MERE? You have no idea what you are talking about. Go online, do some research what has been going on for the past 18 months and how quickly smartphones changed in this time and you will see how much 6 months can change. Without realizing that you will keep thinking that a year old phone should be as good as a 1 month old phone which of course is not going to be true.
You just seem to have NO knowledge of the smartphone market.
Dude, this is what I do for a living, I'm very aware of what's been going on in the last 18 months. However, being from Canada, the device was released here FEBRUARY 2010, which in North America, is a ONE MONTH difference.
Not everyone is in Europe, buddy. Maybe you should do a little research too, seeing as you have absolutely zero knowledge outside your own region, clearly.
I don't think a 1 year old phone should be as good as one released a month ago, but compared to one released a few months after said 1 year old phone, I think should be at least trailing behind, not passed out on the sidewalk coughing up blood.
Let's compare it to the Nexus One then, since you seem so bent on holding onto the one point where I compared the Desire Z's KEYBOARD to the Milestones KEYBOARD.
Note: I said keyboard, not other specs. Please pay attention and stop saying I'm comparing the Milestone to a device released "a month ago" (2 weeks ago, btw.) because the Milestone doesn't even compare, there'd be no point.
The Nexus One was released just over a month (January 5, 2010) after the Milestone. Again, storage is doubled, processor is doubled, and so on and so forth.
Your argument holds no water, because pretty much since January of 2010 (in mid / high end devices), storage capacity has improved hand over fist, but processors, RAM, have all remained pretty consistent (950 MHz average and 512MB). And yet the Milestone had a measly 200MB of storage, 256MB of RAM, and 550MHz processor, exactly HALF of what a device released ONE MONTH LATER and made by HTC had. AND this device (the Milestone) was advertised at the same time as the Nexus One as a HIGH END DEVICE. There is no justification for this other than Motorola half assed this device and turned a gigantic profit on something nowhere near as good as advertised.
YOu are missing facts here again. MS was released in Nov 09 and DInc i April 10, making a 6 months difference. A huuuuuuuuuge difference in time and technology.
Compare the DInc and Droid X and you will see. Droid X released in MAy and DInc in April. A better CPU (better GPU and procesing power in all tests), WiFi N, DLNA.
DInc looks funnily incapable next to the DX.
And yet it benchmarks just as well as the DX and is still completely capable of having more than 100 apps, not force closing every time you open flash (ie, Milestone) and can be ROMed to hell. The Milestone is probably a true testament to the opposite of what Android is supposed to be.
Maybe a bit underpowered indeed, but you can OC it and it runs as smooth as any other phone.
And this somehow negates that every mid-level / high level Android device since is at minimum 1.5 times faster
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My Milestone is OCed to 800 MHz and chugs if I open and close things too fast. Again, your situation could be different, but it happens, and it happens often. Not every Milestone was blessed perfect when people bought them.
No tests to test time though, are there?
Please explain how smashing the hinge with a hammer and having it not break is somehow likely to be LESS abuse than would be sustained in 1 year with normal phone use?
Maybe you should start looking at how quickly phone hardware has been progressing in the past year, because it looks like you have no idea about the subject.
Clearly, how foolish of me to dare disagree with the all European-only knowing Szadzik.
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