Oh, come on...
(1) The Droid DOES have GPS.
(2). It has 256MB of RAM and a 16 gigabyte (not mb) micro sd.
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Oh, come on...
(1) The Droid DOES have GPS.
(2). It has 256MB of RAM and a 16 gigabyte (not mb) micro sd.
I guess you don't ever operate a radio, heat, ac, or your windows while driving either...
Dialing a phone is a different then controls in your car. But keep believe your driving fine.
The Droid has landscape/portrait virtual keyboards and a physical landscape keyboard. So you get to choose your preference.
everyone saying that this will just fade over time is wrong. theres one feature in this that will all out destroy the iphone: flash player. i for one can say that unless apple releases an iphone for vzw and has flash enabled on it, im going with this. all features here http://phandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/motorola-droid-specs.jpg
Looks like Verizon will finally get a decent phone hardware wise. Will Android actually pick up steam, or will it be another bastardized OS that's different on each phone on each network?
And will you have to pay some ridiculous data plan to use this device?
And will you have to pay some ridiculous data plan to use this device?
more like, he won't buy it unless it has flash, different stance. Again, there is no reason for apple not to include it See - MMS, C&P etc.
LOL. Of course of course, without flash the iPhone won't sell
No I think you are. If he was in the minority then Apple wouldn't be selling every Iphone they can make while barely being able to keep up with the demand. Also they wouldn't be #1 in customer satisfaction since 2007. They would just buy a phone with a keyboard. Funny, almost all of their competitors have them and people are very satisfied.
Good luck. I HATE FLASH!!! I found a program click to flash and I love not having to be bombarded with ads on every site I go to. Before this I got to were I would only surf on my Iphone so the auto start videos and annoying commercials would be block and I could enjoy the site. My favorite was the loud buzzing bee commercial on one of the blog sites. Since I have my computer sound going through my stereo for movies and music this can be very upsetting. And it is sooooo loud!!!!
First, on the "review": I'm not a follower of BoyGeniusReports (never even heard of them before the previous Droid post), but I can't say I'm impressed. They are FAR too "optimistic" about the Droid, which makes me wonder why.
For instance: "We’re not sure if the screen is glass or plastic (we’ve heard glass but it’s incredibly hard to tell), but it doesn’t seem like it would scratch easily regardless of the material."
WHAT? The MATERIAL is the ONLY thing that will make it easier or harder to scratch, given that it's a big slab of (plastic or glass) on the front of a device likely to come into contact with keys or coins periodically.
I mean, come on!
I'm lucky I got that far in the review. I almost closed it after the opening "Remember, again, this isn’t a final unit and things can and will change for the better." Yeah, "can" or "might" is appropriate here. Given that there's no reason to believe a change will be "for the better" so far as you or any other specific customer is concerned is already a stretch, multiplied by the likelihood that there will be no significant changes in the next couple of weeks prior to boxes-on-shelves anyway (there's a LONG leadup between any manufacturing change and getting that change on store shelves). It's just silly to be so confident that it will improve between now and release.
Anyway, enough with the review. Can't say I'll be heading back to Boy "Genius" for tech news.
On the product itself: may be nice. It'd be nice to get an independent review of it out there (BGR, as I said earlier, apparently does not qualify). I'd love for the iPhone to have some vital competition, but I see a few strikes against the Droid:
1. It's being hyped by Verizon, just like every other 10-minute-fad phone (anyone long for an LG Chocolate or a Sanyo whatever-phone-with-wheel-on-front-for-music or a RAZR?)
2. It's heavily influenced by Verizon. I have yet to see a phone they haven't screwed up royally with either unreasonable limitations (ex, crippled Bluetooth) or spamware apps riddled throughout the OS (ex, look at the apps they throw on every Blackberry they sell).
3. Physical keyboard takes up room (presumably from the battery) but adds nothing. Seriously. I have had a Treo and a Blackberry with physical keyboards, and I still find it easier to type on my wife's iPod Touch keyboard. No, I can't text while driving ... but you're an idiot if you buy a phone so you can more easily kill yourself and others on the road.
4. 5MP camera is hardly a selling point. At the cellphone camera size there are no differences at all between a 3MP and a 5MP camera. Heck, there's hardly a discernable difference in quality between 2 and 3. You're up against cold, unforgiving physics here. The lens and sensor are just too small to get anywhere near 5 million usable and discrete pixels of data. Not a reason to NOT buy it, but it takes one of the main "selling points" and eliminates it as drivel.
5. It's made by Motorola. Nuf said. Haven't had a good hardware experience from Motorola since ... well, ever really. Had a Moto pager for a few months eons ago, which ended up propping a short leg on a table satisfactorily, but even then I wouldn't have put any real weight on that table.
6. Almost forgot: battery life. BGR was tickled pink that with no web and bluetooth on they lasted a WHOLE DAY without having to recharge it. That may be a step up for Android phones, but it's hardly worth crowing about. Try turning on the bluetooth and using the GPS a few times in the day and see if you can make it to noon. I'd rather have the extra 2mm thickness in battery than the slide-out keyboard mechanism. Do love how, as always, Motorola claims 270 minutes of "standby" time and 6.5 hours of "talk". I've never seen a phone get anywhere near those published ratings in real life (probably because I actually go into work in an office building where the cell reception sucks and battery life likewise sucks), and as we know they don't take non-talk (or Google Voice) usage into account either. If BGR isn't being uncharacteristically harsh on the battery life here, I think that real users will find the device near-unusable. Which, again, isn't overly surprising, given the design compromises they took to get the "feature list" where they wanted it.
