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A walk–thru of the phones I’ve owned over the years. It’s interesting to see how the devices themselves have changed over time.

2011 — Motorola^® Droid X²

I wasn’t exactly liking the direction Microsoft^® was moving with their mobile OS and had started to look at Google’s Android OS. I finally settled on a phone and whaddaya know, I was coming back to Motorola. I did try out a few apps that were supposed to let me sync my contacts from Outlook but that was a disaster. I ended up with all my contacts on the phone which was good but suddenly every contact was duplicated in Outlook. No more syncing. Thankfully I had made a backup so it was recoverable but I fast learned that was just not going to work. Ultimately I ended up further entrenched in Google’s ecosystem and found I was able to basically setup and use GMail like I had been using Outlook. Specifically, multiple email accounts and the ability to send from GMail using one of those accounts rather than my GMail acocunt.

Anyway, back to the phone at hand. I was quite blown away at just how much better the capacitive screen was compared to the resistive screen on my previous device. Everything just worked more responsively and smoothly. Of course things had been moving quite fast in the mobile world and the specs of this device were quite improved. Now armed with an 8 megapixel camera I was getting much better photos and found myself using my digital camera less and less.

I was became a fan of the Android OS and the ability to customize things with relative ease. Lots of apps available to accomplish nearly anything you wanted that wasn't already baked-in too. With the design of the UI itself it was also a lot easier to use without a stylus.

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