Its been a pretty wild year for me for phones. Last June I switched from my Blackberry Curve to an iPhone. The iPhone was awesome… great browser, love the iPod functions, nice camera/video camera, and awesome applications.
Just one major problem. AT&T.
Last week at Ad:Tech nobody who had AT&T could use their phones. Everyone had a signal but every time you would try to call someone the call failed. Everytime you try to text someone the text failed.
This really sucked. I had interviews most of the day and a lot of people to meet up with and had no way to get ahold of them to find out where to meet….. bad bad bad. Being dead in the water like that is something I can’t accept.
Then there is the dropped call problem with AT&T. In Lincoln Nebraska its not a problem but anytime I travel I see what everyone else is talking about with the massive AT&T dropped call problem.
When Verizon released the new Motorola Droid I had plans just to test it for 30 days and see how it went… but after using it a couple hours migrating everything over I was hooked.
I made a video about the specifics:
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November 13, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Hands down the BlackBerry Bold is going to be the best phone around, and I’m definitely going to get mine.
November 13, 2009 at 8:52 am
Crazy. With all the problems people are having, you’d think the cell phone was just invented months ago, not years and years ago.
November 11, 2009 at 8:48 am
Sweet review shoe but i just got a droid, i love the cam, vid and the graphics but i think i will stick to my 3gs for a while. Its competition bro but im in love with apple!
November 10, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Damn, now I want a Droid!
Only that I also kind of want the Palm Pre… I definitely want the Palm Pre 2 (or what I imagine that would be like).
I actually think the Droid is a bit ugly, but it has it’s other merits.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your experiences with the device.
November 10, 2009 at 10:13 am
Droid looks amazing. The problem is that it doesn’t have the third-party app support that iPhone has.
If I had to drop AT&T, I would probably consider getting an unlocked iPhone first.
November 10, 2009 at 8:52 am
The droid looks good, I would prefer the iphone though which looks awesome.
November 10, 2009 at 7:52 am
Well nice to have these reviews on video but why you are looking so confusing in this video.
Holding your head like having headache and all.
But yes there are many reviews available but this one is nice because we got from a trusted brand and i.e., Shoemoney
November 10, 2009 at 2:51 am
Droid’s features seems good but we’ll have to wait and see how this is gonna perform in the current competition….
But anyway i-phone rocks…
November 9, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Just grabbed the Droid Eris (by HTC) waaaaaay better ergonomics than the Motorola Droid which I thought was clunky. The edges were too sharp, keyboard was flat with really stiff buttons and just overall too big. Eris is the best kept secret in smart phones, bar none. (And cheap, $99)
But if the iphone were on verizon, I would also switch back. Great phone. Shitty network.
November 9, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I’m pretty happy with my Iphone, I mean I can’t complain, but then again I never tried the droid so who knows.
November 9, 2009 at 11:56 am
LOVE IT! The Droid is what the iphone should have been. Like you, I was hooked after using it for just 2 hours. They might not have as many apps, but the apps they do have are the cream of the crop. This phone makes the iphone look like childs-play.
November 9, 2009 at 8:07 am
So your problem in terms of phones, was less about the actual phone, but rather the service provider?
Which would you have chosen, had the coverage not been an issue? I’d be really interested to hear this.
In South Africa, the iPhone is ludicrously expensive, and comes bundled with VERY high costing data bundles, with a meeasly 250mb cap!! Thus, those of us who *really* use bandwidth properly, have stuck with the blackberry, which comes with an unlimited package. As a huge apple fan, it’s disappointing to me that it’s because of the cellular provider, I’m forced into taking a phone that is not my first choice.
November 9, 2009 at 10:16 am
If the iphone was on sprint or verizon I would have never left.
November 9, 2009 at 11:58 am
Even if the iPhone comes to Verizon I would not change. This phone is amazing.
November 9, 2009 at 6:40 am
I’m a big fan of my Iphone and I can’t wait until I’m able to upgrade to the 3GS from my current 3G.
I was pretty frustrated with AT&T and the whole dropped call issue but with the last update, I haven’t had any problems.
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November 9, 2009 at 4:45 am
hi..
You give us such nice detail regarding i-phone thanks for give us idea about AT&T problem
November 9, 2009 at 3:35 am
It is going to be a market dominated by iPhone and Droid in future. All other phones are going to become obsolete B-)
November 9, 2009 at 3:27 am
I would love to get my hands on the Motorola Droid, I am in the UK though and it’s not out over here, I will be looking to sell my iPhone 3G so and maybe trying to get the Droid unlocked.
The iPhone is the best phone I have ever owned and looking to make the switch to Android for testing the market and seeing what is out there.
My contract is up in March anyways so I can also get another iPhone if need be.
November 9, 2009 at 2:54 am
As soon as AT&Ts exclusive rights for the iPhone expire in the US it won’t be an issue. But, all networks have their problems and down days.
