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Droid X. Vs. Droid 2
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Montuhotep
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I hate to take sides in this argument, but, the ORIGINAL D-PAD (Nintendo), was actually a combination of the Droid 1 & Droid 2. Motorola just took what Nintendo did, and split it up. Basically, by definition, it's a D-pad. But there are those that think all the directions have to be linked together in order to be considered a D-pad, but the truth is, its more about ease of use, not being linked. The D2 arrow groupings are easy to use and I do not have to look at what I'm doing in order to change direction. Also, you do not have to lift your fingers in order to select direction. Therefore, it's a D-pad for all intents and purposes. But, I'm no expert! Lol
Old Man
Android Enthusiast
"Better" is subjective. My wife has the D2 and feels that it is a better choice for her. I have the DX and believe that it's a better choice for me. So which is better for you is a decision you must make yourself.
I like the large screen of the DX, my wife likes the smaller footprint of the D2. I like the HDMI out, 720p recording and camera of the DX while my wife likes the keyboard of the D2 and is fine with its camera and recording. Both have many of the same apps and run them about the same. Both get about the same battery life with the standard battery, this has been a very slow week for me but with checking multiple accounts regularly and receiving maybe a dozen e-mails received a day, a few calls, some texts, weather and mews updates, etc. and almost no web or apps use beyond updating via AppBrain a couple of times, I'm currently at 50% charge after 105 hours off the charger.
Outlaw71
Android Expert
Yes I had a good friend who had picked up a D2 while waiting on Verizon to get her a DX. When ever I would go over to watch a game with her husband she would play with my DX for a few minutes. She eventually called Verizon and cancelled her DX because she said she liked the physical keyboard of the D2 better than the virtual keyboard on the DX. I showed her 'Swype', and that still didn't convince her
Me, I had a D1 for all of 3 days before I took it back and ordered the DX. Not that the D1 was a bad phone at all, indeed I can see why it was the popular phone that it was... but I had played with a display model DX while I was waiting on them to program my D1 there at the store and I couldn't get that phone out of my head the entire weekend. I just kept thinking about it and how awesome it was.
So cool to think I've had that awesome phone in my possession going on 3 months now!
Me, I had a D1 for all of 3 days before I took it back and ordered the DX. Not that the D1 was a bad phone at all, indeed I can see why it was the popular phone that it was... but I had played with a display model DX while I was waiting on them to program my D1 there at the store and I couldn't get that phone out of my head the entire weekend. I just kept thinking about it and how awesome it was.
So cool to think I've had that awesome phone in my possession going on 3 months now!
TheAlmightyDrew
Android Enthusiast
In the past four months, I have sampled all the big name phones that Verizon has to offer. I had the Droid Incredible for two weeks and I just sold it and bought a Droid X which should be at my doorstep on Friday. This will be the 3rd time in the past four months that I have owned a Droid X. I just keep coming back to it...
I had the iPhone 3G for a year and a half up until mid July when I decided to leave AT&T and jump ship to the Android wagon. After a lot of research, it came down to the Droid X and the Incredible. I decided to get the Droid X, but after a year and a half of having a 3.5 inch screen, it was tough to get used to the Droid X's size. After about three weeks of having the phone, I got the Droid 2 on release date. Honestly, it was a major letdown. I found myself missing the large screen and never even using the physical keyboard. In fact, I send so many emails and text messages in a day I found it cumbersome to actually have to keep flipping the device open and shut, and rotating it to type a message. This was at its worse when I was texting my girlfriend back and forth. I also missed the Droid X's camera and 720p video capture. I literally had it for three days before heading back to the Droid X. But then I hear of the Fascinate, and its amazing screen. I thought to myself, "4 inch screen sounds like a nice medium between the iPhone 3G screen I am used to and the Droid X's 4.3 inch screen." So when that came out, I got it. Unfortunately, call quality and reception was horrible on that thing. Absolutely horrid. Voices sounded muffled and people on the other line constantly complained that they couldn't hear me. Voices would cut in and out -- even when I was on the caller was using a LANDLINE and I was outside...There is no excuse for that. I also had three dropped calls in my two weeks with it. It honestly sounded like back when you were a kid and you would try to talk to your friend with those cups that were connected by string...Not to mention, the GPS was broken. After a ton of complaining, Verizon allowed me to have any other phone in their lineup for free. So I thought to myself, "Hey why not try out the Incredible now?" So I did. Unfortunately, the battery is horrid. With my usage, I am lucky to make it through half the day on that thing. Not to mention, audio for video capture sounded extremely distorted and muffled. I am a college student. I film a lot of crazy shit that happens on drunken weekends, so video is very important to me. I was on the bus with my friends heading home from a fun night, when Bohemian Rhapsody comes on the radio. All of a sudden, the entire bus filled with drunken students started singing. Naturally, I pulled out my Incredible and started recording because it was an amazingly hilarious moment. Unfortunately, the next morning I played it back and it sounded like ass. I was so pissed and that was the final straw. So here I am, ready to go back to the Droid X for the 3rd time. Just in time to record some good stuff from the Penn State game I am going to on Saturday. The funny thing is that this entire time I have been flip flopping phones, my girlfriend has been sitting pretty with her own Droid X just laughing at me. Each time I get a new phone, she says "Sooner or later, you will come back to the X. Just watch."
So, OP...do yourself a favor and get the Droid X. It is the best phone you can buy on Verizon. You won't be disappointed.
