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Before you buy an X, read this.
ricktherick
Newbie
‎08-25-2010 10:41 AM

I am a smartphone enthusiast, who has had all of the best, from every manufacturer, and has used every smartphone OS around. I currently use the Droid Incredible.

 

I recently purchased the Droid X. After setting it up and playing with it for one evening, it is now reset to factory defaults, back in the box, and on its way this afternoon to be returned. My Incredible is reactivated.

 

Here's why the X sucks: Terrible camera. It's about like the Droid 1 camera - bad focus problems, very bad indoor performance. This could be fixed in a software update, but read on.

 

Here's why the X really, really sucks: the hardware buttons on the bottom are horrible. They are incredibly hard to push - fatiguing for an active user. It is hard to believe that Motorola blew this one so bad. This cannot be fixed.

 

Do not buy this phone.

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gerio
Specialist - Level 2
‎08-25-2010 11:08 AM

I liked your first title better. It was better to respond to. Your edited title is more appropriate, darn it....:smileyvery-happy:

 

Rats, I had to edit this, too. I've owned a couple of dozen smartphones, including iPhones, Blackberrys ("Blackberries"? "Blackberri"") Moto Qs, Omnia IIs, and on and on...). The Dx has been the best by far so far. I even recently sold my Garmin Nuvi for $100.00! Between my own experience of traveling for 30 years and now the GPS in the X (accurate so far), I can get sround fine without it..

 

Everyone I've sent pics to from my Droid X, either MMS or email, has commented on how good the pics looks, coming from a mobile phone. They are positively stoked, as I was, when they see video clips that I shoot with the X.

 

And I don't get the buttons comment. I've got carpal tunnel syndrome AND arthritis in my hands and I have NO problems with the buttons on my X.

 

To each his own.....

 

Did it ring loud enough for you? Oh, wait, you returned it....

 

Geri O

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
mortb
Specialist - Level 3
‎08-25-2010 11:29 AM

Love the "hard" buttons. Had a phone with touch buttons and used to touch them all the time accidently, opening up whatever they were supposed to open up. Haven't had an accidental opening with these buttons...yet. As for the camera, I am getting better indoor pictures with my X than I have with my digital camera. Guess that old saying is true, you can't please everyone.

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
easton714
Newbie
‎08-25-2010 11:33 AM

Ditto to mortb.

 

I have no real issues with the camera (I use it for spur of the moment photos, not for artistic quality) and I much prefer the hard rocker buttons to touchscreen buttons (I can feel them without looking and I won't press them accidentally).

 

Of all the things to be annoyed by regarding this phone, these two being huge issues is pretty questionable...especially for a self-described smartphone superhero.

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
basspro
Contributor - Level 1
‎08-25-2010 12:05 PM

"fatiguing for an active user"?

Get real.

I have heard a lot of things, but this one takes the cake.

 

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
Rescue814
Enthusiast - Level 3
‎08-25-2010 01:01 PM

LOL, WUT?

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
admsteck
Newbie
‎08-25-2010 01:53 PM

You want to talk about fatigueing, try typing anything on the BB Storm 1.  Especially the letters on the outside edges where you have to smash the screen to get the single button thingy behind the screen to register.  I had opera installed on it for a while and it was so relaxing to only have to touch links instead of smash them.  Can't wait for my Droid X to get here "by 7:00 PM" as FedEx says.  :smileyhappy:

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
GeekGuy
Newbie
‎08-25-2010 02:01 PM

heh?   This is a joke thread...........right?

 

I ahve to end my post here, I have become fatigued.

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
bersh
Enthusiast - Level 3
‎08-25-2010 05:58 PM

Nice troll - go back to the Droid Inc. forum.

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Re: Before you buy an X, read this.
ricktherick
Newbie
‎08-25-2010 08:14 PM

Of course everything is a matter of preference and opinion. But here are some facts that are hard to dispute.

 

The ratio of the amount of force required to initiate the Home function on the Droid X vs. the Home function on the Incredible is at least 50:1.

 

Pick an indoor subject to photograph with medium light. Take a series of pictures with the Droid X until you are satisfied that you have tried every possible camera setting to get the best possible picture using the flash. repeat the procedure without the flash. Take one picture of the same subject matter with the Incredible on auto using the flash, and then take one without the flash. The two pictures from the Incredible will be astoundingly better than anything you took with the Droid X.

 

Conclusion: When compared to the Incredible, the bottom row switches on the X are very difficult to press, and  the camera on the X is terrible.

 

 

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