This IS the droid you’re looking for!
This July the phone was known as the Google Android-powered Motorola Sholes, and now Verizon has brought the hype as it unleashes its flagship smartphone: THE DROID.
I know I’ll get trolled for this, but Verizon Wireless has excellent service. Plus I’m still (gratefully) (but fiscally) stuck on the family plan. They re-hook you every two years!
I kind of like Motorola products. My RZR had a great camera phone but I wanted to slit my SLVR’s throat. But overall, I kind of like Motorola.
HUGE display screen with 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen.
It has a 5 megapixel autofocus camera w/ flash.
Android 2.0: open-source-open-development (with a TI OMAP3430 processor)
Google had its paws all over the design of this one. (verizon and motorola too)
GPS; Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 2.0; and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
It’s thinner and sexier than my Voyager. Which is conveniently approaching it’s 2nd birthday the week of the Droid launch. And…it’s the week of my birthday.
I still don’t think its as sexy as the iPhone and it doesn’t come with the feeling of childhood joy you get from browsing through the iPhone app store. But it will get better quality cell service and it will have great widgets, like the Constellation app that shows you all the star shapes in 360 degrees.
Their iDon’t ads are pretty aggressive so I guess Verizon never wants to sell the iPhone. They have been called out for copying a series of Sega Genesis ads which highlighted the failures of the original Nintendo Entertainment System. They should’ve played nice and used the power of the force.
(p.s. They licensed the name ‘Droid’ from George Lucas.)
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I don’t see why anybody in their right mind would pay George Lucas a single cent for using the name droid. It’s a simple contraction of android, which he certainly didn’t create. But Lucas likes to give everybody the impression that he somehow created sci-fi. I remember after Star Wars came out he was busy suing everybody if they dared put out a sci-fi movie or tv show. He just made an ass of himself.
There isn’t a single original idea in Star Wars. He’s just a copycat who took other people’s ideas and ran with them.
I don’t see why you’d get trolled for saying Verizon has excellent service. In many places, Verizon has far better coverage and data speeds than AT&T. My thing about the Droid is it looks like a calculator – a very old calculator from the 1980s. The hardware and software are tops, just like you said. And in my talks with the Boy Genius, he seems to be really impressed with it.
If you decide to go with the Droid, you’ll be happy. It’s leaps and bounds ahead of the Voyager!
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