Motorola Droid, the first Android 2.0 device, get a thumbs-up from Ars Technica: Potential e-book reader?
The Motorola Droid smartphone, the first Android 2.0 device, gets an impressive, six-page review in Ars Technica.
It has a number of interesting features, including a big (for a smartphone) 3.7” screen that might make it attractive to people wanting to read e-books.
Read the full review, but on the whole Ars calls it “a good enough device to be a solid competitor to the iPhone 3GS.” Better in some things, the same or worse in others, but overall “good enough.”
Meanwhile Motorola ads describe the “pretty” iPhone (albeit not directly mentioning it by name) as “a tiara-wearing digitally clueless beauty pageant queen”.
December 4th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I got he Droid the day it came out. Love it. I own an iPod Touch and I like using the Droid far more. Personally, I finding having an open source OS to be far more advantageous than having 100,000 apps, most of which I’d never consider downloading. I just wish Amazon would release an official Kindle app for Android. I have to use ePub on the phone right now, which is fine except that I’d like to avoid having multiple formats of all my ebooks at the same time if possible. I probably wouldn’t care at all if the ebook apps on Android were better, though.
August 14th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
At the same time as I like a physical keyboard, after coping with the Samsung Captivate for roughly quarter-hour, it’s laborious to head back. At the moment I am debating whether to visit Verizon for the Droid X, cross to Sprint for the EVO, or stick with AT&T for the Captivate…choices, decisions.