Motorola’s Droid Is Memorable, But Won’t Make You Forget the iPhone
Like it or not, Motorola’s new Google-powered Droid smartphone will be compared to the iPhone. The good news is that this feature-rich handset, running version 2.0 of Google’s Android OS, compares very favorably to the Goliath of the smartphone world as a utility mobile-computing device — and, oh yeah, a phone. The bad news is that there may be too many good things going on to make using this device the quick, intuitive, out-of-the-box experience it should be. That’s a problem, given that the iPhone has set the usability bar so high. An embarrassment of riches shouldn’t be a negative, and it really isn’t overall on the Droid, which goes on sale Nov. 6 to Verizon customers only. …
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SpecMode (Matthew Fern) : @sophiestication DAMMIT! *punts Droid across the room*.. Updated : 2010-03-16T08:05:38Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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droidwomen (Women With Droids) : RT @thepinkc "Motorola: Droid update to Android 2.1 'will start to roll out this week' -- Engadget" ( http://bit.ly/dBVyS1 ).. Updated : 2010-03-16T08:05:32Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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TM_IPhone (IPhone on TweetMeme) : Droid Eris rooted to 2.1, but look before you leap -- Engadget http://retwt.me/1MwIC (via @blackoteka).. Updated : 2010-03-16T08:05:21Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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technews247 (Hot Tech News) : Droid Eris rooted to 2.1, but look before you leap http://bit.ly/bW5hqq.. Updated : 2010-03-16T08:04:45Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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FeeeelUp (Philip Juarez) : So on my droid i forgot that i have a rattle snake hissing sound as message tone. DELETE!!!!! cause it just scared the life outta me! >:/.. Updated : 2010-03-16T08:04:10Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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