I had the iPhone 3G for a year and a half up until mid July when I decided to leave AT&T and jump ship to the Android wagon. After a lot of research, it came down to the Droid X and the Incredible. I decided to get the Droid X, but after a year and a half of having a 3.5 inch screen, it was tough to get used to the Droid X's size. After about three weeks of having the phone, I got the Droid 2 on release date. Honestly, it was a major letdown. I found myself missing the large screen and never even using the physical keyboard. In fact, I send so many emails and text messages in a day I found it cumbersome to actually have to keep flipping the device open and shut, and rotating it to type a message. This was at its worse when I was texting my girlfriend back and forth. I also missed the Droid X's camera and 720p video capture. I literally had it for three days before heading back to the Droid X. But then I hear of the Fascinate, and its amazing screen. I thought to myself, "4 inch screen sounds like a nice medium between the iPhone 3G screen I am used to and the Droid X's 4.3 inch screen." So when that came out, I got it. Unfortunately, call quality and reception was horrible on that thing. Absolutely horrid. Voices sounded muffled and people on the other line constantly complained that they couldn't hear me. Voices would cut in and out -- even when I was on the caller was using a LANDLINE and I was outside...There is no excuse for that. I also had three dropped calls in my two weeks with it. It honestly sounded like back when you were a kid and you would try to talk to your friend with those cups that were connected by string...Not to mention, the GPS was broken. After a ton of complaining, Verizon allowed me to have any other phone in their lineup for free. So I thought to myself, "Hey why not try out the Incredible now?" So I did. Unfortunately, the battery is horrid. With my usage, I am lucky to make it through half the day on that thing. Not to mention, audio for video capture sounded extremely distorted and muffled. I am a college student. I film a lot of crazy shit that happens on drunken weekends, so video is very important to me. I was on the bus with my friends heading home from a fun night, when Bohemian Rhapsody comes on the radio. All of a sudden, the entire bus filled with drunken students started singing. Naturally, I pulled out my Incredible and started recording because it was an amazingly hilarious moment. Unfortunately, the next morning I played it back and it sounded like ass. I was so pissed and that was the final straw. So here I am, ready to go back to the Droid X for the 3rd time. Just in time to record some good stuff from the Penn State game I am going to on Saturday. The funny thing is that this entire time I have been flip flopping phones, my girlfriend has been sitting pretty with her own Droid X just laughing at me. Each time I get a new phone, she says "Sooner or later, you will come back to the X. Just watch."
So, OP...do yourself a favor and get the Droid X. It is the best phone you can buy on Verizon. You won't be disappointed.
Funny shit.
TheAlmightyDrew
Android Enthusiast
It is kinda funny now that I look back on it. However, it wasn't funny that day when I played it back with my friends sitting around me. All I heard was "Wow dude, that sounds awful. Your phone's camera blows."
nj02vette
Android Expert
Yeah, and my toddlers puzzle has A-Z pieces, but I wouldn't call that a keyboard.
Technically, you are still wrong, because the definition of a pad is that all the buttons are connected together in one solid key (pad) that rocks.
arrow keys != Dpad
You're really streching. You know that and are being intensionally obtuse.
The mental image of a busload of people singing Bohemian Rhapsody is what made me chuckle. Yeah, it does bite that the poor audio ruined the video.
jreed2560
Android Expert
I say it serves the same purpose in much the same manner and for all intents and purposes is the same. So "I" will call it a dpad. You are free to call it whatever you like
HalfFrozen
Android Enthusiast
Which ever loads my porn fastar, and that is my DX.
Montuhotep
Member
I have to strongly, but respectfully disagree. I think you're making up a definition of a dpad to fit your needs. It rocking doesn't make it a directional pad. The dpad on the D1 could have been replaced with a small 1" screen that you touch for direction, its still a directional pad. Those dance pads with arrows for video games don't rock (no pun), but they're still directional pads. But even by part of your definition, technically, the arrow keys are connected, but even if they didn't, as long as they're in a central convenient location, its a dpad. There's nothing obtuse about that. Quite acute infact! Not trying to argue or piss you off, but I couldn't find a definition of a d-pad that fit yours anywhere in google search. If it "rocking" was pertinent in the definition, it would have been called a directional "rocker", as in "volume rocker". I never heard it called a "volume pad". Look up the definition of a pad. No where does it say "rock". And if I could take a puzzle with a-z on it, touch the letters and have those letters form words on a screen, then by golly, its a keyboard! Or do the buttons have to "rock" or "depress"? lol.
but here's the Wikepedia definition if you don't believe me. Enjoy...http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-pad?wasRedirected=true
Montuhotep
Member
Let me say it in Laymans terms, the only requirement for something to be called a D-Pad, is that you can articulate its full capacity with your thumb. 
bugeyeblue
Well-Known Member
This.Let me say it in Laymans terms, the only requirement for something to be called a D-Pad, is that you can articulate its full capacity with your thumb.
End of discussion. Get back to the comparisons for the op. This is too far off topic. It has "something to navigate with other than the touchscreen". That was my only point. Get over the technicalities.
Montuhotep
Member
I seem to be the only one here with both phones currently in use. I layed out my argument on behalf of the DX, now back to the off topic discussion...the op got what he needed. If you don't like where this topic has gone, you don't have to be here. Use your dpad and direct yourself to another topic!