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Motorola Droid is the new Google Android Phone created by Motorola on the Verizon network. It is the first Android device to be running Android 2.0 the latest Android software.  On the first weekend out it sold 100,000+ phones having a decent weekend start. Even though this phone is being advertised by Verizon by pointing out everything it has and the Iphone doesn’t, it did not beat the iphones firs weekend income that were about 1 million phones. But when the Iphone did come out it was the first phone of its kind, and now the market is much more competitive especially with the new Motorola Droid on the market.

The Motorola Droid is the first real powerful smart phone that Verizon wireless has to offer. One of the first things you will notice with the Droid is its speed, especially if you are like me and you come from the Blackberry storm to the Droid. You will also notice its solid built body which is mostly metal giving it some good weight. Overall the phone feels like extremely high durable calibre in your hand. Also the glass screen as shown by a few videos on YouTube is extremely durable. One video shows a individual hacking his brand new Motorola Droid with a key and the Droid does not get scratched at all. So far I have gone a week with my Droid and I have no scratches or dents on the device. I am really thinking of not getting a case for it.

Upon opening the box with your Droid you will receive obviously the phone itself along with a micro usb to usb charger/connecter for the personal and a surround adapter for plugging the cord into your surround outlet for charging. It does not come with any other accessories but you can by a dock, and a Automobile holder for use in navigation. Yes your Motorola Droid can be used as a replacement for your hand held Garmin type navigation devices in your car.

One of the huge new features with Android 2.0 software is that it comes with Google Navigation, which is Google’s free gps navigation software. Unlike on most phones that have Google maps for directions that just give you the step by step directions like you would print out from your computer, Google navigation actually works more like a handheld GPS device that actually reads and tells you win to turn as you are driving! Not only does it act like your standard in automobile GPS but it also grants you to have real time live traffic on top of the maps for free along with satellite view and street view which can be extremely helpful when trying to find a turn.

The Droid also comes with built in Google Calendar support and Gmail support. The Google calendar is fresh and clean looking allowing day view, week view and month view. In the month view it has these tiny meter things that show at a glance how busy you are on apiece day without looking at apiece days, day view. One thing I believe the built in Google calendar app is missing is tasks. The Google Calendar online has the capability to see tasks on apiece day which the Android Google calendar does not yet support. I am hoping this will be brought out an update eventually. The Gmail support is fantastic and nothing on any phone comes close to it. It synchs with “push” allowing you to get email in real time along with synching with your online statement on your personal so whatever you do on your phone with an email will also happen to your email on your online account. For instance you can delete forward and even add labels to email all from your Droid phone. One of the greatest things with the mobile version of Gmail in android 2.0 is that you still have threaded email messages!

The browser is wicked fast and grants a picture tile view for seeing all your bookmarks which I find convenient and simple to use.  It also grants for multiple windows so you can browse a few websites at once. You can view pretty much any website and I have had no formatting errors at all. Flash is not supported but rumor has it, that it is on its way.

The camera is a 5 megapixel camera but do not get to excited cause the photos are not that great. They are a bit grainy and the auto focus sucks. But there is proof from Verizon that the first huge update for the phone will be released on December 11th 2009, and it is stated in documents that there are repairs for problems with the camera, so hopefully the calibre will be superior after that. Also the camera is a bit slow to begin once turned on. On the other side of camera things video calibre is superb!

The marketplace might not have as many apps as the Iphone yet but I am sure things will be picking up with Android becoming more wide spread. With that stated 10,000+ apps is still al ot and you will most likely find anything you are looking for. Also Android seems to have some really nifty apps because Android can let developers access more of the phone. For example with an application called locale settings such as ringtone, cover facebook position messages can all be automatically changed based on your location! There is also another app the automatically changes how loud your ringtone is based on how loud the room is that you are in so you will never miss a call! Thos are just a few of the cool and innovated applications that are out for Android! Also the marketplace app will automatically notify you of any updates for the applications you have installed and its swift and simple for you to update them.  Also from apiece applications page in the app store you can easily email and contact the developers of applications to reports bugs or request features which I have found great.

The contacts list on the Motorola Droid is also very nice, synching with your contacts twitter, facebook email and phones. All your contacts who have facebook accounts will automatically have their photos synched with their facebook profile pictures. Also when scrolling through contacts a slider appears on the right side allowing for a quicker scroll to scroll by letters in the alphabet.

Overall the Motorola Droid on Verizon is a superb solid phone, whose Google Android system in in constant development constantly getting better.

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The law of diminishing marginal returns

 

I recently had a bit of a debate with a technology consultant friend who knows I am huge on content and detail within project planning and the contracts that support a technology deal.   We found ourselves speaking about that principle of economics called the law of diminishing marginal returns.   His point was that for project owners who are in the midst of planning a new project—gathering requirements, fleshing out specifications, polling individual preferences, etc. —the law of diminishing marginal returns sets in much primeval than they realize.   The resources spent during the initial planning stages produce some hefty returns.   But soon after, spending the same amount of resources again, and the next time after that, will produce smaller and smaller chunks of benefit.   When you are caught up in a planning process, it is often difficult to refer the point at which your cost-benefit curve has begun to flatten.

