Opinions Needed - Anyone Migrate from Original Motorola Droid to X?

[mdlissner]

I have a 1 year upgrade coming up after the first of the year. Looking at the X as a possibility - anyone else make this move and wondering what your feedback is.

A bit of feedback on my usage model:
- Heavy email traffice - corporate - use Touchdown for my exchange sync.
- Have a seperate gmail account for personal email.
- Do not use other calendars - everything is on my corporate calendar.
- I rarely use the slide out keyboard.

 

[tntdroid]

I took out a new line on launch of the X to upgrade from the droid. The screen is awesome! I never used the keyboard so I didn't miss that. Its much faster and all around a better phone. We have root and can overclock undervolt flash roms and themes. This board is great with help and tips for the X. Hope to see you on here soon with that X.

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[terpitude71]

i made the same jump. i cant speak on all the touchdown usage and whatnot, but i would think the X does all that as well as as the OG droid did. what i can tell you is that if you are accustomed to using the soft keyboard on your original droid, typing on the X will feel like a dream with all that keyboard real estate. the larger screen size took me a few days to get used to from a hand holding standpoint, but i love watching media on this device. the phone is fast as all get up, and can be even faster if you go the root/rom route.

 

[xliderider]

Same path here, droid to X. You will be happy with the X, but if you can wait, new more powerful devices are on the horizon.

I can honestly say though, the X will keep me happy till LTE is available in my area, which isn't in the near future.

 

[TootNBerry]

Droid X all the way used my regular Droid the last 3 days due to waiting on my X needing a replacement..

 

[p08757]

You can't go wrong! This is exactly what I did. The X is night and day better than the OG Droid.

 

[JkdJedi]

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak owns a Droid X......enough said.



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[Corey]

I can't comment on Touchdown or corporate stuff, but I made the switch from OG Droid to X. I haven't regretted the decision at all.

Things I noticed:

* It took me a day or two to get used to the rearranged home/menu/back/search buttons. That one tripped me up quite a bit in the beginning.

* I rather like the streamlined Blur overlay for most situations. It's clean enough looking and not too intrusive, and the Motorola widgets are actually pretty useful.

* The integration with different account types is both reallly nice and really awful, depending on the account. For example: I like that I can link to picasa, photobucket, and facebook to upload pictures without an additional app. I like that there's a built in yahoo mail option that can link to a universal inbox that also shows other emails, text, and facebook messages. I loathe the fact that I can't view my picasa albums in my gallery like I could on my Droid. I'm annoyed that I can't see my gmail messages in the universal inbox using the gmail client, but instead have to setup my gmail as a separate IMAP account. I'm annoyed by the craptastic built in twitter functions.

* The huge screen is awesome, plain and simple. I've messed around with the Droid recently and it seems microscopic in comparison. The colors are a little washed out when compared to the Droid, though.

* The gallery is much better on the X. I hated the 3D gallery on the Droid.

* Maybe it's a mental thing, but the wifi on the X seems a little flaky compared to the Droid.


Those are the main things I can think of off hand that stuck out when I made the switch. Most of it is really good, both hardware and software-wise, but every now and then there seems to be a fumble. Hardly a deal breaker, but quirky. How it deals with your corporate stuff may be the more important deal breaker. You may wish to do a separate thread to see if someone else has dealt with a similar setup on their X.