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Old November 10th, 2009, 11:02 AM   #145 (permalink)
stevehoffman
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The old days of "RTFM" (as in "read the friggin' manual") seem to have passed into ancient history -- so "20th century" -- now the trend is fool around and figure it out, or find answer on-line.


However, you CAN download a pretty informative 50-page user manual from the Motorola Droid website (I found it on the MOTOROLA site, NOT the Verizon Wireless site). It actually is 100+pages but the second 50 or so pages is the same manual in Spanish.

There's plenty of stuff NOT in the manual. But I have printed out a copy and am starting to read it from start to finish.

When learning something, it really can help to systematically study a how-to manual, I find. But then, I'm old school on that sort of thing (I still get home delivery of a daily newspaper, and I still love to read books!)

I think they should still include a printed manual in the box with devices like the Droid. But I guess they figure three-quarters of the people never read it, so why not save some trees and save the company the printing costs.
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