The Droid Revival

[T_Yamamoto]

I decided to dig out my dad's first smartphone (as well as mine)

The good ol' A855, also known as the Motorola Droid 1/Milestone.

Now, this bad boy packs an impressive ARM Cortex A8 @ 550mhz, 256 DDR (SDRAM), 512mb of onboard flash memory, PowerVR SGX 530, 854 × 480 px screen.

I had to relearn how to use RSDLite in order to root this sucker.

I must say, I'm still impressed with its performance, it handles basic browsing pretty well. I haven't tried any games yet.

Currently downloading CM 7.2.0

I'm going to see how this little phone will play emulator games, since I wanted this phone as my little GBA emulator I could bring to school and use. I could use my Gnex as an emulator but I use that for ATOT and OCN browsing, as well as texting. The N7 doesn't give me the classic GBA feel, having a small device gives me a nostalgic feeling.

Any who, I'll get pics up later.

Oh yeah, do any of y'all "recycle" your phones (as in, repurposing them for other uses?)

 

[notposting]

My OG Droid lives a life of leisure in the bedside dock.

The screen is still one of the best ever. I do find it to be a slow, laggy, frustrating son of a gun though.

 

[tacosrcool]

I use my Samsung Continuum as a backup sometimes. Plus sometimes I use it just for old times sake.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

My OG Droid lives a life of leisure in the bedside dock.

The screen is still one of the best ever. I do find it to be a slow, laggy, frustrating son of a gun though.

That screen is good? I don't know about that. I have one, and it's pretty bad. Backlight bleed, small, etc. Add in the slow and lagginess, and it's pretty much unusable lol.

 

[gmaster456]

I remember when that phone was the phone to have alongside the iPhone. It was quite a phone back then and smartphones were still essentially a novelty for most back then. It was also the first real mainstream rival to the iPhone.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

i keep my old droid x in the trunk (so it wont overheat and kill the battery) and use it occasionally for wifi when my 4g phone is dead

 

[OBLAMA2009]

I remember when that phone was the phone to have alongside the iPhone. It was quite a phone back then and smartphones were still essentially a novelty for most back then. It was also the first real mainstream rival to the iPhone.

it was the only decent smartphone on verizon. i remember the thread where people went out and got it, everyone was mad that the gps killed the battery life. id hate to go back to that phone now

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Surprisingly this can play Pokemon at 4x speed with no problem. When it gets to 8x, it starts to get choppy.

 

[WelshBloke]

Ive got a HTC Desire that I use for Endomondo purposes when cycling.

Its got an old Oxygen ROM on it and runs pretty well.

 

[Red Storm]

I repurpose their value into covering the cost of my new phone. If you do it right you can always have a modern high end phone without spending a fortune.

 

[Face2Face]

I re-purpose their value into covering the cost of my new phone. If you do it right you can always have a modern high end phone without spending a fortune.

Same here. +1

 

[poofyhairguy]

I repurpose their value into covering the cost of my new phone. If you do it right you can always have a modern high end phone without spending a fortune.

I sold my last phone (3GS) after I got my new one and kinda regretted it. It could have served a second life. I am glad I still have my original iPhone. I need to fix its screen so that one day I can show my kids the device that changed everything.

My wife's old 3GS has been a remote for a while and now is an airplay receiver.

When I replace the SGS2 I might make it into a HTPC.

 

[Red Storm]

I sold my last phone (3GS) after I got my new one and kinda regretted it. It could have served a second life. I am glad I still have my original iPhone. I need to fix its screen so that one day I can show my kids the device that changed everything.

My wife's old 3GS has been a remote for a while and now is an airplay receiver.

When I replace the SGS2 I might make it into a HTPC.

My current phone also doubles as my current HTPC. So when I upgrade that means I'm upgrading both.

 

[uallas5]

My OG Droid lives a life of leisure in the bedside dock.

Same here with my old Blackberry Curve only just no dock. Plug it in about once a month for a cpl of hours to charge it.

 

[vshah]

yes, i use them as IP cameras.

 

[dbk]

got an OG Droid Incredible.. running MIUI.. as a backup phone

 

[notposting]

yes, i use them as IP cameras.

tell me more :thumbsup:

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Battery dead after playing GBA on it for 3 hours. Not bad, I know I have another battery for this phone someplace (from my broken Droid 1)