- I just don't get it. I just got a 30 day demo from Verizon, and after about 12 hours of playing with it, I put it back in the box and sent it back.
Why are their so many blog articles proclaiming how great the Droid is? The thing is very buggy; I had 5 programs "force close" on me when I opened them. That is a first for me. I've used every smart phone except Symbian and none of them have programs crash as much as the Droid (and I only used the phone for about 12 hours).
The keyboard is atrocious. In my opinion, only the Centro has a keyboard that is worse.
The corporate push email works sporadically at best.
The Droid is hampered by very little memory. It has 222Mbs available (looked in settings) to the user. However the memory has the same shortcoming as BlackBerry's. The 222Mbs is used to store and run apps. What the **** is the other 256 Mbs for and why is only 222Mbs available? The Pre comes with 4Gb. The Sprint HTC Diamond has 4Gb. The iPhone is up to 32Gbs. Nokia has phones with 64Gbs.
Why oh why is a phone, with this much hype surrounding it, made with only 222Mbs available to the user; and what the **** happened to the other 256Mbs?
Back to my original question. Why all the hype around Droid?
*disclaimer: I use the original Storm, and have jumped back and forth between the iPhone, Storm, Curve, Tour, Bold, HTC Diamond and HTC Touch. I'm a fan of smartphones. I'm not a fan of one particular model.11-18-09 11:57 AMLike 0 - A lot of apps available in the Market aren't compatible yet with Android 2.0, that may explain why they had to be force closed.
12 hours isn't enough time to get used to a new operating system.
Android is very efficient at managing apps and the memory required to run them.
The phone is currently Verizon's flagship phone, so yes, there is more than a little hype surrounding it. It is called marketing your product. I'm sure that Verizon's pockets aren't deep enough to pay off all the reviewers out there for positive reviews though.11-18-09 12:14 PMLike 0 -
- I didn't say I have never used an Android phone before. Every time I go to my brother's house I play with the G1 he has. The Android OS is very layman friendly, so it only took an hour or so to get the hang of it.
Android is not efficient at managing apps and the memory. It's better than BlackBerry's and WinMo at memory management; but it just opens apps for no reason (at least none that I can see), and leaves them open.
Case in point. When I turned the phone on the first time it had 12 apps open. I downloaded that Task Killer and killed all the apps. Not even an hour later there are 7 apps open and the only thing I used was the browser.
222Mbs is not enough memory for a phone nowadays. Would you buy a computer that had only 512 Mbs of RAM?
It's like buying a Corvette then finding out it can only go 60 MPH.11-18-09 12:20 PMLike 0 - I was going to give it a chance until I found out about the memory limitation. I am baffled as to why phone manufacturers would put so much marketing might behind a product that can't possibly live up to the hype because of hardware limitations.
11-18-09 12:22 PMLike 0 - Basically cause it uses memory wisely. Even though I have 20 apps and some are open at any given point. The phone does not slow down or lag at all (without Task Killer use ever). I would not be turned off by the memory. This is not the Storm that you are using, this is a whole new beast. The car comparison is not a good one. Try again. Weird part is that I have never experienced a force close yet in 12 days of heavy usage.11-18-09 12:29 PMLike 0
- A different beast, as in it has very little memory and will not be able to download large graphic intensive programs? Just little programs that are very useful.
Basically cause it uses memory wisely. Even though I have 20 apps and some are open at any given point. The phone does not slow down or lag at all (without Task Killer use ever). I would not be turned off by the memory. This is not the Storm that you are using, this is a whole new beast. The car comparison is not a good one. Try again. Weird part is that I have never experienced a force close yet in 12 days of heavy usage.11-18-09 12:33 PMLike 0 -
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- Okay I took it back out of the box, and I'll use it for 30 days. The iPhone performs better. The Bold and Tour perform better. The Pre performs better.
The Droid is ALL hype.11-18-09 12:39 PMLike 0 -
With the amount of apps you can have open and running on the Droid, it out performs all of those phones.11-18-09 12:42 PMLike 0 - One of the big selling features for the Droid is that someone can run multiple apps at the same time and switch among them, a feature unavailable on the iPhone. In fact, the iPhone only has 256MB of RAM, which seems low in a world where mobile devices are likely to replace at least laptops for many on the go. Then again, the iPhone only runs one app at a time.
However, the Droid also has only 256MB or RAM, which means that there�s a hard limit on how big apps can be when you�re running multiple ones. A good thing that that Android app store hasn�t gotten near the popularity of Apple�s.
