Motorola Droid X ads make quiet digs at iPhone 4

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Motorola’s phones may not draw overnight campers and lines outside stores that Apple still inspires four years after its first iPhone launch. However Motorola is getting to have a different kind of fun.

Taking advantage of widespread complaints about the iPhone 4 around antenna related reception problems, Motorola has been making some thinly veiled digs at Apple in its advertising for the new Droid X, which launches July 15.

While Apple has suggested that users avoid holding their phone in a certain way to help improve their phone reception, Motorola happily offered an alternative with Droid X. After listing the Droid X features Motorola had this to say in a full page ad in New York Times on June 30:

“And most importantly, it comes with a double antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like and use it just about anywhere to make crystal clear calls.â€
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it was "it does" ads by verizon for the first Droid and this time "It doesn't matter" (which way you hold) :)

seriously speaking, it's one hell of a phone. Kudos to Motorola!
 
The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like and use it just about anywhere to make crystal clear calls.
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Awesome :D Have to give it to Verizon and Moto for successfully making fun of the iPhone the second time round too!
 
Honestly i am not surprised.After all without ads like these nobody except the android fanbois will go out and spend money on yet another phone running android with its rather limited list of apps and games.After all how much did the much touted iphone killer htc evo4g sell ??
 
smoky004 said:
Honestly i am not surprised.After all without ads like these nobody except the android fanbois will go out and spend money on yet another phone running android with its rather limited list of apps and games.After all how much did the much touted iphone killer htc evo4g sell ??
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yeah. Evo 4G sales are not as good as iphone 4 sales. And the reason for that is clearly explained here:

YouTube - iPhone4 vs HTC Evo

watch it guys :)

I agree that iphone 4 is a great phone but Droid X is on a whole new level and if you think people buying phones other than iphone are fanboys, well, ......
 
^^That argument is rather simplistic and naive.People buy phones for different reasons.Let HTC/android come out with a semi-decent UI, phones with better battery life and better build quality and android implement better way of multi-tasking(rather than simultaneously running all the apps which i have to manually shut down or else the phone gets hot,depletes battery life and makes it unresponsive).let them come up with better app support,better games and i'll consider it.And ofcourse less fragmentation will help a lot!Last thing i want is to buy a phone with high end specs where all that hardware is actually underutilized or wasted and all that high end CPU.GPU,etc,wtc. does is heat up the phone and deplete battery life even quicker.If this trend continues , two years from now we will have android phones with 3ghz snapdragon which drains more battery life than current phones,16 MP camera which actually takes shittier photos than current phones ,bigger battery to provide enough juice and a much bigger size to incorporate all these new features................End result we will have an android that looks like a brick!!Ofcourse that will make the nerds and those who pretend to be nerds:P will be very happy!!

And the reason for that is clearly explained here:
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So the reason why windows 7 was/is such a huge success is because of all the windows fanbois even when the product is clearly "inferior" to linux ?? Sure linux allows users to do more things but that hardly makes it any better.

I agree that iphone 4 is a great phone but Droid X is on a whole new level and if you think people buying phones other than iphone are fanboys, well,
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Well aren't you saying that those who buy an iphone are apple fanbois ?? If that was the case we should have seen similar sales of every other apple product ??What about the crappy apple tv??? why don't we see similar sales of that?? point is only those products( whether apple or not) which are actually pretty good and offer somethin better than the competition can sustain such high amounts of sales.Someone who believes that marketing alone is responsible for the high success of iphone is again naive.Come to think of it......android fanbois are actually more idiotic than apple fanbois.they are the ones who go gaga over specs like 1.5ghz when they mean nothin in actual use and phones running android actually doesn't need such a high end cpu(doesn't run any high end games like real racing does it?:P) and all that it does is deplete battery lief even quicker.
 
dude. you rant however you want to. Nobody cares. I just wanted to share that extremely funny video depicting the mentality of iphone buyers. am outta here :)
 
smoky004 said:
Let HTC/android come out with a semi-decent UI
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:rofl: HTC Sense is way ahead of what iPhone has had for years now.

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Have you actually used a Sense UI or are just ranting?
 
smoky004 said:
Let HTC/android come out with a semi-decent UI
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Does the iPhone even have a phone UI apart from the bunch of icons arranged in a grid pattern, something that I had in my symbian phone back in 2004 and palm had even earlier? And to be fair, even my symbian phone used that to display apps and shortcuts only, not the main screen you get. An Active screen on a phone improves accessibility to information relevant to you and efficacy at using the phone for your routine tasks. This is why Android phones have an active screen and even Symbian, Maemo and MeeGo adopted a similar approach. HTC Sense in my opinion is the best among the lot that provide such a UI. Check out HTC sense for a change, compare it to your iPhone and then talk about UI.

Back to the phone, I have seen a few videos and video reviews of this phone and this seems to be the perfect Android phone and makes up for the few things that Galaxy S lacked. It has a similar Cortex A8 based 1GHz CPU in the form of the TI OMAP 3630 SOC, but I guess the GPU is slightly lower compared to Galaxy S. Its too bad they decided to put a 4.3" screen on this thing making it a choice only for a select population who don't mind such a large phone. On the other hand makes for a decent tablet had it used a 5~7" screen. Motorola themselves seem to be pushing it more as a touch tablet rather than as a phone.
 
Lord Nemesis said:
An Active screen on a phone improves accessibility to information relevant to you and efficacy at using the phone for your routine tasks.
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If by active screen you mean a screen having widgets and all on home screen to perform daily tasks or most accessed things faster then symbian touch phones do very well in that they can have those Orange Home screen or apps like the SPB mobile shell which improves the user experience a lot.
 
manuvikram007 said:
Getting Droid x when it hit Indian stores for sure.... need to rethink about iphone 4:-)
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that will take time. and getting iphone 4 now doesn't make much sense given the issues and given the price in India. Wait till August. We may see Vodafone bringing in iphone 4 and Droid X GSM variant may hit Indian shores.
 
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