Droid-gate?

August 16, 2010 1 Comment

The well-hyped ‘iPhone’ killer, Droid 2, has been in the market for only a few days. Already, there are reports of it losing it signal even without holding it!

This seems worse than the iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’, where you had to hold the phone in a certain way (death grip) to see a drop in signal strength.

It is interesting to remember what Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO, said recently when reacting to Apple’s woes: “While the whole industry has to deal with phones being held in different ways, it is disingenuous to suggest that all phones perform equally. In our own testing we have found that Droid X performs much better than iPhone4 when held by consumers”.

At least he was honest; Droid 2 goes to 1 and 0 bars just sitting on a table, randomly.

It seems that everyone is trying to copy the iPhone, warts and all!

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All’s fair in love and war?

June 1, 2010 Leave a comment

Adobe does love Apple: After a round of back and forth over the omission of Flash in the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Adobe surrenders by creating digital developer tools so publishers can make content for the iPad. All things said and done, kudos to Adobe for being realists. Flash hogs all browsers, even in Android, is insecure and crashes often. Even Mr. Jha knows that.

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