Sprint EVO

[[AK]Hylander]

DoubleTwist is OK, but still pretty hokey compared to the iPhone interface. One concept though that really struck me was museek. It does a pretty decent job successfully transfering over cover art and genre information. What made it really stand out for me though was the 2D aspect of aranging albums. iTunes is 1D, in that music is arranged alphabetically in a linear fasion. museek arranges your albums in clumps by genre, in 2D fasion, or even 3D, with different zones of music. It's an impressive concept, that leapfrog's Apples interface. But the execution itself is borderline amaturish (a problem that plagues Android it seems). I'm liking it better than DoubleTwist, but it needs a lot more polish.

By the way, the Facebook app sucks. Apple's if far better.

Astro on the other hand rocks, as it lets you navigate your memory like it's a HDD, which Apple does not. I like the Kindle app a lot better too. It seems to just run better, but maybe it's the bigger screen. an iPhone screen is just pretty darned small to use as a reader. Tricorder cracks me up. Not only is it cheesy and fun, but it's also actually pretty useful! But my compass doesn't work for some reason - I don't know why, but it always points me in the wrong direction. This annoys me.

I like DoubleTwist because "it just works". It's designed to be utilitarian and it will sync with any device - something that iTunes obviously does not. As far as just a media manager on Android - all I can say is hold on, there are several good products for that in the pipeline other than what will be in Gingerbread (Android 3.0).

I haven't used the Kindle app, since I don't have any Amazon e-books, but I've read the same thing in other reviews. Also, from experience, the Audible app for Android is also more polished than the one for iPhone, and it's still technically a beta. I plan to test out the Nook software more thoroughly in the coming weeks since my wife has a Nook and a library of books I can use for it.

The compass on my Droid works fine, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work properly on your phone. Maybe it's a 'design feature' and you're just holding it wrong? Is it a built in app or are you using the 3rd party compass application from the marketplace?

The 'new' Android marketplace will make it much easier to find the more 'polished' applications in the near future, along with many other areas of integrations. Froyo does take a nice step in that direction, but Gingerbread is going to be the 'biggie' in terms of polish and integrations.

Once I have my hands on the new Samsung, I will decide if I'm going to pull the trigger on ordering a Droid X or hold off a tad longer for the Galaxy line.

[[AK]Bribo]

Once I have my hands on the new Samsung, I will decide if I'm going to pull the trigger on ordering a Droid X or hold off a tad longer for the Galaxy line.

Just don't death grip the Droid X.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJG7pbSRvJ8

[[AK]Hylander]

Just don't death grip the Droid X.

I've already done my research on the Droid X, the problem doesn't exist - at least not to the extent that it does on the Apple iPhone and exposed impedance areas. Holding the iPhone 4 'naturally', I could generate the problem very easily and repeatedly. I could not duplicate it on the Droid, Droid X, Incredible, or EVO. But then again, its hard to test because I couldn't run the Droid X on an inferior network like AT&T to get raw data off a network that barely has connectivity to begin with.

I think the best 'proof' of the problem was demonstrated by Brian Klug with real raw numbers, not bars. Maybe Motorola should "fix" the problem by changing the way it displays bars.

[[AK]Hylander]

PCMag-Apples Droid X Death Grip Claim Bogus

...we also just couldn't get the Droid X's signal to drop using one hand. As you can see in our video, we had to completely cover the body of the Droid X in an awkward, two-handed grip to get the phone's signal to drop. That's very different from the one-handed grip we found on the iPhone 4. Apple's overreaction is a pity here. The "death grip" controversy seems to be dying down a bit. . . ut by overstating their case, Apple keeps an unflattering meme alive.

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at least not to the extent that it does on the Apple iPhone and exposed impedance areas. Holding the iPhone 4 'naturally', I could generate the problem very easily and repeatedly.

I've never been able to recreate it. When I did it speeds actually went up.

(I honestly think it was a smaller percentage of the phones that were affected by the issue and it just kind of got blown way out of proportion, but I could be wrong.)