Comments on: This is Not the Droid You’re Looking For

By: Locksmith

Locksmith — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:08:51 +0000

You’ve obviously spent some time on this. Well done!

By: Steve Buss

Steve Buss — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:53:46 +0000

i’ve had a couple more days now to play with the Droid virtual keyboard. it’s the best cell keyboard i’ve ever used. even in portrait mode with small keys showing, i can hit the letters one after another at a rapid pace and they seem to show up correctly most of the time. i cannot be hitting the correct letters that fast and that well on my own.

i haven’t seen the virtual keyboard key press correction capabilities talked about much, but it’s a winning feature all by itself.

By: Steve Buss

Steve Buss — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:01:57 +0000

i’ll agree that some things are “niggly little issues”.

i bought a droid earlier this week at the bend river mall. so far, i’m very happy with it. i had an LG Dare and traded up.

the droid’s virtual keyboard is fantastic… get close to the word you’ve mispelled and the droid will magically insert the correct spelling of the word almost every time. i’m told the latest version of the iPhone doesn’t do this.

no url on a contact’s web page… well, sure, not optimal, but that’s a software thing i would expect would be handled at some future date.

5 megapixel camera with a flash… i’m at a family reunion as i write this. these 5mp pics i’m taking with the droid are really great and can be posted to facebook very quickly. no more apologizing for picture quality.

swap out the battery when the current battery charge is depleted. i’ve already got two batteries on backorder. no more running out of juice when it’s really needed.

for a relatively small monthly fee, verizon offers insurance for a new phone if dropped or damaged. i imagine at&t does also for the iPhone. the insurance plan is legit. i busted my LG dare not long ago and had a replacement the next day.

for what i’m doing, the droid makes great sense.

By: Devin Davis

Devin Davis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:58:07 +0000

Hey Robert,

Thanks for this – it’s interesting to hear another point of view on the Droid, and the Android experience as a whole.

My two cents: I was a loyal blackberry user with Verizon for a number of years. As you mentioned, their costs were out of control. I also suffered from iPhone envy.

After playing with the iPhone quite a bit, I made the decision to jump ship.

But then I saw the new android phone (1.5) on Sprint – the Hero. The experience on the Hero is 100 times better than that of the Blackberry. And while I would agree with you that it’s not quite the iPhone (though I do believe the user experience will mostly catch up) it’s close. And the best part – my monthly cost is significantly (less than half) lower than what it was on Verizon, or what it would’ve been on AT&T.