Leo Laporte's First Impressions of the Droid X

The Tech Guy Labs - Leo Laporte, "The Tech Guy" on the Premiere Radio Networks: "Leo got a Droid X just before they sold out and loves it. First impressions: Beautiful 4.3″ screen. Typical battery life for a smart phone. Great syncing with Google. However, from Uncle Bic and our caller Kathy, there’s a problem in Google Contacts which doubles up from the phone. Better to merge them online and then sync to your phone. Great built in camera features including panoramas - up to six pictures - automatically.

There is some controversy over the “e-fuse.” If hackers attempt to “root” or jailbreak the phone, it is said there’s a switch will kill the phone. Leo thinks this is reprehensible. If people buy a phone, they should be allowed to do whatever they want with it. They may be able to argue that putting a phone on their network gives them a right to protect their network, but Leo says it’s his phone, he has the right to tweak it as he wants.

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