For instance: "We’re not sure if the screen is glass or plastic (we’ve heard glass but it’s incredibly hard to tell), but it doesn’t seem like it would scratch easily regardless of the material."
WHAT? The MATERIAL is the ONLY thing that will make it easier or harder to scratch, given that it's a big slab of (plastic or glass) on the front of a device likely to come into contact with keys or coins periodically.
I mean, come on!
I'm lucky I got that far in the review. I almost closed it after the opening "Remember, again, this isn’t a final unit and things can and will change for the better." Yeah, "can" or "might" is appropriate here. Given that there's no reason to believe a change will be "for the better" so far as you or any other specific customer is concerned is already a stretch, multiplied by the likelihood that there will be no significant changes in the next couple of weeks prior to boxes-on-shelves anyway (there's a LONG leadup between any manufacturing change and getting that change on store shelves). It's just silly to be so confident that it will improve between now and release.
Anyway, enough with the review. Can't say I'll be heading back to Boy "Genius" for tech news.
On the product itself: may be nice. It'd be nice to get an independent review of it out there (BGR, as I said earlier, apparently does not qualify). I'd love for the iPhone to have some vital competition, but I see a few strikes against the Droid:
1. It's being hyped by Verizon, just like every other 10-minute-fad phone (anyone long for an LG Chocolate or a Sanyo whatever-phone-with-wheel-on-front-for-music or a RAZR?)
2. It's heavily influenced by Verizon. I have yet to see a phone they haven't screwed up royally with either unreasonable limitations (ex, crippled Bluetooth) or spamware apps riddled throughout the OS (ex, look at the apps they throw on every Blackberry they sell).
3. Physical keyboard takes up room (presumably from the battery) but adds nothing. Seriously. I have had a Treo and a Blackberry with physical keyboards, and I still find it easier to type on my wife's iPod Touch keyboard. No, I can't text while driving ... but you're an idiot if you buy a phone so you can more easily kill yourself and others on the road.
4. 5MP camera is hardly a selling point. At the cellphone camera size there are no differences at all between a 3MP and a 5MP camera. Heck, there's hardly a discernable difference in quality between 2 and 3. You're up against cold, unforgiving physics here. The lens and sensor are just too small to get anywhere near 5 million usable and discrete pixels of data. Not a reason to NOT buy it, but it takes one of the main "selling points" and eliminates it as drivel.
5. It's made by Motorola. Nuf said. Haven't had a good hardware experience from Motorola since ... well, ever really. Had a Moto pager for a few months eons ago, which ended up propping a short leg on a table satisfactorily, but even then I wouldn't have put any real weight on that table.
6. Almost forgot: battery life. BGR was tickled pink that with no web and bluetooth on they lasted a WHOLE DAY without having to recharge it. That may be a step up for Android phones, but it's hardly worth crowing about. Try turning on the bluetooth and using the GPS a few times in the day and see if you can make it to noon. I'd rather have the extra 2mm thickness in battery than the slide-out keyboard mechanism. Do love how, as always, Motorola claims 270 minutes of "standby" time and 6.5 hours of "talk". I've never seen a phone get anywhere near those published ratings in real life (probably because I actually go into work in an office building where the cell reception sucks and battery life likewise sucks), and as we know they don't take non-talk (or Google Voice) usage into account either. If BGR isn't being uncharacteristically harsh on the battery life here, I think that real users will find the device near-unusable. Which, again, isn't overly surprising, given the design compromises they took to get the "feature list" where they wanted it.
Can I choose to have more battery life instead of a useless physical keyboard?
don't like the look of it, but that's just me. also, the keyboard looks hard to use - seems like your right hand would be too far from the keys to be comfortable. I'd like it better if the keyboard came to the right edge (why doesn't it?).
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Quite telling that Windows Mobile has the same share as WebOS.
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Quite telling that Windows Mobile has the same share as WebOS.
I'm not sure what one gains with such high pixel density. I mean, does anyone find the iphone's screen pixelated or fuzzy? Also, the droid must be resolution independent, right? Otherwise everything would be too small to read, I'd think.
For what it's worth, a few years ago I was using a Motorola V710, and I have to say, it was probably the best cell phone I ever had. Crystal clear calls, lots of features for its day (calendar/contacts syncing, etc), and absolutely built like a tank! I even still have it in a drawer somewhere...
Compared to the WVGA phones? Yes. I'm old and I can still see the pixel grid on the iPhone. It's even more noticable after you compare.
The biggest problem with showing the "real internet" is having to scroll so much. With the WVGA phones, you can see and read more of a webpage at one time.
Its a pretty good time for phone competition with Droid in VZW, unlocked HTC HD2, and iPhone. I guess, it now comes down to which carrier and/or OS you like better. The iPhone is a fine phone, but its not for everyone, and for some people, like I prefer phone with a keyboard for comfort and ease(imho).
apple is innovating.. it's just that they run a business.. if they give you all the great feutures now, what will make you buy the next iphone.. cmon think about it.. economics 101..
Looks like the Sidekick V10. Why can't these companies make a phone that isn't ugly as ****?!?!