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*** Official Motorola Droid X Pre-Release Thread***

We will get an official forum name change tommorow. I talked to one of the mods. Please be patient. Vzw teasers!
 
oakley1261 said:
Just wanted to see if anybody knows if this will have 4G or not. Kind of the deal breaker for me. I won't upgrade until there is a good phone on Verizon with 4g, even if the service isn't available yet.

Thanks!
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Why would lack of 4g be a deal breaker. It'll be a while before it's even supported. Even when they release it it still will only be in select areas in the beginning.
 
Wow. A lot of excitement for this phone. I think it's exciting too but I really only see this phone being "cool" for about 6 months until the LTE and front cam droid phones start appearing. This is why I'm only gonna do a 1 year contract.
 
Front facing cameras and video chat are only going to work if BOTH parties have them and BOTH parties are in 4g coverage areas. So until BOTH of those conditions are standard I honestly don't see the big deal with the front camera.
 
jreed2560 said:
Front facing cameras and video chat are only going to work if BOTH parties have them and BOTH parties are in 4g coverage areas. So until BOTH of those conditions are standard I honestly don't see the big deal with the front camera.
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jreed2560 said:
Front facing cameras and video chat are only going to work if BOTH parties have them and BOTH parties are in 4g coverage areas. So until BOTH of those conditions are standard I honestly don't see the big deal with the front camera.
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because companies like skype and fring are working on video chat apps for both iphone and android, which will work on 3g. So yes if you get a new phone today without a front facing camera you are already behind
 
jreed2560 said:
Front facing cameras and video chat are only going to work if BOTH parties have them and BOTH parties are in 4g coverage areas. So until BOTH of those conditions are standard I honestly don't see the big deal with the front camera.
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I agree VZW might have an LTE phone by the end of the year but I doubt it, it won't really be til Q1 of next year or maybe even Q2/Q3 based off what VZW has said. The reason why this phone doesn't have a front facing camera is because it would only be usable via WiFi since VZW's 3G network wouldn't be able to handle all the video calls.

By the time LTE is readily available which will probably be 2012 we'll be due for another phone and if it's available sometime in 2011 you can still upgrade after a year even if you go with the 2 year contract.
 
Paznos said:
I agree VZW might have an LTE phone by the end of the year but I doubt it, it won't really be til Q1 of next year or maybe even Q2/Q3 based off what VZW has said. The reason why this phone doesn't have a front facing camera is because it would only be usable via WiFi since VZW's 3G network wouldn't be able to handle all the video calls.

By the time LTE is readily available which will probably be 2012 we'll be due for another phone and if it's available sometime in 2011 you can still upgrade after a year even if you go with the 2 year contract.
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Not necessarily true. I was looking at the EVO and the sales guy did a 3G test on the video chat via Fring. While it didn't work very well, it still worked. It could be done but I really feel Motorola had just been too far in production to go back and add one.
 
benjiedude said:
Not necessarily true. I was looking at the EVO and the sales guy did a 3G test on the video chat via Fring. While it didn't work very well, it still worked. It could be done but I really feel Motorola had just been too far in production to go back and add one.
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Well that's true and I do believe we'll see a Motorola phone on Verizon with a front facing camera before LTE arrives I just don't know if VZW will allow it to work over 3G unless the video quality is really compressed or low res.

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They changed the wording of the 720p on the site now, it now says Captures 720p instead of 720p screen. So it looks like it will have the same resolution as the Droid 854x480.
 
Figured that was too good to be true. Still pumped for this phone. And living in a VERY rural area that is just recently seeing dsl, in fact my home I just purchased has dial up as the only option for internet in the area. So 4g is a cool technology that I'm sure I won't see for a long time. So a 4g handset and front facing cam mean nothing to me for a long time.
 
Man I have been so busy today at work I haven't even had a chance to check this forum today. Dang missed out I guess, thankfully nothing too important happened.
 
irus said:
because companies like skype and fring are working on video chat apps for both iphone and android, which will work on 3g. So yes if you get a new phone today without a front facing camera you are already behind
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How are you behind if said software has not been released yet? ;)


The droid site has been updated to say that it captures 720p to clear up the screen confusion
 
So how does everyone feel about MotoBlur? Seems like a few people with eval units are coming to various forums to talk about this phone. I specifically asked one person if MotoBlur can be completely disabled and he said while you can remove all of the widgets (obviously) you can't go back to stock Android on the phone. I didn't expect that to be the case but some people have been saying that you could do such a thing.

I'd expect the Droid 2 to have this new version of MotoBlur as well. *sigh* Hopefully the phone will be easily rooted.
 
phobic said:
So how does everyone feel about MotoBlur? Seems like a few people with eval units are coming to various forums to talk about this phone. I specifically asked one person if MotoBlur can be completely disabled and he said while you can remove all of the widgets (obviously) you can't go back to stock Android on the phone. I didn't expect that to be the case but some people have been saying that you could do such a thing.

I'd expect the Droid 2 to have this new version of MotoBlur as well. *sigh* Hopefully the phone will be easily rooted.
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I haven't used a phone with motoblur but people that are familiar with it have said you can turn off blur completely during the boot up process of the phone by entering in #bluroff or something to that effect and then you'd be running stock android, dunno if this still would be possible with this version of blur but it's possible.
 
I just started looking into the Droid X more and this is my first post in these forums, so go easy on me if this has already been asked... do we have any idea about a release date for this phone?
 
EKG said:
I just started looking into the Droid X more and this is my first post in these forums, so go easy on me if this has already been asked... do we have any idea about a release date for this phone?
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Speculated date is 19 July

We'll know for sure next week when Verizon makes the official announcement for the phone on 23 June.
 
Any idea how the case manufacturers are gonna handle the "hump back" I can't stand NOT to have a case on my phone. I have never bought a phone so new the accesories weren't out yet. Thoughts? Do you think verizon might have a cheapy case that will work until Siedo and Otterbox get in gear?

Is it true that the screen will have gorilla glass?
 
drpotter2807 said:
Any idea how the case manufacturers are gonna handle the "hump back" I can't stand NOT to have a case on my phone. I have never bought a phone so new the accesories weren't out yet. Thoughts? Do you think verizon might have a cheapy case that will work until Siedo and Otterbox get in gear?
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I was going to say the same thing, i definetely think that verizon will have some stuff that can hold us, and i am lookine forward to the otterbox case...
 
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