Sunday, September 26, 2010

Droid X was updated without appoval



The Droid X has changed quite a bit after being updated to Android 2.2 (Froyo).





I don't like that they updated it without my approval.

Froyo 2.2 Pros and Cons:


Pros:
+added touch buttons for point and shoot camera and camcorder
+no more stuck pixels in camera mode
+scrolling is smoother and faster
+battery power manager is better
+can move apps to SD micro


Cons:
-Phone cannot go from louder...loud...vibrate....silent: can only go to vibrate now
-Swype Keyboard lost it cool dark colored keyboard (it looks like the regular keyboard now)
-New lock screen moved the music player down and it animates worse then 2.1 X lock screen



The New Swype Keyboard. Notice how it doesn't have the dark color with the dark blue buttons anymore. It now looks plain like the regluar multi-touch keyboard.

The new lock screen. It's debatable whether this is an improvement. Basically the date an time is now center aligned and the lock and sound sliders are just a dark blue and don't change color anymore when animating.

The new touchscreen shutter button. When pressed the camera will take a picture once the lens auto-focuses. This makes the camera more like the iphone and taking pictures and reduces the possibility of blurry images. The red physical shutter button on the side still works like a normal point and shoot camera shutter button.

A new touchscreen record button added when the camera is switched to video mode. This is to be consistent with the new shutter button. Again the red physical button also works as in 2.1.

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