Talk:Motorola Droid

Pricing?

Is there any official word on how much the Droid will cost? MFNickster (talk) 20:37, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Nothing official. We should know soon, though. --Freddicus (talk) 13:39, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

It's $299 with $100 mail-in rebate for a Two-Year contract. --Freddicus (talk) 18:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

How much more does the contract cost than the same service without a phone? I've been looking for pricing, but the down payment tells me nothing. It could cost $1500 if they add $50 a month to the contract. 213.243.163.221 (talk) 19:10, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

acually, if you knew something, you would know that it is 200$ not 300$. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.36.179.210 (talk) 02:49, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Some googling gives a price of $599. I couldn't find any trustworthy source though. Some leaked screenshots from Best Buy gives the $599 figure and one online shop had it listed at that price. Another claimed to have it on sale for $799 with the original price being $999. 213.243.163.221 (talk) 19:31, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

This article should be in the references http://phandroid.com/2009/10/22/motorola-droid-specs-pics-features-at-motorola-com/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oxygenfire111 (talk • contribs) 04:59, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Droid is Verizon's name for it's line of Verizon Android phones

We can wait to add this until it's better confirmed, but it seems Verizon's HTC Android phones will also be using the Droid moniker, probably. Mathiastck (talk) 23:03, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

I think you might be confusing the Operating System (Android) with the Motorolla phone (Droid) 129.139.1.68 (talk) 15:43, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Nah bro. Droid is a Lucas trademark. It seems Verizon has licensed it for their Android line. Frankly I am not sure it's accurate to call it the Motorola droid, Verizon has practically white labeled the handset. It doesn't even run Motorolas UI. 76.168.205.192 (talk) 07:33, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

The Motorola Droid was designed from the getgo to be an Android phone. It never had and was never intended for have any Motorola UI. There is a reason Motorola put a Google logo on the back of the phone. user emb021 10 February 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.188.33.25 (talk) 16:52, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Pretty sure Google licensed it. Check here: http://www.android.com/ Their trademark note at the bottom and GPL disclaimer imply they've acquired the license and are the source of manufacturers being able to call the phones droids. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.160.182.167 (talk) 20:22, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Onboard memory

I've found outdated and errnoeous sources that state the phone ships with a half-gig of OS and application storage, but I haven't been able to find anything recent enough to reflect the post-release specs and bundled 16GB MicroSDHC card announcement. How much space is available for the OS?

Furthermore, does Eclair eliminate the previous restrictions forbidding the installation of Android applications on removable memory? Can apps be installed on the MicroSDHC port with stock firmware? MrZaius^talk 11:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Found answers to both: Limited to 512mb onboard flash. MrZaius^talk 15:09, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Motorola Milestone

The Droid will be released in Europe as the Motorola Milestone. Well, it's not exactly the same model. The Droid is CDMA, whilst the Milestone is GSM. Should it be a different article (because of the different transmission protocols they use), or should it be all in this article?--Lester 07:36, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

An article w/ the differences (just a few hours old, so it's current): http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Motorola-Droid-Renamed-Milestone-for-Europe-South-America-254731/

Macshill (talk) 18:16, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Given the heavy marketing focus of the current piece, it seems like Milestone probably ought to eventually be seperate to avoid being drowned out, but a seperate Milestone section in this article could provide it a healthier place to start out than forking it off right away. MrZaius^talk 07:42, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind - Less of a rush now that the marketing content has been pared back down. Works well as a single piece, too, when multitouch coverage is added. Works better as a quick one-off comparison for now. MrZaius^talk 15:59, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

The Milestone has signed bootloader unlike Droid, which makes the International version less desirable for developers and geekier users. Motorola has publicly said that Droid and Milestone are different models (apparently to stave of any lawsuits). -Motorola User. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.195.216.222 (talk) 18:20, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

DroidDoes

The DroidDoes marketing campaign has been covered some 719 times in the last month. While the section may warrant some cleanup by someone with a bit more time on their hands, simply deleting the section is inappropriate and an overly simplistic approach to the rather minor problem. There's a crystal clear precedent for covering the advertising of similar prodcuts at History of the iPhone and iPod advertising and myriad other non-telephony articles. Can't even begin to imagine why the deleter thought that the advertisements' closer links to the exclusive launch telco than to the manufacturer was pertinent.MrZaius^talk 07:22, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Media coverage does not make something notable. If that were true, marketing departments would all insist their activities were extensively documented in Wikipedia.

