Flashback: the Motorola Droid started a proxy war with the iPhone

26 April 2020
Verizon's aggressive "Droid Does" campaign took joy in highlighting the limitations of the iPhone.

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Landscape physical QWERTY keyboard need to make a comeback in mainstream devices. I have long grew tired of using virtual touch keyboard, but I have no choice but to use it since no mainstream brands features physical keyboard. Only Planet Computers Astro Slide 5G brings back that idea, but it's an Indiegogo campaign from a not well-known brand.

    cyber, 26 Apr 2020only samsung galaxy smartphones and only after gs2 was able... moreIt's true. Samsung propelled Android massively.

      And it wasn't a Motorola anyway, it was another one made by XDA( pre HTC). They made nearly every early android phone that sold more than a few thousand, they made phones for loads of big firms who just badged the designs..

        Back then phones had their individual looks & features. Every phone felt different. Today every phone looks & feels the same. Phones have gotten unexciting.

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          • cyber
          • S2D
          • 26 Apr 2020

          only samsung galaxy smartphones and only after gs2 was able to challenge iphone ever,android began useful after 2.3,android was a big joke before that,barely useful,messy interface,using stolen or lost phone was more easy than ever.

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            • florin
            • 0W4
            • 26 Apr 2020

            This was my first android phone and I loved it. In europe it was called the milestone, and it really was a milestone for motorola. This phone proved that android can be very customisable, and when software updates ended, I rooted and installed a custom rom. We could even overclock the processor to 1ghz, which was almost unheard back then

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              • rwq
              • 26 Apr 2020

              These were the days, I remember having a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 with the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and 4inch WVGA Display those early Android days, phones like the Droid X, HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S1, HTC DesireHD and iPhone 4 ruled. Rooting was life.

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