Linux Android Phone coming to Verizon

[Drew Van Zandt]

I own a G1.

I use primarily text-oriented applications.

Functionally, my phone has a MUCH larger screen than an iPhone, because I
have a keyboard.  If I didn't have a keyboard, I wouldn't want a smartphone
at all.  Soft keyboards are like driving a nail with a pair of vice grips.
It works, but there's a right tool for the job, and that isn't it.

Several of my friends have iPhones.  They're awful for text-oriented use.

So for me, the Android phones (with keyboard) are already far superior to
the iPhone.  I would very much like the new faster Android, if it weren't
for contract lock-in and awful Verizon experiences in the past.

--DTVZ

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> G Rundlett <greg.rundlett at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Anyone heard anything much about this 'Droid' phone?
> > >
> > > It's being toated as an open phone, but..  It's from Verizon.  Kinda
> > > makes me wonder.
> > >
> > > http://phandroid.com/motorola-droid/
>
> I asked one of my co-workers about that, the other day--since he's
> been following Android (and other `open' smartphone options) in
> anticipation of the upcoming end of his Verizon contract. He said,
> "I've heard some news about it. I haven't heard *everything* about it,
> though. It's still Verizon, so...".
>
> He thinks /maybe/ Google is big enough to push Verizon into
> relinquishing some of the control they normally want over everything,
> but maybe not--the T-Mobile Android phones turned out to be not-really
> all that open. Maybe there's hope in that `methods of restricting
> functionality available on a smartphone' patent that Apple was seeking.
>
> > Did you see the "Boy Genius Report"
> > http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/19/motorola-droid-hands-on/
> >
> > On a related note, LJ just did a story on how you can check out the
> > Android OS using VirtualBox
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/android-or-webos-try-you-buy
>
> In sort-of-related news, jwz has given up on the Palm Pre, passed on
> any Android phones, and just switched to the iPhone:
>
>    http://jwz.livejournal.com/1108212.html
>    ("Dear Palm, it's just not working out.")
>
> He says, there:
>
>    I thought about trying out an Android phone, but the reality is
>    that the most positive review I've ever heard about Android was
>    damning with faint praise along the lines of, "it sure does show
>    the potential to someday be an iPhone competitor."
>
>
> And that `Boy Genius Report' provides that same `damning faint praise':
>
>    the most impressive phone we’ve used since the iPhone.
>    It’s positively amazing
>
>
> So the Droid is "positively amazing", just... not quite as amazing as
> the iPhone? Otherwise it would have been something like "the most
> impressive phone ever", rather than just "the most impressive phone
> SINCE THE iPHONE", right?
>
>
> Well, at least my FreeRunner doesn't take 40 seconds to take a picture
> like jwz's Pre does... :)
>
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