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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    05:54 PM

    In reply to Droid Price Drops to $120
    Even Amazon is getting in on this price dropping action. They have the Nokia N900 for $509 (with a $50 dollar rebate). Today they dropped that down to $479.99 (with the same $50.00 rebate from Nokia).

    [www.amazon.com]
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    Image of Digitallysick Digitallysick
    05:56 PM

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Keep in mind it does not support ATT 3G
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06:00 PM

    @Digitallysick: AT&T sucks donkey balls anyway so it's irrelevant. T-Mobile 3G is supported.
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    Image of Zebatinsky Zebatinsky
    05:51 PM

    In reply to Droid Price Drops to $120
    Man. I can't believe it, but I'm actually considering buying this.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01:49 PM

    In reply to Specs Leak on the Motorola Motus?
    Apple is making an iphone with a keyboard??
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    01:08 PM

    In reply to Motorola Motus Android Phone Caught on Shaky Cam?
    What is wrong with people and their blurry-ass photos? Gizmodo's number one tipster, Shakes the Clown. I expected this back in 2006 but we have better cameras now, wtf.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12:19 PM

    In reply to Specs Leak on the Motorola Motus?
    "...the just-outed Motorola Motus..."

    I read: just out-dated...
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    Image of FamiCube64 FamiCube64
    12:42 PM

    @Geisrud: A new phone is released every second, so you're probably right.
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    tande04 promoted this comment FamiCube64 was starred FamiCube64 was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    02:58 PM

    @FamiCube64: Plus even the cliq was outdated when it was released and this is pretty much the same.

    Its too bad really. I love the innovative design on this and really want to see a high end version.

    The next moto droid from verizon is going to be equally lackluster sadly.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    08:51 AM

    In reply to Motorola Motus Android Phone Caught on Shaky Cam?
    This thing looks awesome I can't wait to see a better picture/real thing.

    Took me forever when this broke on other sites to figure out whats going on with the keyboard. In fact if someone at BGR hadn't posted it I would have never figured it out.

    The keyboard is the back of the phone. Thats why you've got the camera on the "front" in this view (see bottom left, 5.0 megapixels). Its so simple but makes so much sense. The Env and all those other flip QWERTYs always seemed stupid because you waste space by having to have 2 screens. Something like the Env touch made even less sense because you lose the big nice touchscreen when typing and get the little crappy interior screen. All gone now plus I imagine its going to allow for the phone to be thinner and sturdier.

    What I really want to see is if the buttons on the back retain any of their functionality when closed. Again, its something that makes soooo much sense I'm amazed that Moto is the first one doing it. I mean obviously there would be things that you'd have to work around if the buttons on the back worked but if they could figure out a way to keep things like physical navigation buttons and still retain a sleek clean front I'd say its a win. Seems like it would be pretty easy to get used to.
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    Image of Seiven Seiven
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    WTF? that is kinda cool, but really...WTF?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    Whew! At least they didn't base it on the Mayan calendar.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    11/18/09

    @ripfire: What, you mean because then the Droid won't work after December 21, 2012?

    I feel pretty safe saying that no phone you buy today will work after that date. ;-)
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    "The 17th is the start of a new "works correctly" cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works."

    so... intrauterine device, or the old fashioned pill?
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    So if they don't fix it with the December 11th update, let's just hope your 5MP camera-phone isn't what you plan on documenting the Christmas and new year festivities with. Hanukkah, you're safe.
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    Edited by 32ndnote at 11/18/09 11:37 AM 32ndnote was starred 32ndnote was unstarred
    Image of natelock natelock
    11/18/09

    @32ndnote: Are you suggesting that the droid is part of a jewish conspiracy?
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    11/18/09

    @natelock: I can only say this because of the complete and total anonymity the internet always provides... but, yes. Don't tell ponies.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    "That is, it'll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again."

    i've had cars like that.
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    Image of maven2k maven2k
    11/18/09

    @nutbastard: My life is like that, sigh.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    Sooo... What is the significance of a 49 day cycle (if it is a rounding issue, you would expect the change to be halfway through the cycle)? 49 days is roughly 4.23B ms. That doesn't seem significant. On the other hand, if we go binary, 2^32 is about 4.29B -- it does seem implausible to have a value stored in an unsigned 32 bit word. Of course that would be a cycle of 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.3 seconds.

    Any takers?
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    That's funny. My wife has a similar bug: she works great for about 3 weeks or so, but the fourth week, oh man - watch out!

    edit - damn, wasn't so original after all...
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    Image of wardy89 wardy89
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    i would have to say that this is probably one of the most random bugs i have ever heard of!
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/18/09

    @wardy89: More random that zunes shutting off then coming back on?

    Yeah it probably is actually.
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    Image of Jonesy555 Jonesy555
    11/18/09

    @tande04: The Zune just doesn't play well with leap years...the Droid's bug sounds like smartphone PMS.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/18/09

    @Jonesy555: Both were still weird.

    When one day all the zunes in the world die and MS's answer is "wait 'til tommorow"
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    Image of wardy89 wardy89
    11/18/09

    @tande04: i had forgotten about that, i would have to say that they are both very random! and strange bugs!
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    11/18/09

    In reply to The Real Reason the Droid's Camera Fixed Itself
    To a non-programmer like me, this sounds positively silly. Then again, so does measuring the date by how many seconds have passed since January 1st 1970. So, I'm just gonna leave it to the programmers on this one and be glad a fix got issued.

    Also. I am positively appalled that no one has made a werecamera joke yet.
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