Motorola's DROID Does Plenty the iPhone Can't

[complacent]

her - got the droid!

despite data plan stuff, how is the actual phone?! haven't played with one yet...

the hardware is nice and solid. Physical keyboard would take some getting used to. 2.0 is a serious performer. The screen resolution is a full generation better than the iPhone. That extra resolution goes a long way.

Not sure about battery life yet, but performance is fantastic. Opens, switches between apps and screens as fast as the 3GS. Copy + paste works everywhere but isn't as slick as the iPhone OS implementation. Overall I'm quite impressed. I might just end up on a family plan with her, it's that good.

EDIT:Media playback and control has a ways to go. iPhone wins that one hands down. Almost everything else, it's an honest to FSM toss-up.

[Mr Kleen]

saw one today at Best Buy. the screen is amazing, the physical keyboard is not. things will be interesting in 2010...

[Katya4me]

Or just see if I can root the G1 and install 2.0.

Done.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/ ... e-g1dream/

Google was kind enough to offer Navigation to the 1.6s as a Thanksgiving present: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... -maps.html it rocks.

[complacent]

Ars Technica has a pretty decent review up.

FWIW, I've jumped over to Verizon from AT&T... Take that for what it's worth.

Pretty cool phone.

[schvin]

have been playing with it. i love the screen. not thrilled with the weight, but i could get used to that. the vpn could use some updates, but it is pretty nifty. have to test some more.

not ready to turn in my iphone.

[Cereb Daithi]

I'll be picking one up next week. Looking forward to it!

[scheherazade]

I checked out some apps (cel phone games) that run on both the i-phone and on droid.
The droid, albeit nicer than the i-phone in every other respect, had worse frame rates.

(edit : thought about it... the higher resolution didn't help things)

-scheherazade