I was referring to the Droid X that was being discussed. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most of the Android phones seem to be on Verizon, which doesn't support simultaneous voice/data.
Driod X comes complete with a Kill Switch
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I was referring to the Droid X that was being discussed. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most of the Android phones seem to be on Verizon, which doesn't support simultaneous voice/data.
mperdue said:
Why? If your tired of reading the thread you are certainly capable of not reading it.
Well my phone will surf and talk at the same time via WIFI. This feature of Voice and Data via CDMA or even GSM means nothing to me since I dont drive and surf. I have set to see a need for this except while at home. At that point I will use my pc.
Back to the OP, kill switch is now been disproved by Motorola. This phone will be rooted just like the Milestone. Many folks will only care about rooting to install some apps that will not work without. I have installed custom rom's. Most recently CM 6.0 RC1 for the Droid. It screwed up my phone and I had to revert back to the original .sbf. Since I have a Droid X arriving tomorrow I have not re-rooted and I will likely sell the phone. I will offer rooting to the buyer as it is easy to do.
Being able to talk and surf is valuable. I was able to talk to my wife and give her directions right off the map, after I found the address she was seeking. Wifi isn't everywhere.
WIFI isn't everywhere. In fact, most of the time I use this feature, I'm not in range of WIFI. (And no, I'm not talking about while driving. I'm not suicidal)
I never said it was a shortcoming of the phone or the OS. I was the one that stated it was a carrier one.
Actually the majority of the Android phones are on T-Mobile which should support simultaneous voice/data.
YES< no kill switch.
I did not see anything exciting in CM6, so I am sticking with Bugless Beast .4; and it is a beast!
Why didn't you just go back into recovery and flash one of your nandroid backups?
Enjoy your Droid X; I suspect it will be rooted before too long; yeah, no custom roms, but root would be nice.
is that still true? I don't know how many phones T-Mobile sells, but I would suspect Big Red is making huge in-roads on that, between Droid, Eris, Incredible, and now X.
I know it's not indicative, but at a site like Android Forums, the Motorola Droid and HTC Eris, both from VZW, have far and away the most active forums.
Update: Damn, the Incredible is actually most popular. Amazing considering how short a time it's been out.
Not sure. I would have to think that Verizon and Sprint are the leaders in that aspect.
That would be my guess, but I don't know. I bet diogen might have some numbers for us on that.
This CNN article, Google quietly kills its once-hyped Nexus One phone - CNN.com, about Google killing off the Nexus One says that VZW has sold 1 million Droids (the Motorola version) !
Apparently there is an OTA coming across for the Droid X which makes some unspecified changes to the bootloader. Not sure what yet. Highly doubtful that they are unlocking it though, although that would be pretty nice.
I don't know how you would know if it was locked or not. He has the update; I haven't heard from him about any new features. But he is an Android newbie, so everything is new to him.
The HTC Incredible I believe is very similar to the Nexus one. It was rooted very quick unlike HTC Eris. Thus gets you a lot of activity.
But the best part is I will see how good the Droid X really is. My wife sent me a message that it arrived.
