Motorola Droid
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Motorola Droid
After wondering if he should do the Logitech Anywhere MX Mouse (Episode 913) and the TVclean (Episode 961), Leo suddenly finds himself with a plethora of gadgets to choose from, including the Vizio 24″ LCD HDTV and the Slingbox Pro-HD. But he settles on the Motorola Droid.
The Droid runs on Verizon’s CDMA and EVDO rev. A network. It uses an Arm Cortex A8 550MHz processor, with a 16GB microSD card (which can be swapped out for a 32GB card), accelerometer, and an eCompass. It has a slide-out keyboard (and a virtual keyboard), a 3.7-inch touch screen, 854 x 489 pixels, with light sensors to adjust screen brightness automatically, a 5MP camera with DVD-quality video, bluetooth, wifi (b & g), a Micro USB connector for USB 2.0 connection, and a 1400 mAh Li-ion replaceable battery.
It runs on Google’s Android OS 2.0, with 3 customisable home screens. Features include multi-tasking, a Notifications Panel, Google Search by Voice, Google Maps and Navigation, Street View, Google Talk, Latitude, a Webkit-based HTML5 browser with support for Adobe Flash, support for Exchange (though not all of Exchange’s features), Amazon MP3 Store for music, Listen (podcast app) and Android Market for apps (including Google Voice).
Leo Demos the Droid
Watch excerpts of Leo’s demo of the Droid. Video courtesy of odtv.me.
Saratoga of California
Leo will be spending Thanksgiving with his family at Calistoga. Legend has it that the town got its name from a spoonerism. Someone had meant to say the Saratoga of California, because of its hot springs, but it came out as the Calistoga of Sarafornia.
Episode 1005
Dick and Leo will be doing Episode 1005 at CES. Since Leo was replaced by Alex Lindsay for a week, it will be his 1000th episode of DGW after all.
A Heavy-Duty Audible Device
Mike Knox from Toronto, a long-time listener of the show (see his last letter in Episode 725) has been an Audible listener since July 2000 and probably has the most expensive Audible-compatible device, and the heaviest. It’s a Cadillac.
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