Well it took at least six months more than I thought it would but it looks like Google’s Android OS is finally making the rounds and hitting all the major US carriers.
If you are a long time reader you know that for business reasons I am locked in with Verizon. So no iPhone for me, no Palm Pre, in fact my best option as of my last renewal was the Blackberry Storm. So yeah that’s what I am toting right now.
Don’t get me wrong the Storm is not nearly as bad a phone as most pundits make it out to be. In fact for mobile email it’s rated number 1 of any phone by jkontherun, and I agree. But for mobile web it’s terribly slow and even though the Blackberry app store has gotten better in the last few months it’s still way behind other offerings.
But my contract is up sometime soon, I think December-ish, so I am looking at what’s coming for the big V, and low and behold it looks like the most powerful Android handset thus far is on it’s way. The Motorola Droid.
Formally known as Sholes (thank god they switched that name) Motorola has even started a media blitz with prime time TV advertising and so on.
SO what’s so great about the Motorola Droid? Well hit the link in the title for Boy Genius Report’s hands on review including a slew of pictures. But here is the short and the sweet as to why I am interested in it.
It’s thin, in fact it may just be the thinnest handset with a slide out full qwerty keyboard yet.
It’s fast, The TI OMAP3430 processor is way more powerful than anything else out there running Android to date.
The Display is HUGE, for a pocket-able handset.
It has a 5mega pixel auto focusing camera.
It makes that cool “DROID” sound effect when you turn it on. (yeah I know that’s lame but it’s the little things that make me happy.)
See my previous article for a You Tube Video with the Droid start up sound.
http://technologyviewer.com/post/214342554/motorola-droid-startup-teased-robot-voice-and-all
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