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Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

gucci web — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:12:59 -0000

Thanks for your share. I like it.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Chris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:54:50 -0000

LOL BTW What he said is so true I have had my phone for 4 days now (Droid By Motorola) and I loving it. Next to no single and I'm still surfing the web. The Apps WOW paid to free are endless or I just not been able to get to the end yet. The Browser just feels so smooth and easy to use. I could go on and on but, to much to talk about and I would just rehash Matt Marshall.

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iLove Technology — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:18:23 -0000

I'm sure all photographers around the world are laughing at Verizon's Commercial! "iDon't take pictures in the dark", Yeah neither does my $1000.00 Canon 40D DSLR unless I'm using a professional flash! I will admit as an iPhone user the Motorola Droid looks awesome. But we should just add it to a Basket full of supposed iPhone killers. Apple obviously knows what their doing. Everybody and their brother have tried to copy the iPhone! Dell tries their best to copy all of Apples Computer Line, the most recent being the Mac Mini! I'm glad that Apple has insipired so much competition in the last couple of years! If it wasn't for the iPhone we might not have so many options for all the cool gadgets that are available, as far as mobile devices are concerned! If not for the iPhones debut we might not be seeing an iDon't commercial! So again as an iPhone user that could not be happier with a mobile device I welcome the Motorola Droid and can't wait to go to a Verizon Store and play around with it. Now I wonder what kind of iPhone update the Motorola Droid has inspired I'm sure the gears are already grinding at Apple. It's going to be interesting!

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Bjeans — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:25:21 -0000

Bought Droid yesterday; addicted today. Big learning curve from a "regular" phone to a smart phone, but worth it. Good forums on line; use them, can chat live or talk to Motorola. I called Verizon today; they got Motorola on the phone. Lotsa help. Terrific screen.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Guest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:20 -0000

Actually, the use of a sentence fragment for emphasis such as "Very wrong" is wholly appropriate and not grammatically incorrect.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Guest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:49:00 -0000

Actually, the use of a sentence fragment for emphasis such as "Very wrong" is wholly appropriate and not grammatically incorrect.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Louie Avila — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:54:35 -0000

You are mostly right, although moving from from the old Palm, Blackberry to some CE to a new multi touch/visual voicemail iPhone was a huge upgrade. iPhone now set the mark and I don't think the jump is so apparent so swearing up and down that the Droid is the new Jesus phone before it is out is kinda funny.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Louie Avila — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:48:42 -0000

AHAHAH thats funny. I wonder if he cancelled his AT&T and signed with Verizon pre purchasing the Droid weeks in advance as he already knew it was so much better.

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Louie Avila — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:44:03 -0000

I agree. I find the Droid very intriguing having had an iPhone for 2+ years and it has served me well as my wife and I are on our quite often. The unit is part of our daily work and social life. I am a huge Goole app fan and my iPhone integrates well. I don't care about Apple politics and AT&T works well as I don't travel into the middle of the desert to perform surgery requiring 3G. In 2+ years I've had 2 (maybe 3) dropped calls. I can say that same thing with Verizon.

Bottom line, unless you are rich and can afford the latest and greatest, then get real. I love Android but those phones will be a dime a dozen to maybe its prudent to wait to see what manifests. Besides, the Droid is 70's ugly. The thumb pad looks like an Intellevision controller.

I'm 44years and I get a kick how life revolves around facebook or twitter "demands". And I get a kick how the author has 5000 contacts he must suck into a new phone.

I'm with you, he is ready to switch phone and has never tried one.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Bravo4 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:07:16 -0000

You know it's bad when someone wants to go back to a Treo instead!: https://supportforums.motor...

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Andrew Zarian — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:21:46 -0000

I love my Droid. Im coming from a windows Mobile phone and wow what a big step .. I have seen many people say this phone sucks because it doesnt have multi touch but thats not true . the phone is fully capable of multi touch .. I made a video to show how you can do it and also save some battery life hope it helps out

http://www.guysfromqueens.c...

