Produkt & Werbung: Droid X

“But fragments are all there is in an advanced sense that delineates a postmodern, or late-capitalist, market where marketing campaigns are the ‘product’—economically more important, more intelligently designed, and more artistically accomplished than the products they supposedly promote.” —William Gibson

Motorola—Droid X

Gizmodo:

Unbridled masculine aggression isn’t simply a side effect—it’s a marketing tagline. “Are you man enough for this phone?” prods the cyborg eye ripped from a Terminator endoskeleton, chosen by Verizon to be Droid’s wordless representative. […] The software—a discordant melange of the not-so-fresh Android 2.1 and various bits of the Blur “social networking” interface from Motorola’s lower-end Android phones—is the shudder-inducing poster child for the horrors that can occur when most hardware companies try to make software. It’s ugly, scattershot, and confusing. It feels almost malicious. […] All things considered, it’s a showstopping phone whose potential is mutilated by ill-considered, ugly software that’s poorly done.

L. A. Times:

“Junkware” comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones. — The Droid X comes loaded with several nonstandard applications for Google’s Android, most of which cannot be removed. […] “I’d say the carriers might be more nefarious on this than the device manufacturers,” said Steve Drake, a mobile analyst for IDC. “The carriers have the final say about what goes on there” because they generally handle promotion, support and distribution of the phones. […] What goes in the box is a fight between the carrier and the device manufacturer that you wouldn’t believe,” Drake said.

Gruber:

“…most of which cannot be removed…”

You can’t remove them because Android is open.

Klingt exakt wie das Super-Smartphone, das ich mir schon immer gewünscht habe.