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Motorola DROID is Engadget's Gadget of The Year

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Motorola DROID is Engadget's Gadget of The Year
The Motorola DROID has certainly made an impression in the short period of time it has been out. First, it singlehandedly revived Motorola. It gave Verizon a device that it can stand next to the iPhone without looking foolish and it started off the recent craze called Androidmania. Not long after launch, Time Magazine named the phone its 2009 Gadget of the Year. Now, the handset is raking in some more hardware. Based on voting results from readers of Engadget, the DROID was picked as the 2009 Gadget of the Year and the 2009 Smartphone of the Year. It also won GPS Device of the Year. The Samsung Instinct HD won the 2009 Cellphone of the Year.

The Editors over at Engadget voted for the same subjects and once again, the DROID took Gadget of the Year and GPS Device of the Year. Smartphone of the Year went to the iPhone 3GS and the LG BL40 Chocolate Touch was Cellphone of the Year. Interestingly, the Editors voted the Nuvifone G60 as the Worst Gadget of the Year (readers selected the non-cellphone iPod Shuffle 3G) and the Peripheral of the Year for the Editors was the Palm Touchstone recharger while MiFi won Wireless Device of the Year. We've just listed the winners with a connection to the cellphone industry. You can check out the entire list of winners at the source link.

Motorola DROID Specification | Review
Apple iPhone 3GS Specifications | Review
Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 Specifications | Review
LG New Chocolate BL 40 Specifications | Review

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1. cj100570 posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:45

Droid Does Keep Racking Up The Awards

2. ILOVEtechnology (unregistered) posted on 22 Feb 2010, 23:51

And the iphone keeps selling millions of phones BRING IT BITCH!

3. uknow85 posted on 23 Feb 2010, 00:14

but ur not getting the millions at all so whats ur point he was making a fact ur makin a assumption the droid hasnt been out as nearly as long as the ithong has and its selling like made and wining everything in site while apple gets ready for its oversize ipod touch for $400-800 dollars so im DROID all day and what the iphone doesn't do the DROID does BITCH!!!

4. testman22 posted on 23 Feb 2010, 00:20

Insert Iphone fanboys rationalizing and excuses here.....

9. scottmbolt (unregistered) posted on 23 Feb 2010, 08:19

+1!

19. ILOVEtechnology (unregistered) posted on 23 Feb 2010, 12:08

u get -200 fag!

22. scottmbolt (unregistered) posted on 23 Feb 2010, 13:14

Don't take out your mommy issues on me pal

27. ILOVEtechnology (unregistered) posted on 23 Feb 2010, 13:49

how was the gay bar last night?

36. tonyc_42 posted on 23 Feb 2010, 18:27

dude what is wrong with you??? all you do on here is be negative and call people fags. sounds like a closet homo situation to me. have something inteligent to say or get off here douche bag

37. jogutier posted on 23 Feb 2010, 18:36

A perfect example of a iPhone user. Ditto buddy!

39. ILOVEtechnology (unregistered) posted on 23 Feb 2010, 22:49

inteligent? Do you mean intelligent? Its two L's you fucking moron

40. devilz posted on 23 Feb 2010, 22:57

hi hi hi...

5. uknow85 posted on 23 Feb 2010, 02:26

umm did my response from earlier get deleted why? cause i cursed in it what it is the apple restricting adult apps or something come on phone arena

6. josuearisty posted on 23 Feb 2010, 05:53

DROID DID IT!!!

7. Schmao posted on 23 Feb 2010, 06:04

wow

8. numberonenygfan posted on 23 Feb 2010, 08:13

Ok until a week ago .. i would agree with this phone winning another award... however my personal expierence is that my droid has been calling people randomly while im sleeping. It called yesterday not only my friends 12 to 15 times that night, but during the day, it not only called four different people in a half hour, but it called them each 4 times aaaand then proceeded to call my friends on FACEBOOK which are not in my contacts list!!! Certified like new replacement is on its way for wed. from vzw, anyone have any ideas to fix this problem on my current phone? id love to keep it cause i bought it brand new...

11. VZWEMP posted on 23 Feb 2010, 08:32

funny ive had my droid a week before it hit stores and its given me no problems. sounds like an isolated incident.

12. killingthemonk posted on 23 Feb 2010, 09:05

Try a master reset and install your apps one at a time. Wait between installs to see if the issue reoccurrs. That isn't the Android software. Something else is causing it.

10. scottmbolt (unregistered) posted on 23 Feb 2010, 08:19

Android OS is where its at!

13. numberonenygfan posted on 23 Feb 2010, 09:40

So far what i have read, and thanks guys..i have actually done the master reset on the device... but i used a charger that was for my bluetooth headset. I have looked at many different forums on the topic and im not the only one whos had this issue... the reason why i used the charger for my H710 blue tooth headset is because the cord is longer that 2 ft! I guess its causes the phone to go nutzo if you dont use the actual charger that came with the phone. the only other thing i was wondering was it may be one of the apps i have making the phone go buggy, but after the master reset, it actually stopped calling people, as soon as i plugged it back into that charger, its went nuts calling people again. another thing i used the usb cord to plug it into my ps3 to grab some photos and music off it and it went crazy..i have the referb coming .. so well see what it does... any other ideas let me know .. im going to do the reset and uninstall all apps that i downloaded.. what good is this thing if you get a virus from an app y ou download? ugh... i have a feeling tho that its getting some sort of interference from other chargers that i use or other electronic devices that i put it near... google it guys see if any of this makes sense to you guys.. i googled "motorola droid random calls" and i got a surprising amount of results

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