The interesting thing is trying to find that fact anywhere on a Motorola or Verizon site. I couldn�t find anything on Moto�s Droid specs page about RAM. The only place I found it at Verizon was in a user forum.
In addition, there are also hard limits on how much storage is available to put apps in the first place. According to Motorola�s support site, Droid cannot store apps on memory cards. And the apps have to install to 256MB out of 512MB or ROM
Seems the Iphone only has so much RAM also.
I know I read somewhere that Google is working on a way to save apps to the memory card.11-18-09 12:43 PMLike 0 -
- I don't agree. The Tour is blazing fast, but had quite a few bugs right out of the box. It's easily as fast as the Droid at running programs.
The iPhone can't multi-task (********) so it can't be included in this argument.
The Pre is blazing fast to. I think it's faster than the Droid. It has the same processor (different manufacturer) and the same amount of RAM, but the RAM on the Pre isn't used for storing and running apps. It's only used for running apps, that might be why it's faster.
11-18-09 12:46 PMLike 0 -
Do us a favor and put it back in the box and return it. The Droid isn't for everyone, and with a mindset like yours, you will always find something that you don't like about it (or it seems any phone).
11-18-09 12:46 PMLike 0 - I don't agree. The Tour is blazing fast, but had quite a few bugs right out of the box. It's easily as fast as the Droid at running programs.
The iPhone can't multi-task (********) so it can't be included in this argument.
The Pre is blazing fast to. I think it's faster than the Droid. It has the same processor (different manufacturer) and the same amount of RAM, but the RAM on the Pre isn't used for storing and running apps. It's only used for running apps, that might be why it's faster.
Not even close. It's like a Greyhound running laps around a poodle in a race11-18-09 12:48 PMLike 0 - I am cracking up that he says the tour runs better. I have the tour and have not touched since getting the droid. The tour is so slow compared to the droid. The tour cant handle apps that well at all. The internet on the tour is as slow as molasses. How about battery pulls i havent done one since getting the droid. Oh yea it only takes 45 seconds to reboot. Music doesnt sound as good on the tour. Email is about the same. The droid charges 2 times quicker than the tour. The bat life if about the same. God people just make me laugh when they try a device for a few hours and think they know everything.11-18-09 12:48 PMLike 0
- I just don't get it. I just got a 30 day demo from Verizon, and after about 12 hours of playing with it, I put it back in the box and sent it back.
Why are their so many blog articles proclaiming how great the Droid is? The thing is very buggy; I had 5 programs "force close" on me when I opened them. That is a first for me. I've used every smart phone except Symbian and none of them have programs crash as much as the Droid (and I only used the phone for about 12 hours).
The keyboard is atrocious. In my opinion, only the Centro has a keyboard that is worse.
The corporate push email works sporadically at best.
The Droid is hampered by very little memory. It has 222Mbs available (looked in settings) to the user. However the memory has the same shortcoming as BlackBerry's. The 222Mbs is used to store and run apps. What the **** is the other 256 Mbs for and why is only 222Mbs available? The Pre comes with 4Gb. The Sprint HTC Diamond has 4Gb. The iPhone is up to 32Gbs. Nokia has phones with 64Gbs.
Why oh why is a phone, with this much hype surrounding it, made with only 222Mbs available to the user; and what the **** happened to the other 256Mbs?
Back to my original question. Why all the hype around Droid?
*disclaimer: I use the original Storm, and have jumped back and forth between the iPhone, Storm, Curve, Tour, Bold, HTC Diamond and HTC Touch. I'm a fan of smartphones. I'm not a fan of one particular model.
Idk about corporate email but many on here HAVE been able to get it work, some haven't. If you don't like the keyboard, use the onscreen one. Personally I fly on my keyboard.11-18-09 12:49 PMLike 0 - That is what I'm thinking. Either works for Yahoo, RIM or just hates Motorola. All his statements have been cheap shots with little to no facts.11-18-09 12:49 PMLike 0
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- The simple answer is the Motorola Droid is the first phone that can complete at the iPhone's level on the Verizon network.
This is Verizon's first phone with IMO a web browser that worth using. When you add in the somewhat limited but ever growing app selection, it is truly a good competitor to the iPhone. Now I know they are two different devices but if you have to have the Verizon network (like most people do) but really want an iPhone, this is the first one that gets you as close to the iPhone experience as you can without going to AT&T.11-18-09 12:51 PMLike 0 -
- I was a huge BB fan until a better OS came out. BB OS is like windows 98. Slow but gets most of what you need done with no dazzle11-18-09 12:53 PMLike 0
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