Due for upgrade: OG Droid -> to what?

[1ceFiend]

I'm still rocking the OG Droid too. Patiently waiting to see what comes and not jumping on anything yet. With this rooted, the only thing I really wish it had is a bigger screen. I'd definitely look into rooting it. It kind of opened a whole new world of fun. Even when I do find something to replace this (which will have to be spectacular, at least to me), I'll hang on to this to play around with. I'm well beyond my upgrade. I suggest patience, seems like there's a lot of new things coming. But, that is of course my opinion...

Still Rocking the OG

 

[htheduck]

I'm scaredy fraid of turning it into a brick if I attempt to root...(old school)

 

[1ceFiend]

I was a little nervous at first. Rooted my first D1 over 2 years ago when it was still a new thing. Did it again when I had to get a replacement. Its so easy! Step by step directions from some smart people It took longer to download what I needed, than tl actually root it. Plus, the D1 is pretty much unbrickable. Just make a backup.

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[htheduck]

^thanks for all the rooting input. I'll admit it was scared.
All the tutorials were somewhat straight forward (along with various YouTube vids) to assist me. I have a new found love for the speed...(stock rom).

 

[phonetool]

Cool! Congrats!
What have you done so far?

- onDroid

 

[phonetool]

Definitely try the V6 Supercharger script.
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...tproof-launchers-fix-memory-all-androids.html

Definitely follow the pictorial tutorial that is linked in the first part of the first post in that thread. There are also some 3G scripts by the same author that are getting preliminary tests now... due for addition to the next version of the V6 Supercharger.

 

[Liderc]

Still rocking the OG as well. I just haven't found one phone I thought was worth the upgrade. I'd jump on the GSII in a second if it came here, it's screen is incredible(was in London last week and friend had one).

The Bionic is looking a bit too large for my taste, but we'll see how it feels in hand, as that makes all the difference.

Hoping to hear something about the GSII release soon though.

 

[Jejackson]

I have a sneaking suspicion that Moto, Verizon, and/or Google will be dropping a bomb on the people that jumped on the OG from the beginning and held out on upgrading. I bought my OG opening day but was lucky enough to buy a DX off someone for 200 bucks, so my contract is still set to expire in November. My suggestion (if your even still reading suggestions) is to just wait until Christmas season. Engadget made mention about the Kal-El Tegra 2 quadcore chip was being released to manufacturers this month, so I would imagine those chips will be in handsets by the holidays so that kids are enticed to get their parents to buy them a new phone.......of course this is all speculation and I could be completely wrong.

 

[lilxman]

nice, i'm in the same position. My OG droid's touchscreen stopped working so i picked up a DX. Thank goodness for CM to come to DX so i'm happy to keep this baby until nov. Hopefully those new quadcore stuff comes out.. i know we dont need it but.. its nice to boast i dont see iphones with quadcores dancedroid

 

[osirhis]

Lol...quadcore processors in smartphones is a lot like a supercharged V8 engine in a road car...

You won't be in very many situations where you can even use all that power...so you are just paying for bragging rights...

And when it comes to smartphones, "bragging rights" just makes you look like a huge nerd to the everyday folk.

 

[htheduck]

^ good analogy osirhis...lol :redface:

"Like a supercharged V8 road car" only to drive the street in Manhattan, NYC...talk about under-utilized.

 

[Liderc]

Quad cores just won't make it to phones just yet. It's a matter of heat and power use. You more than double the heat generated by doubling the amount of dies.

Heat spreads within CPU's, if one core is running at 90C, it will raise the ambient temperature of the idle temperatures of all the other 3. So even if only one core is being used, the other three will raise in temperatures.

Since we saw some heating problems and battery problems with recent dual cores, I think it will be another year before we see any serious quad-core phone that can withstand the heat. This will also give them enough time to develop a battery that can withstand 4g and a quad core.

 

[DroidXDoes4G]

Dual core took long enough with LTE (and it still hasn't) so I wouldn't expect to see quad core/4g for a year, maybe more.

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[mikehal38]

My wife just got a thunderbolt and all I can say is wow. Lte is very nice. It's twice as fast as my roadrunner. Roadrunner is gone for unlimited 4g tethering for $24 a month. Not bad.

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[FuturePrimitive]

And when it comes to smartphones, "bragging rights" just makes you look like a huge nerd to the everyday folk.

But..... I am a huge nerd. And trust me, its rarely my phone that gives me away!