Tag: Droid

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Droids, Google Phones, Contracts, and Termination Fees: What's a Geek to Do?

If you're plotting and planning your way through Smartphone waters, trying to get your grubby hands on the latest, hottest phone and mobile OS, you'll need to be very strategic. Either that or willing to drop some dough. At this point, in order to feed my gadget-habit, I'm carrying two wireless contracts. It's not cheap, but I see it as a...
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Droid Does T-shirts

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Droid Battery Cover Problem Update

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Droid vs. iPhone Size Comparison

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Droid-Paper-Scissors, How to Easily Fix Your Droid's Loose Battery Cover

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Top Ten Things I Miss From the iPhone

I've been using the Droid for almost a week now, and while amazing, it does make me appreciate some of the things we have going on with the iPhone. Multi-touch - I still find myself trying to zoom in on the browser with a reverse pinch. The Android browser is perfectly usable with it's double tab zoom, but the pinch wins. Unfortunately,...
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First Droid Video. My Kids are Going to Kill Me...

Several people have asked me about the camera and video quality on the droid phone. I haven't done that much with either, but we did manage an impromtu video session last night. Here's my three year old son Alex who appears to be doing Gilly (from SNL) doing Riverdance. I don't know why he decided to dance, but hey, that's what kids...
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Droid Annoyances, The Honeymoon is Over

Today was my second day with the Droid phone, my first full day. We're getting to know each other, and like any relationship, time brings out the annoyances. There actually aren't many so far, but here we go... The Hardware The droid phone is a little clunkier than the iPhone. At some point I guess I'll stop comparing the two. But...
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Are You Thinking About Switching to the Droid?

Photo credit: one very jealous iPhone 3GS Three days ago the Motorola Droid smartphone was made available on the Verizon network. I've been loving the iPhone for two years now, and I've owned each of the three versions and never regretted a penny I've dropped on the device. But I'm tempted by the fruit of another. Today I went into...
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