Moving to Droid - for now - I'll be back - This is not a hater post!

sudermatt · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 11:55 AM

I've been in the Windows Mobile world for about 20 years now....basically since the beginning. Like every early adopter, I've dutifully purchased every incremental upgrade phone about every year when they came out. I modded my phones...cooking and ROMs became like a hobby, as most of you know. I troll this site and xda-dev every day for the latest stuff.

But the TP2 pissed me off. What potential. probably the perfect case. amazing keyboard.

But I started looking at other platforms and reading about their architecture. The iphone has games that are 300 mg!

So I got a droid and used it side by side with my TP2 for a week.

In the end - I guess I'm just mad they crippled this beautiful piece of hardware with a $hi++y processor , $hi++y camera, $hi++y memory.

I'm so mad...that I'm going to go try the Android platform...until some manufacturer build the PROPER phone with the PROPER specs.

Maybe I'm biting my nose off to spite my face. But the droid is fun, take pretty good pictures and amazing videos.

I'll see you all again in a year or so. Hopefully HTC will put a keyboard on that snapdragon badboy and give it some REAL RAM for developers to play with.

I know...(who is this guy)....(why do we care)...(good riddance). I've read all these posts to hater threads. I just wanted to share...I think sometimes there's a bit of kool-aid drunkeness on these boards. Sometimes, we (and I mean we - I'm still a WM guy) need to understand that there are options out there and going to try those options for a while is OK.

Cheers!

Mur · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 12:04 PM

yes, you can have your own opinion but we don't need to hear it.

**x10guy** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 12:05 PM

I read your post and understand. There are plenty of options out there and its nice to be able to check them out.

...but perhaps you could tell us how you REALLY feel about the TP2. LOL!

jpwhre · #4 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 12:41 PM

i agree. the windows phones are good. i have been happy with them. my first thought on the tp2 when it came out and saw the flip up screen when slid out was "oh that's the first part that would break for me (little rough on phones)" and have not been to eager to switch from my tp. i to would like to dabble with the android. kinda got my eye on the hero. i never liked moto's and want to stay with htc, but the lack of a hardware keyboard has got me in a stump. and the last i checked, apps can't be installed to sd card.

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Originally Posted by Mur

yes, you can have your own opinion but we don't need to hear it.

yes we do.

**AZTECHKA** · #5 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 12:59 PM

I agree... This looks NOTHING like a hater post.
p.

**thacounty** · #6 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 01:03 PM

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Apps on sd is possible now that hero is rooted.

jpwhre · #7 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by thacounty

Apps on sd is possible now that hero is rooted.

really!? good to know.

thematrixkid17 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 02:41 PM

Negative opinions are only hate in the eyes of a blind loyalist. You better believe that if a better phone comes my way, my TP can kiss it goodbye. But that doesn't mean I hate it, in fact I absolutely love it.

**GhettoBSD** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 03:29 PM

i am secretly holding out for a droid device since people are having problems getting their tp's replaced with tp2's. But i also want a KB && I don't trust samsung so, we'll see what happens.