GSlusher

Motorola Droid: A Promising iPhone Challenger

As Roger Knights said, it's not that simple. Different phones may use different processors & graphics chips, different radios, etc. If you're old enough, recall Windows 95. You often had to get special drivers for each graphics card, for example. Google doesn't build in that flexibility--it has to be added by the phone manufacturer. Also, what's to stop Verizon from only allowing apps that it sells (like Apple) to be used on the Droid? Verizon has a history of crippling its phones. My cheap little Samsung phone is supposed to be able to load ringtones from a PC through the battery/data connector, but, because it's from Verizon, the data part of the connector is disabled. The only way to get ringtones is to buy them through Verizon for $2.99+.

Also, I've been trying to find out if the Droid will be able to access data WHILE simultaneously making a call. The iPhone can, because it's on a GSM network, but the Pre cannot on Sprint's CDMA. As Verizon also uses CDMA, the Droid may have the same limitation.


On Oct 23 04:31 PM RLLH wrote:

> I have to agree with RPG that developers would be more interested
> in developing an application that runs on many phones than on only
> one, even if that one is iphone. Look at the number of Microsoft
> applications for pc's versus the number for the Macintosh.

E-Reader Wars Heating Up: Apple May Have Edge with Younger Generations

From the article: "Despite the company’s refusal to release sales numbers, Amazon’s Kindle appears to be the sales leader in the U.S."

That's as blatant a non-sequitur as I've read recently. "We have absolutely NO data, but we'll make a wild-assed guess, anyway."