 

What my friend was saying seemed plausible, and because I did not have any evidence to the contrary, I just accepted his theory.   Then I thought of a doable consequence of his theory, and I said, “You’re not going to go out and begin spreading this thought around the technology community, are you?”

 

Threatened evangelist

 

My fear was this.   Here was I, this evangelist of content and detail within apiece information technology project, and crossways the plateau was a fellow who could undermine the past and future progress of my mission by telling folks they actually need less planning and critical thinking for their technology projects and not more.    Project owners’ planning and thinking are, after all, what generate the content and detail I crave and have come to respect.

 

Well, we talked some more, and my friend added some clarification.   As it turns out, he was suggesting mainly that project owners not waste time and money planning what can't be planned effectively at a particular point in time.  Made sense.   I was still squirming, but now a bit relieved.

 

Obvious example

 

You have decided to use a staged or iterative approach for your next project.   You will purchase some off-the-shelf software and customize it a clean amount.   Phase 1 might involve extending a discrete element of existing functionality and then wiring up to a live database for some testing.

 

In this example, there is really no point to thinking through the details of Phases 2 through 5 or estimating costs within those phases, except in either case at a very high level, because:  1) unless Phase 1 is finished smoothly and with an acceptable cost, you will never get to the subsequent phases; and 2) you have not yet tested your assumptions about costing within Phase 1.   Indeed, you probably selected an iterative approach for this project because of your inability to plan your project effectively from begin to finish.   

 

Less obvious examples

           

My friend and I talked some more, and we moved beyond the obvious examples, the ones that are simple to accept.   My natural reaction was to resist any further extension of his theory because I knew he would be slicing closer and closer to the bone, threatening the very foundation of my evangelist mission.   However, sitting before me was a bright mortal and a clear thinker, with almost two decades of experience with technology.   I had to listen (nervously).   “When the student is ready to learn, the instructor will appear. ”    

 

Requirements gathering – A good thing, no doubt, and something the experts have been encouraging us to do more of over the last ten years.   “Insufficient stipulations development cited as leading cause of project failure. ”  When it comes to requirements, we have been led to believe that more is not enough.   Surely there is a point at which more stipulations are not helpful (and might even be detrimental), but the experts have not told us how to determine just when we have turned the corner.

 

Specifications development – Same story.   Develop specifications thoroughly now or risk project failure.   

 

User preferences – Same story.   Involve your users in your planning process.   Otherwise, “If you build it, they won’t come. ” 

 

We have heard so much preaching on these topics that apiece of us can rattle off a number of clichés for apiece topic.   The advice has been mostly good, but we are hammered with it by speaker after speaker, in article after article.

 

Reconciliation

 

As much as I resisted the flow of this discussion with my friend, I have to admit that what he was saying prefabricated perfect sense to me.   But now I had to find some way to reconcile two divergent concepts:  on the one hand, my long-held belief that more project planning and critical thinking should always be one’s aspiration, and on the other, my realization that you truly can have too much of a good thing.

 

Ultimately, I found the reconciliation I needed with just one insight.   It occurred to me that, with all of the speakers and literature out there telling us to engage in more ideal practices for our technology projects and more often, we have become conditioned to believe that more is not enough—in fact, because of the nature of the beast, more can never be enough.   We have been doing more and more, and the incremental improvements we have witnessed, together with the new articles we read, encourage us to keep doing more and more.   Of course, our intention is good, but when can we stop doing more?  When should we stop doing more?

 

It’s all relative

 

I think it all boils down to relativity—your relative sophistication as a technology buyer, and the relative nature of your particular project.   If you started heeding the experts’ advice many years ago, your approach to buying technology might be evenhandedly sophisticated by now.   You might be doing an appropriate level of planning for your projects, and maybe you occasionally do too much.   Other organizations are just now opening their eyes to a superior way, perhaps prompted by a current problematic project.  

 

Second, when enough is enough depends on your particular project.   Your goal is to plan effectively and thoroughly for all aspects of your project, but be mindful that your present need or capability to plan certain elements might not yet exist.   Further, even if you have the present need and capability to plan a certain aspect of your project, do not overdo it.   For example, do not continue to add more and more stipulations to your stipulations basket as if quantity were your only goal.

           

On this last point, remind yourself that requirements, specifications, individual preferences, and apiece other item on your project-planning list have at least one thing in common.   Once you have thought of them and cemented them into some spreadsheet, they have a way of hanging around for the duration of your planning process, and often through completion of your project.   Instead of inactivity to whack some of these hangers-on toward the end of a phase or at the end of your project (“backward creep” of scope or deliverables), attempt to prioritize them at an primeval stage of your project.   You will not even open Stipulations Container 2 until the high-priority stipulations in Container 1 have been fatigued (satisfied or deliberately discarded).   A prioritization approach could save you time, dollars and other resources.

 

Conclusion

           

For many of us, it might be ideal not to let go of our conditioned response to project planning and critical thinking—not just yet anyway.   The conditioning represents an overall positive motivation, its underlying purpose is producing results, and our technology procurement process, including its planning element, might still have plenty of room for improvement.   The more sophisticated technology buyers among us might want to place the brakes on the conditioned response a bit.  

 

Regardless of what camp you are in (and until further notice from the experts!), be at least mindful of the fact that there is such a thing as too much project planning.   I, for one, am now a believer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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