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The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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Well, I got one Saturday, and tried his techmeme test, and it works fine on my droid. ESPN works fine, other sites work fine.

I appreciate his input, but to call it a failure is really begging the headline.

Now I don't have an iPhone, so I can't compare, but the screen is astonishing, and the verizion service has always been better, so I think it is a great product.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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post #10

Sounds like an Apple fanboy to me, I love my Droid.

What's your experience regarding battery life?

So far, looks pretty good. Yesterday was heavy with browsing and used about half the battery, so I would say that it is as advertised.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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post #11
post #5

I think his problem with websites was a simple matter of screen size. On my Android phone, the right navigation wraps, because there's no room for it otherwise. On the much bigger screen of my Archos 5 media player (Android also), it displays fine -- it looks like it does on my desktop. Turn the text size down, and things are fine on both. Also, what does Twidroid Pro not do that anything on the iPhone does? I can po…

I think he does just like to whine, but I remember Gruber linking to this piece a while ago that mentions twidroid: http://notes.torrez.org/2009/08/android-software-day-3.html Summary: a bit clunky, options that should be disabled/omitted are enabled, slightly buggy. Lots of little cuts, rather than missing features. Things may well have improved since then; I don't use twidroid.

Sounds like his main complaint is that there's no Apple logo on the back.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no need to ridicule the writer for his opinion. There's a big difference between a moving a mouse in 2d space with a device moving on a 2d surface and navigating in menus. A better comparison is navigating in a 3D game vs a 2D (platform) game. The latter is easier for most people.

I will say it again, this Scobler guy is moron and complete idiot! He proves this with every post he makes. Somehow the idiotism he posts makes his blog even more popular, so I conclude that ppl who read him are in same coherent "state of mind".

Looks like you will make -4 on this post, but you are so right. He actually convinced his staff to work for him for free, all because he has a lot of Twitter followers. The world is a sad (but amusing) place.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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post #17

Most of the gripes seem to be software problems that should be fixable in short time. I wonder about the browser: aren't there browsers that are common to all Android phones? Or does each Android phone need a customized browser?

It's the same browser as the other phones have. It's also the same rendering engine that the iPhone's browser has. (But there is no Apple logo on it, so clearly it's inferior!)

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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post #14

Sounds like an Apple fanboy to me, I love my Droid.

what's your take on the "battery cover" thing the author mentioned? how much BS did he put in his article there, or could it be true?

I don't see it as in issue. If you are looking for an apparently batteryless device, maybe this is of concern to you. The salesman at the store used two hands to get it off, and I would not have even thought about this without this blog post.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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Don't care. There are multiple phones running Android, unlike the Palm Pre and iPhone.

There are multiple models of iPhone too. It's fair to compare the latest, top-of-the-range flagship model to its counterpart. Right now, Droid is that for Android. Sure, the Android ecosystem is probably going to get richer than Apple can allow for iPhone, but right now, that's the comparison.

I think he's talking about the different manufacturers and brands behind Android. Think of Android's business model as a loose coupled architecture, with the creation of hardware and software as separate components. This is the same strategy Microsoft took with Windows - they didn't make Windows hardware, and hardware manufacturers didn't succeed in making their own OS to compete with Windows. Apple, on the other hand, is in business of consumer devices end to end - responsible for creating both the high-level hardware, the OS, and some of the software.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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post #14

Sounds like an Apple fanboy to me, I love my Droid.

what's your take on the "battery cover" thing the author mentioned? how much BS did he put in his article there, or could it be true?

Never had an issue with it, the phone seems very sturdy and the battery cover doesn't have any trouble on my unit. Also, the haptic response is amazing, never seen anything like it. The camera IMO is fine for what I need, I'm sure they'll fix the focus issue soon. My only major gripe is the keyboard, it's usable, but the numbers are quite tedious to type in, so I usually revert back to the on-screen keyboard (which is great, especially the prediction) when I need to type a long string of numbers.

Re: The Droid fails as a product when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a droid fanboy to me.

So far oomkiller has not fabricated "facts" in favor of his argument.

Well, first off, you don't fabricate facts, that would just be lies. You can tell by the title that he set off to write an article about how the droid is bad. Not a comparison, basically just a rant about where it sucks. I'm sure I could just as easily write the same kind of article about the iPhone or definitely the Pre. What makes it even worse is that many of the issues stated in this article are nonexistent at best. First, the YouTube HD issue, no problems here. Then, the build quality issue, again, no problems here. Feel free to review my other comments for my quick review of the Droid.
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