This is nice and choice is swell but...its not the one giant step for droid kind that gets the hype machine going. Its like a Droid LS. Two things...VZW releases D2 in late August, Fascinate for Christmas and the iPhone pulls everyone over to VZW plus sells unsubsidized models to more than a few current subscribers plus AT&T subscribers because the white version will be included with a fixed antenna to be used on LTE OR Moto needs to make good on the 2ghz "every feature" smartphone by Xmas. Not happening.
Both are speculations by me..just kickin the dirt around, what ch'all think?
@YoMamaOS Actually I'd expect the Fascinate in September. They don't want it, the DX, and D2 to cannibalize each other so they're spacing them apart enough so that they can have 3 major releases over 3 consecutive months and have a continuous stream of hype for all of them. It's nice though because eventually they'll have 4 killer handsets to choose from: the "standard" sized Incredible, giant X, midsized Fascinate, and D2 for those who want a hard keyboard. It's a good time to be an android fan on verizon
Yea, that's a good time line and it makes sense. I think the impatient buyer is going to falter here. If Gingerbread is the deviation from the current Android set-up that we hear it is going to be and is going to have hardware regulations to hinder fragmentation, we may find out that Froyo with JIT and everything else going on with 2.2 are "under the hood," enhancements and "beta-ish," if you will, to prepare for an enhanced UI and new beastly hardware to compete Sherman on Atlanta style with the iPhone. That will put Apple in an interesting hot seat because user's will start to become bored with the UI that never really changes and Apple may to revamp that...remembering that it's simplicity is what sells phones "your grandmas shawl" could use. So it will be a risk to alter something for a demographic that largely fears having to learn new technology, thus flip flopping the rolls of Apple and Android...hopefully causing Apple to actually "change everything again," in order to compete and continue moving this beast forward.
However, I digress...and will probably succumb to my lack of will power and get a Fascinate.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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This is nice and choice is swell but...its not the one giant step for droid kind that gets the hype machine going. Its like a Droid LS. Two things...VZW releases D2 in late August, Fascinate for Christmas and the iPhone pulls everyone over to VZW plus sells unsubsidized models to more than a few current subscribers plus AT&T subscribers because the white version will be included with a fixed antenna to be used on LTE OR Moto needs to make good on the 2ghz "every feature" smartphone by Xmas. Not happening.
Both are speculations by me..just kickin the dirt around, what ch'all think?
@YoMamaOS Actually I'd expect the Fascinate in September. They don't want it, the DX, and D2 to cannibalize each other so they're spacing them apart enough so that they can have 3 major releases over 3 consecutive months and have a continuous stream of hype for all of them. It's nice though because eventually they'll have 4 killer handsets to choose from: the "standard" sized Incredible, giant X, midsized Fascinate, and D2 for those who want a hard keyboard. It's a good time to be an android fan on verizon
@KeegdnaB
Yea, that's a good time line and it makes sense. I think the impatient buyer is going to falter here. If Gingerbread is the deviation from the current Android set-up that we hear it is going to be and is going to have hardware regulations to hinder fragmentation, we may find out that Froyo with JIT and everything else going on with 2.2 are "under the hood," enhancements and "beta-ish," if you will, to prepare for an enhanced UI and new beastly hardware to compete Sherman on Atlanta style with the iPhone. That will put Apple in an interesting hot seat because user's will start to become bored with the UI that never really changes and Apple may to revamp that...remembering that it's simplicity is what sells phones "your grandmas shawl" could use. So it will be a risk to alter something for a demographic that largely fears having to learn new technology, thus flip flopping the rolls of Apple and Android...hopefully causing Apple to actually "change everything again," in order to compete and continue moving this beast forward.
However, I digress...and will probably succumb to my lack of will power and get a Fascinate.