DISQUS

Mobilitysite: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

  • Ray Waldo · 1 month ago
    Did they mention which processor was in the device?
  • Zealot · 1 month ago
    BGR says it is running a 550MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3430 processor with a separate PowerVR GPU.
  • Ray Waldo · 1 month ago
    I would think that the separate GPU would effectively add 200-300 Mhz to the CPU. That would make this the fastest phone processor on the market, I believe.
  • Pony99CA · 1 month ago
    Not that you can really compare frequencies across processor types, but what about the 1 GHz Snapdragon phones?

    Steve
  • Pony99CA · 1 month ago
    I hope that photo wasn't taken using the Droid's camera. :D

    And I guess Motorola must be hurting if they couldn't spring for some hot bikini models (or swimsuit hunks for our female readers).

    Steve
  • Pony99CA · 1 month ago
    Also, remember that almost everything "Droid Does", "Windows Mobile Did" a year or more ago. :D

    Multitasking? Check.
    GPS? Check.
    Real QWERTY keyboards. Check, check, check....
    5 MP camera? Check.
    Customization? Check.
    Replaceable battery? Check.
    E-mail, contacts, games? Please.

    The Droid does look cool, though.

    Steve
  • doogald · 1 month ago
    Unfortunately, that "almost everything" does not include a great built-in web browser. And still doesn't.
  • Pony99CA · 1 month ago
    As iPhone people would say, "There's an app for that." Get Opera 9.5 (or 9.7) or SkyFire, for example.

    However, as I've pointed out numerous times before, it was probably the first mobile OS to include a "real" (HTML, not WAP) browser at all. So I think WM still gets props for having a browser long before Android (or the iPhone) came out. It just didn't get the improvements it should have.

    Out of curiosity, how does the Android (or iPhone, for that matter) browser do on Flash-heavy sites? For example, http://cafe-ella.com (a local restaurant). If a browser can't display Flash sites (even though Flash sites kind of suck), is it really a "great" browser? Very good, perhaps, but not great.

    Steve