Drewbot

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It is, unfortunately, saddled to a hobbled war horse of a phone, heavy with features — a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a nearly one-inch tall raised hilt with buttons and a trackball that feel wholly unnecessary, a processor which is too slow, and a dearth of storage — that does little to excite or delight.

My most anticipated feature, the “Compass Mode” that makes Google Maps’ Street View into a sort of augmented reality, did not work very well at all, operating too slowly and too imprecisely to serve as even a demonstration of the phone’s whizbanginess to friends. Without it I was left to showing the parallax scrolling in the home screen which, while attractive, is thin gruel to serve. But at least I didn’t have to resort to bragging that Android is open source — at least not within the first thirty seconds.

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