

Motorola Droid X video

Blake Bonacquisti is excited to ride a school bus with his little brother Evan.

Blake, 12, used to travel 50 minutes from his York Township home to West York for his Lincoln Intermediate Unit neurological impairment class.

But that changes Monday, because Blake will attend the new Dallastown Area Intermediate School, which has an academic program that meets his needs.

"It's tough when you go to a different school district than where you live," said the boys' dad, Darren Bonacquisti. "Now, he'll be back with his neighborhood kids."

On Sunday during an open house, the family toured the new building where Blake will be in sixth grade and Evan, 9, will be a fourth-grader.

Principal Paula R. March gives a message of hope.

The Motorola Droid X has the largest possible video file size, with the Droid 2 and Droid 1 sharing the same maximum frame size.

As with most of the interface in the Droid 2, this Motorola phone shares much of the evolved Droid X functionality and hardware horsepower without the X's superior microphone system.

At this time, the stock Droid 2 runs the latest Android 2.2 operating system, while the Droid X is running Android 2.1. Verizon says an upgrade to Android 2.2 for the Droid X is coming late Summer 2010.

The Droid 2 shares the video editing, frame grab and the same gallery structure as Droid X. The phone is as capable as the Droid 1 for video plus an evolved interface and increased editing speed.

However after using the Droid X with it's three microphone system and the ability to drop sound levels in concerts, it's hard to go back to a phone with a single mic on the opposite side of the subject.

Previous greenmesh posts:
Capturing video with the Droid X, audio with three mics
VIDEO Droid X goes stealth in a cathedral
Editing video on the Droid X (Droid 2)
Droid 2 evolves the physical keyboard of the original

Color and shadows, direct sun and shade are very similar for Verizon's Motorola Droid (original), Droid 2 and Droid X. The Droid X sometimes appears more vibrant, but my testing is in not scientific with slight variations in cloud cover.

The Droid 1 and 2 are 5 MP while the Droid X is 8 MP.

Like the Droid X, the zoom control shares the mechanical volume toggle and the shutter release is a mechanical button. The Droid 2 gives you the option of virtual on screen tap shutter release.

The physical buttons on the Droid 2 are also smaller with a top bump on each (unlike the Droid 1 or X), giving more tactile control over the physical button.

You want a stiff button (that won't activate with a brush) with good feel.

Adding a virtual button and refining the physical button ends all debate about shutter buttons.

The Droid 1 also had a physical and virtual shutter button, but the virtual button was lower on the touch interface and more awkward.

The Droid 2 camera takes on the camera interface from the Droid X, a great improvement from the original Droid camera interface (which was recently tweaked during the Froyo 2.2 upgrade).

Like the Droid X, the Droid 2 has a wide screen mode that crops down the full size image for an 11 x 17 image that would display on a widescreen TV without the black bars.

The widescreen image is really a cropped version of the full sized image. So perhaps it's just better to shoot the full size image and crop it yourself to give you the option of both, unless you would like a direct preview to wide screen.

The Droid 2 has the same Panoramic feature as the Droid X with faster processing time for stitching than the Droid X. I would assume that this has to do with the Droid 2 running Android 2.2 and smaller file sizes vs the Droid X running 2.1 Motorola says the X should receive the update to 2.2 by late Summer 2010.

More Motorola Droid Panorama on greenmesh:
Droid X Panorama mode is the phone journalist's wide angle

Droid X 180 takes on creative life at sea

Is Photojournalism Dead? We Almost Hate To Ask npr.org/blogs

Is photojournalism dead? Photojournalists are certainly alive, but can they be expected to survive an economy of fast, cell phone news? In conclusion, there is no conclusion. But we're interested in your thoughts. Leave comments!

I find it interesting that a profession dedicated to the evolution of life has such a difficult time redefining itself. I love adapting my cell phone to telling stories in real-time.

It is possible to tell a story in a 30 second video and only take 45 minutes or less to post it.

Personally, it is a far greater personal satisfaction to make or break the moment with one raw tool, than participate in a long, drawn out process filled with legacy costs of people and time.

The money model is changing, not the story telling.

The Most Rev. Joseph P. McFadden was installed this afternoon as the 10th bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, a 15-county area that includes York and Adams counties.

The media was told that still cameras were ok for this event, but video was not allowed inside. It's amazing what you can do with a device that doesn't look like a video camera.

Droid X to the rescue.

The Motorola smartphone also took it's first good drop. My Body Glove case popped open while tangled in camera straps, a raincoat and lens belt.

Smack ! Face first on a granite floor. I am having no issues as a result.

Now that your original Motorola Droid has been upgraded to Android 2.2 you can taste ambedded Adobe Flash Player 10.1 animations and video before its released in the Android Market as an app specifically for your device.

Android menu key>Settings>Applications Check Unknown source (Allow installation of non-Market applications). You can go back and lock things back down after downloading.

Got to this site: http://www.mediafire.com/?gz2omonfodz (you must do this from your phone browser)

Download Adobe Flash Player 10.1

Enjoy Flash in your original Droid 1 browser.

Since this isn't an official release via the Android Market, it might explain why it's a bit laggy. You also have to remember that the original Motorola Droid is running on half the horsepower of newer hardware like the Droid 2, Droid X or HTC Incredible.

If you aren't happy with this experiment simply go to Settings>Applications and remove Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to revert to your old browsing experience.

I love how you can do these things with Android given the tools provided by the handset manufacturer and wireless carrier without hacking the phone to death.

You can use copy & paste in non-active text fields in Gmail, the native browser as well as supporting third-party browsers (Dolphin). This feature is available on updated Motorola Droid 1, Droid 2 and works on the Droid X browser, but not in Gmail (pending 2.2 update).

To access this feature, go to any non-active field in Gmail.

Swipe your finger over the text and it will highlight in pink. The selection will automatically copy to the clipboard after you release the swipe.

For the browsers this function is usually avalable from Menu>More

Note: You can swipe any text on the screen and it will copy to the clipboard

Active text fields in Android universally use the copy & paste function by a long press on the field and a pop-up menu.

On the Droid X you can copy and retrieve several selections at one time via a clipboard.