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pinoytutorials — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:44:02 -0000

So its judgment day today for Droid, was it? According to Cnet it was a little bit slow nonetheless a good start of droid, other "critiques" says otherwise. But I say, "Hell yeah! droid conquered US for a couple of hours today". We just hope that their ROI is profitable compare to the hunderds of thousand worth of ads they spend during the promotion period and err.. did I say, their impending "lawsuit" with AT&T too?

Collation of info about droid release today: http://bit.ly/did-droid-con...

Hope Droid will serve as a hand of midas to Verizon Corp. Soweet

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

ThatOtherOtherGuy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:13:49 -0000

You were right. Verizon didn't touch a thing. 100% Android with no Verizon crippling. Verizon finally gets a smartphone right!

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ThatOtherOtherGuy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:12:22 -0000

I've had my droid for 24 hours and I have to say that it absolutely and totally f'ing rocks. The only knock you could make on this is the slider keyboard takes a little getting used to. Fast phone, fast downloads, great app store. This does not feel like a v1.0 phone. Rock solid.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Bravo4 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:36:56 -0000

Here are the ways in which the Droid is far inferior and not even usable from a business standpoint (at least for me):

1. no solid backup solutions - sure your mail, calendar and contacts can sync, but if you lose your phone and need to restore, plan on some hours and never getting quite back to where you were
2. no v-card (.vcf) contact file handling - this is common in the business world. Blackberry has been doing this for years, is it that hard?
3. No .ics file handling - get a meeting invite from a Blackberry or some calendar clients in this standard, can't even open it (pretty stupid).
4. You have to have an app just to kill other apps, tons of apps stay open, no way to close them upon exiting like on the Blackberry Storm. Ends up eating memory and killing performance and battery. My battery drains faster than my iPhones, and I thought the iPhone's was terrible. You have to baby this thing to nurse more battery life out of it.
5. Crappy apps, lots are not compatible with the Droid. Few are solid.
6. No media management - as a working professional, the last thing I have is time to mess with loading media. Apple makes it way too easy.
7. No auto-text - I need a dictionary I can edit for often used words and phrases (I couldn't do this on my iPhone but could on my Storm II, is this that difficult to implement?), shortcuts for auto-correcting into words or phrases often used.
8. Contact scrolling is lame, I can't jump to a letter section. More steps involved to search and find a contact. Slower than iPhone in so doing.

This is a frustrating experience for me. I've had quite a few smart phones for almost a decade now, from the old Nokia bricks to the original Blackberry, to the Moto Q and other WinMo devices and now this - though this is my first Android phone because I've read about such issues, I thought now would be the time to try on 2.0. Boy, was I mistaken. I am actually thinking of going back to AT&T after eating the ETF's! Ah! And their coverage is just so terrible. Or go back to a frustratingly slow and proprietary experience on the Blackberry Storm II. Sigh. Not sure what to do. I had high hopes for the Droid.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

jakobpeters — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:24:02 -0000

Answer: None. Verizon is taking 100% hands off approach to this. It comes with FREE TURN BY TURN via google maps latitude beta version. THey will allow any and all software. They will push NO extra charge services into the environment.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

