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The Swype typing technique on the Motorola Droid X is a real breakthrough
Today may be the day that Apple lovers can get their hands on the much-anticipated iPhone 4, but it’s just another day in the life of the ever-increasing portfolio of fine phones that run the Google-backed Android operating system. Even if you consider the iPhone 4 the best smartphone on the market, 2010 will be remembered as the year that Android broke through and reached its own level of critical acclaim.
The latest example came Wednesday, when Motorola, Verizon, Google and Adobe unveiled the big and sexy Droid X, which goes on sale July 15 at Verizon Wireless for $200 (after rebate). During the preview event in New York, Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn’t reflect upon his company’s growing competition with Apple, but he did offer insights on why the mobile space is so important to Google.
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Please let us know when one, yes just one, Android phone comes out that has a touch screen that works at least half as well as those on iPhones, that has software that doesn't freeze up, etc. I've been waiting. The specs don't mean a thing if I can't pick the phone up and use it. When the iPhone first appeared, I walked up to a demo unit in a Apple store, and just as I started trying it out, a man in his late 60s came up and picked up the demo unit next to the one I was trying out. I found that navigating the phone was one of the most intuitive things I ever done. After a couple of minutes, I asked the older guy next to me if he found that he could do everything he was trying to do on the phone, and he said that, yes, he could. I asked if he'd ever picked one up before. Nope. And neither had I. Every time I walk by the Apple store, it's mobbed with people. I happen to work across the street from a Verizon-owned store. They have a Droid demo unit on display, and they have a nice big picture window facing State Street in Chicago. I was in there the first day they had the Droid. I couldn't get the damn thing to do anything. A few days later, I saw that another guy was in the store trying out the Droid. I wanted to know what his experience was. He liked the phone, but he was having a really hard time navigating it. He thought that maybe he just needed to read the manual, and maybe he would get used to it. I asked if he had ever tried and iPhone. Nope. I had since bought one, so I asked him to give it a try. He did, and when I asked if had any trouble figuring out how to do things on it, he said, “No, this thing's great.” I make a point of looking in the window of the Verizon store every day when I walk by to see if anyone is checking out the Droid. My hand to God, I've never seen anyone doing so. Droid can't. Apple can. Apple design from the ground up is driven by a passion for perfection, ease of use, and technical excellence that makes it's products almost magical when compared to the dull products from the MS/Intel/ and now, Google/every-other-wanna-be-cranking-out-phones-that-people-don't-want companies. I don't understand how HTC can ship a phone that crashes and burns through a battery in an hour. Doing so sabotabes the Android operating system, and just helps Apple sell more iPhones. Why is there no one else who cares about more than fooling people with specs that don't mean anything and letting them find that, as a system, the phones, operating system and applications don't work? I really don't get it.
The day may come when Droid phones work. After all, after more than a decade of sh*t, Microsoft managed, with XP, to make a functioning operating system. But, can you imagine how insanely great (yes, I know) Apple products will be by then?
Please let us know when one, yes just one, Android phone comes out that has a touch screen that works at least half as well as those on iPhones, that has software that doesn't freeze up, etc. I've been waiting. The specs don't mean a thing if I can't pick the phone up and use it. When the iPhone first appeared, I walked up to a demo unit in a Apple store, and just as I started trying it out, a man in his late 60s came up and picked up the demo unit next to the one I was trying out. I found that navigating the phone was one of the most intuitive things I ever done. After a couple of minutes, I asked the older guy next to me if he found that he could do everything he was trying to do on the phone, and he said that, yes, he could. I asked if he'd ever picked one up before. Nope. And neither had I. Every time I walk by the Apple store, it's mobbed with people. I happen to work across the street from a Verizon-owned store. They have a Droid demo unit on display, and they have a nice big picture window facing State Street in Chicago. I was in there the first day they had the Droid. I couldn't get the damn thing to do anything. A few days later, I saw that another guy was in the store trying out the Droid. I wanted to know what his experience was. He liked the phone, but he was having a really hard time navigating it. He thought that maybe he just needed to read the manual, and maybe he would get used to it. I asked if he had ever tried and iPhone. Nope. I had since bought one, so I asked him to give it a try. He did, and when I asked if had any trouble figuring out how to do things on it, he said, “No, this thing's great.” I make a point of looking in the window of the Verizon store every day when I walk by to see if anyone is checking out the Droid. My hand to God, I've never seen anyone doing so. Droid can't. Apple can. Apple design from the ground up is driven by a passion for perfection, ease of use, and technical excellence that makes it's products almost magical when compared to the dull products from the MS/Intel/ and now, Google/every-other-wanna-be-cranking-out-phones-that-people-don't-want companies. I don't understand how HTC can ship a phone that crashes and burns through a battery in an hour. Doing so sabotabes the Android operating system, and just helps Apple sell more iPhones. Why is there no one else who cares about more than fooling people with specs that don't mean anything and letting them find that, as a system, the phones, operating system and applications don't work? I really don't get it.
The day may come when Droid phones work. After all, after more than a decade of sh*t, Microsoft managed, with XP, to make a functioning operating system. But, can you imagine how insanely great (yes, I know) Apple products will be by then?
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