Comments on: Motorola Droid http://bytemarks.org/motorola-droid/ The Intersection of Life, Culture and Technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:35:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: katherine http://bytemarks.org/motorola-droid/comment-page-1/#comment-373 katherine Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:17:14 +0000 http://bytemarks.org/?p=807#comment-373 all... please explain/define further the 'mom' factor you are talking about - how/why it is used to determine popularity of a product. also... is this a 'young' mom, or more mature one? all…
please explain/define further the ‘mom’ factor you are talking about – how/why it is used to determine popularity of a product.
also… is this a ‘young’ mom, or more mature one?

]]> By: admin http://bytemarks.org/motorola-droid/comment-page-1/#comment-356 admin Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:43:30 +0000 http://bytemarks.org/?p=807#comment-356 Hey Brian, thanks for the comments. I did fail to mention that the Droid does not have multi-touch capabilities for zooming in on a page. I agree with you that I found the double tapping a bit hit or miss, mostly miss. Hey Brian, thanks for the comments. I did fail to mention that the Droid does not have multi-touch capabilities for zooming in on a page. I agree with you that I found the double tapping a bit hit or miss, mostly miss.

]]> By: Brian http://bytemarks.org/motorola-droid/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Brian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:21:48 +0000 http://bytemarks.org/?p=807#comment-355 Nice article. I played with it for a while too. Coming from the iPhone you expect the droid to do certain things. i.e. The iphone Safari browser is much better at navigating around the page. double tapping to a specific area of the page is very intuitive in Safari. On the droid it was hit or miss as to how it chose to zoom in/out with taps. very frustrating. also the to me it seems you really have to "learn" how to navigate around the phone vs the iphone being easy to just pick and and figure out. Based on these things I agree that the droid is really a geeky early adopter type phone. I don't see very basic consumers, moms, etc attracted to the droid. Heck, even Verizon is saying this phone is only for "manly men" with their advertising. Their advertising seems it's alienating prospective customers. Nice article. I played with it for a while too. Coming from the iPhone you expect the droid to do certain things. i.e. The iphone Safari browser is much better at navigating around the page. double tapping to a specific area of the page is very intuitive in Safari. On the droid it was hit or miss as to how it chose to zoom in/out with taps. very frustrating.

also the to me it seems you really have to “learn” how to navigate around the phone vs the iphone being easy to just pick and and figure out.

Based on these things I agree that the droid is really a geeky early adopter type phone. I don’t see very basic consumers, moms, etc attracted to the droid. Heck, even Verizon is saying this phone is only for “manly men” with their advertising. Their advertising seems it’s alienating prospective customers.

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