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3rd
MAR
Nexus One Touch Screen Glitch [Droid Does]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
The Droid is on point and the Nexus One has a pretty significant axis-flipping problem. What gives? While you might THINK this could be a problem solved with an OTA update it isn’t looking like a likely outcome based on a Google Employee response by Diane Hackborn:
“Sorry I meant exactly what I said: this is how the touch screen hardware on the Nexus One works (which is essentially the same screen as on the G1 and myTouch). The Droid has a sensor from a different manufacturer, with different behavior. Other phones will likewise have different sensors.”
9th
FEB
Top 10 Best Selling Phones of Q4 2009
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
RIM has a pretty strong showing:
- RIM – BlackBerry Curve
- Apple – iPhone 3G S
- Motorola – DROID
- Apple – iPhone 3G
- RIM – BlackBerry Pearl
- RIM – BlackBerry Bold
- RIM – BlackBerry Storm
- Palm – Pre
- RIM – BlackBerry Tour
- T-Mobile – myTouch 3G
Tags: Android, Apple, Droid, Mobile, Motorola, Palm, Pre, RIM
28th
DEC
Gorilla protects Motorola DROID’s glass screen from breakage
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
Anyone who has picked up a Motorola DROID has been able to immediately appreciate the build of the device. With a body constructed from metal, the DROID feels solid enough to survive almost anything. While the glass display might seem vulnerable to cracking or breaking during a fall, a technique developed by glass maker Corning has strengthened the display so as to protect it from falls, someone sitting on it or a zamboni running over it.
By taking the glass and sticking it in a special salt bath, you temper the glass by shoving larger ions into the surface of the glass and then compressing it. With Corning’s Gorilla Glass, the ions are larger and penetrate the glass more deeply to make it harder for the glass to scratch or break. This is done through the use of an aluminum composite composition that is light and strong. Now, we have seen pictures of a DROID where the glass shattered and sometimes if the display takes it right on the kisser, it will shatter (the phone, by the way, continued to work perfectly). But the use of the specially developed Corning glass should help many DROID’s survive a butterfingers move without the fatal results that happens to other handsets. Have you dropped your DROID? What were the results? I know I have dropped mine once already with not even a scratch!
Tags: Android, Droid, Gorilla glass, Motorola