Thread: Droid and Android gaming irony
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Rushmore is offline Rushmore
2009-11-21 , 20:59
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Originally Posted by 406NotAcceptable View Post
Never understood any review that said the Droid's keyboard was better than the G1s. Shallow flat keys v raised keys, a no brainer really! The Droid's 'chin' is smaller, but the stupid D-Pag position is like having two chins on a G1.



Android just uses a different JVM, it is a Java derivative. You can use some standard Java libraries. I would say it is Java, but it is like comparing J2SE to J2ME.

I didn't know the JVM lacked JIT, I would've thought it would really speed up Android.

Not sure if I hate Dalvik or J2ME more! J2ME is like using Java 1.4, no Generics, no Collections, no foreach loops, etc. Whilst I am forced to use crummy Eclipse for Dalvik So I am glad to be leaving the platform!
More playable at least for me. The current alignment makes going from left to right awkward unless you map the keys next to each other and then diagonals are unintuitive and up/down too, since you either are lined up with left or right. Even a standard KB has a slight stagger. Seems both Droid and N900 waste space that could have been a better KB. Droid's was a rush job (two blank keys and poor d-pad are a clue to this) and I know that Nokia thought it would be more ergonomic. For typing- yes, but not for games.

G1 has a better (IMO) key orientation for emulators and more space on the top row. Still we are talking reservoir dogs here, since the G1 keyboard is not that good either-just a tad better for games. Everything is relative.
Last edited by Rushmore; 2009-11-21 at 21:05. Reason: added up/down