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Yeah as a developer reference phone, the only odd stuff allowed on the Prime will be an excess of awesome. No keyboards, trackballs, solar energy panels or flotation devices.
I'm just worried this thing isn't going to be a vanilla android experience since a) its on verizon and we'd only be that lucky and b) they removed the nexus tag. Hopefully verizon just wants to ride off the "droid" popularity and this thing is a vanilla android, unlocked, beast of a phone.
I'm just worried this thing isn't going to be a vanilla android experience since a) its on verizon and we'd only be that lucky and b) they removed the nexus tag. Hopefully verizon just wants to ride off the "droid" popularity and this thing is a vanilla android, unlocked, beast of a phone.
Sounds like the Droid Prime will be Verizon's answer to all things Android. In some regards, this could be viewed as the first true Droid successor, keyboard aside. When Moto's Droid was released, it came with 2.0... the first phone sporting it. This will be the first phone running ICS. And an October release date would put it head to head against the iPhone 5. Even with the Droid branding, it is highly doubtful that Google would let Verizon mess with the phone in any way, shape, or form, as that defeats their purpose of a Google Experience device aimed at developers.
One possibility as to why the phone may sport the Droid branding is because it will probably be slightly different than the Prime released on at&t (if that happens) due to the different radios. Maybe I'm completely off base here, but if they made it an LTE device, the housing for a Verizon Nexus vs. an at&t Nexus could be different.
I wonder if Big Red is going to make them lock the bootloader down?
It wouldn't be a dev phone if they did.
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So is this suppose to be bigger, badder, better than the Bionic?
Any specs out yet?
Yes, in every shape and form.
So is this suppose to be bigger, badder, better than the Bionic?
Any specs out yet?
Hopefully this is true... I think the DX is a bit big but I had no problems when I had it because I'm in a suit all day. I did think it was a PITA when I had on jeans or khakis though.
Which is a matter of opinion. For starters, I know a lot of people who wouldn't want a phone that's as large as this phone is supposed to be.