Droid X Announcement … thoughts
Verizon/Motorola Droid X - July 15, 2010
I watched with great interest all of the hoopla Wednesday on the release of the Droid X by Motorola. Many of us thought there would be a concurrent announcement of the upcoming Droid 2, which is really just a slight re-design of the current Droid, WITH THE BUTTONS MOVED! For the life of me, I don’t get why every Android handset maker doesn’t put the four action keys in the same place. I use my wifes Eris, the buttons are in the original arrangment (same as G1), but my Droid has the new (at least until HTC and Verizon released the Incredible) key arrangement. It’s frustrating to not be able to go from Droid to Droid using the same key arrangement. (Rant mode off)… Now, I have seen the X and I LIKE IT! Some folks are going to tell you that a 4.3″ screen is too large. Let’s take a moment… 4.3″ could very well be the new standard for touch-only phones. This is a great size for viewing a video, browsing the web and everything else that we now do on our smartphones, outside of the time we’re actually on the phone. It makes enough room for the virtual keyboard to be completely usable, while not being too large. The form factor is thin and light, lighter than Droid 1, and fits nicely in a pocket. The 720p video recording will come in handy when you are watching your kids play baseball, or dance in that all important recital. Everything you now do on your laptop can converge to your handheld device, plus you can make some phone calls. This is the future, and it’s so George Jetson I’m giddy with excitement. Do I care that it doesn’t have a front facing camera or LTE radio? Absolutely not. When Verizon is ready (can you say 2GHz Droid), they will release the LTE device with front facing camera and blow all of our minds. And I’ll be there to stand in line to get one. Will you?
