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MikeWaters · 01-18-2011, 09:22 PM

I finally joined the folks in this new century and got a smart(er) phone. Chunked the blackberry curve and got a droid x.

Huge leap.

We've had a number of cell phones over the years. My first phone that could check my gmail was a little red sprint flip-phone. Could take pics and mail them as well. Then I got the HTC SDA, which was much more advanced. Ran windows mobile, so could do essentially all the things that a smartphone is generally asked to do...email, pics, music, voice activation, file system. But the screen was small and it was extremely slow at doing all those things. I could even watch slingbox on that phone with wi-fi. Blackberry curve was another step up, but not a revolutionary advance. Better at email, certainly better at typing, having a full keyboard (versus using t9 on the SDA). My curve could do about anything I asked--google maps, email, music, pics, camcorder (really crappy at this), full web browsing (with opera), even youtube videos. But again very slow. With the Droid X, my phone is actually now a computer. I've seen all the videos, I've messed with the apple ios (we have a touch), but in person, it is quite impressive.

I know this is nothing new to most of you, who upgraded long ago. Just wanted to get my 2 cents in. I was addicted to my phone already in the past, I'm afraid it's only going to get worse. There's going to be so much data flowing through this thing, it's going to fry my balls as it sits in my front pocket.

01-18-2011, 09:22 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Technology I finally joined the folks in this new century and got a smart(er) phone. Chunked the blackberry curve and got a droid x. Huge leap. We've had a number of cell phones over the years. My first phone that could check my gmail was a little red sprint flip-phone. Could take pics and mail them as well. Then I got the HTC SDA, which was much more advanced. Ran windows mobile, so could do essentially all the things that a smartphone is generally asked to do...email, pics, music, voice activation, file system. But the screen was small and it was extremely slow at doing all those things. I could even watch slingbox on that phone with wi-fi. Blackberry curve was another step up, but not a revolutionary advance. Better at email, certainly better at typing, having a full keyboard (versus using t9 on the SDA). My curve could do about anything I asked--google maps, email, music, pics, camcorder (really crappy at this), full web browsing (with opera), even youtube videos. But again very slow. With the Droid X, my phone is actually now a computer. I've seen all the videos, I've messed with the apple ios (we have a touch), but in person, it is quite impressive. I know this is nothing new to most of you, who upgraded long ago. Just wanted to get my 2 cents in. I was addicted to my phone already in the past, I'm afraid it's only going to get worse. There's going to be so much data flowing through this thing, it's going to fry my balls as it sits in my front pocket.