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"Cache and Carey"-Smart Phones

SUSIE GHARIB: Verizon Wireless' new Droid phone hits the market tomorrow. We've told you what it will mean for the company, but will consumers like it? For answers to that and other tech questions, we're introducing a new segment from "The Miami Herald" tonight called "Cache and Carey."

BRIDGET CAREY, REPORTER, THE MIAMI HERALD: Hi, Bridget Carey here and this week Verizon customers can finally own a touch-screen smart phone that they can proudly show off in public. It's the new Motorola Droid, the first Verizon phone running on Google's Android mobile operating system. It's 199.99 after rebate and two year contract. It's got 16 gigs of memory and a great five megapixel camera with a flash. There's also this very impressive GPS navigation system with a voice search function. So I would say map of gas stations or navigate to the "Miami Herald" and it will give you spoken directions. Now if you've seen other Android phones, the interface is pretty much similar. You have these three customizable home screens for icons, widgets and lots of app to play around with in the Android store. It slides open to reveal a full qwerty keyboard but the keys are kind of flat so I found myself typing kind of slow with my nails, but it gives you the option to use an on-screen keyboard so you get the best of both worlds. The flat keys were my only real disappointment. But overall, it is a solid smart phone. From the "Miami Herald" I'm Bridget Carey.