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Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Pony99CA — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:31:42 -0000

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

Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Doug Miller — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:12:15 -0000

Unfortunately, that "almost everything" does not include a great built-in web browser. And still doesn't.

Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Pony99CA — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:21:15 -0000

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

Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Pony99CA — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:45 -0000

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

Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Pony99CA — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:09:01 -0000

Not that you can really compare frequencies across processor types, but what about the 1 GHz Snapdragon phones?

Steve

Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Ray Waldo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:19:55 -0000

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.

Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Zealot — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:06:44 -0000

BGR says it is running a 550MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3430 processor with a separate PowerVR GPU.

Re: Droid Comes Through in the Nick of Time!

Ray Waldo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:57:47 -0000

Did they mention which processor was in the device?