Looks nice, but I'm not sure about the larger screen. I would have to get a hold of it myself and see how it feels in my hands. It's not like I'll be watching videos all the time on the device, I rarely do on my iPhone.
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Motorola 'Droid X' to Challenge iPhone 4's Retina Display? [Updated]
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Wading through the fanboy drivel and name calling, a lot of people seem to miss the point that competition spurs innovation.
Lack of any perceived serious competition is what led to a 3G< 3GS upgrade where the big 'features' were compass and an OS that allowed mms.
The Android's commerical success and pushing of the envelope led directly to an iPhone 4 update that is a SIGNFICANT improvement over the previous model.
Competition is a good thing for all of us.
Lack of any perceived serious competition is what led to a 3G< 3GS upgrade where the big 'features' were compass and an OS that allowed mms.
The Android's commerical success and pushing of the envelope led directly to an iPhone 4 update that is a SIGNFICANT improvement over the previous model.
Competition is a good thing for all of us.
You obviously know and work with a different type of person to those that I know. Most people want simplicity; they want to be treated like a baby. This notion that Apple has a closed system that takes the tweaking away from the individual is a bad thing is bizarre to me.
Like many nerds on this site, I tweak and tinker with software and information so that the message it delivers is clear and unambiguous to the consumer. I don't send them an application that allows them to tweak endlessly. When it comes to MI, I could just send them a dump from the db with a note saying "go for it", but then I would be failing. The same is true of Apple. Their brilliance is in achieving what many of us here strive to do on a daily basis: they're an inspiration.
Corrected for you.
If that's true, then the Droid X only has 228ppi.
And there are probably billions of people that think they failed, vs the millions that don't.
Its funny how almost everyone attempts to copy Apple, before the iPhone, I cant remember a lot of phones with a big touchscreen(besides pocket pc's like my old cassiopeia). After the iPhone took off, almost everyone got into the touchscreen phone with minimal buttons market. Even RIM with the Blackberry Bold, and smaller phones that have the same functionality of a cheap flip phone, like Samsung for example.
My opinion is that Apple created something from the beginning that is gonna succeed for a very long time. A vast majority of these phones from other manufacturers are second thought productions, like "gee, it would be nice to have this cause everyone else has it now..." and then they throw it into their new phone model 6 months later. And guess what? Half of the functionality on most phones has no planning or development put into it. Remember copy/paste for the iPhone? The jailbreak community had that going for months before Apple officially released it. But it was slow, and buggy. It worked for some stuff and destroyed other stuff. Then Apple released copy/paste, it was close to perfect.
I agree. I used the HTC EVO, and felt the screen was too big. I think the iPhone has the screen size just right for its purposes. If I want to do something else, I get out my iPad (or perhaps my MacBook).
You are bang on the money: if other phone makers were still launching spec rich phones with no semblance of usability then we would not have the iPhone 4.
Yeah.... nice job.
Yeah, nice job Motorola Droid. But then isn't everything bigger and clunkier on that device already? I'm sure Steve Jobs is crying right now. He just pre-sold 600k units in one day. He makes more on iPhone 4 in one day that Motorola mobile division loses each year. But if you prefer that clunky piece of junk (and yes I have used one -- it was painful), then enjoy.
So Droid-X will have a bigger screen with the same pixel density of iPhone-4. Looks like iPhone has just set the standard in mobile pixel density that everyone is trying to match. Only difference is that Droid has a bigger screen -- but considering this is a mobile device, bigger is not necessarily better. Holding a Motorola Droid is rather awkward as it does not fit well in your palm and that stupid slide out keyboard is missing the one thing it was suppose to provide -- the ability to feel for keys -- its completely flat.
So for those of you who like junky, clunky, and ugly, you can now re-up to get all those features with a better screen. Wooo hooo! Go Motorola Droid! Let's just hope there are a handful of apps that take advantage of that new-found screen resolution.
Yeah, nice job Motorola Droid. But then isn't everything bigger and clunkier on that device already? I'm sure Steve Jobs is crying right now. He just pre-sold 600k units in one day. He makes more on iPhone 4 in one day that Motorola mobile division loses each year. But if you prefer that clunky piece of junk (and yes I have used one -- it was painful), then enjoy.
