This needs to come to AT&T and T-mobile. VZ already agreed with FCC that they will not be carrying exclusive device for more than 6 months. GSM version will come out in 2010. MOTOROLA is in trouble just like palm. They will have to release it on AT&T and t-mobile. #gsmmotoroladroid
@hcho3: I'm pretty sure though that if the Droid is successful, Verizon get's first rights to it's successor that'll come out next year. I mean, who would want a 3G Droid if Verizon has a 4G Droid on it's network which can push 12+Mbps and tether like crazy? #gsmmotoroladroid
After all of the talk on the tech sites I thought for sure this thing would be snappier. I’m starting to think the interface performance has more to do with Android especially since the Moment doesn’t seem to show much more in the way of performance compared to its underclocked siblings.
I honestly don’t think the slower interface is that big of a deal and there is also the distinct possibility that the unit shown in this video had tons of stuff running in the background, but I wouldn’t think that would be the case on a cold restart.
Either which way the phones have been pouring out for Android and there are tons more to come, I just hope that they are able to resolve the sluggishness at some point further down the line. #gsmmotoroladroid
Slashgear: "What we don’t yet know is any sort of release date for the handset, either in the US or in Europe. The DROID in the video is looking a little sluggish, though, so we’re hoping this is an early build rather than what we can expect from the shipping model’s 600MHz Cortex A8 processor."
Knowing what a fickle mistress Apple is it would be smart of AT&T to start getting tight with the 'Droid in case El Jobso decides to dump their sorry asses... #droidonatt
@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: which they should, since AT&T is the cause of most of the problems with the iPhone - or at least they are blamed for most of the problems, anyway, since Apple can do no wrong. But will Apple go with Verizon? Not after those anti-Apple-ads, I'd wager. So then...T-Mobile? Perhaps. Either way, it doesn't look good for AT&T where the iPhone is something like 75% of their business. #droidonatt
I don't think anyone in Maryland is going to buy a Blackberry named Essex. They are either too good to be associated with Essex or a mullet-having Essexian who doesn't know what a Blackberry is.
Where are you getting with this? Blackberry's are first and foremost a business device, not a consumer product. just so happens thye are one of the best messaging devices a teenager could have.
IF this is the real deal, glad to see they are carrying over with the ever almighty Bold keyboard. Honestly every single company even doing a qwerty board should just buy the license to this one design since it is hands down the best I have ever used. So good infact, that I pound harder on my phone then on my computer at this point.
This is so strange, my wife gave me a gazillion spare batteries--I've got spare batteries everywhere--my bag, my car, my office... None of them hold a charge.
10 years ago I worried about the government implanting RFID chips in my children without asking me then recently I revisited that fear and realized that they had figured out how to follow everyone in the country and they made everyone pay for the equipment themselves. GSM in cellphones.
I can find my exact location on my BB with Google maps. What is stopping not just the government but anyone with the means of finding me where ever I am because I always carry my BB and my kids are never without their cell phones.
Screw it, let the government follow me around. I don't have any any terrorist activities planned. If they want to see me going back and forth to work and the donut shop fine with me.
@reddingofish: You're wrong. The government has no clue where our houses are. To fix this, that is why the census is using GPS this year, and when they move the Census to a yearly and then daily census(requiring you to confirm who you are +where when they shut down the private internet), THEN they will know where you are. They will couple this with the biometric data they steal from you at airports, the DNA they illegally stole form everyone in the world at birth for the last 30 years and keep in Eugenics Labs. In addition, these will be cross referenced with the gait patterns the surveillance blimps 80,000 feet in the atmosphere are collecting in addition to the face and body scanning technology which Microsoft, who is a front for the Government, will be collecting through the NATAL cameras, which can scan you and transmit the data, even when turned off and unplugged. All of this will allow them to frame you for crimes, track you, and send SWAT teams and cruise missiles/Terminators directly to your door and kill you specifically.
GSM itself is fine, but the SIM cards do make it rather easy to pop into gadgets like this without help from the carriers...
You're right about giving people their own tracking devices. More and more phones and cameras use GPS to "geotag" their photos with location data - time stamps are old hat already. When I started seeing ads for online photo storage for cel phones it dawned on me - law enforcement often gets overreaching approval to go through electronic records; all they would have to do is get a warrant to search one server hosting cel phone photos, and then run a facial recognition program over it and they would know exactly who was where, and when, and who they associate with. It's not some Minority Report conspiracy theory - this is simple to do with currently available, and even mature tech. It'll just be a little longer before it's very practical because geotagging is still catching on.
Since we can't count on laws to enforce courteously not violating people's privacy, I think the answer would be legal requirements for data encryption and storage for such records - on a phone photo host server they would have to encrypt every client's photos with a separate key, either known only to the client, or hashed from a password of theirs. This would prevent the convenient searching of whole servers at a time.
aaaaanyway, that was kind of a tangent, so back to the battery - that thing looks like it has the exact same dimensions as my Motorola KRZR battery. That's interesting because I was just thinking it may be foiled by a phone like mine that uses a sheet metal battery cover - apparently not so much.
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Also, on behalf of the six fingered-man: Ouch. *hits Danny over the head with the butt of his sword* #gsmmotoroladroid
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I honestly don’t think the slower interface is that big of a deal and there is also the distinct possibility that the unit shown in this video had tons of stuff running in the background, but I wouldn’t think that would be the case on a cold restart.
Either which way the phones have been pouring out for Android and there are tons more to come, I just hope that they are able to resolve the sluggishness at some point further down the line. #gsmmotoroladroid
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Slashgear: "What we don’t yet know is any sort of release date for the handset, either in the US or in Europe. The DROID in the video is looking a little sluggish, though, so we’re hoping this is an early build rather than what we can expect from the shipping model’s 600MHz Cortex A8 processor."
Giz: "so is likely an engineering sample"
Pay attention. #gsmmotoroladroid
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So did the iPhone 3G. And the iPhone 3GS...
Where are you getting with this? Blackberry's are first and foremost a business device, not a consumer product. just so happens thye are one of the best messaging devices a teenager could have.
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I can find my exact location on my BB with Google maps. What is stopping not just the government but anyone with the means of finding me where ever I am because I always carry my BB and my kids are never without their cell phones.
Screw it, let the government follow me around. I don't have any any terrorist activities planned. If they want to see me going back and forth to work and the donut shop fine with me.
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GSM itself is fine, but the SIM cards do make it rather easy to pop into gadgets like this without help from the carriers...
You're right about giving people their own tracking devices. More and more phones and cameras use GPS to "geotag" their photos with location data - time stamps are old hat already. When I started seeing ads for online photo storage for cel phones it dawned on me - law enforcement often gets overreaching approval to go through electronic records; all they would have to do is get a warrant to search one server hosting cel phone photos, and then run a facial recognition program over it and they would know exactly who was where, and when, and who they associate with. It's not some Minority Report conspiracy theory - this is simple to do with currently available, and even mature tech. It'll just be a little longer before it's very practical because geotagging is still catching on.
Since we can't count on laws to enforce courteously not violating people's privacy, I think the answer would be legal requirements for data encryption and storage for such records - on a phone photo host server they would have to encrypt every client's photos with a separate key, either known only to the client, or hashed from a password of theirs. This would prevent the convenient searching of whole servers at a time.
aaaaanyway, that was kind of a tangent, so back to the battery - that thing looks like it has the exact same dimensions as my Motorola KRZR battery. That's interesting because I was just thinking it may be foiled by a phone like mine that uses a sheet metal battery cover - apparently not so much.
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At least that's how I read it.
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I guess it depends on how big Uranus is.
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