Nov 23
Motorola Droid vs Apple iPhone
I have the LG Chocolate and it’s a nice little phone in that “it works”. But when you put it against a current smart phone or “super-smart phone”, it couldn’t be farther from the pack. The screen is tiny, the camera is passable, typing text on it blows and it does the web so badly it doesn’t warrant getting a data plan.
But things might be changing as it seems that yours truly is eligible for an upgrade! (Well truth be told it’s my wife who is eligible but she stole my last upgrade so I’m gonna steal hers). And as things are picking up in my various businesses, I’m really looking to get a phone that will allow me to keep up on my various projects and might also allow me to do some development to expand my ever growing list of services for my web design company. For these reasons and the fact that I’m a Verizon customer, the new Motorola Droid is looking very attractive to me.
Their kicka$$ launch site helps too!
If you don’t know, it’s the latest contender to the iPhone here in the states and it seems to be getting some pretty good publicity and reviews. And even though it’s all but a certainty that this will be phone I upgrade to, I’m still very curious as to how it stacks up against the iPhone. I’ve checked out a few reviews and previews including Shoemoney’s comments here (where he says that he’s going to switch from his iPhone to the Droid) but I’ve been most impressed with the review on CNet putting the two into a big pseudo prize fight.
You can see the CNet video above and I think it’s PRETTY fair though I don’t know how I feel about the thing ending in a tie, giving so much worth to the whole reception/dropped calls thing. Now when you say that, it of course sounds funny as one of the main functions of a phone should admittedly be making and receiving phone calls. Again, it’s just amazing to me that the scores just happened to balance out completely. In any event, if you’re looking for a quick comparison of the phones, you could do a lot worse.
Curious – Anyone out there have Droids? Like? Don’t like?
November 26th, 2009 at 7:38 am
I’m stuck on an old Razor… to be honest I hate Motorola so will skip away when I deem it necessary. Obviously I would love an iphone but I am in Egypt right now and they are really expensive here.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
@Forest – I have a friend who used to sell phones at Best Buy and she says the same thing about Motorola. Though the Droid continues to receive pretty favourable reviews so I’m probably going to take the plunge.
December 5th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Let me know how you like the Droid phone – I’ve definitely been salivating over it although I hear the physical keyboard sucks. I’m also looking at the Droid Eris phone – kinda like an HTC Hero I think.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Will do my man. A lot of things have to come together for me this month in order to get it, but it def looks probable. And yeah, I’ve heard the same thing about the keyboard and I thought the same about the keys on my LG Chocolate but I eventually found a way to use them. *nod*