jakobpeters — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:19:34 -0000

I used this phone for 20 minutes as I know someone testing one. It made an instant convert of me from the 3GS. The web - adequate, with tabbed browsing, usable zoom, much easier scrolling & copy/paste, the promise of real working flash very soon with this prospect not in sight at all for iPhone. And a wider screen so we don't have to rely on crazy zooming as much anyway! The whole interface - immensely more usable. The whole thing is tied together in a responsive way. Your menu function makes a huge difference to usability. The OS has a feel that just makes sense. I HATE going through millions of screens on the iPhone to get things done that I do on a daily basis, like tabbing in to check email, write email, grab info out of notes, check my GTalk (and it's PATHETIC that after this long we still are relying on fenced-in 3rd party apps for IM) then jump back to the browser, only to find that I now have to refresh the page I was working in. Droid? No trouble at all to jump about between all of this and work with all the information efficiently. For my IM, all we have is the feeble Push Notification that just barely made its debut. And it is ANNOYING. When someone is IMing me, the phone buzzes incessantly and I can only see the most recent message till I unlock and wait for the IM app to load. Droid? The notifications interface hums along at all times and ensures all events are logged and available with one easy grab+pull gesture. This thing BLOWS THE IDONT AWAY. It's the definition of an easy and efficient user experience. I have been using iPhone for 3 years loyally because simply it was the best total interface experience. IT blew windows and palm away for usability, even riddled with the above mentioned hassles. If you wanted email & communication efficiency, blackberry remained king of course. iPhone dominated for everything else you could want to do on your mobile internet device. NOW the game is changing. Google is far more mighty than Apple, and AT&T is simply a JOKE. Alll the hangups of the closed Apple ecosystem, from the hassles for developers, to the interface quirks and fenced-in operating environment, to the lack of flash.... added bonuses the real keyboard those times you just can't suffer the battle with the touch screen (for example when I am trying to interact with forum dialogue boxes, you have no idea how simplified this is on the Droid with slide out keyboard handy and the rest of the screen now free to see the text I have written). You non believers need to start believing. This is the evolution we all expected as a result of Apple's entry into the mobile arena, the new best, the next wave of functional & powerful. Apple will now have to adapt and refine based on the lead Google has set.

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Kim — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:42:18 -0000

> According to reports, the phone is apparently as thin as, or thinner than

The Droid is THICKER... and HEAVIER.

The flat keyboard is useless. And the keys are packed right next to each other.

What good is a keyboad that you can't feel????

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

Rick — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:17:07 -0000

Yea, iPhone is a great device, but would love to effectively use it as a phone....dropped calls, voice echoes, garbled reception - that's enough to make me drop AT&T and my iPhone. Oh, and nice fragment at the beginning of your post Mr. Johns Hopkins.

Re: Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why

airsome — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:50:26 -0000

but it seems most guys like iphone more!

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Jack — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:38:10 -0000

Yeah surgeons are really experts on technology. I would use whatever those fools are using ...

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fernando — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:04:13 -0000

Must say that I have had the iPhone since it first came out, and I have always hated it, I have missed so many emails and call and at this point I don't even bother to search something in the map application as I can usually find it faster by walking around... Sure is great for playing games and texting and the web, but by no means a useful phone. Is it ATT or Apples fault, I don't care and they don't obviously care either. I would have gotten a Pre but Palm phones are cheezy!!! So that leaves me really excited about the droid since it looks cool and hopefully will work as a phone which is what I have always wanted in the first place, also having turn by turn gps is something I really would like to have (I even got one of those handspring phone back in the heyday, remember with the big gps adapter). Anyhow, death to the iPhone!!!

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ThatOtherOtherGuy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:44:11 -0000

The real question is: What applications on the Driod will Verizon cripple? Verizon hates smartphones and loves to disable or cripple functionality for no apparent reason.

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pinoytutorial — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:38:44 -0000

Motorola Droid grabbed people's attention because of massive visual and print advertisement. People at Motorola and Verizon knows how to "play" with people's emotion and psychology. It's always about that, nothing else. If you can divert people psychologically and prove your product is better then Jackpot! You probably have/haven't seen Motorola droid complete spec preview. This is my source: http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/motorola-dr...

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yankswinnumber27 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:24:01 -0000

i dont care how cool the iphone looks or the thousands of useless apps for it. i have verizon voyager which may be bulky, but i can send 5 emails before my friends with iphones can send 1.
my service is alot better than AT&T and best of all, i watch sportscenter and PTI on my commute in the morning. try that on an iphone ..