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Accidental find........

droidism

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Nov 10, 2009
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This may have already been discovered but this weekend while holding my Droid I stumbled upon a cool (maybe useless) feature. If you have the "Google Search" shortcut on your home screen like I do, all you have to do is lightly shake the Droid to activate the search feature. You have to be on the same home screen as the Google Search shortcut.

The weird thing is I cannot reproduce my findings 100% of the time. For instance, this morning it worked 7 out of 10 times.

Oh well.........
 
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:p
 
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I've hit it by mistake so many times, I wish it was tactile instead of touch sensitive.

I wish all the bottom buttons were real buttons. I'm constantly hitting them by mistake and screwing up whatever it is I'm working on at the moment. Probably my biggest gripe about the Droid.

I have to go thru this conversation every time I hand my phone to someone else to show them a photo or cool app:
Me: Here check this out.
Them: Oh cool....wait I don't know what happened, it disappeared.
Me: *sigh* Yeah you can't touch any of the buttons at the bottom.
Them: Oh....well that's a pain in the ass.
Me: Yes, it is.
Them: Well, how am I supposed to hold this thing?
Me: Very carefully.
 
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