iDont have an iPhone. iDont want an iPhone. iHave a DROID!!!

heh, I'm even posting with it right now...suh-WEET!

v6,
boNes

"Move along, move along".

Time will tell whether it has an impact on the market. I think the only victim of the Droid will be Palm. Ultimately the question I still ask is - where are the apps? The Marketplace is still barely a convenience store.

from what they said, there's an open-source system for apps..

if it's true, there's a chance the app-market will soon be full of all sorts of useless crap, and also some nice things in between

It's ugly. I'd like to see a phone that uses the Tegra chip, looks like the Zune and perform like the iPhone.

Yeah, but it's the same thing they've said since Android-based phones were released. The marketplace is growing, but slowly. At this point I would say "there's an app for that, eventually." And that is sort of the problem right now. Great OS - just not *that* much that you can do for now.

Still loving my Palm Pre, personally.

Palm Pre is a fantastic phone. I'm hoping it will gain in popularity. Same problem, not a lot of apps. But it is very nice. This is Palm's last throw of the dice - I hope it keeps going.

Well, I've spent all weekend and some playing with my Droid and so far overall I really like it. of course it is my first smartphone but I'm having immense fun with it. Yeah the app store isn't as robust as iPhone's, but really, who needs all these excess apps anyway? It's a phone not a toy. And even if iPhone has 100,000 apps, and Googlemarket has 10,000...are you really gonna be able to tell the difference? It's like looking for the difference between a drop in the ocean and a bucket in the ocean.

What I really wanted is the speed (it's definitely fast), the network coverage (no dropped calls, connects digital home network just about everywhere), GPS (free, turn by turn instructions with not just googlemaps but street view and virtual lookaround--that is so weird navigating like that but pretty cool. I joke and say that now I can actually SEE myself crash into another car in Streetview while I'm driving), email (I can set up for work email and such but who wants to work when you're, well, not at work?) It is a bit boxy, but I don't mind it. Don't know why it needs the "chin" on there either, but it's all aesthetics. The resolution is greater than iPhone's and the screen is lsightly bigger too. The biggest plus for me is that it has a physical keyboard--which I always prefer--but the virtual keyboard is actually pretty accurate and has just about the right sensitivity (unlike the Storm where you have to press down on the screen).

The speakerphone is great--I have used it while driving and the person on the other end didn't even know I was on speaker--said I sounded like I was talking like normal--even with the background noise of driving and the phone on my dash. The dock is nice too, it turns your phone into a digital clock/alarm, digital photo frame, music player, and weather station all off the bat, plus you can use the phone's other regular functions too.

The picture taking at night is amazing...I'm used to my old phone taking sucky pictures at night. The dual LED flash on it is absolutely blinding, but it works well. I used it in a dark alley and I was very satisfied with the pic.

I can go on and on but really I should do some work, haha

v6,
boNes

I'm glad you are loving your phone. I think soon you will find that it will be more than a phone to you. Mine is essentially my netbook as well as a lot of things.

For me and the apps thing - it's not so much about the number of apps as the variety. Given the sheer marketshare of the iphone, you will just see apps for it that won't be present for Google (at least not yet - but who knows what the future will bring). The apps were really my deciding factor. Looked at a need and then searched to see if there really was "an app for that". For the most part with iPhone, yes. Google, not so much. I just have not seen the explosion of apps.

On top of that are the accessories. The Android strength and weakness is the handset. On one hand you have a lot of top makers with tons of innovation. However, all those handsets guarantee few innovative accessories because the lineup is spread too thin. I mean things like - speakers you can dock into, special cradles and holders. Tons, tons of cases. Just to name a few things.

My thoughts are that Google isn't there for me right now - but that's just me. But it will improve and just simply be a great phone - it is right now. I really just wish the marketplace would explode though. That is really the secret to turning your awesome phone into something epic.

I am a Palm Pre (work) and Garmin Nuviphone (home) guy myself. Now, this may be biased because I'm in Garmin country, but can you get turn by turn directions while speaking? If a call comes in, on the Droid, doesn't that stop the turn by turn?

I'm with Speedo, Corsair, and Airdrop. I love my Pre. More apps would be nice, but there are a lot of good beta ones available online so far.

I've had an iPhone for over a year now, and I still love it just as much as the first day I got it. I don't think I'll ever get another cell phone after the iPhone.

Just a correction - I use an iPhone (and love it). I just say that the Palm Pre is a very excellent phone. Just doesn't meet my needs - but that does not mean it's a bad phone.

Nope. I've had incoming calls and have made calls while using the GPS, as well as having it on speakerphone and playing music all at the same time.

There is a desktop dock for it too that turns it into a multimedia station--digital photo frame, clock, weather station, phone charger, etc...basically all the features of the phone available with a special dock screen. I found that if you use it in the car (it uses the same power input as the phone so a car charger works fine) and you secure it on your dashboard--you don't need one of those GPS holders. Pretty nifty and only costs $30.

Some things I wish it did have but I'm sure it will soon. Voice activation through a Bluetooth headset. It has voice dialing but I haven't found it to be very good in the 6 days I've had the phone. The speakerphone is loud enough and clear enough (even for your called party) that you might not even need the headset though...I'm considering dumping mine. A better accelerometer where no matter where you turn the phone it would flip the screen would be nice, but not necessary. Right now if you turn it counterclockwise, it will flip, but it you turned it clockwise or upside down, it won't. Not a big deal but when the phone is plugged in and you turn it counterclockwise, the jack gets in the way. I think they did that in case you mount it in a GPS holder and want it plugged into a charger.

v6,
boNes

I hopped on board with the Droid for my first smartphone. Frankly I'm a bit overwhelmed with the possibilities, most of which while reading I end up thinking "I didn't know that existed...". I welcome more suggestions and thanks for the ones already given.

Hobbit,

It too is my first smartphone. I just used a cardiometer on it that I downloaded...and it was scary. Using the GPS it tracked my running route and drew it on a Google map. Using this, it timed my pace, gave me my distance, and told me how many calories I burned and then saved it to a log so I can refer to it later. Even offered to uploa dit to a server for safekeeping and such. I'm surprised that it didn't take a blood sample, send it to the lab, and come back with my cholesterol! but that's probably V2.0.

Wow.

If you find anything new and neat on it, let me know!

v6,
boNes

So this droid ya got, is it like the one in this movie?

Like this one? Huh? Speak up! I'm old!

Are they makin' those things nowadays? Gosh, they didn't have anything like that when I was young...

Cheers!

Rick...

Moved from a Storm to the Droid...The thing rocks! If Flash is released for it as scheduled, look out..

The fun thing about this thread for me is that I have no clue what the hell anyone is talking about! I think it might have to do with some sort of fancy phones.

I had a cell phone once. It was a baby blue Alcatel One Touch. It looked like an ugly brick. My sister-in-law needed a cell phone so I gave it to her.

When I offered it to her, she asked, "Are you sure? Why do you want to get rid of it?"

"It keeps ringing!" I told her. True story.

So, tell me, why would anyone want to have people ringing them up no matter where they were? Has everyone completely lost their minds?

Mrs. Sauron has a hard time keeping me from drawing my sidearm and sending the regular phone to hell when it rings! Why would you blight your life with a cell phone? I'm serious! And if you say, "I have to have it for my job," you need a new job!

Cheers!

Rick...

like my iphone well enough. THe question is, how will the droid handle after a year or so of decent use.