November 8, 2009 at 11:22 pm
This has a lot of nice features and a very good contender with the Iphone. Att needs to get their act together and get their network straighten out. Greg Ellison
November 8, 2009 at 11:00 pm
i move from nokia to flame and finally using iphone3g . i am thinking about upgrade it to 3gS…because i love iphone more than i thought
November 8, 2009 at 10:24 pm
AT&T’s ad says more bars in more places. What they meant was you’ll lose so many calls you’ll give up and head to the bar…. hence you’ll know more bars in more places.
November 8, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I’m still debating on getting an iphone or droid..??? and the video is broken jeremy..atleast in chrome it is.
November 8, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I love the iphone but I love way more my blackberry tour because I can switch network way more easily. The iphone is more my new video game/ipod/mobile web browser …I try a HTC phone with android and it was too laggy.. Sounds like google find a winner with android 2.0… I only hope blackberry step up their OS too… because it’s the best one hand device on the market period for real…
PS: maybe you should try the brand new blackberry curve ….
November 8, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Could you not just unlck your phone and run it on a different network?
I’m going for a Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 or X10 come Janurary; guess you could pick an unlocked one up if you do a conference in Europe or Asia.
November 8, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Sure you can unlock it and run it on another crappy CDMA network like tmobile…..
November 8, 2009 at 10:11 pm
T-Mobile is GSM. Sprint is the only other (main) CDMA network in the states… and there aren’t that many around the globe.
And it was rumored as the X3… now officially the X10.
November 8, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I am hoping to get the Nokia N900 and maybe it’ll blow these phones out of the water
-Mike
November 8, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Great video Jeremy.
I’m noticing that I prefer watching the video blog rather then reading the whole blog, call me lazy, but video blogging is sweet.
Jeremy, what is the address for the Tshirt Friday?
I would like to send you a shirt from my sites:
TweepHunt.com
and TweetFind.com
November 8, 2009 at 9:07 pm
This is what Seth was talking about in meatball sundae….
the consumer has the power now… we can spread conversations across the net.. good or bad… this is gona hurt ATT !
November 8, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Hey Jeremy, Rob from Phandroid.com – glad to see you’ve jumped on the Android Train! I think you’re really, REALLY going to like it and everything that comes with Android. Would love to have you guest post on Phandroid and/or chat with you about a few things – you’ve got my email, hit me up!
A couple things about the Droid that are absolutely SICK:
- Hold down that magnifying glass button and VOICE search is freaking amazing. The accuracy is unbelievable and it reduces the need to use software OR hardware keyboard.
- I’m a hardware keyboard kind of guy and the huge screen in landscape mode is almost good enough by itself. I hardly open the hardware keyboard. The portrait keyboard sucks, but check out “Better Keyboard” on Android Market and you can use T9 and other keyboard layouts that are MUCH easier to type with when using one hand.
- Google Nav is definitely the killer feature. Garmin is launching an Android Phone early 2010 but… will anyone even care any more? Doubtful seeing as how the AT&T Nuvifone is tanking despite a ridiculous advertising campaign.
Hope you enjoy your new Droid. Just make sure you don’t become addicted to Android Market and you actually get some work done!
November 8, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Voice search? That does sound pretty awesome.
Hardware keyboard is better than iPhone, but iPhone’s is really easy once you get used to it, and hardboard keyboard takes up so much space in your pocket
Is the android market anything compared to Apple’s App store?
I definately won’t be making the switch
November 8, 2009 at 10:46 pm
The bigger size was an issue with other phones, but I think the Droid with it’s 13.7mm is very good (the iPhone is 12.3mm, barely a difference)…
November 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Not only three different phones, but three very different platforms too. Did you have trouble migrating all your info…. or did you just use a Google Sync solution anyway?
November 8, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Just watched the video. Glad to hear the migration went well. It can still be a pain with the Gmail contact merge thing if you have to do it with a large contact list, but it sure beats doing that manually.
November 8, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I was also glad to hear migration went well. You are the first person I have heard of who moved AWAY from the iPhone. I have an iPhone and although it has problems it is pretty sweet.
Good luck with the new phone
November 8, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I love Android but I can admit the iPhone is great. The thing is… there is no variety/selection. It’s either the iPhone form factor or nothing.
Android has a variety of devices made by a variety of manufacturers on a variety of carriers to fill a variety of needs and preferences. There are some complications with fragmentation, but all-in-all, the experience across all those factors is pretty unified. Not to mention the whole “Open Source” thing but that’s a different can of worms I don’t really care to open.
Although maybe I just did
November 10, 2009 at 9:18 pm
These droid phone are clunky. It’s not the whole package like the Iphone. Apple is going to control this space for a long time, but a little competition is good for the market, although the sales numbers are hardly a blip at this point.
November 10, 2009 at 10:00 pm
This is very true. The driod phone, while much faster, is not nearly as polished. It feels like a Linux based phone.
With that said it was cool that I was able to write my own mod for the phone which set the ringer to 0 if the screen is face down. I LOVE how easy it is to script.