http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/ Engadget Comments for Motorola Droid's website published a bit early, with specs galore (update: video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
100% sure.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
Gone are the days of comparisons........ with the use of *#*^&~ Killer.

This will be the phone, AT&T "wished" they had in their stable.

Finally............it's over.......... we have a WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
WEB BROWSER
Webkit HTML5, Flash 10 (available 2010)]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/just 100% less is 0.... or am I too sleepy?

pal :)]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vd7SglA91A]]>Oct 22nd 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/If you think the IM is good on the Voyager, you should try it on the enV Touch. I used to have a Voyager and I had so many problems I got them to send me a enV Touch for free when they ran out of Voyagers in the store. Anyway, one thing I hated about IM on the Voyager is that it only worked in landscape orientation. It does portrait or landscape on the enV Touch's external screen, with the accelerometer allowing for it to switch between them easily. It's great when you get an IM and you just want to glance at it or when you have an audio cable connected to it. Maybe you can get a free one like I did.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 23rd 2009 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/ color: licorice w/brown sugar accents. not even sure what that means.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
sources: http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/motorola-droid-specs-revealed-in-motorola-site-temporarily/]]>Oct 25th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
HEADSET JACK
3.5 mm]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
I hear you guys. But instead of complaining about the 550Mhz (really though, wtf, everything said 600) and the microsd, let me just say one thing which I haven't seen mentioned in these comments yet.....

This thing better have a f*#%ing digital compass, or they'll be a nice list of "droiddoesn't" 's. I want augmented reality capability and if droid doesn't deliver I'm going to find it really hard to buy a phone without technology that plenty of phones have had for a few months already (and a processor that's only on par); not to mention the news of other new android phones in the near future that might be able to deliver better. I'm going to be stuck with it for 1-2yrs meanwhile the iThing and a handful of android phones are already running layar. I'm through "settling" with verizon like I have for 7+ years so they better deliver. I'm starting to fear that this is going to be the typical vzwfail.

Oh and nightshots? How about some real flashes like the pictures looked like, I don't call having two leds being able to take pictures in the dark. That's nothing new so don't go bragging it.

*Sigh* The sad thing is, is that I'm probably going to end up getting this whether it kicks ass or just sucks and I have to settle again. My launch day voyager's front screen died a long time ago and I've been in the market for a smartphone and playing the "wait for this next awesome phone verizon might get" way too long. The only phone that even ever made it to vzw that I was looking forward to was the touchpro and they managed to make a stupid ass idiotic keyboard design (arrow between m and n when there was plenty of opportunities to avoid that), not to mention the fail that is windows mobile. Oh, and freaking ATT got the same phone with one difference, the keyboard flaw fixed, in the next few weeks...

Okay I'm done ranting (yea that wasn't just one thing). I need to go breathe. Don't mess this up droid.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
and i thought we couldn't install downloaded apps on micro sd cards because of piracy concerns ?
unless google wants us to root our phones, but average joe won't know it's even possible.

it is strongly rumored to have a ti omap 3430 at 550mhz which produces more power and 2mips per mhz than the old msm7201 at 528mhz which only gives 1mips per mhz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARM_cores.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
Kinda, Sorta

The Droid uses the Cortex A8 "design." Meaning ARM says to everyone here is our new super fast mobile platform. Fab plants licenses this tech and implement it in phones. The Cortex A8 on the iPhone 3GS is manufactured by Apple/Samsung and includes a POWER VR SGX 535 GPU and runs at 600MHz. In terms of mobile computing this combo can be referred to as the CPU (Much like Zune runs on Tegra, but Tegra is a CPU + GPU).

The Droid however, according to specs, runs on more or less the same design, its just implemented differently. (Apple uses a custom implementation, and Droid uses OMAP 3430).

The main differences between Droid and 3GS on a spec sheet is 3GS runs at 600MHz compared to 550MHz on Droid (which I suppose to be equivalent to 700MHz on the ARM11 (G1), the architecture change means alot faster computations on the same Mhz, think Core2/Pentium) and the 3GS uses an SGX 535 while the Droid uses SGX 530.

What 50MHz / SGX 530 means in comparison to the iPhone I can't really say, but I can assure you that the Droid sh1ts all over the G1 and friends.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
Thanks for all that info, but that's exactly why non-geeks don't care about specs. In the end, the only thing they will care about is actual performance. We'll see how it fares.

]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
I believe the Cortex A8 is around two times faster than an ordinary ARM11 clock for clock, so this Droid would really perform like an "ordinary" Android phone overclocked to 1100MHz (which isn't possible).]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
Cortex A8 default is normally 200mhz and scale up to meet demand with a max of 1hgz, although many run a max of 600mhz due to thermal issues.

Its a bit like the new i5 cpu's, they bump up to meet single thread demand. The advantage of this is to save power by having a lower base clock but giving power when needed to achieve 'race to idle'. If it ran at 600mhz constantly, it would melt your precious.

In most cases, 550mhz is plenty, but if it was me, i would want at least 600. ;)

N900 ftw.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
Are you serious? So if I get a custom ROM it'll run at full speed? If so then I will definitely get one. It's fast enough already but if it can be overclocked then I'll go crazy.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
The Snapdragon scales from 245MHz to 998MHz with a few speeds in between, by the way.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 23rd 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 23rd 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
N900 or this]]>Oct 22nd 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
For me, this phone does it. The N900 has a resistive screen and Android has more developer support.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/Oct 22nd 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
its open source, like really open]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droids-website-published-a-bit-early-with-specs-galor/
My impression is that the hardware design is a little better on Droid than the N900: it looks slimmer, has a larger keyboard, and a reasonable battery life. Keep in mind that the OS's on these phones can probably be swapped, since the hardware is so similar. So I wouldn't make any decisions until you see a full rundown of Android 2.0 and Maemo5, a battery life comparison, and comparisons of app development, the usability of the keyboards, and the internet browsers. In my mind, those are the main factors I'm looking at.

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