"Precedent" is not the point. There's been spam in Wikipedia articles before. There are 100,000s of Wiki articles with material contrary to guidelines, and are waiting to be cleaned up. Cite Wikipedia guidelines that support this marketing self-promotion. Piano non troppo (talk) 20:43, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

WP:RS is more than adequate in and of itself - The ad campaign plainly independently meets WP:N. This isn't some simple little WP:CRAP thing - You're arguing that the general notability guideline doesn't apply to a whole swath of various marketing related articles. Given reasonable, neutrality-minded coverage in an article, it's been generally accepted for years. With all due respect, you're the one making claims worthy of an explanation, hence the comments above. Double checked WP:SPAM, and it doesn't seem to apply here at all. Perhaps you're confusing the WP:ARTSPAM prohibitions on advertisement like tone with a general prohibition on the existence of the hundred or so pieces in Category:Marketing covering certain campaigns? MrZaius^talk 05:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

DPI

What's it's DPI? Mathiastck (talk) 00:23, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

What is the context? That said, DPI: Maybe the pixels per inch option? Doesn't seem to be present in the article any longer, though. MrZaius^talk 15:36, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

DPI is 265. It is in the table. -Սահակ/Sahak (talk) 04:19, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

the question was asked of me without context, I think dpi is mainly used in reference to printed material. 76.168.205.192 (talk) 07:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Reference to Commons:HTC Hero?

What's that reference doing there? — Lasse Havelund (p · t · c) 12:44, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Redirect

A lot of people seem to be calling it the Google Droid phone, maybe that can re-direct to this page. Dflav1138 (talk) 03:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Main Image

I think the current main image is slightly squashed vertically. Can we get a different picture of the phone up there? 64.46.248.203 (talk) 16:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

I have an alternative one, but it's the Milestone rather than the DROID. Shritwod (talk) 21:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Motorola MILESTONE

I resized it and tweaked it a little, it's still fairly blurry. Or you could use the MILESTONE image Shritwod (talk) 22:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

January 22 OTA update

I almost erased this yesterday, but thought maybe someone knew something I didn't. Apparently not, though, as Motorola has confirmed it was just a rumor: http://twitter.com/MotoMobile/status/8074996486 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.255.181.188 (talk) 17:01, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Resolution

The article lists the screen resolution as being more than twice the nearest competitor however this is no longer true as the N900 and the Nexus One both feature similar resolutions - this should be removed 16:13, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Multi-Touch and Feb 1st Rumor

Why has the information about Multi-Touch been removed? The U.S. Moto Droid *does* ship with multi-touch hardware and available software does take advantage of this. Anyways. Information about an Android 2.1 release date is once again being rumored and was added in to the article without source. I have removed it and encourage everyone else to do the same until there is a hard source. 96.228.219.174 (talk) 04:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Twitter confirmation

has anyone seen this? http://twitter.com/MotoMobile Says droid will have 2.1 sometime this week. 146.6.113.91 (talk) 19:59, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

TELUS

I handled a Motorola Milestone from Telus in a Future Shop today (Feb 20). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.133.206 (talk) 04:56, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Sales

The statement saying that Verizon expects 1 million DROID sales in Q4 is incorrect. If you follow the link (footnote 19) you can see that Verizon wasn't referring to the DROID. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.201.242.130 (talk) 16:26, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Color Depth

Shouldn't the page list the color depth of the screen? A lot of the other phone pages do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.184.162.173 (talk) 17:30, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Weasel words / advertising language

Hi, BLGM5. In an effort to avoid editwarring while addressing both our concerns, I propose to replace the 2nd paragraph of the first section with the following:

The marketing for the American launch included "Droid Does Times Square." This was a program (billed as an "interactive experience") in which Verizon connected the Nasdaq and Reuters electronic billboards in Times Square to its systems such that people were able to control the electronic displays by using voice commands (illustrating the voice search function that is a primary Android feature). Control of the billboards was available in Times Square or via the Droid Does Web site.

Please respond with a counterproposal, or feel free to copy & paste this edit if you like. Thanks! ☯ Z.S. ☠ ......(talk) 18:10, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

I figured putting "interactive experience" in quotes would be the best solution. BLGM5 (talk) 19:50, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

References

Motorola DROID on Mexico, with Iusacell

Well, Iusacell is about to release tomorrow the Motorola Droid, marketed as MotoRoi, here's the proof.

We should add it to the article http://www.iusacell.com.mx/New_Site/Equipos/index.php?id=MOTOROI —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.140.119.42 (talk) 03:24, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

So I have a Motorola Milestone...but it doesn't work on AT&Ts 3g....so which model is it?

I can't tell which model Motorola Milestone I have. I bought it from some shady guy on Craigslist. My AT&T SIM works...on EDGE...which makes the phone practically worthless. Is there something else that I need to do to get 3g to work? Or is the model that I have not compatible with that frequency? It doesn't seem like the rest of the web, AT&T, or Motorola can seem to help. Also, I believe the "E" status means EDGE network...so what does "G" mean since it's flashed on my phone for a few seconds only twice?

Thanks for any assistance. There's got to be others like me... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.56.144.181 (talk) 02:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

You probably got a European Milestone. GSM carriers in Europe use different frequencies for 3G than AT&T does in the US. T-Mobile, if I'm not mistaken, does use the same frequencies as Europe though, so you might get it working on that carrier. The G status that you saw briefly was likely GPRS, not 3G. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluedragon1971 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Verizon is NOT the only US carrier to sell this phone!!

Cellular South, a small regional CDMA carrier in the Southeast US (primarily Mississippi) also has it under the Motorola Milestone name. https://www.cellularsouth.com/cscommerce/static/products/phones/prod22990083/Motorola+Milestone.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluedragon1971 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

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