http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/ Engadget Comments for 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/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
Yeah, go Moto! Go right out of business. This spike means nothing. Probably not even selling as well as the Palm Pre did. It looks like the graph at the end is starting to taper off for Motorola. The Droid won't have any long-term sales. Aside from advertising blitz there isn't much incentive to own a Droid. By early next year, the smartphone market will be flooded with Droid/Android look-alikes all competing for top spot. It'll be a battle fought with low prices and extra unnecessary features with the winner being the Android flavor of the week. In three months nobody will remember what a Motorola Droid was. Not even Motorola who'll be out of business shortly after.]]>Nov 24th 2009 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
i dunno it's surprising how many people know about the droid. even my dad has heard about it and is thinking about getting one, and he's, well, not exactly a tech person. on the other hand, i never had anyone ask me about the pre.]]>Nov 24th 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Whats wrong did the comment system downrank you?]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/I have a palm pre, but I still prefer the droid. Only thing that stopped me was verizon's high pricing.]]>Nov 24th 2009 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 26th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
Beats the hell out of "Hello Moto"]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
Gadget nerds know Droids got the Gadget goods. ]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/note keyborad is not a typo but the actual name of the keyboard on the Droid phone... yeah that's the ticket . . .]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/I thought maybe you typed it on an iphone :)]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
Odd, last I checked, my iPhone has a keyboard, a battery, a camera, and free turn by turn directions. Want to try that again?]]>Nov 24th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Either they are very out of touch with anything "techie" or they're not that bright. It's not a difficult phone to figure out the basics if you have any kind of experience with technology.]]>Nov 24th 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
The Nav is amazing and the screen res is nice but the rest is pretty crap. The keyboard was not useful. The UI is painful. Things don't move or flow very well. It felt very hacked together to me once I got into the device a bit more.

I don't blame people frustrated with ATT wanting to switch but a Vzn iPhone would be far superior to a Droid any day.



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The only people that consider a Droid confusing are people that expect it to act like an iPhone. It doesn't. It is a different phone, not a clone. Get past the pre-convieved notions of what it is "supposed" to do and how it does it vs the Droid.

Lets see a power button on that (marked with the power symbol) that... turns the phone off an on. Not a tough one.

The one brass button which is the camera button. Period.

and the up/down volume rocker... which... makes the volume go up and down.

Now if you add in the touch buttons on the face...

the back arrow... goes back.

The menu button brings up a menu

the Home button {{gasp}} take you to the home screen

and the real confusing one

the search button allows you to search.

If that is confusing... then yeah... maybe you are better off with a single tasking phone with one button.

]]>Nov 24th 2009 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 25th 2009 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Almost... UK milestone launch: 7 december]]>Nov 24th 2009 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/BrandIndex is run in lots of countries outside the UK. This will (or should be) data from the BIX survey run in the US. I could run the UK numbers for us as I have a subscription, but I would be surprised to see Moto do as well here as on the chart in the article]]>Nov 24th 2009 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
if the phone wasn't so damn ugly i'd own one too...

oh well all will be made well with my x10]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/1) it has jump-started smart phones into the main stream
2) it is putting an end to the evil days of WinMo domination

Though Android is already suffering from over-diversification and fragmentation, in terms of raw potential and capabilities it has already surpassed WinMo long ago and that's why manufacturers chose it over WinMo. However this fragmentation is also what will never allow Android to catch up to the iPhone.

Regardless, consumers benefit either way and will benefit far more once evil WinMo finally dies.]]>Nov 24th 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
google will continue to work towards "defragmentization" and eventually we'll get to a point where app market is relevant to the type of phone/device viewing it. that is to say you will only be able to browse and download apps from the market that are actually compatible with the device you are using.

the only big limitation android has is the carriers being stingy with bandwidth (tethering etc). enough pressure and we'll get them to do right]]>Nov 25th 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
The way I see it, there's too many companies making Android phones now... leapfrogging over each other. Not to mention models. First, all the geeks were wetting themselves over the CLIQ, today it's the Droid. The next Android phone will surely be better than both but by then all the folks who are into Android will already have a Droid. We'll just have to see how it all plays out... Competition is good.]]>Nov 25th 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/
Doesn't this mean that the advertising accounted for a spike in brand loyalty but ultimately hasn't changed the Motorola's brand loyalty?]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 25th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 25th 2009 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/survey-droid-advertising-scaring-men-right-into-dutiful-brand-l/Nov 24th 2009 4:41PM