Don't forget to make an introduction thread!

[Wefler]

Haha. I am also Dave and I also upgraded from a dare

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[secnd]

hey guy's new to the forum, had my droid about six months now just rooted it today and still learning some stuff hopefully this site will help with that.

later

 

[droidzforlife]

Well, since you asked, I'll tell a little about myself, where I have been for the last 32 years up the Technology Yellow Brick road from my first personal computer - Model 1 Radio Shack with kludgy disk drive and an acoustic modem which cost me $4,500 in 1977. The little portable Droid I have in my hand for $200 is more powerful, flexible, and useful than any of the computers, large and small, servers to laptops I have had in between.

Now it struck me when I linked up both with my first realtime chat with a youngster half a country away, and asynchronous BBS-type conversation (called Blogs today) on the very first public dial-up 'conversation' system - The Source (before Compuserve or any other later one) that this would spur a global revolution of 'personal' communications, creation, economics, and even politics.

But since I knew that so long as people - especially in rural America and remote and rural everywhere else, had to be connected by wires - whether telephone lines, or Internet fiber or copper cables, that the revolution would be confined to urban places.

So I was thrilled when the love of my life when I was 13 and she was 25 - no less than the 'most beautiful woman in the world' Hedy Lamar - 1940's actress - actually invented in 1941 by US Patent the beginnings of what YOU know today as Wi-Fi (unlicensed, secure, broadband wireless). For there was no 'communications cost' ala phone companies between two radios, only the cost of the two radios and the internet costs beyond. Oh sure 'Cell Phone Companies' like Verizon charge for traffic, BUT the wi-fi feature of the Droid can connect up to any other wi-fi base station at no cost 'in between'. (and even the cell phone companies adapted what Hedy invented with her 'frequency hopping' patent into CDMA - relatively 'secure' voice communications)

Even with the relatively low power permitted by the FCC for unlicensed wireless bands - I still as far back as 1990 was able to link two towns in Colorado 30 miles (line of sight, at ZERO cost between the two pre-wi-fi radios (902-928MHZ frequency hopper radios) while US West wanted $2,000 a month for the wired 45 miles between the same two points. THAT ability completed the world revolution of personal computing-communications) For years later I helped in 2004, when I was just a lad of 75 Sherpas at 15,000 feet up on the slopes of Mount Everest connect up Sherpa kids 5 miles away by-relayed wi-fi, to the nearest 'satellite-base' Internet to learn, via Skype, oral English from a Sherpa in Pittsburgh, PA so they could break out of only carrying heavy loads the rest of their lives at $5 a day UNLESS with English they could break out of their dead end lives, and see the rest of the world, make a living, before going back to Nepal and help their children grow and become educated in the ways of the modern world.

I am seeing, at 81, the little Droid as opening up the next generation of global connectivity at very low cost. So I will sing its praises (in ASCII songs), and work at making it do things as yet undreamed. Thanks to Google, Motorola, Verizon - and Hedy Lamar! I might even have my descendants bury me with my little Droid! (all I need is a little wire from a small solar panel in my gravestone) Who knows? You may be chatting with me after my carbon self is gone!

I better start working on those apps it will need!

Hello Colonel Dave ! Welcome to the DroidForums and let me know if you have any questions...

 

[droidzforlife]

hey guy's new to the forum, had my droid about six months now just rooted it today and still learning some stuff hopefully this site will help with that.

later

Hello Secnd ! Welcome to the DroidForums and let me know if you have any questions...

 

[droidzforlife]

Hello Poolmaster and Wefler ! Welcome to the DroidForums and let me know if you have any questions about your knew Droid X's...

 

[trckydve]

Hi all! Just got my Droid 2 Global a couple of days ago and love it. It's the first smart phone I've ever owned and have already benefited from the knowledge on this site. Thanks alot!

Dave

 

[SkvyWvr]

Hi all. Been lurking around for a few months. Have learned quite a bit and wanted to say thanks.
D1, UD 2.5

 

[Bef]

Hello,

New Samsung Fascinate user here, switched from my BlackBerry Storm 2 a few weeks ago. I'm still not sold on the Fascinate - there are a lot of "little" annoying things that are starting to add up to be one giant PITA. lol. So, if I do decide to use my Verizon 30-day-trade-in, I'll definitely stick with Android, but maybe not a Samsung... (Hubby has a Droid X, maybe I'll get one of those...)

In the meantime, I'll be reading and learning!

 

[ihascake]

hello,

motorolla droid user here. still got a year on my contract, but super excited seeing all the dual core goodness popping up. looking forward to my next android already! :icon_ banana:

 

[ypsichick]

Did anyone else get the intro wedged between bef & Ihascake from brisseur02 the good hacker seller? Since when do we have to get this stuff?

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[Solomongrundy]

Hey all, I am new to the Android world, just received my new Droid X a few days ago. I have been filling it with apps galore from everywhere and everyone. Definitely one of the best phones I've ever had.

 

[Myree67]

Hello I'm new to this site and only had my Droid a couple of weeks now. I'm still trying to figure out how to do a few things... figured out how to get my personal ringtones able to be used... I came from having a BB Curve 8330 to the Droid 2 Global. Still trying to figure out how to post to a forum as a new thread or without an actual reply LOL

 

[gmvirtual]

I'm new and here to learn all the cool things I can do with my droid. I've just rooted (thanks to this site) and messing with different apps and tweaks and now I'm working on the courage and ability to change my themes.....any input would ROCK! thanks!

 

[redchiron]

I'm red. I work in a hospital pharmacy. I came here to learn more about rooting my HTC Incredible, ROMs, and the wonderful world of open source. I'll probably ask a lot of dumb questions, but hopefully you guys and gals will go easy on me.

 

[BlueTansy]

BlueTansy says Hi

Introducing myself: I'm BlueTansy, and I have an LG Android Vortex with Verizon. I got it two days ago after having various alm: devices for the last 5 years. I really wanted an internet-based system rather than being tethered to a particular PC, so that was why this device was attractive to me. However, now I'm thinking about security, and wondering if there is some app that provides the ability to remotely wipe my Vortex if I lose it or it is stolen. So I am actively looking for that, and discovered this forum; thought it was a good place to be :smile: