Life With Droid: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre

I put my iPhone away and switched to a Droid for a month. Here's what I found.

By  |  Monday, March 22, 2010 at 8:38 am

The Ten Things About the Droid That Are Driving Me Crazy (either a little or a lot)

1. Quirkiness and misbehavior. I’m not saying that the iPhone 3GS is absolutely, positively rock-solid–in fact, mine regularly suffers some sort of frozen-keyboard glitch which I can fix only by rebooting the phone. But my Droid is far more erratic. The OS regularly gives me cryptic error messages for no apparent reason. (Is there even such a thing as an error message in the iPhone OS?) On two occasions, I’ve set the phone’s alarm to wake me in the morning, only to find that it was impossible to turn the buzzer off without removing the battery. I’ve also had to remove the battery simply to get the phone to wake up from time to time (including this morning). Google Voice once went temporarily insane and confused my Google Voice number with my parents’ home number. Bottom line: The Droid seems to be inherently buggy and unstable–at times, it feels like a tiny Windows 98 computer. (I’m less excited about any of the new features in the impending Android 2.1 update than I am by the possibility that the OS will work better.)

2. Tapping trouble. With both the hardware buttons and on-screen icons, it’s possible to tap firmly without performing the desired action. It’s just weird to watch an icon flash to acknowledge that you’ve tapped it…and then not do anything further. On the iPhone, every tap does works perfectly. Every time.

3. Maddening usability mistakes. I can live with an OS that’s not as elegant as Apple’s…but there are times when I wonder if anyone at Google, Motorola, or Verizon has even used the Droid. If you’re in portrait mode and go to the setting that lets you adjust screen brightness, the necessary slider appears to be missing–until you notice a sliver of a scrollbar on the right side of the dialog. Who ever heard of a dialog box that scrolls?

5. The quality of apps. The Android Market’s offerings are growing at an impressive clip, and I suspect that it won’t be long until nearly every company that wants to be a mobile player releases Android versions of its apps as standard practice. But the quality of most Android software lags far, far behind the iPhone Store. Big-name apps such as Facebook and Foursquare tend to have fewer features and clumsier interfaces than on the iPhone. There’s little interface consistency from app to app. And if there are any Tweetie-like masterworks in the Android market, I haven’t found them yet.

6. E-mail duality. For reasons I can’t fathom, Android has two e-mail programs: one for Gmail, and one for everything else. Neither does everything you want–the Gmail one doesn’t let you look at multiple accounts in one unified view, and the “everything else” one doesn’t have the Gmail one’s search feature.

7. The keyboard. I opted for the Droid in part because it has a physical keyboard, and there are times when I’m glad it does. (I like having 100% of the screen’s pixels available for information.) But like every other horizontally-oriented handheld keyboard I’ve tried since the Psion Series 5 went away, it’s a disappointment–too flat too feel anything like a tiny notebook keyboard, and too wide to quickly type on with your thumbs. If there’s a Droid II, I vote for a portrait keyboard, more along the lines of the one on the Palm Pre.

8. Google Voice. Yes, I know that I listed it as a favorite feature. But given that Google controls the Android experience, I think it could be better still. You use one app (Phone) to make calls, and another (Voice) to check messages. And Phone’s Voicemail button doesn’t take you to Google Voice’s visual voicemail feature. I’d like to see Google Voice replace the Phone app rather than supplement it.

9. The camera. It’s rare to see better specs have so little real-world benefit. It’s got five megapixels and a flash, but its photos don’t look as good as those from the three-megapixel iPhone camera (unless you’re in an environment so dark that the flashless iPhone camera won’t work at all). And the delay from the time you press the shutter button until you see any results is amazingly long.

10. Battery life. I can reliably get through a day on the iPhone 3GS on one charge, in part because I’ve disabled a bunch of features. I’m still figuring out how to set up the Droid to be as power efficient–when I was at SxSW last week, it croaked by the end of the day. (Yes, I could have theoretically swapped in another battery–and no, I didn’t have any with me.)

Whew.

At this point, the Nexus One is the most polished Android phone, and I can’t wait to see if the Droid catches up when it gets the Android 2.1 update. (As I’ve said before, the fact that it’s an almost-new phone running an out-of-date OS makes it a loaf of day-old bread.) .

If the AT&T network was as reliable in the areas I hang out as the Verizon Wireless one is, there wouldn’t be much of a contest here: I’d prefer the iPhone. Then again, if the Droid was less buggy and the quality of third-party apps were better, I might prefer it to even an iPhone on the world’s best network.

For now, I’m continuing to use the Droid as my primary phone. But I think I’ll begin carrying the iPhone as well, and trying it out in spots where it hasn’t worked in the past. (Courtyard Marriott at 2nd St. and Folsom, I’m looking at you.) A couple of weeks ago, I said on Twitter that the perfect smartphone would be an iPhone and a Droid lashed together with a rubber band. I thought I was joking at the time, but now I’m not so sure…

«PREVIOUS PAGE 1 2 


61 Comments


Read more: , ,

46 Comments For This Post

  1. twitter.com/savageje Says:

    While some of what you wrote is correct, there are some issues for disagreement.

    Some of your drawbacks are the users' fault or can be avoided.

    I'll begin with Swype. I LOVE IT. No other way to put and anyone who has used it will understand why. However, since it is not available in the market and is from an outside source, it drags the whole system down. I had to 86 it. I know these problems don't exist on iPhones, but since you can't 'add outside apps' on it, it's a non-factor. Other apps like Home++, an alternate home app w/ 3+ home screens, is another example of a cpu hog. Most times if I add an app similar to this and runs counter to the snappy response of touch or ui menu, IT IS GONE.

    As far as app development, Android is lagging, but as you have stated, that will be and SI changing. It's only fair. Apple does have a huge start, even if you count the early days of the Android Market for the G1. The apps are coming, but as Corporate America hasn't embraced Android, it is still slow going.

    Google Voice… while you bring up points about integration, I have to disagree, slightly. I too would love to see the apps combined in some form or fashion. However, it is probably worthwhile to remember that there are numerous users who don't like/have/want Voice. Also I am not sure it could be programmed in with multiple carriers' VM products.

    Keyboard is flat, but is still better than Apple's. I don't have a problem during daylight hours or when I can see the key outlines. It is at night that I can't find the "well defined keys" =). I think the ALT/SYM keys throw me off. A landscape change might not prove better as you would trade that for key size.

    Despite all that, I think this is a fair representation of Android on the Droid. I am biased and am trying to win other Apple owners over, but stick with it. The openness of Android and non-ATT factors far outweigh any drawbacks to the closed kingdom-system that is Apple.

    Check out my blogiverse on Twitter @SavageJeep

  2. Muay Thai Says:

    Very well put together, nice points. Muay Thai | Muay Thai Kick | Martial Arts for Children

  3. Bill Pytlovany Says:

    Nice summary.

    You didn’t mention anything about the playing music interface. It was my biggest disappointment after using my iTouch. There hasn’t been a lot of documentation on how to copy your music to Droid. I finally wrote up a post to help people understand the file structure and learn how to copy mp3’s to the music folder.

    My biggest surprise is the voice interface. I have never been happy with voice input but I use the voice interface to search all the time. It’s now a must-have feature for me.

    I agree the integration with Facebook is really cool. Unfortunately, the Facebook application sucks compared to the one for iTouch/iPhone. Luckily, there are some good Twitter apps.

    I’ve been happy with the camera once they fixed their initial date/focus bug.

    My biggest disappointment is no Slingbox app and nothing expected. 🙁

    Bill

  4. Denis Says:

    Actually there is third-party app for Google Tasks, it’s called gTasks. I heard it’s reasonably functional.

    If you decide to go back to iPhone, there is also a native Google Tasks app called GeeTasks, of which I am the author. 🙂

  5. Steve Says:

    have you tried to use the internet while on the phone.. I have several times, to check my calendar, to look at a product (dolphin browser trumps safari and supports multitouch). The physical keyboard does stink I agree I rarely use it.. but the soft keyboard betterkeyboard app works well using the “hero” skin .. As far a music players go I regularly use tunewiki.. and sometimes rockon both slick like apple giving you lyrics as the song plays (if you want).. Android is a bit rough.. but it is a relative rookie in the OS dept.. remember Apple has been around for a while. Google is virtually a search engine..

  6. Jessica Says:

    I used gTasks (3rd party app) to sync my google tasks…there is even a widget for your desktop. Works great, no complaints here!

  7. Pierremarie Gustave Says:

    I just got an iphone not too long ago. The one thing I don’t like about the Iphone is that the issue with flash. I don’t know how many iphones users by now wish they had a droid with the March Madness tournament. No flash! This is a terrible deal. Give me the droid now!

  8. Harry McCracken Says:

    @Steve: You can’t talk and use the Internet at the same time on the Verizon network–a drawback to be sure compared to AT&T, but I didn’t mention it because it hasn’t been one of my top 10 annoyances.

    @Denis–I’ll check out both, thanks!

    –Harry

  9. Matt Says:

    The Facebook app on the iPhone can sync your friends photos and contact info as well for existing contacts. Granted it isn’t what you’d call an “OS feature” and it’s not automatic, but hey, you just want the pretty pictures when people call. 🙂

  10. twitter.com/savagejeep Says:

    I should have also mentioned, I would suggest a task manager. There are many out there, but I use Free Advanced Task Manager. Free up some of that memory by killing apps and services when not in use.

  11. Brad in Corona Says:

    @Bill
    SlingPlayer for Android expected in Summer 2010.
    http://phandroid.com/2010/03/19/sling-player-coming-to-android

  12. JimNY Says:

    I’m very confused about your comment on the Droid’s email functions. As a business user who also uses the Droid as my personal cell phone, it’s absolutely perfect. I have the “EMail” button to have instant access to my work email, and my GMail button to have instant access to personal email. I can’t imagine having the two merged — I really don’t want to open one window at 9 on a Friday night and see both an email from a friend about going out for drinks and an email from a client about getting documents to him by the next morning… imagine if I’ve had a few drinks and respond to the wrong one! Same thing with having a Google Calendar button for my personal calendar, and a corporate calendar button to sync with my office’s Exchange server, so I don’t accidentally input a personal date in the wrong calendar and let the entire office know I have a doctor’s appointment or a dinner date next Thursday. I just really don’t understand why you view something I see as a key feature to be a negative.

    As a non-Google Voice user, I couldn’t imagine having the “phone” ap replaced by a Google Voice ap, since, you know… then I wouldn’t be able to use the phone.

    For your phone, Advanced Task Killer is a necessity; you need to kill all the background aps from time to time to conserve system resources and battery life. Your problem with being unable to shut off the alarm stems from the phone exiting the alarm ap and moving on to something else, which (not being the alarm ap) doesn’t have a button to control the alarm. If you have Advanced Task Killer, which permanently sits in your status bar, you can just swipe down and kill the alarm ap (or whatever other ap is giving you trouble). Of course, that stems from the Droid’s ability to actually multitask… which of course the iPhone can’t.

  13. Max Says:

    It has been a month since your review…. are you liking it so far or have you switched back to the iphone?
    I also noticed you didn’t mention rooting the Droid, as that really unlocks some features of the phone(performance and otherwise)… and unlike the iphone it doesn’t put you on a hitlist of sorts. (i only have heard that about hacking the iphone, never had one myself)
    All i know is even my non-nerd friends can root it, over-clock it and love the increased speed and access without penalty from Google or Verizon. Everyone i know that has a Droid now loves it as the best phone they have ever used.

    -an admitted Verizon lover and iphone/at&t hater

  14. Max Says:

    and…………………………………
    i just realized that it hasn’t been a month, this was posted today.
    Just because i don’t know what month it is, shouldn’t discount what i said 🙂

    “You don’t go out dressed like that looking for a job do ya … on a weekday?”
    “uhhhhhh is this a….. what day is this?”

  15. Denis Says:

    @Harry, let me know if you want a review copy for GeeTasks or have any questions, contact email is linked under my name.

  16. Patrick Moorhead Says:

    @Harry, I do like some of the differentiated apps on my Nexus One.

    I have really enjoyed:
    * Google Sky Map
    * Google Goggles
    * Backgrounds (live backgrounds)
    * Linda Manager (Access to the file systems)

    As it relates to multitasking, I have found “Advanced task Killer” very valuable to end apps in the background.

  17. Kendall Says:

    There is a turn-by-turn nav app for the iPhone that is free – Waze. It’s actually a pretty nice app, especially for driving around with a live map showing you what streets are near. It’s not as helpful as a “real” nav app (I also have TomTom) at getting you somewhere, but if you just want to know where something is and have a route presented to you you can follow, Waze works well (in fact I greatly prefer it for searching for destinations since it uses google to find places around you). It’s just not as good about saying things like “stay in lane four”

    It’s also on most of the other platforms too.

  18. yoshi Says:

    Just an observation (and with a note of irony for people complaining about Apple’s “closed” echo system) – most of the apps that people appear to use the most on a phone running Google OS are the Google apps. Any experience with other e-mail providers such as yahoo or activesynced exchange servers?

  19. James Bailey Says:

    “For your phone, Advanced Task Killer is a necessity; you need to kill all the background aps from time to time to conserve system resources and battery life. Your problem with being unable to shut off the alarm stems from the phone exiting the alarm ap and moving on to something else, which (not being the alarm ap) doesn’t have a button to control the alarm. If you have Advanced Task Killer, which permanently sits in your status bar, you can just swipe down and kill the alarm ap (or whatever other ap is giving you trouble). Of course, that stems from the Droid’s ability to actually multitask… which of course the iPhone can’t.”

    So, the fact that the alarm is broken is actually an advantage because you can install a third-party “task killer” that will multi-task so you can have an alternate way to turn off an alarm? This really makes you think the Droid is better than an iPhone? I’m not saying that the Droid isn’t better than an iPhone but this is just a bizarre reason to believe it is.

    BTW, one of the multitasking applications on the iPhone is the Clock app. But I’m guessing the irony of that is lost on you.

  20. //// Says:

    As you’ve pointed out elsewhere, Harry, the current conventional wisdom is apparently that Palm is dead, but I’m struck by the fact that my Palm Pre sports 9 of your 10 Good Droid Features (if you count the system-wide Back gesture as a Back button), and only one, maybe two of the Bad Droid Features (battery life woes and third-party app quality). The Pre has a level of polish in the OS that’s just not there in Android yet. webOS 1.4 is much snappier than what we had when the phone first released (and finally we can record video!). Can’t quite understand why more people aren’t falling in love with the Pre, especially now that it’s on Verizon.

  21. manou Says:

    Most of these points are irrelevant for Europe!

    1) The EU has a much better 3G coverage than the USA, so no call drops
    2) I never use Facebook, so the app is available for the iPhone, no need to have it integrated with my phonebook
    3) Google voice can be replaced with Skype, no one uses Google voice in EU
    4) The turn-by-turn Google app is of no use in EU due to expensive roaming data, as you will travel through many different countries. Real nav software (Navigon, TomTom) is much better, but cost are less than roaming prices.
    5) Google services like gmail, contacts etc. are only useful for Google service users. I stay with my mobile me account it works perfectly for me
    6) the iPhone does Multitask, though not for all apps. But I bet that will come for OS 4.

    So I really don’t see why I should have an Android system?

  22. Steven Fisher Says:

    @manou: “the iPhone does Multitask, though not for all apps. But I bet that will come for OS 4.”

    And I bet you’re wrong. Multitasking doesn’t fit with what Apple’s doing. Hopefully OS 4 will have better app navigation, though.

  23. britmic Says:

    I’ve decided my next phone will be a Nexus One after some deliberation.

    http://rantcloud.blogspot.com/2010/03/iphone-or-android-cathedral-or-bazaar.html

  24. Sean Schraeder Says:

    The iPhone Facebook app allows you to sync contacts with your phonebook, including profile pictures. In otherwords, your #2 most favorite thing about droid is available on the iPhone as well.

  25. Hamranhansenhansen Says:

    I finally heard a sensible reason why San Francisco and New York City have poor AT&T coverage: those cities only permit AT&T to deploy small 1 meter antennae, not the 2 meter ones AT&T has deployed elsewhere. When you factor in that there are so many iPhone users in those cities, and they use their phones so much, and all have truly unlimited data, and the obstructed geography of those cities (hills in SF, buildings in NYC) you get the problems we’ve been having.

    Verizon has the advantage that their proprietary CDMA technology works with smaller and fewer antennae (although, not with most of the world’s phones of course) and they have fewer users with desktop-class Web browsers on their phones.

    However, in 4G, both AT&T and Verizon will be using standard LTE, so at that point the antenna restrictions won’t work against one or the other. We’ll also likely have iPhones on both networks.

  26. Daniel Markham Says:

    Side note: I also spent some time with a Verizon Pre Plus that Palm loaned me, and mostly enjoyed the experience. If I didn’t want an Android phone around as a review platform, I might have opted for the Pre Plus.

    That’s too bad. They could use the press. Seems nobody is interested in putting out a my-month-with-a-palm-pre article even though on the rare occasion I do hear about Web OS, it’s mostly good things.

  27. Josh Says:

    @Pierre – The iPhone does have a March Madness viewer. It’s called an app. It streams the games. Get with the times dude. You’re just draining your Droid battery, by running that in the browser.

  28. JulesLt Says:

    I’m intrigued as to why Facebook’s App is inferior – you would have thought the iPhone app could serve as a design blueprint, even if there is little reusability of code.

    It suggests they’re lacking some level of management above the app development – i.e. that they’ve got two different coding teams (fine) each designing their own software and interfaces without learning from each other (less fine).

  29. Steve Says:

    If you happen to live in one of the few places where AT&T coverage is really that bad, then you are better off with a phone on a different carrier. I spend most of my time in the north east and AT&T coverage is generally very good. I don’t get dropped calls, always get 3G service and I’ve done web surfing comparisons with friends on Verizon to confirm that the iPhone 3G experience is much better. In my case, there is simply no real advantage to Android or Palm Pre. Having used all three, if I couldn’t use the iPhone, I’d use the Palm Pre over Android though. The only advantage I’ve seen with the latest Android systems are the free navigation services.

  30. Grover Says:

    I tried Swype this weekend on my sister’s MyTouch and good lord was it awful. I am baffled to see Harry raving about it. It’s true that it’s faster than the tap, wait, tap, wait, tap, wait that Android’s on-screen keyboard requires, but I can not imagine trying to type even a brief email using it and it’s still a big step down from the usability of the iPhone keyboard.

    I dreaded the iPhone’s touchscreen-only keyboard (to a degree where I bought a Windows Mobile phone with a hardware keyboard a few months before the iPhone came out) and the Android keyboard situation is exactly what I feared. Of all the innovations in the iPhone, I feel like creating a usable touchscreen keyboard is the most significant, yet really under-appreciated because even three years later, no one else has come close.

  31. Me Not You Says:

    It’s not iPhone vs. Droid; It’s Android OS vs. Apple’s OS.
    *** Droid/Nexus 1/Cliq/Hero/MyTouch3G/Moment/Backflip/Milestone/Desire/Devour… 18 phones in all and growing.

    Bigger screen, more pixels. 5mp cameras, a physical keyboard. Multitouch and multitask. Voice to text, live backgrounds with interactions
    Open source and freedom form Apple’s ridiculous approval process. You decide what and where you want YOUR phone to be, and not some corporations with this agreement or that. You don’t like ATT, fine. Verizon is too stifling, fine. You pick… You choose. Yes it can do Yahoo mail or Hotmail. You don’t like Google’s customization of Google’s search and default, change it. Whatever you want, your needs, your phone.
    See the things that Apple can’t?

    The iPhone is/was a revolutionary device, but that was 4 years ago. The competition has caught up and is poised to take the lead. Jobs had better up the ante a lot with OS4, because the iPad won’t do enough.

    This is so obviously an Apple lovefest, but I encourage you to pick up an Android phone.
    There is a reason that it’s growing at an incredible rate and will supplant the iPhone’ OS within 2 years.
    (That’s not my opinion, that’s the industry analysts.)
    Android for life.

  32. twitter.com/savagejeep Says:

    FYI: Swype is not an Android or Apple product. It is a 3rd party app and still in BETA. The technology is great and will be licensed or patented by some company.

  33. A.S. Says:

    Can you let me know if I’m able to browse the internet or do some other internet related work/fun while in a phone call in the Droid or Nexus phones using 3G?

  34. Sigivald Says:

    It’s rare to see better specs have so little real-world benefit. It’s got five megapixels and a flash, but its photos don’t look as good as those from the three-megapixel iPhone camera

    More megapixels in the same size sensor just means more noise, not better images.

    (That’s why the megapixel marketing race for point-and-shoots has mostly just led to very large ugly pictures…)

  35. Me Not You Says:

    @ AS
    Not on my Verzion Droid. I believe you can on a GSM network. So I think the Nexus One can T Mobile. The Droid itself can, it is Verizon’s CDMA network which will go away as stated with 4G.
    Can you Facebook chat, email and use Navigation on iPhone? -NO

    @Sigivald
    That is just an opinion. But the ability to crop a photo and zoom in/out with details is a feature I love and a durect result of more mp. The shutter speeds are less desirable though.

    Good and Bad with any phone.

  36. leef Says:

    I ditched my iphone for a Nexus One a few weeks ago. Android is on a whole other level, I love the google apps like Voice Input, Google Voice, and Maps, and then there’s Layars, and the whole list of OS mod apps that I had to jailbreak my iphone just to find similar ones. I disapprove of Apple’s level of control over the iphone, and the difference that an open OS has is remarkable.

    Loving Android and not looking back.

  37. Yanguang Says:

    I am fortunate enough to own a HTC Magic (or myTouch 3G for most of you out there). I don’t like in the US, so I am denied Google Voice. I still don’t have paid apps available where I live. But it’s been an excellent experience thus far (almost half a year).

    It’s almost like a tinkerer’s dream. I rooted it the first few weeks I got it and tried several ROMS. Eventually I finally found CyanogenMod (which is awesome, really).

    While I may not have as many applications at my disposal, I find the overall Android experience very interesting. The various Google apps are polished and useful (my recent love is Shopper, brilliant thing).

    I don’t have the Droid where I live, but I hope the telcos will ship it soon enough, or at least the new HTC phones when they are released. Or better yet, Nexus One subsidy plan deals.

  38. mike Says:

    I don’t have, nor have I ever had an iPhone. So I can’t make any comparisons.

    But here’s what I do know after owning a Droid for 4 months:

    Battery life-
    Like any smartphone, smart use of your phone will extend your battery life. One of the Useful things Android does is identify the biggest draws of power from your battery. Once you know this, you can manage how you use the phone. The Droid’s screen being on accounts for the majority of the power draw, so, turn it off when you’re not looking at it. There are also screen dimmers and an app called Screebl that will turn off the screen when not in range. So, after learning this, I can squeeze almost 36-48 hours out of my Droid, with effective screen management that becomes habit once you do it.

    Usability mistakes-
    the Android OS is still growing and as someone said earlier, each version is more and more refined. And what you described as a ‘maddening mistake’ doesn’t really seem to be that big of a deal to me. *shrug*

  39. Gonzalez Says:

    @ Hamranhansenhansen

    Even when both companies do switch over to LTE (and it looks like Verizon will have a slight edge in getting to market first), there is still a key differentiator. Verizon was lucky enough to get the majority of its wireless spectrum in the lower frequency ranges. Lower frequencies have a much easier time penetrating solid objects. In addition, they carry farther, enabling a single cell to serve more users. That lower cell density enables better coverage and lower cost/time to deploy.

    That’s not to imply that AT&T could never reach Verizon’s level of coverage quality, but it is likely to be more costly for them. And they have do have some lower-frequency licenses.

    Sprint’s in an even worse situation spectrally-speaking. If I’m not mistaken, most all of their licences are on the high end of the scale. This may help to explain why they’ve decided to pursue Wi-Max in lieu of LTE in its partnership with Clearwire.

    Cheers

  40. Gunsy Says:

    I am SO tired of hearing the “Only ATT lets you talk and surf the web at the same time” garbage- I’ve had a HTC Eris for months now, and guess what- You can talk and surf the web at the same time with Verizon too!! Who would have thought ATT would have lied about something!!??!?!

    You people all need to get your facts straight, from Luke Wilson on national tv commercials to all the lowly iCan’t slaves. It’s false advertising. Have some class.

    Sure the iPhones are simpler, but so are the people using them.

    People with technical savy go for Droids. The end.

  41. Rob Says:

    You mention a few puzzling comments: You start off by saying that Verizon's 3G network is "far slower" than At&T's but from everything I hear, one of the complaints by users is the slow AT&T network..am I wrong on this? Also, you mention maybe Droid will catch up to the Eris once it gets 2.1 update. I have been running 2.1 since Jan/Feb and now waiting for 2.2 soon here in August.
    I have no point of reference since this is my first smartphone, but I think some of the Iphone annoyances would be really awful if I switched at this point.

  42. Fredricka Says:

    Hey I LOVE Swype and I wouldnt use anything else!

  43. yhwebcn Says:

    So that every customer can buy the rest assured that with the peace of mind! Your satisfaction is my greatest joy! Either give it away or bring their own are a good choice!Replica Swiss Chronomat Watch
    Breitling Evolution Watches
    In order to meet their own pursuit of the watch, although the top watch can not afford this life,Replica Swiss Montbrillant Watch
    Replica Swiss Navitimer Watch
    Replica Swiss Superocean Watch
    and a few pieces, but can buy high quality imitation table … reason to believe that a different way of life for those who desire for the urban population power with lore.

