droid buyers? - Page 3

Amber Lamps · 11-06-2009, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by EpyonXero

I just got mine few hours ago, I thought Id have it earlier but I couldnt get out of work. So far I havent had a chance to do much, I did use the turn-by-turn navigation on the way home from Best Buy and its pretty damn nice. Also the voice search works really well, it actually understands what youre saying the first time. The screen is awesome btw.

Definitely the new gen GPS' in the phones are way better... mine uses Telenav and it works better than my current GPS. Does the Droid take a long time to initiate or is it basically Garmin fast?

marko138 · 11-06-2009, 10:07 PM

Thanks Kaneman.

Dave · 11-06-2009, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by TIGGER

Definitely the new gen GPS' in the phones are way better... mine uses Telenav and it works better than my current GPS. Does the Droid take a long time to initiate or is it basically Garmin fast?

worked pretty damned quick from what i saw. at least as good as my tom tom one

Amber Lamps · 11-06-2009, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave

worked pretty damned quick from what i saw. at least as good as my tom tom one

Hmmm...now that's interesting. My phone takes about 5 minutes to start up navigation but after that it works normally...

Trip · 11-06-2009, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by marko138

Trip...what is so awesome about this OS? I don't know anything about it.

Open source as described by Kaneman, no mommy state. You want an app for that, it can be made and distributed without anyone being able to take it away or deny it from the app store because some company had a hissy.

It has all the benefits of a nonapple phone, access to the battery and such

The OS is nice and refined.

It can multitask, you can open pandora and still use the phone and everything else. iphone is limited hugely on this.

The OS operates smoothly and quickly which has hampered a lot of RIM blackberries of late.

It's like the best of all worlds.

pauldun170 · 11-06-2009, 10:49 PM

I'm up for a new phone in April, but I'm on Verizon. Will have to see how much they screw up the OS (in order to "value add")

Dave · 11-06-2009, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by pauldun170

I'm up for a new phone in April, but I'm on Verizon. Will have to see how much they screw up the OS (in order to "value add")

as far as i could see from playing with it, no branding. it felt very similar in operation to my g1 on cupcake. just slightly better in every way

Trip · 11-06-2009, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by pauldun170

I'm up for a new phone in April, but I'm on Verizon. Will have to see how much they screw up the OS (in order to "value add")

Droid is for Verizon only at this point. Verizon has completely changed their tune because of what they lost when they turned down the iphone. Verizon is now the most open network in America because of the Droid.

marko138 · 11-07-2009, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip

Open source as described by Kaneman, no mommy state. You want an app for that, it can be made and distributed without anyone being able to take it away or deny it from the app store because some company had a hissy.

It has all the benefits of a nonapple phone, access to the battery and such

The OS is nice and refined.

It can multitask, you can open pandora and still use the phone and everything else. iphone is limited hugely on this.

The OS operates smoothly and quickly which has hampered a lot of RIM blackberries of late.

It's like the best of all worlds.

Sounds pretty awesome. I didnt know iPhone couldn't multi task. Thats pretty shitty.

LeeNetworX · 11-07-2009, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by marko138

Thanks, that tells me absolutely nothing.

Then the Andriod OS is too sophisticated for you.

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