Droid Dock
by rm on Nov.03, 2009, under Accessories
Where do you keep your cell phone at night? If you are like many, it sits near your bedside. For some in my family, it is the night stand alarm clock and phone. (My children don’t even have a wired phone in their homes. So, the cell must be nearby.) Unfortunately, the phone just hangs off a tethered charger.
If your cell has a docking station, the station adds little value. For example, my Treo dock was more useful near my computer for HotSync than near my bed.
The Motorola Droid Multimedia Station is more than an alarm clock.
Welcome to the Motorola Droid Multimedia Station. It is a docking station is that totally different than what we’ve seen before.
When you insert the Droid at an angle, it automatically detects that it is in the Multimedia Station. Of course, it charges while in the dock, just like the Treo dock. But that is where the similarity ends.
The Droid multimedia station displays the time and functions as an alarm clock. Nice. It also displays the outside temperature and the weather. Good morning in a glance!
In the multimedia station, the Droid also plays music and videos.
The price is $30, which is about the same price as docking stations from other products. And, it does have a USB cable to connect to a PC.
November 10th, 2009 on 7:11 pm
Does it have an audio out from the port? I would like to hook up speakers to it.
November 11th, 2009 on 3:49 pm
Unfortunately, no. It does not have an audio port and it does not have a slot to charge a second battery. It also has the annoying habit of automatically turning on the Droid even after I shut it down for faster charging.
All in all, I think the Droid Dock is a negative. However — on the plus side — it does include a charger in the price. I can always use a charger.
November 14th, 2009 on 12:28 pm
Unfortunately, no. It does not have an audio port and it does not have a slot to charge a second battery. It also has the annoying habit of automatically turning on the Droid even after I shut it down for faster charging.
All in all, I think the Droid Dock is a negative. However — on the plus side — it does include a charger in the price. I can always use a charger.
November 16th, 2009 on 10:16 am
You can plug speakers into the audio out jack on the droid i plug it in to my stero at home and usse the volume control there. it is not blocked by the dockig station so just add a 3.5 mm to (y) rca red/white or speaker system.
November 16th, 2009 on 10:16 am
You can plug speakers into the audio out jack on the droid i plug it in to my stero at home and usse the volume control there. it is not blocked by the dockig station so just add a 3.5 mm to (y) rca red/white or speaker system.
November 17th, 2009 on 2:09 pm
Actually the Droid turns on any time you plug it into any charger. I think it's a bug being fixed in the Dec 11 update.
November 25th, 2009 on 11:02 am
The idea of the dock is that you don't have to play with the wires. You just want to drop the thing on the dock and that should be it. Also, what will happen if a call comes? You'll have to free the phone from the wires before you can answer. To me not having an audio output and still calling it a media dock is a joke.
November 25th, 2009 on 4:02 pm
The idea of the dock is that you don't have to play with the wires. You just want to drop the thing on the dock and that should be it. Also, what will happen if a call comes? You'll have to free the phone from the wires before you can answer. To me not having an audio output and still calling it a media dock is a joke.
December 30th, 2009 on 2:57 pm
The Droid case is real smooth and a little difficult to hold on to so I purchased a rubber case and holster from Verizon. Another $30 bucks but figured better than dropping it. ONCE INSTALLED, IT WILL NO LONGER FIT IN THE HOME DOCK!! One or the other so the Dock is going back. Loved it though. Do not know about the car dock. Just a heads up that might save you a trip back to the Verizon store.
January 4th, 2010 on 2:02 pm
why does my dock to the droid drain my battery? Every morning since I got it my phone is dead. So I start my day with no phone very disappointing.
February 6th, 2010 on 3:59 pm
Check out the mikradle on ebay…solves the problem of not fitting with the case on it.
February 17th, 2010 on 1:37 am
Bought my docking station a month ago and loved it until…two nights ago I plugged it in at night and after a few minutes it turned off! I don't remember making a setting changes that would prevent it from staying on. Any ideas on what the problem could be???
May 5th, 2010 on 9:49 pm
Is there a docking station compatible with the Droid Incredible?
May 6th, 2010 on 1:49 am
Is there a docking station compatible with the Droid Incredible?
May 6th, 2010 on 2:47 am
Nothing official on the Verizon accessory page yet, but I'm sure it won't be long.
May 17th, 2010 on 4:49 am
If you buy a sedio case you can also get a sedio car dock and I believe they may have a desktop dock as well. It will accept the phone with or without the sedio case on the phone. (Has a removable adapter for acceptiong w/o the sedio case)
May 25th, 2010 on 1:13 pm
Will texts and email show in a chat window if the dock is plugged into my PC via USB?