Posted by Corey on June 14, 2010 – 8:44 am
Jerry recently passed this article along to me: It’s Apple vs. Google in the battle over the future of computing.
You know – this is one of those times where Apple is truly at a loss. I know I’m not exactly an Apple sympathizer or anything, but think about it. They release one mobile device a year (now two, with the iPad) and those new releases are really just updates to the existing platform. Google gave their operating system to every manufacturer that wanted it… and they all wanted it. Motorola alone will release two more Android handsets on Verizon wireless in the next three months. LG has committed to 20 (yeah, twenty) new Android handsets released worldwide by 2011. HTC isn’t slowing down either. And their EVO 4G simply outclasses the new iPhone4.
The iPhone4 was equaled or surpassed on all counts before it was even released by the Evo 4G. This has never happened to Apple before. It’s going to hurt.
Hopefully Apple has built their army of fanboys (and girls) strong enough to weather the next year of mediocrity. I hope so – the world needs competition from innovators like Apple.
Posted by Corey on October 17, 2009 – 10:18 pm
Verizon Wireless launched a new “iDon’t – Droid Does” ad campaign today focused on the shortcomings of the iPhone. Finally!
It’s no secret that I’ve been waiting for an Android (Google OS) phone to hit Verizon and I couldn’t be more excited that it’s legit and official. And by doing a simple symbol to decimal replacement on the rotating symbols at the bottom of the page at http://www.droiddoes.com, we get a countdown timer in the format: DD HH MM SS that will eventually stop on October 30. Whether that is the date for the official announcement / release or for the phone’s availability, I don’t know.
It is assumed that this first phone will be the Motorola Droid, formerly known as the Moto Shoals or Tao. The specs are reported to be as follows:
- 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a 854 x 480 resolution
- OMAP3430 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor
- 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM
- Android OS 2.0
- 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and video recording
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
- USB 2.0
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- 16GB of internal storage
- microSD/microSDHC card slot
- Dimensions: 60.00 x 115.80 x 13.70 mm
- Weight: 169 grams
- 1400 mAh Li-ion battery that will offer 450 hours on standby and 420 minutes of talk time
