If anyone is interested in getting your favorite Dev a Droid X then point them here. It is all out of my pocket. I Can't wait to see the outcome of the work we will see for the X. http://tinyurl.com/36hvda4
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Hi guys
I'm looking at buying a Motorola Atrix and notice that the Droid X also has a locked bootloader.
Were people hesitant about buying this phone at first just like people with the Atrix are? In my perspective the Droid X seems to have been a bigger hit than the Atrix was/is. What are your takes on this? Is it because on the Atrix full-blown MotoBlur is used and on the Droid X it is only used partially?
I also saw that the Droid X just got Gingerbread which is very cool. I saw it in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7UsvXQX-Ic
Basically what I want to know is what are the differences between this phone and the Atrix in terms of development, etc?
Thanks guys,
Elliott
Bumpity bump
I just got a Droid X, I didn't choose it, it sort of chose me, but that's okay it's a 1GHz processor and that's what's required for Flash and it has a huge screen, which I'm sure you also know or you wouldn't be here.
It's modern if not dual core and it's miles ahead of my poor old HTC G1...
Is it my imagination or is this forum, the Droid X forum....low on enthusiasm? Are there just not that many Droid X phones on the market because of so many choices or because it's only got a 1GHz single core processor so nobody wants to develop for it?
I kind of liked the Droid X when it first came out, then I saw how large it was and thought, "not for me" but I ended up with one anyways
I feel a lot of energy in the old G1 forums, even if a lot of the ROM's are not really ready for prime time, you can look/play with them.
I don't really know how many ROM's there are for the Droid X yet, but if my old stock G1 can run 3x times faster (1.4 MFLOPS stock, and 4.2 MFLOPS Ginger-Yoshi), then I expect my Droid X can run at least a 260 MFLOPS (stock does 13.5). right?
Looking forward to it
The reason there is not that many roms and this is probably true for the enthusiasm as well, is that there is a locoed bootloader that prevents us from flashing any custom kernels which really limits what we cam do
Ah, I hadn't realized that, thanks much for the reply.
I hate to draw attention away from XDA because it's my favorite forum, but the X has a lot more love over at droidforums.net and mydroidworld.com. That's just where (most) of the devs for the X host their ROMs.
Excellent thanks for the links!
Droid Ultra, Droid MAXX, Droid Mini, and last but not least, the Moto X!
The Moto X won't be a Droid on Verizon, since Motorola wants to keep it as close to a Nexus as possible.
My Droid 4 has been a workhorse, but I think either the Droid Ultra or Moto X will be my next phone.
Any thoughts on this?
alex94kumar said:
Droid Ultra, Droid MAXX, Droid Mini, and last but not least, the Moto X!
The Moto X won't be a Droid on Verizon, since Motorola wants to keep it as close to a Nexus as possible.
My Droid 4 has been a workhorse, but I think either the Droid Ultra or Moto X will be my next phone.
Any thoughts on this?
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My only thought is "No hardware QWERTY keyboards".
Lol, probably should've expected that in this forum
I understand that a qwerty keyboard is amazing, but I understand why many OEM's are ditching them to get thinner phones
alex94kumar said:
Lol, probably should've expected that in this forum
I understand that a qwerty keyboard is amazing, but I understand why many OEM's are ditching them to get thinner phones
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I don't.
I don't see much in the moto lineup that is bringing anything new to the table in as far as the same sort of thing is available from Samsung, HTC, etc. If the Moto X could have a back cover you could remove, and attach a QWERTY keyboard slider instead, then I might be a bit more interested. Choosing the colour, or etching, or whatever? Big deal.
Well there are reports of Motorola dropping in a camera technology called 'Clear Pixel', something that's new to smartphones. If the Moto X doesn't impress, then I probably will be heading to the Droid Ultra
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what's this about the double locked bootlaoders? Also, where's the qwerty?
If you're prepared to lose the hardware keyboard, may as well just get an HTC One or Galaxy S4 or something.
Personally I don't see the need for thinner and thinner phones. Whenever I handle my GF's Galaxy S3 I'm always afraid it will snap if I'm not really really careful with it.
Also, thicker phone means bigger battery, and seeing how there is nothing in the near future that will allow us to squeeze more power into a smaller space, it would make sense
The battery is the biggest bottleneck in technology IMHO, whether it be phones, laptops, or even electric cars
I think with google buying motorola. I Dont feel like buy a new device anymore. So droid razr m and droid 4 are my last phone from them. It started in 2011 when google told motorola probably to lock the backdoor from their device with razr. Motorola took dedicated button for shutter camera unlike 2010. Last year it was probably because of google that moto choose to lock the sd card and micro sim card option in droid razr hd/maxx and m like the iphone like. Now this year no sd option.
Im not liking Google temparing with Moto as they are
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My only thought is "No hardware QWERTY keyboards".
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