Verizon Wireless and Motorola Launch Droid X

Engadget also waxed poetic on the original Droid, which again I think is about as bad as smartphone designs come.

and your opinion is YOUR opinion.


Engadget, Phonescoop, phone arena, boy genius report, cnet, and countless other blogs all like the original droid, both design and what it did.

believe it or not, your opinion does not reality make

Period. It isn't. My opinion on design comes from an understanding as to how design works.

Putting cheap gold plastic buttons is not design. A numb useless keyboard is not good design. That whole top-is-smaller-than-the-bottom sure as hell wasn't. The indifferent panel shapes were not good design (contrast the Droid to say... the RAZR where much attention was paid to how the phone fit together.)

What's ridiculous is that at one time Motorola was one of the best product design companies in the world. The Droid lineup has been anything but.

It helps to know that design ┰  style.

and yet everyone seems to disagree with you.

So apparently your experience doesn't mean ****

'Everyone' can be wrong, doesn't change the fact that I'm right.

You can't be right if you're the only one saying something, especially when you're talking about something subjective like how a device looks.

Get a girlfriend.

BloodThirsty said:
Get a girlfriend.

maybe blue wants a boyfriend instead. Not that theres anything wrong with that 😉

LMAO! and the DROID is second fiddle to the iPhone... okay, okay... maybe seventh or eigth fiddle...

I know you guys aren't trying to say when it comes to design... the DROID is a great looking phone... LMAO

Android phones are now selling at a higher rate than iPhones. There will be a spike when the iPhone 4 comes out but reality is it's Apple against the rest of the industry. If they continue with the crap like the way this launch is being handled no one will like or trust them. you can only play people for so long before they have had enough and abandon you. Apple has a long history of playing the public and their partners as well.
I'm sorry to disappoint but the iPhone 4 is not the equal to the Incredible OR the EVO.
They needed a big change and got less than the market was looking for.
Bluecoyote can come on with his blustery Android sucks posts but the fact remains that Android is not only here to stay but it will eventually give Black...
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People will always stand in line for the iphone. There is no evidence that things will ever change.

*Bleep* off!

Debating bluecoyote is akin to debating a cat. In the end the cat will walk away when he is beaten and ACT as though HE crushed you with his nose stuck in the air.

personally from my first look at this phone i was turned off by its looks. It simply looks cheap. I agree with blue saying this phone does not look well.

everyone who's held the device says it feels very sold and well built in the hand

In all fairness, I'll quote an Engadget article from this morning "The iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market today"

I'm not gonna say the Droid X isn't nice, but geez, why does this one get such an incredible (and fast) review based on mere moments with the phone when the EVO didn't get the same treatment with the same (and better in some ways) specifications?

I'm going to go ahead and throw the "obvious bias" flag on their "first look" review of the phone.

And the Iphone Comment isn't obvious Bias ? I will say this for the billionth time, I LIKE APPLE ! But lets be real all the Iphone 4 is, is ideas that where already out there on other phones that people liked and have wanted since the first Iphone and now they are getting it. How does that make it the best Phone on the market ?

I was quoting another website...

yes but you were at the same time stating that there is bias towards this phone in your comment.....and i feel there is bias in the comment you quoted and i posed a question.

I understand, though the review from Engadget was a little less fanboy and a little more "we spent the last week with our review unit" than Erics "I spent mere minutes with the Droid X"

I donno man, it was an first glance review and normal thouse are base on emotion rather then facts and stats. I see what your saying, my retort is that it my be more wow factor then anything, and again if looking at the number and using the device for more then a week you call it the best on the market when there are other phones that do exactlly the same thing is a littel strange to me.

Eric didn't REVIEW the droid. he gave a hands on impression

Read his article before posting on it.

(and don't say you read it, because if you did and didnt catch that it was a hands on and not a full review.....)

what you said:

That's why engadget also had a very positive first impression, right?

what I said:

In all fairness, I'll quote an Engadget article from this morning "The iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market today"

Also, it appears you started this thread with a little bit of "intent to flame"

It's a failure and horrible phone Blue?