  44. yhwebcn Says:

    please come here, we are lowest price replica Watches supplier,
    Royal Oak Offshore Watches
    Replica Riviera Watches
    offer high-class fake Watches in about 100 famous brands。Watch the quality is good and my hands the final say, the buyer's evaluation of the quality of the watch is the most objective evaluation.Replica Breguet Type XX Watches
    Allows you to truly experience the fun of online shopping, and that one of the baby's expectations.Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Watches
    Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Watches
    Welcome customers to patronize, to buy more discount more than the price the same product we; the same price we are more than quality;the same quality service site that we were honest promise:Quality assurance; customer first; credit management,Avenger Skyland

  45. ashleigh Says:

    I enjoyed reading your review, I stumbled upon it while Googling how to forward calls from my droid to my iphone. As you suggested in your summary, I am basically having to rubber band my personal droid and work iPhone. Are you aware of any way to forward calls and texts from the droid to the iPhone?? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! 🙂 Thanks!!

  46. diek Says:

    NFL Jersey $21.88
    NBA Jersey $23
    NHL Jersey $33.8
    MBL Jersey $23
    FOOtball Jersey $23
    Sunglass $12
    Caps$hats $8.8
    Handbags $36
    web:tradetrusting

15 Trackbacks For This Post

  1. The Ten Things Harry McCracken Likes Best About the Droid, After Switching From an iPhone « Says:

    […] I missed his second page (I generally don’t click through to split pages any more), where he lists the ten things that […]

  2. Items I am reading from Google Reader – March 23, 2010 » My Small Business Consultants Says:

    […] Life With Droid: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre […]

  3. Life With Droid: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre | Maszman Speaks! Says:

    […] Life With Droid: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre. […]

  4. Verizon Nexus One RELEASE?! | Internet Buzz Says:

    […] Life With Droid: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre Technologizer (blog) – Mar 22nd – 11:14 […]

  5. Google Voice for Android Gets Better SMS Says:

    […] all: News When I started using a Droid with Google Voice as my primary phone, I figured I could use Voice’s free SMS feature to avoid paying Verizon for a text-messaging […]

  6. Top Posts — WordPress.com Says:

    […] Life With Droid: The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre From July 11th, 2008–the day the iPhone 3G went on sale–until February 15th, 2010, I was an iPhone user. […] […]

  7. The Ten Things Harry McCracken Likes Best About the Droid, After Switching From an iPhone | reabilita.me Says:

    […] I missed his second page (I generally don’t click through to split pages any more), where he lists the ten things that […]

  8. The Technology Blog @ ITP » The World of Mobile Phones – One Man’s Predictions Says:

    […] Apple will once again make significant improvements on an already excellent product.  Now that the Droid has been released and appears to be holding its own within the market, the market has gotten even […]

  9. A Few Random iPhone OS 4.0 Observations Says:

    […] these features, it tends to get them right. And after spending time with Verizon’s more-flexible-but-far-less-polished Droid, I’m not going to mock Apple’s unusual strategy. In fact, I wish other companies would […]

  10. Jack Schafer on Apple’s iEcosystem Says:

    […] I’ve ever owned that I can actually count on to work. (I can’t say that about my Droid.) I don’t think people who find the iPhone’s stability to be a major plus are […]

  11. Droid vs. iPhone 3GS: An Update Says:

    […] AT&T coverage in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood led me to put my iPhone 3GS aside and switch to a Verizon Wireless Droid. I found that I liked the reliability of Verizon’s  service, and loved certain things about […]

  12. Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0: Afterthoughts Says:

    […] these features, it tends to get them right. And after spending time with Verizon’s more-flexible-but-far-less-polished Droid, I’m not going to mock Apple’s unusual strategy. In fact, I wish other companies would […]

  13. And That’s What You Missed on Technologizer Says:

    […] Frustrated with AT&T coverage in San Francisco, I bought a Droid–and found myself frustrated in other ways. […]

  14. Sony’s Tablets: They’re the Sonys of Tablets! Says:

    […] possible to compete effectively with Apple’s tablet. (In the phone world, the original Verizon Droid accomplished that, even though its reign as the iPad’s archrival was brief.) But neither one […]

  15. Hands-on with Sony’s Tablets: They’re the Sonys of Tablets! Says:

    […] possible to compete effectively with Apple’s tablet. (In the phone world, the original Verizon Droid accomplished that, even though its reign as the iPhone’s archrival was brief.) But neither […]