This Droid phone is just out now. Looks pretty cool. Nice 480 by 854 pixel touchscreen and also a slim slideout keyboard. Looks to be a good alternative to the iPhone and one of the best Android based smart phones around.
Short review here:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/58767 (http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/58767)
Yes, Android is maturing quickly. I'm impressed they've pulled Motorola in too. HTC was fine for the last round but thats very definately a PDA company. Motorola make 'proper' phones!
The image with the keyboard is a bit too remeniscient of my last WM device so sent a few shivers down my spine but I suspect this handles voice calls a lot better than that thing ever did.
I like the look of it but don't know about the feel - never used Android. I should think the free Nav app will pull in a few people but if it's streamed from Google then service availability will quickly become an issue.
Still, it looks good.
Yeah - the turn-by-turn navigation link with Google maps is pretty sweet.
Talked to a colleage of mine who's husband did a bit of work on the turn-by-turn app for Google. It is apparently streamed at all times so a pretty good data connection will be required at all times when using it and probably a ar charger too!
Still, from the implementation videos I've seen, the use of street view and the sattelite maps images make for a pretty neat package.
I like the QWERTY keyboard on the new phone. That is my major beef with the iPhone - which I otherwise love. Fat Fingers make text tough.
The whole "Droid does what iDon't" ad campaign reminds me a little too much of how they advertised the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive over here: "Sega does what Nintendon't".
Not a good comparison, especially for us geeks who lived thru that nasty console war.
BJ
Quote from: Captain BJ Wanlund on November 03, 2009, 04:23:47 PM
The whole "Droid does what iDon't" ad campaign reminds me a little too much of how they advertised the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive over here: "Sega does what Nintendon't".
Not a good comparison, especially for us geeks who lived thru that nasty console war.
BJ
I had the Nintendo because the folks bought it. I had the sega because I bought it. Sega was a better machine, and it was unfortunate that Nintendo won with branding