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I just got the new motorola droid phone.. It kicks ass.. Does a few thing IPhone doesn;t do.. I have verizon and the 3G data is awesome. I think the cool feature I used so far are the Google Navigation and the metal detector.
I got the phone for $200 if you extend contract for 2 years. What I like is the android platform integrates to many applications I use online.
I'm a programmer and developer looking to build mx/sx app for this phone in the FREE section.
Let me know if any of you have ideas.. Would just be building it for fun..
I got the phone for $200 if you extend contract for 2 years. What I like is the android platform integrates to many applications I use online.
I'm a programmer and developer looking to build mx/sx app for this phone in the FREE section.
Let me know if any of you have ideas.. Would just be building it for fun..
BTW the bubble app and steamy windows is cool to screw around with when you get bored.
I would love if you could pull a MX/SX app on this thing then it would make my day go by faster!!!
The Shop
see for yourself the differences
I was thinking the other day what the best piece of technology I've ever owned was. It's either the iPhone or the DVR.
-FTP server and client apps
-SSH
-I have loaded about 5gigs of music on it... don't use the ipod anymore
-Google Maps/ Navigation I have the AUX cable plugged in and get turn by turn through the door speakers
-Bubble I leveled my trailer with this app after the levels on it decided to no longer be on it.
-Google Sky is interesting
-Throttle Copter
-Dope Wars
-You can Bump from Droid:Droid or Droid:IPhone
Things I don't Like:
-No root access(yet) I am sure voidman will understand that one
Android is suppose to be running the Linux kernel anyway so that part of it would have to be open and I would have to think it would be easy to hack/customize. If I could afford one of those phones I would have one and would know more about it.
Pit Row
That or it is a guess, which I am betting is the case.!
It will look like swiss cheese without the cheese! I can't imagine them having half of their network in terms of sq miles covered with it in 3 years much less 1.
Ofcourse they will do like At&t and cover all the major metro areas first to hit most of the population.
I've been thinking about changing to Verizon and getting the droid. Did read on CNET that there is a google phone coming out early 2010.
That being said there is an android SDK available that has an emulator built in where you can fool around with the phone and test your software.
If you don't run the WRT software (dd-wrt on my 54g's at the house here) you're missing out huge!
that stuff is awesome.
I am surprised that there's no one who has hacked it already (the droid)
With reference to iphones - they were overrated when they first launched, and it took over a year before they started to catch up to other smart phones with any real world productivity, and they also had to open the software so anyone could make apps before it really 'took off'. It was unpolished at release, and still to this day, there's shit I can do with my 6 year old flip-phone that an I-phone can't do, pretty sad.
That said - I am a bit more unfamiliar with the Droid, but it doesn't look like it's suffering the same release issues that plagued the overrated Iphone and all the fanboi's who suck apple dick for fun.
Hell, it came with it.
Highlight link, choose view, or download or some shit.
Look at the idiots with their iphone, they stare at the shit for 10 minutes fiddling with it for one call (exaggeration, i know).
But you'll never, ever - EVER be able to do that with an iphone - ever. It's not humanly possible. So it is what it is.
Also, for the longest time I could use voice dialing (also 1-touch which can't be done on an i-phone) and MMS messaging had been around forever before iphone finally decided to make their phone adapt to it.
It was totally unpolished, at a huge convention pushing the iphone on it's release, most business people said "it's neat, but it doesn't do what I need, it doesn't work with the things I use every day so I won't get one", and it took a long while before apple started listening to that.
It was unpolished at release, and is FINALLY getting up to speed. It's a neat toy - it's lackluster 'phone'.
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