Today, I returned the Verizon Droid. Why?
- Keybaord is hard to use.
- Camera takes lower quality photos and video.
- Dropped calls.
- Ghetto app store.
- No Google Docs.
- Slow browser.
- No multitouch.
- Sluggish at times.
- Crackly speakerphone.
- Weak audio/video player experience.
There were a few PROS:
- Nicer Gmail.
- Removable battery!
- A flash.
- Clearer screen.
- Some UI niceties, like persistent status and system updates.
- Turn-by-turn navigation.
- The constant singing of “droid.”
OVERALL: INFERIOR PRODUCT to the iPhone.
i also had struggled with the droid. went to verizon to return and another customer helped my learning curve. he had the htc android. the verizon staff could not help. no prior training. after the customer to customer lesson, i kept it. keyboard on palm treo was perfect. blackberry keyboard worked, droid keyboard is a struggle, but better then soft only iphone keyboard. network still better then att. flash is too bright. i assume apps w/b coming. soooo….nothing is perfect…..except adeo!
/lee
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You can replace and customize the onscreen keyboard using one of the Market Place apps.
You can change the ringtones and create your own if you don’t like the DROID noise.
The market place has many useful apps that Apple would never allow on the iPhone…such as starting torrents remotely on your PC at home so they’re ready to go when you get home from work…or editing MP3s and other audio files into ring tones, alarms and notifications, RIGHT ON YOUR DROID.
The Droid has a higher resolution and more colors than the iPhone, so PFFT about your opinion about the Video experience.
Dropped Calls? Huh? Three out of Four of the calls I made on my old iPhone would end up with the beeps of death.
There are hundreds of reviews and benchmarks that contradict your slow browser claim.
Crackly speaker phone? I’ve been listening to Pandora at work using the speaker on the back of the Droid and it sounds excellent.
So go back to your iPhone and your hundreds of fart and jiggly boob applications.
I’ll be downloading video torrents directly to my Droid and watching them on my higher resolution screen…and I didnt need Apple’s permission to do that.
You sir sound like someone who took 10 minutes to form this opinion…and you already had your mind made up about the iPhone.
I used the Droid phone actively for one week, and I downloaded a couple dozen apps, all of which were inferior to comparable iPhone apps except Qik. In this time, I was able to do multiple side-by-side tests with the iPhone, such as using the camera to take the same photo, playing music on the speakerphone, and typing. Despite potentially better hardware on the Droid, most tests lead to inferior results. I could definitely type faster in landscape with the iPhone, mainly because of the multitouch, which Droid does not have. Every test lead to an inferior result, and there were normally other people around who agreed.
I have used Andriod G1 and played with Droid. It is a painful feat to type text messages on both of these phones. The home page is super unintuitive, UI generally doesn’t have enough attention to the details. I have now more appreciation for my iPhone. Verizon is great at creating an artificial hype around an inferior product such as Droid.
Developers (myself included) bitch about app store’s approval policies. Getting an app on itunes store is a frustrating experience and there is a lot of room for improvement. If you ever doubted the need for such a process, just browse through and download apps from Android market. Apps are generally inferior quality (crash a lot) and many are almost identical to each other. This will become a real issue as Android becomes more popular.
…did I mention those little icons on Android’s top toolbar, aggghhh! If there ever is something more annoying, unappealing, disgusting, stupid, distracting than that. As you download apps, those annoying little icons procreate and before you know it, they have taken over your toolbar and you have no bloody idea what that signify or why the fu*& they are there!
Simple test –
Give a friend with long nails your Droid and ask her to type a text message on it.
Then give the same friend an iPhone and ask her to do the same.
Try it and you’ll know what I mean. My wife who was an expert texter on her old samsung phone (with a keyboard) absolutely hates texting on her Droid, she is ready to go back to her Nokia (she doesn’t want ATT so iPhone is out of question). I have had her use my iphone for texting and she does reasonably well on it – not as fast as her old samsung but order of magnitude faster than android. I have seen her struggle to get the right character on android. It has to do with the fact that the keys in android are less responsive and slightly longish, I think. Again, not enough attention to details.
Looks like Adeo Ressi is “dead” too. I like this blog. Write something!