Ip3gs Vs Moto Droid Are You Kidding Me!

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Well curiousity go tme so went down to the local vzw store and checked out the droid and eris. Droid isnt all what its hyped up to be keypadis cheap and slow vzw might have more 3g coverage but its sure is slow. compared my IP3GS and Droid side by side my god what a difference iphone being the quicker ofthe two and the eris well i like it better than the droid but still no comp. Apple shouldnt have any worries. Lets see when the 2nd gen of android comes out then maybe there be some comp. :buddies:
 
I have to disagree with u, the Droid has The potential to be excellent Competition for the iPhone. Now will it sell as many units as the iPhone? No, but it will do well. I have a Droid and a 3GS and when doing side by side comparisons, both devices stand up well against one another. The iPhone winning at some categories and the Droid winning at some. Most people are tech heads like us in the forums, so the iphone is fine as it stands to them with no multi tasking and whatever else it lacks, but what it does it does well. The Droid builds on a lot of the iphones short comings. Its not an iphone killer, nothing is, but it is a great device and is better than the iphone in some aspects.
 
I also went to a VZW store as well. I ended up buying a 3Gs. Even though I am a VZW customer of 10 years with 3 lines of service, I have yet to find a VZW phone that does all that I want it to do. I want to play my music, digital copies of movies, AND make phone calls. So far, the iPhone is all that does it all.
 
Checked out the Droid and Eris today. We have a 3Gs in the family. The VZW guy stated that the Droid touchscreen was better (resolution-wise and size-wize) and more responsive than the iPhone.

Now I'm not sure about the resolution but I really liked both phones. However, in my opinion the iPhone screen feels more responsive, smoother and more refined.
 
Actually they got one thing wrong. The 3Gs that I have works fine, if not great, in direct sunlight. Clear and readable. I wouldn't want to watch a movie on it, but otherwise fine.

Actually both articles have factual problems with the iPhone as the first one says the 3Gs battery is 1150mAh and it's 1219mAh.

I'm wondering if he *Actually* compared the droid to the 3Gs or if he used his iPhone which was a 3G and presumed that they were otherwise functionally the same.
 
I agree with the review that is linked. In essence, I used the Droid for 20 minutes and instantly knew it brought INCREDIBLE flexibility increase over the iPhone. I think a lot of the reviews out there fail to go into the real advantages this android device has nailed. Main points of improvement/evolution being the browser, notification panel (multi task for messaging/IM) and cool widget/shortcut setup for your home screens, and the obvious ones like launching with google maps with navigation and the cool google sync style backup. The droid gives the user a lot more control of what's immediately accessible to them at any given time. I found it a great deal better experience compared to using the iPhone ever since day 1 of the first gen launch because it conquers all the hangups of the iPhone interface that annoy you between the IM solutions available and the clunky email.

Now, if email was all I cared about, I'd have a blackberry. For some, the iPhone will still be the end all be all as well- those users who find their coverage works well in the places they want to use it, and aren't heavy email/IMers, and really just want to use the device as an entertainment station with all the fun apps and do some occasional email access or IM over 3g, and don't mind having an obnoxious notification box in their face every single time someone texts/IMs them. The droid is a much more functional, flexible platform that's built for the utmost usability and unified by the incredible vision of Google in all its designs, that equals the iPhone's basic interface design and surpasses it in many critical ways.

Applications will make their way to the platform with time. For me, I really feel that Google has come along and rendered the iPhone more of a "sidekick" fun device that's really targeting people who love the hell out of their iPods and aren't smartphone users already. I mean that's where they got their start, but with the huge catch-on of the app environment they went much much further, but failed to evolve away from some of the core problems in their OS. Now Google is providing that evolution, and I think Apple has some catching up to do. I think much more of the iPhone user base than you all might imagine will be prone to these same impressions with the Droid and will switch at the earliest opportunity. For me, I am buying droid as soon as possible budget-wise, and I can triumphantly fit my apps that I'll keep the deactivated iPhone around for into one home-screen page (games and music production tools).
 
Is this a review or an online job application to do paid reviews?? Sweeping generalizations with personal opinions about "Iphone Base" . "Fun toy" sounds like the newest Verizon Ad.
 
Despite sending corrections with pictures from other reviews he still has not corrected his "sunlight test" to reflect reality. The iPhone 3Gs works fine in direct sunlight. He did correct the battery and specifically said that he was using a 3Gs.
 
3Gs was one of the best phones I've ever used in terms of sunlight. I had no idea where that part of his review came from. Also, my 3Gs booted in about 20 seconds, not 30. There are videos online right now that confirm this.
 
IMO? Because it runs plain jane Android 1.5, has a poor video recording capabilities, and only has 128 megs of RAM, which wouldn't have been acceptable last year, let alone now.
 
what version is droid running?

and galaxy lite (spica) has the 128 megs of ram, but it's much cheaper to just buy your micro sdhc cards to expand.

the galaxy comes with 8gb, irc

and i guess i don't care about camera/video recording because i never use that feature.
 
Hey Sectime, sorry if my opinion upsets you. I do not mean to sell generalizations, just to try and open people's eyes to some of the major things that have been done right with this release. The commercial actually came out well after the 'toy' thought originated for me. The fact is that the device offers a lot of entertainment and that's one of Apple's huge strengths, they dominated with the iPod and have created an incredible platform for indie game developers to call home. It dazzled the smartphone industry and blew away anything that had come before it, basically for the reason stated in the linked review- by simplifying the hell out of everything including the operating environment, and at the same time striving to deliver a true-to-form internet experience that absolutely obliterated any other available in the US smartphone scene.

The fact that also needs to be faced along with all its great strengths is the iPhone is a bit of a misfit based on the things that really do hold it back. Along with those awesome innovations, there are legitimate issues both in the functionality of the OS and the restrictions that Apple forces on developers, not to mention the arbitrary and bureaucratic approval process that they have to endure. It took them a year to even introduce the SDK/2.0. So at launch only the hardest core of early adopters or non-smartphone users who really loved the idea of the portable web had big reason to pick one up. The reality needs to be recognized- the platform is suffering and stagnating in certain ways because of Apple's mistakes. Does this make Apple/the iPhone bad/evil? Not at all. I have called myself an iPhone lover ever since the day it first launched. Am I still a major iPhone/Apple fan? Absolutely! I am just very glad to see the approach Google has taken to encouraging further evolution and I think it deserves a lot more respect for this than I've seen doled out in most reviews.
 
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