“A number of early Droid X adopters are documenting serious graphical or possibly electrical problems with the handset’s giant screen,” Sean Hollister reports for Engadget.
“While we don’t know how widespread the issue might be quite yet, symptoms include rapid flickering and vertical banding over all or part of the 4.3-inch LCD,” Hollister reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Even when they work, all of these screens look like shit next to iPhone 4’s Retina display.
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I am dubbing this: SCREENGATE
Does your smartphone screen distort like that- DroidX does.
Why bother posting that useless video?
Pics would have served the cause better…
That’s not a defect, that’s interference from a nearby iPhone attenuated attenae…..!
Oh my God!!! Call Congress!! Sue Steve jobs!! Report it to the FCC!! Does Obama know about this??!?!?!? What the hell are we gonna DOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fut the shuck up, that’s what.
Oh- and for all the Opensource people… check this out…
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/15/android-modders-beware-droid-x-bricks-itself-if-you-try-to-modi?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_engadget
Life does indeed come full circle- doesn’t it.
Just squint your eyes. Works for me.
Wow, try to ask questions at phandroid.com and watch them delete you. Oh well.
I don’t see the big deal… It looks like it the “vertical hold” knob just needs a little twist…
Or perhaps the tracking just isn’t adjusted right.
Let’s be fair. We need to know how many of these phones Motorola has produced, and how many reports of this problem exist.
I’m waiting for a Consumer Reports report on this…..
SCREENGATE!
“When will the blowhard Schumer ask for this to be corrected? Nothing else to keep him busy these days…”
hooker watch
These aren’t the Droids you’re looking for….
Insert “omfg I thought this was a MAC news site” comment here…
Looks like the droid X will be successful they’ll kill it
I have both an iPhone 4 and a Droid X. Although I am a die hard apple fan, I must admit the droid is a nice phone. The larger screen is a nice novelty. Verizon 3G and coverage absolutely destroys AT&T on Long Island. The iPhone 4 screen resolution is unmatched, although the Droid is nice too. IOS 4 is a gorgeous and smooth OS. The droid is clunky at times. The apple app store is better quality than Android marketplace, and iTunes is unmatched as well. The Droid X is a great phone, with a eye catching display. The iPhone though is still the king. If you want the smoothest OS with best high resolution screen, then go for iPhone. If you want a top notch network, nice large screen, and can deal with some clunkiness, then go for Droid X. Competition is great. We all win in the end
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Looks to me like that wobbly screen can be used with some new 3D glasses for an experience that whips the shit out of this so called “Retina Display”.
Thank you Google. Always thinking ahead to provide your end users with the best possible experience. Errr… wait, that’s not your goal… you’re in advertising. Silly me, how quickly I forget. Someone help me out here… what’s the name of that computer/consumer electronics company that actually cares about its customers? I think it starts with an A…
So where’s the Engadget DroidX freaks moaning about the iPhone and its issues? Come out Come out wherever you are, you perfection driven sycophants. Why aren’t ya boasting now?
B**ches.
And where is the class action suit against MOT’s claim that the screen resolution were 800*480 pixels? In their screens, each what-they-call-pixel has only 2 instead or 3 colours. That means the real resolution is only about 653*392 pixels.
(factor (2/3)^(1/2) in each direction)
Where is Sen. Schumer when we need him??
non-issue. just don’t look at it that way.
DROID X FIX!
1. pick up droid x.
2. Drop in 33 gal. Trash barrel
3. Stick leg in trash barrel.
4. Stomp, stomp, stomp.
5. Run, not walk to nearest apple store.
6. Purchase iPhone.
7. Problem fixed.
The harsh treatment given to Apple is not being, so far anyway, meted out to Motorola. Listen to this one tech blogger:
“This is being handled in the right way it seems. There’s a fault on the phone, you take it back to the store and get a replacement as soon as stock is available. You can do that when the fault is only on a small percentage of your phones and not an issue with all of them like Apple is facing.
Still, Motorola is not doing itself any favors shipping phones with a screen problem, but now was probably the best time for such an issue to happen as so much attention is on iPhone 4.”
OK. Taking it back to the store” is the “right way” to handle an issue like this, but Apple didn’t let you “take it back”? WRONG
Also, I’d rather have a phone with a sensitive spot and an easy solution (iPhone 4) than an unusable brick with no replacement in sight until weeks from now. How angry would you be?
Finally that comment about “now is a good time to have an embarrassing failure, because Apple is in the limelight” is so revealing. The Droid fans know that no phone is perfect and are glad the iPhone’s only minor flaw is hogging the media’s pea-sized attention span.
@ rosswell
> The harsh treatment given to Apple…
Now that the “smart money” is back in AAPL (they were buying all day today), you can expect that the media and analysts will reverse their “antennagate” coverage (starting right now). They will now say it was not a big deal after all, or that Apple has taken the appropriate actions. CR may even “recommend” iPhone 4 again, and give some lame reason for the change. This, along with today’s quarterly results, will help push AAPL price back up to around $300 in the near term.