Comments on: Droid Review Update

By: John

John — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:56:58 +0000

On my Droid the dial pad (with send and end buttons) appears as soon as I take the phone away from my ear.

By: Rob Kendrick

Rob Kendrick — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:47:52 +0000

Digital Rebel == Canon EOS? If so, absolutely. The EOS has a sensor 5 times the physical size, and a lens not made out of 5 cents of plastic. Nobody’s made a good camera phone yet, simply because of space restraints.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:12:02 +0000

Another issue is the lack of a disconnect button for the phone. When you’re on a call and the device has timed out, you need to first unlock the phone, then navigate to the call before you can disconnect.

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:00:28 +0000

Silent Mode turns on vibrate on my phone.

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:59:47 +0000

http://phandroid.com/2009/11/09/motorola-droid-and-htc-droid-eris-ota-updates-coming-december-11th/

By: JC

JC — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:57:43 +0000

Double-tapping on a column zooms to fit on the iPhone web browser too. That doesn’t mean the Droid web browsing experience isn’t awesome, but I didn’t want people to read your blog post and wrongly infer that they couldn’t do the same on the iPhone. (The Droid’s higher resolution screen may mean that those columns may be more readable on the Droid than on the iPhone though.)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:08:07 +0000

Camera is horrible. I very much agree pinch zoom, who cares?! That much more work, the double tap is fast! I have a droid for a week, and I think you got your review pretty good.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:30:51 +0000

I should add – silent mode isn’t exactly what I want since it also turns off vibrate, but with Silent Mode Jammer, it works well.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:03:56 +0000

Thank you — that’s a good tip. It didn’t occur to me that the power-hold screen could be called up from the lock screen.

Where do you read about these pending firmware updates?

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:43:58 +0000

Re: virbration. From the unlock screen, hold power button for 2 seconds, select Silent Mode.

Re: camera. There are a few known issues with the camera focus that should be addressed in the Dec. 11th firmware update.

By: Andrew Pollock

Andrew Pollock — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:30:10 +0000

To put the phone in vibration mode from the lock screen, try long pressing on the power button, then using the volume control.

By: -dsr-

-dsr- — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:26:12 +0000

Strangely, removing apps from the Downloads screen asks you why you’re removing it, but the other screen doesn’t. Wonder why that is?

I think I know that. The Droid lets you download apps from the Market, or from any website (save to the SD card) or copy them on to the SD card via a card reader or the USB connection. Only if you use the Market are you asked to leave feedback when you remove an app, because that’s the only time that the author is known to be registered.

Of course, they could have just made it standard for Android packages to include a feedback email address… but they didn’t. Maybe next go-round.