And yeah, I did read the 11 paragraph "first look" Eric wrote on the device "Based on the few moments we've spent with the Droid X" and kind of wondered if they are on Verizons payroll..

You saw that YOU and Blue (two apple fans) where the first ones to post on an android news posting right.

That's intent to flame. (just like his post in the droids hands on forum, his writing off of ANY dissenting viewpoint as people who don't know what they're talking about, etc). Why are you trying so hard to follow in his footsteps?

And yes, engadget had a great hands on as well, AND they gave a great review of the iphone, so apparently they're not apple haters.

Read the first look at endgadget, boy genius, wired, slashgear, etc first looks of the device. ALL of them are positive.

Are you trying to say that the only way they could possibly like this phone is if verizon is paying ALL of them? Talk about being paranoid.

I'm just waiting to see Verizon sell "a bazillion of the things"

Thats all. 😛

Considering android is activating 160k units a day, and fully 1/3 of active androids out there seem to be the moto droid, they'll sell a lot.

Especially with the upgrade push up (a first for verizon as far as I know), the marketing push, and the subliminal messages verizon is putting in your wheaties box.. well, maybe not that last part (they prefer captn krunch)

and the subliminal messages verizon is putting in your wheaties box.. well, maybe not that last part (they prefer captn krunch)

ROFL!

They do spend a little bit on advertising don't they?

They have to. Cellphones are all about marketing.


They took android from a "whats that" for the average consumer to something that most people are at least aware of

Kind of pisses me off a little, you know, being one of the guys who actually sold the first (and second, and third) version of iPhone to be released to the world!

All day long I hear "oh, you guys have Android too???" 👿

If there is one thing T-Mobile needs to do, it's up that advertising budget a little.

first second and third version of the iphone? or do you mean android?

>.>

I sell T-mobile.

oh yeah... typo, my bad.

see, this is why android needs advertising.. even reps are referring to it as an iphone. 😉 🤣

Freudian slip. He LOVES the iphone. I must admit that I have a bit of a crush on it, too.

it got a hands on impression. the two are TOTALLY different.

that's why it said First look in the title

that's what i said

https://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=35 ... »


They were very positive about the device.

That is high praise indeed! Of course my prejudice against all things Motorola means at best I will nod in silence.

*Nods*

So engadget, phonescoop, and BGR are all crap.

So what phone websites know what they are talking about blue? and why don't you go there, since we "uneducated morons" obviously don't know what we're talking about.

They're not all crap, they're just not always right. And I call them out on it. I'll call them all out with this one red flag- nobody seems to have found justification as to why this piece of crap exemplified "excellent industrial design." But from looking at the indifferent assembly, the craptacular looking buttons, and the port faces (ala cheap HP laptop.. that comes to mind) I'm again saying they're full of it.

It's like when people called the HTC Touch Diamond "excellent industrial design" (taking iPhone/Android fanboyism out of the picture here) - most of the idiots who claimed this wouldn't be able to even give you a correct definition of design.

Of course it wasn't excellent design- it was all just stylization.

You do realize that most people who have covers over their ports hate the covers right? Open ports like those on the X are a welcome change from little plastic pieces that can fall off.

I agree w/u plastic/rubber covers. A good word that comes to mind is "flimsy". There's nothing about the Droid that's flimsy.

I can do one better. Oftentimes I have to plug in the charger to my phone by feel, because I am in a position where I can't see the port. When they are flush with the body, it is much harder to find them by feel than when there is a "bump" with the ports on it.

And port covers suck. Either the plug comes out and gets lost forever, or the doohickey that holds it on is all in the way and a bother with your case. It gets ripped off.

Plus, this is microUSB port. It is not the older LG port, which is notorious for being a bad design that always breaks.

Lots of phones have color coded side buttons now. It's a dark set color, so it isn't too flashy about its presence. I see nothing wrong with that.

The hole in the top is for the speaker...
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Very true

Which is precisely the reason I prefer you to deal with him rather than myself! The two of you are like the "The Clash Of The Phone Scoop Titans"!