Comments on: Verizon Droid: We Have One

By: masurix

masurix — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:54:44 +0000

Hmm, that phone does look like it has some robot apocalypse on its artificially sentient mind, doesn’t it? It’s like the lovechild of the Eye of Sauron and an old school cylon.

By: yogi

yogi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:50:00 +0000

Yeah Pete! You can put your cylon looking phone picture up, but we’re not going to take the bait. SPECS!!! Give us the spec in full downloadable pdf!!! And where is the jail-breaking software…oh wrong phone.

By: Church

Church — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:06:14 +0000

Hey, yeah. Did you watch BSG this weekend, Peter?

*Long look over the clipboard*

By: masurix

masurix — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:47:34 +0000

We’re also giggling and snorting.

By: tereglith

tereglith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:30:50 +0000

Goodness, most of the time it’s lacklustre BSG references and basic randomness, but mention a cell phone and all of a sudden you can almost feel the orthodontia and coke-bottom glasses rays shooting through the comments.

By: masurix

masurix — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:42:36 +0000

If you’re able to make calls, how’s the speaker phone? I do tons of international conference calls and I need as much clarity as I can get. It’s madness how hard it is to find a decent speaker phone, compared to all these bells and whistles they put on phones. It might cook your dinner and take your kids to soccer practice, but you can’t understand a word of English when you switch to speaker.

By: thortheninja

thortheninja — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:11:44 +0000

Are you able to make calls? If so, how is the call quality? Is the screen similar to that of the iPhone as far as the touch screen goes (ie, multi-touch, glass, brightness)?

How’s the browser? Flash support, page rendering times, screen rotation smoothness?

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:42:52 +0000

The screen is made of glass and Droid comes with 256MB of internal memory.

By: Ffred

Ffred — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:19:33 +0000

I’m looking forward to your in-depth review. Android is cool, and Verizon has the best coverage in Arizona. I also like the iDon’t ads (I won’t touch Apple gadgets). What e-reader options are there, or is it still too soon for that?

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:08:33 +0000

1. It feels very industrial. It’s thicker than the iPhone and not as svelte, but I kind of like it that way. Feels fine in the pocket and hand.

2. Android 2.0 is smooth and responsive.

3. It’s running the default Android browser. No, you can’t install a third party browser. Check out the video of what’s new in Android 2.0 above.