Motorola Droid X Disappointments
Linked by gsyoungblood on Tue 20th Jul 2010 18:01 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless On July 15th the latest Android super-phone was released by Motorola and Verizon Wireless. All hail the Droid X. The release was not without controversy though. The Droid X, while greatly raising the bar for Android phones in general, does so at the expense of the very power users and community that made the original Droid the gotta-have phone it became. Alienating this group may have far reaching consequences for Motorola.
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RE[3]: good thing
by HappyGod on Tue 20th Jul 2010 23:46 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: good thing"
HappyGod
Member since:
2005-10-19

It's their phone and they can tie it to a rom if they want. Phones should not be designed around the needs of 1% of the users.


Hmm, I wonder how well they advertised the fact that that's what they were doing. Especially since the previous phone was wide open, and users naturally assumed that this phone was its successor.

Also, I don't think anyone here is arguing that they can't lock the phone to a ROM, just that it's a bit rude, and they shouldn't.

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RE[4]: good thing
by aesiamun on Wed 21st Jul 2010 01:12 in reply to "RE[3]: good thing"
aesiamun Member since:
2005-06-29

The droid that was sold on the verizon network was wide open, the Milestone that was sold to Europeans and Canadians has similar functionality. It had a locked and encrypted boot loader that to this day cannot boot non moto signed roms.

You can still get root on them though.

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