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Motorola Introduces Android Phones, Social Software
ruphus13 was among the readers sending word of Motorola's Android handsets yesterday, along with a "socially aware" application layer called MotoBlur. The Motorola Cliq is expected in a few weeks. T-Mobile is Motorola's carrier partner in the US. A second Android phone will be marketed in other countries under the name Dext. Reuters called the market's reaction to Motorola's announcement "muted." "Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, Co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of the company's Mobile Devices division, unveiled Motorola's Android platform play. ... Key to both of the phones, and key to Motorola's overall Android strategy, is a new interface and application layer called MotoBlur. It's focused on 'a single stream' for social networking features, software updates, messages, syncing, e-mails, videos, photos... The Cliq phone has a 5-megapixel camera, slide-out keyboard, 24 frame-per-second video capabilities, GPS, a headphone jack, an advanced browser from Google, integrated Exchange service, and Google roaming services including Google voice search, access to maps, Google calendar, and more. It also provides one-click access to Android Market and the thousands of Android applications there."
Well, according to the same site, Firefox is almost 23%.
But in truth, all it reveals is a sadly biased study, one which doesn't reveal its sources -- does it count unpaid deployments? I doubt it. And if you're trying to measure the marketshare of a free operating system by counting the number of people paying for it...
I mean, yes, he was modded troll, but chances are, someone is taking him seriously. So, here's some facts.
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Um Verizon could have them.
If Verizon gets them they will.
1. Limit BlueTooth functions.
2. Put their own UI on them.
3. Remove wifi.
4. Force you to use the new Verizon app store.
5. have some really creepy guy always following around.
Sprint has the Pre and the new Pixie from Palm. My wife has a Pre and loves it. PS we get really good service and Sprint has never crippled their phones.
Sprint is getting the HTC Hero with Android and the Samsung InstinctQ with Android.
TMobile has a bunch of Android phones.
And I hear AT&T is getting some Android phones and they already have the Nokia E71 for the S60 fans and the of course the iPhone.
If you really like Verizon just wait a bit. I hear they are going to get the Pre around May....
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Verizon has way poorer coverage than AT&T in California, the most populous state in the Union. You can't really blame AT&T for serving the most important markets first.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Not sure which you're referring to, but the Motorola Krave ZN4 on Verizon is like some spawn of a demon from the 7th level of Hell. It is the WORST touch screen device I've ever used. It's constantly picking up taps on the wrong area of the screen. I'm constantly calling people on accident because I click to call one person in my contact list and it dials the one above or below it. Text messaging? O.M.G. Same thing, but the tap areas are even smaller. If I have to type anything more than a line long I'm usually an inch from tossing the phone at the pavement, as I've had to retype almost every word at least once due to it registering the wrong key. AND THEN, quite often when I DO finish typing a word (or an abbreviation of one more commonly), the damn phone will sometimes just replace it due to the stupid auto-correction feature that I can't figure out how to turn off.
Compared to my iPod Touch, this thing is terrible. With the touch the input just seems fluid and does what you want. The Krave is like something you would have gotten in 1992 if Doc Brown had took back an iPhone and somebody found it and tried to copy it ...
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
don't like the idea of having to install iTunes
With Android you'll have the choice of installing a proprietary sync app (e.g. HTC Sync - only Windows/Outlook users need apply) or opening a Google account instead. OK, you can use USB disk mode to transfer music and photos, but not sync contacts and calendars.
To be fair, Google is a good solution, but then iTunes is a good media player, too.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
I can tell you I was on AT&T before it was even called Cingular. The quality of the network, especially voice, has reduced dramatically since the iPhone was introduced. A particular annoyance is the amount of dropped calls I have been experiencing, and that happened right around the time they stopped airing those funny "Tired of dropped calls?" commercials, which I think coincides with the iPhone release date (can anyone back me up on that?) i used all sorts of phones: RAZR, Samsung flip phone, Q, and iPhone, and it was the same across the board
The good news is, the quality of my Apple stock went up 50% since the introduction of iPhone...
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