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Poll: Will the DROID have you in its clutches? {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 11:52AM The UI is clean and the device does not suffer performance issues I have faced with other handhelds. The keyboard could be done a little better, but it really seems like it is a matter of opinion. I have to disagree with you, I like its layout and design.
It isn't so much what it can do, as much as how well it does it...(any smartphone, hell even most 'dumbphones' can do messaging) and while I am a bit of a newbie to the whole smartphone arena, I have owned a countless number of PDAs, and even developed for a few of them. From a development perspective, and a usability perspective, the DROID outdoes all of my previous experiences. Development certainly is alot easier, even though I haven't done heavy Java development in the past.
The camera focusing is horrid, although I believe the those issues may be solvable via updates.
Poll: Will the DROID have you in its clutches? {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 11:15AM I waited 10 hours in the cold for the DROID, and bought 3 of them on a family plan. I went to work the next day with 36 hours of consciousness under my belt. I can honestly say this is the coolest phone / handheld device I've ever touched. Sharing our locations with Google latitude, communicating with Text, AIM, Email all over one device, multitasking, the GPS... everything has seemed absolutely flawless from my experience. No device crashes or slowdowns, and generally good battery life have made this a must-have device. Being my first smart phone, I may be a bit naive with my expectations, but this is far from my first handheld. The always-on internet is a big plus... I'm doing something on the connection, all day, be it messaging friends or SSHing into my servers. The virtual keyboard is fine, but the physical one is much, much better than what I expected after reading the review.
And for the comparison we've all been making- this does not feel like the iPhone at all. From my perspective, the DROID has -alot- more polish and flexibility than its supposed rival counterpart- for my needs and uses. Tweens need to stick to their teeny interfaces. This device is for the technical, and I guarantee it will deliver more in every way in that regard. Android is a more capable OS for the technical.
All in all, this is the best phone ever, period. I can hardly believe it comes from Motorola- but then again, the entire phone screams it. Google, Verizon, and Motorola have a real winner- and now Android is just that much closer to the top of the market share.
New York attorney general files antitrust lawsuit against Intel {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 7:36PM @poppastevez: Oh, like how AMD has pushed NVIDIA SLI support out of almost every AM2 and AM3 board on the market, when Intel's X58 chipset supports both SLI and Crossfire? I used to be a happy AMD/NVIDIA customer until they bought ATI.
GSM DROID with multitouch pinch-to-zoom demoed on video hating America {Engadget}
Nov 2nd 2009 9:23AM No- hate the software patent system. Stifling innovation at every bend in the road, keeping the corporate piggy bank happy, screwing over the users, and inhibiting the developers since the 1970's.
Motorola DROID user guide unearthed in its entirety {Engadget}
Oct 30th 2009 8:38PM @ n_shakuras
It does have a GPU, but it is part of the OMAP3's SoC, so it really cannot be called "separate". The 550Mhz Cortex A8, PowerVR SGX 530, and c64x+ DSP should outperform the 1GHz snapdragon chipsets in applications heavy on drawing and multimedia.
Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released, could decide your OS fate {Engadget}
Oct 30th 2009 8:33PM They've replaced DMIX / Alsa with PulseAudio.... they really should layer PulseAudio on top of Dmix, though. Most people aren't the audiophile I am and don't care about the impact on quality resampling and software mixing have on their applications.
In general, 9.04 sucked for sound, and they once again had a half-done KDE installation. Both are reasons why I use OpenSuSE instead. Notably, however, sound hasn't been much of a pleasant experience on 11.1 either.
Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released, could decide your OS fate {Engadget}
Oct 30th 2009 8:27PM @ Mark Anderson
Yeah, like my company. If our product isn't working on IE6/IE7/IE8/whatever because the browser doesn't adhere to W3C... we tell our customers to point the middle finger at Microsoft. Not our problem.
Its really, attitudes like yours which fragment technologies and cause both the customer and me personal headache. I don't worry or care too much, because people like you are getting buried by Google by the minute.
More on the DROID: thoughts from the rest of Engadget {Engadget}
Oct 30th 2009 8:12PM Who are you kidding? Every day, after work, and all day on the weekends I've been going to Verizon store and Best Buy one after another- and every one of them has been asked about the DROID on multiple occasions. Best Buy preorders started silently today at around 12pm- with no official news whatsoever, and by the time I got there to put in my own at 2:00pm I was already 6th on the list. That's saying alot. This phone is going to sell, and sell out. Period.
Google adds free turn-by-turn navigation, car dock UI to Android 2.0 (video) {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 10:18AM Um, Google Maps? The maps will always be up to date, there will not only be more accuracy due to the constant updates Google maps receives, but you'll have access to all other resources Google has, such as restaurant reviews and other user generated comments. You'll have a very difficult time finding anything your TomTom service can do that Google Maps cannot do better.
HTC confirms it has Android 2.0 handsets in the works {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 9:19AM Yeah, which is why we're sitting here drooling for good hardware. I suppose WinMo with just ARM11 holds you over, with its archaic drawing APIs.
