It is very hard to believe that Christmas 2010 is almost here but that means that millions of Americans will be looking to take advantage of after Christmas sales on December 26. It is very possible that cell phone users will be looking for after Christmas Verizon Wireless sales for an opportunity to find a great deal on a Droid X, Droid 2 or Droid Pro late in 2010. It will be interesting to see what is available as sales throughout the holiday will likely determine the opportunities.
There is very little argument to be made that Verizon Wireless has made their mark when it comes to cell phone providers. This provider has helped to increase the popularity of the Android operating system with their many Android smartphones. If you do not feel like waiting and hoping that the Apple iPhone comes out for Verizon then it might be a good idea to see what deals and sales are available after Christmas so you can pick up a new smartphone as soon as possible.
Below is part of a review of the Droid X from Gizmodo:
The Droid X is even more mondo than the other Android phone of epic proportions—HTC’s Evo, also a juiced-up technical demonstration of how much fancy silicon can be stuffed inside of a phone. The ice scraper-cum-phone is hardware unabashedly designed to provoke the most raging nerd boner possible: 4.3-inch 854×480 screen (slightly higher res than the Evo’s 4.3-inch screen), 1GHz TI OMAP processor (a methed-out rendition of the chip inside the original Droid and Palm Pre), 512MB RAM, 24GB storage, 8-megapixel stills, 720p HD video, DLNA compatibility w/ HDMI Micro out, three mics for noise cancellation and wireless N with 3G hotspot powers.
As a pure expression of the limits of mobile hardware and industrial design, the Droid X is kind of a beautiful thing. But that’s about the only good thing about the Droid X.
The software—a discordant melange of the not-so-fresh Android 2.1 and various bits of the Blur “social networking” interface from Motorola’s lower-end Android phones—is the shudder-inducing poster child for the horrors that can occur when most hardware companies try to make software. It’s ugly, scattershot, and confusing. It feels almost malicious.
Here is part of a review of the Droid 2 from Engadget:
Now, let’s turn our attention to perhaps the Droid’s single biggest pain point: the QWERTY keyboard. To get to it, you slide the phone open, which feels exactly like the first Droid — there’s no spring mechanism, and you’ve still got a little bit of friction to overcome as you slide. Some like it, some don’t, but it feels solid without a hint of wobble. Anyhow, Motorola clearly heard the complaints loud and clear with the keyboard itself, killing off the oversized (and completely unnecessary) d-pad to the right side of the keys and giving each individual key a little bit of doming so that you can feel them out. Many old Droid owners have probably long since grown used to the flat, barren wasteland of their keyboards, of course — but for anyone considering throwing their hat into the Droid arena for the first time, being able to feel those keys even just a little bit should make the transition far easier (seriously, they’re just barely domed, but it’s enough to get the job done).
Motorola’s also made considerably better use of the keyboard’s layout, too; heck, the original model inexplicably left two keys as blanks, an unprecedented move on a mobile device where real estate is always at a premium. No longer, though: the Alt and Shift keys are now double-width, the duplicates on the right side have been removed, a Back key has been added, and you’ve got a dedicated Alt Lock key, presumably useful for when you’re going to be dealing with a lot of numbers. They were also able to eliminate the keyboard’s Menu key by moving the screen’s capacitive Menu button to the far left side, meaning it’s now closest to the keyboard when it’s open and pretty easily accessible. That’s all well and good, but we wish Motorola would just pick a configuration for these capacitive buttons and run with it — owners of Droids who are upgrading to the Droid 2 are going to have a devil of a time getting used to the new layout for at least the first few days of ownership, we imagine (fortunately, it’s the same layout as the Droid X).
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