So Droid-X will have a bigger screen with the same pixel density of iPhone-4. Looks like iPhone has just set the standard in mobile pixel density that everyone is trying to match. Only difference is that Droid has a bigger screen -- but considering this is a mobile device, bigger is not necessarily better. Holding a Motorola Droid is rather awkward as it does not fit well in your palm and that stupid slide out keyboard is missing the one thing it was suppose to provide -- the ability to feel for keys -- its completely flat.
So for those of you who like junky, clunky, and ugly, you can now re-up to get all those features with a better screen. Wooo hooo! Go Motorola Droid! Let's just hope there are a handful of apps that take advantage of that new-found screen resolution.
rip DVD/blu-ray
put it on your cell phone
take to friend's house
watch movie on their TV
IMO, this is going to be a kludge up there with the "Oh crap, we have to do something fast!" that was the Blackberry Storm.
I doubt if any process balance w.r.t. driver process time is going to be taken into consideration and the design looks old.
HDMI on a handheld? Yes you can do it but I'd love to see the power curves on this.
I doubt if any process balance w.r.t. driver process time is going to be taken into consideration and the design looks old.
HDMI on a handheld? Yes you can do it but I'd love to see the power curves on this.
The Mac had always been the best product Apple ever made... until 2007, when they stopped caring. The best Mac ever made was likely the original PowerMac G5 back in 2003. Truly amazing machine, and even today, a 1GHz FSB is nothing to scoff at. It was obvious they actually cared about producing the best computers money could buy back then. Now, they stick sheets of glass over your displays so you can't read them because "it looks nice." I seem to recall Jobs saying how the display is the most important part of a computer, because it's your "gateway onto the Internet, your gateway onto your software." That was in 1999.
Those were the days. Now all Apple cares about is marketshare and keeping it by locking consumers into their phones and iPods with the App Store and the iTMS.
LMAO
I got an Evo to get me through the 4 week period after selling my 3GS and buying the iPhone 4. Andriod is no way closer to the Polish, Intuity and Simplicity of iOS.
Android and these flurry of HTC/Motorola phones may be the 2nd best. But, I dont want the 2nd best; I want the best - 'iPhone with iOS'.
Di you edit your post because you knew you were wrong? Because I was going to correct you. Microsoft did not adopt Facetime.
People that find choice too hard to deal with are sheep. Apple has created a great niche market appealing to sheep. And if you're inspired by a company that routinely censors the user's experience, then you're right and we are very different.
While I agree with you at some level, I think Apple's experience is that people will complain if they don't worry about controlling for such things. Your fatal implied assumption is that most people are capable of understanding the technology they use on a daily basis, thus also why their iPhone won't "hold a charge."
Droid/Google has never done their own thing or set a new standard [when it comes to smartphones], they simply wait for the next big thing to come out, then they copy them but do it just a little bit better. They need to get their own thing. This is like the Microsoft/Apple desktop wars all over again, except Apple starts out with the upper hand.
Try living in Jersey (UK). A house that has a lounge large enough to have the TV 12" away will cost you the better part of a million quid ($1,400,000). The odd house is different, but I'm going on the assumption that 17' rooms are both for dining and lounging.
How do I make the whole post green with envy?
sorry, i know hdmi supports 720p but hdmi is the only standard for a tv that can support 1080p with audio, so for the droid to have hdmi i am guessing it will be used mostly for bluray, but since true bluray is 1080p it holds a lot of memory, about 20gb, i dont see what else the hdmi out would be used for, except photos and videos taken on the phone but the camera on the droid cant take 1080p video so hdmi output seems pointless unless being used as a movie hub
No, "real world" is "not aimed solely for the technorati" and "not sacrificing convenience/usability for a longer feature list". You sound rather defensive. Why is that?
I'm all for Android and competition, but I've yet to run into a situation where I feel "restricted" by my iPhone experience. I would bet most feel the same. (And yes, I've used Android phones, all the way from the G1 to the first Droid to the DI).
And surely you know that Android doesn't feature true multitasking, yes? PalmOS is the only relevant mobile OS to feature true, desktop-style multi-tasking.