After my 5 days with using the Verizon Droid as my main phone, I’m actually somewhat jealous of the fact that I can’t have it. I was expecting to be underwhelmed by the product after being overwhelmed by the advertising hype. I wasn’t. One of the major things things that I noticed when I first held the phone was the weight of it. There is something to be said about paying ~$200 for a phone and actually feeling the purchase you made in your hand.
Don’t worry about the difference in applications between the iPhone’s app store and the Android app store. Yes, the iPhone’s App Store has 100,000 applications (but you can’t install them all on your phone at once) and the same goes with the Android’s App Store. There’s 10,000 applications, but you can’t have them all installed at once anyways. This is besides the fact that there are a TON of duplicate use applications. With the number of phones coming out that are based on the Android OS the number of apps will inevitably rise.
My vote is for the Droid and any other Android phone to do well. Why? I like the idea of an open marketplace where people buy and download based on other user comments or previous applications from that developer. I hope that soon there won’t be a question of “which app store is it available on” that it will be “cool, let me get that for my <insert name phone opposite of the other person in the conversation>”.
My final verdict on the Droid is to buy it. It’s a serious step up from all other non-iPhone phones on the market right now and it’s the closest anyone has gotten to the excitement that the iPhone had.
Pros:
- Metal Frame
- Availability of physical keyboard
- Slider style
- Lots of memory
- Lots of storage for multimedia files (songs, pictures, videos)
- 5MP camera WITH flash
- Customizable operating system
Cons:
- Physical Keyboard (buttons are too flat and it’s easy to press more than one key at a time
- Network availability (ok, maybe this is just for me since I’m not on Verizon)
- The inset power button which also serves as a wakeup button
- The placement and sensitivity of the camera button
- Lack of send and end buttons (I need these, it’s a phone)
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