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Burn the ships, and focus on Android. – Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha’s strategy – goodbye to Nokia and Microsoft, and a huge bet on the freest, most powerful thing around.
The Motorola Droid phone rolls out on November 6, and every publication around is giving it hot reviews. It’s running Android 2.0, a badass update that impresses on all fronts. Verizon now becomes the 3rd major carrier to go Android, joining T-Mobile and Sprint.
At the same time, Google put out free turn-by-turn GPS navigation, with voice commands, traffic view, satellite view, street view, and view view, for any phone running Android 2.0. Buy a Droid and put it in the little cradle dock it comes with and it automatically enters “car mode” and starts doing all of that.
Gizmodo cleverly notices that if you zoom in on anywhere in the United States in Google Maps, the copyright notices shrink from 5 companies to just one: Google’s. They’ve mapped the US all on their own, presumably as they were doing all that Street View work, and that’s why they can now turn their phone into a completely viable car GPS. Something no other software or mobile company that hasn’t personally mapped the US can do.
I’ve never felt more solid about my love and optimism for Android than right now.
okay, fine. i am impressed. i wonder how difficult it’ll be to get an android 2.0 phone without a contract.
micah rich
Nov 1, 1:27am
micahrich.com
In the form of the Verizon Droid, probably not so much difficult, as, expensive. At least one source would indicate that it’s $600 without a contract.
There’ll be other ways to get Android 2.0, though, it’ll come to other phones before long.
Eric Mill
Nov 1, 12:50pm
mill-industries.com
Yeah a HTC Hero would cost me about 350 right now, with my “one year upgrade”. I think I’ll just wait till June and sign a new two year with whoever has the best phone.
Travis
Nov 8, 5:59pm
boxofmonocles.com