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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Customer inservice?

June 4, 2010 Leave a comment

Candid answers from AT&T on the new iPhone data plans: Read and weep, if you use a lot of data. Two things really bother me: The tethering option is just a ‘permission’ to be able to use your phone as a modem, and that there is no roll-over for the unused data bytes.

I think it is time that we had a universal data plan that allows us to use it across all the devices we own: the laptop, desktop, phone, tablet, game console, etc.

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