[Motorola Droid X2] Ihatepullups:
okay back on page 198 of this thread lite had a huge rant about how upset he is at the phone industry. As I sit here with a 16 gig micro sdcard, trying to jump through several hoops to goddamn get music on my new, bigger card with more space, I am very angry. And I am going to explain to you guys why because you are the only people who would understand the source of my displeasure.

I bought my first android phone on may 29th of last year. Before that I had been very big on QWERTY keyboard regular phones because they allowed for fast texting with chicks. But with the android craze, I, the family computer nerd, had to jump on. My parents, in January of that year, had gotten Droid 2 Globals on a buy 1 get 1 plan. So I walked in on my birthday and went to the verizon rep and said I want the dx2, and he said why and I said because it's dual core, and that was that. Walked out of the store very excited. This was the first phone that I owned that could play music, getting rid of my need for a separate mp3 player, that could go on the internet, etc etc. All my rich friends had fancy iPhones and now I was finally getting onboard the internet phone train.

Then there was all the fiascos that came about with the dx2s that you guys know about. The locked bootloader, the unrootable froyo (for the first month lol), the blur that was so slow it was a piece of ****, the fact that the dx2 ran gb, WHICH LACKS SUPPORT FOR DUAL CORE THREADING - LIKE WHAT THE **** I BOUGHT THIS PHONE BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE TWICE THE PROCESSING POWER OF ITS RIVALS AND THE SOFTWARE DIDN'T DO JACK ****, broken promises about bootloaders, refusing to upgrade the phone to ICS despite the fact that it was less than a year old, the list goes on and on.

So **** you motorola. **** you to hell. You're evil, and incompetent. Just like Verizon, funny, maybe that's why you two go so well together!

That was software, but software is software and so long as you have dedicated devs, you can do anything with some great minds, dedication and a little coding. The list is long and I don't remember everybody, but the first person that deserved credit was a guy by the name of c21johnson. He got us the bootstrap off some random forum for the atrix. Without that, we would never have gotten anywhere. Then Nitro made eclipse, which for the first time made the dx2 a phone would run quickly enough without lag to actually be usable. Without P3Droid's help, we would have never have gotten to GB, and then of course dzk that always seemed flakey to me for months promising random things finally came out with cm7, and finally the phone was a real phone. Always, thank you to those devs, and all the devs that I forgot about because you guys are the heroes of the android world. You guys do things for little to no reward but make strides and real progress for technology.

But hardware, wow. What a complete piece of **** these phones are. Before I bought my dx2, I had never ever called up a warranty. Not so anymore. That first dx2 broke within two months. the headphone jack stopped working. So I did a warranty replacement. The next one lasted another 2 or 3 months before the EXACT SAME issue happened. After the third one died for the exact same problem, I called up Verizon and begged to be shipped to another phone. They gave me a dinc2. Which is my current phone. The headphone jack on the dinc2? Yeah it broke after the first ****ing WEEK. I just couldn't take it anymore. I didn't even bother trying to replace it, I just took my friends old ipod.

you know what else? I've had this dinc2 since march. Shall I tell you what's wrong with it? Well, right now, the screen is cracked with huge spider cracks running all down the screen. Yeah, it's my fault the screen broke. I dropped it from waist height. Okay, but in this day and age, a modern android phone doesn't have gorilla glass? Is that a ****ing joke? Is it so hard to get a ****ing corning to sign a goddamn contract with you htc? You're a huge corporation, and you can't even get goddamn gorilla glass on your phones? WHAT THE ****! So, it still works, but reading text is a *****, and whatnot. The usb port is loose. It won't transfer data at all, and only charges if I put it in a very particular position. Which of course means I sit with the charger for 20 minutes every night before I go to bed trying to get the phone to sit in such a way that it will charge while I sleep. The micro-sd card now is slightly malfunctioning, sometimes it wont read the sd card. i'm betting it'll break eventually. I would pay the hundred dollar deductible, except why even bother, when the next one will just ****ing break in a week.

I'm so ****ing tired of phones being ****. You buy an apple product, and it's made of steel, supposedly the hardest metal possible? (Not sure about this, but my apple fan-boy friends say so.) GORILLA GLASS SCREEN HI THERE, the headphone jack is made out of steel, never ****ing BREAKS, is solidly in the the casing. The screen is high res - and all this - and it's competitively priced! From APPLE, competitive pricing, seriously, when does that happen?!

I am in no way endorsing apple. I would never. I hate them with equal passion as Motorola. I gave the iPod back after 2 weeks because I just couldn't deal with iTunes being a piece of ****. But you know what? Apple hardware is high quality. Apple hardware is nice. But android phone companies can't make a nice android phone with high quality hardware. Then it would last and consumers wouldn't buy new phones every 2 months.

Welcome to corporate america. Greed is Good. Vote Romney. Aren't we all so happy with how the nice corporations treat us?

On another note about companies to hate, I found this on Reddit and I found it very funny, worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MShbP3OpASA#t=2980s

EDIT

I forgot to mention, my dad's droid 2 is broken in the same way with the usb port. Yep. High quality things, these phones. I'd love it if you could sue companies for failing your expectations.

Who wants to start a new phone company with me that makes high end, more expensive, less ****ty, more hacker friendly, less easily broken android phones?