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With the recent release of the Motorola Droid this month, Apple’s iPhone has it is best contest yet. The Droid competes highly with the iPhone and genuinely shines overall. Available on Verizon’s huge 3G wireless network “We got a map for that”, a slap in At&t’s face, when it comes to showing there coverage map, for there “We have an app for that” campaigns. Also the original handset running Google’s 2.0 android software. I’ve been testing out that Droid, MSRP $199, and these are my initial few good and bad impressions. Droid’s Great Features: Turn by turn GPS and street level maps in most places. This without apparent effort replaces your need of a Nuvi or cheap GPS solution, and to top it off has aweinspiring maps that load up inside. Verizon’s high speed authenti network is amazing. I don’t think I have had 1 dropped call, Vs. my T-Mobile that dropped on a each and everyday basis, peculiarly at my house. Web browsing, using the built in web browser in the Droid, it’s the quickest pages have ever loaded on and off a wifi network. Pages load way more immediate than my 2G iPhone, and blow away each other phone like the blackberry and there built in browser on page load times. Google’s integration to this phone are amazing, upon adding my friends name to my contact book it added his email address to the contact. Unless you have friends with the same names, then I’m sure it will guess right 100% of the time when it comes to auto-assigning humans to there names. Droid’s Good features: Battery life is better than a lot of Smartphone’s I have seen, but isn’t the greatest. I run an application from the android market that closes apps that are not being used; this saves on my battery life greatly, but becomes a little hassle closing apps after a sure time. Auto close will have to be built in for later use with this phone. Choice of slide out physical keyboard, or touch screen keyboard. I in truth don’t see why 2 keyboards are needed, but there are just times that you don’t want to type out each letter and you may just use the quick onscreen keyboard that recognizes words nicely. Droid’s Bad features: Music and video are a bit weird using the media player, peculiarly with lack of a stop button and have to pause music to stop it, and the set up could be better. Visual voice mail is likewise a great feature but at an added cost of $2.99 a month it’s just not worth it to me specially on a phone that offers so some competing things that iPhone cannot deliver on. Overall the Droid might not be the “iPhone Killer” that galore hype it up to be. It is a undeniable competing entry in the race for the best. With native Free GPS features and Verizon’s rock solid wireless network, you will be hard to compare iPhone to droid. Its comparing an apple to oranges, and now a days I guess I’m swayed towards oranges, because of the strings it has cut away from how I use my cell phone, and how well it blows away the competition. Overall Grade A- other than a few little difficultnesses this phone is my choice and will stay my choice for years to come. I’m sure I will have Droid 2-3, and whatsoever replaces it after.
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performs as advertised