Comments on: Android This Week: Droid Gadget of the Year; Browser Wars http://gigaom.com/2009/12/12/android-this-week-droid-gadget-of-the-year-browser-wars/ Sat, 25 May 2013 16:32:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A.B. Dada http://gigaom.com/2009/12/12/android-this-week-droid-gadget-of-the-year-browser-wars/#comment-233061 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:07:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=85438#comment-233061 I used an iPhone for a few weeks early on, and gave it up due to the lack of multitasking.

Now most of my friends have iPhones and I always see them complaining about lag. Last night at a pub I watched TWO friends try to pull up photos from a party over the weekend and both were getting frustrated.

My G1 with the Cyanogen mod ROM is ultra fast, has apps on the SD card, root-enabled WiFi tethering, and decent battery life. I’m able to listen to a Pandora station while Google chatting and still pop over to Opera to look up information. Google Maps 3.2.1 is fantastic, too.

Am I an Android fan? Not yet. There’s still some needs, but the white hat hacker community like Cyanogen are doing fantastic things with Android, and I’d have to say it isn’t just Apple that needs to worry — Verizon, T-Mobile, Apple, AT&T, and the rest of them need to be concerned about Android’s open atmosphere. As more hackers jump on the Android bandwagon, there’ll be way more incentive to use a third party ROM than an “official” ROM.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2009/12/12/android-this-week-droid-gadget-of-the-year-browser-wars/#comment-233060 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:53:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=85438#comment-233060 Darwin

Much like you making statements about what we write without actually reading them :-)

]]> By: Darwin http://gigaom.com/2009/12/12/android-this-week-droid-gadget-of-the-year-browser-wars/#comment-233059 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:41:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=85438#comment-233059 No it isn’t a coincidence. they are looking to make controversial statements not based in reality just like GigaOm. It’s all about eyeballs.

]]> By: Darwin http://gigaom.com/2009/12/12/android-this-week-droid-gadget-of-the-year-browser-wars/#comment-233058 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:39:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=85438#comment-233058 The Droid an iPhone competitor? You are really jonesing for page views aren’t you? What an fooslish statement. Either you don’t know any better or you assumthe readers don’t. It is nowhere near an iPhone competitor. Not in sales volume and certainly not in capabilities. The only way it is an iPhone competitor is that people who really want an iPhone will settle for a Droid so they can be on Verizon.
The Droid can only use 256MB for apps. Seriously.
It is dog slow, you can’t even scroll the home screen without lag.
The physical keyboard is near unusable and onscreen not much better.
Syncing is terrible,
Build quality is awful Do you like your battery door?
No multi-touch.
These are just the most obvious things. There are many, many smaller issues.

If the Droid was anywhere near a competitor and I could get it on Verizon I would switch in a heartbeat. But it isn’t and I won’t. But then I’m not shamelessly flogging page views like you.

]]> By: A S http://gigaom.com/2009/12/12/android-this-week-droid-gadget-of-the-year-browser-wars/#comment-233057 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:04:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=85438#comment-233057 It is not a coincidence that the top two devices in Time’s list both have Android.

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