Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid • Hacker News Board

Re: Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid

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Post by gloob » Sun, Nov 01, 2009, 7:08 PM UTC

hyperbovine wrote: post #28

Andys wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its the price we pay to be able to listen to mp3s whilst GPS navigating in the car! Or leaving my SSH session open while replying to a tweet and checking a website. My point: until a super-fast android is released, would you rather have things slow but the ability to multitask, or fast but no multitasking at all?

The iPhone can play MP3s while doing anything else, there are GPS Nav apps for the iPhone, and nobody wants to ssh from a phone anyways.

Actually, being able to ssh from a phone would be about the only thing that would convince me to get one. But I suspect I'm not exactly representative of the potential customer base.

Re: Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid

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Post by silentbicycle » Sun, Nov 01, 2009, 7:11 PM UTC

hyperbovine wrote: post #28

Andys wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its the price we pay to be able to listen to mp3s whilst GPS navigating in the car! Or leaving my SSH session open while replying to a tweet and checking a website. My point: until a super-fast android is released, would you rather have things slow but the ability to multitask, or fast but no multitasking at all?

The iPhone can play MP3s while doing anything else, there are GPS Nav apps for the iPhone, and nobody wants to ssh from a phone anyways.

> and nobody wants to ssh from a phone anyways.

Actually, it's pretty handy (when your phone has an actual keyboard). I use pssh on my Palm Centro a couple times per week.

Re: Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid

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Post by jamesbritt » Sun, Nov 01, 2009, 10:19 PM UTC

hyperbovine wrote: post #28

Andys wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its the price we pay to be able to listen to mp3s whilst GPS navigating in the car! Or leaving my SSH session open while replying to a tweet and checking a website. My point: until a super-fast android is released, would you rather have things slow but the ability to multitask, or fast but no multitasking at all?

The iPhone can play MP3s while doing anything else, there are GPS Nav apps for the iPhone, and nobody wants to ssh from a phone anyways.

"and nobody wants to ssh from a phone anyways."

Really? I got word that my site was down, and was able to shell in and fix it from my G1. Coincidentally, I happened to be at an Android developer meeting at the time.

I'll grant that the G1 (etc.) is a more of a hacker phone than the iPhone, but some of us really do like being able to code up a useful app and drop on our phones or easily share it with others, or VNC to a desktop machine to check something, or ssh somewhere to go a fix.

Re: Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid

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Post by Andys » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 2:42 AM UTC

gloob wrote: post #31

hyperbovine wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The iPhone can play MP3s while doing anything else, there are GPS Nav apps for the iPhone, and nobody wants to ssh from a phone anyways.

Actually, being able to ssh from a phone would be about the only thing that would convince me to get one. But I suspect I'm not exactly representative of the potential customer base.

It was the exact reason I chose the G1, its generous 5 row qwerty keyboard makes daily use of SSH possible. You can type numbers and symbols in your password easily and quickly, and you get a full 80x25 display.