Any Verizon users pick up the new Droid?

[Rob]

I really like my Droid, the software is great and the phone is very capable. My only real gripe is the form factor, its just not that comfortable to hold, type on, or carry in a pocket. Not a huge deal. If the Eris was significantly thinner, I'd think about that, but I don't want to sacrifice the performance just for a lower quality screen and rounded corners.

[n2bimmer]

I love my Droid, are these phones capable of getting Viruses, I ask because i saw a app for Virus protection.

[epyx]

Picked mine up on Monday, It's a huge improvment over my storm.

Anyone try out the google goggles yet?

[Rob]

yeah, its about like the barcode scanner, neat, but fairly useless. Its more of a novelty to me than anything else...

[TheEtaUnderdog]

android 2.0.1 is being pushed to it today, also the droid got rooted and you can now run a custom os and have full control of your phone. awesome stuff for sure

[DEV0 E30]

Be a man! You'll need a phone and pants

All Madison Avenue wants for Christmas is its masculinity back Video

By Mary Elizabeth Williams

These are tough times for manly men. Everywhere they turn, there are Adam Lambert album covers and new episodes of "Glee" and Katherine Heigl movies threatening to harsh on their boners. Fortunately, with a small outlay of cash and two dude-enhancing products, masculinity can be saved from the evil snares of all things supergay and girly.

First, you'll need a phone. Forget that waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles iPhone and get yourself the Motorola Droid. Droid! Nothing chick-like there! That's a name that says, "I tinker with stuff and edit Dr. Who Wikipedia entries."

In the Droid's new ad, Motorola gives us an array of candy-colored, bling-encrusted mobile devices and smiling fashion dolls and asks, "Should a phone be pretty? Should it be a tiara wearing, digitally clueless beauty queen?" Hell to the no!

Instead, it should be "racehorse duct taped to a scud missile fast" so it "rips through the web like a circular saw through a ripe banana!" Beware the rampaging Droid! It has GPS but it doesn't even need it, because directions are for the weak! If the ghost of Steve McQueen had a baby with Captain Kirk, it would be this phone. It would have back hair and chew with its mouth open. This phone may have killed Tupac. As the ad explains, "It's not a princess. It's a robot." It's not a phone. It's a dick with rollover minutes.

Feeling somewhat more butch? Ready to get out there and engage in some high-speed chases and cut down some trees and shit? Sounds like you need to "wear the pants." And what could be more gangsta, more badass, than a pair of Dockers? As the brand that made everybody's asses look fat in the '90s lurches along the comeback trail, Dockers would like to propose a man-ifesto. (Get it? Hey, you want subtlety, watch Lifetime.) You see, once there was a time "men took charge because that's what they did." But then, "the world decided it no longer need men" and left them "stripped of their khakis … by the side of the road between boyhood and androgyny." It goes on in this tragic vein for some time. Stuff about crumbling cities and genderless society, until you find yourself pouring two fingers of bourbon, neat, and watching "Field of Dreams" again on Spike TV. I think we all remember the great pants-jacking of American masculinity, which, based on the manifesto's references to disco and salad bars, occurred sometime in the Carter administration. For the love of God, can we put some khakis back on our menfolk at long last?

When the Incredible Hulk goes on the rampage, he is busting out of a pair of Dockers. The only reason to unzip a pair of Dockers is to pee standing up or impregnate a supermodel. If there were a seventh masculine icon of the Village People, it would be these pants! OK, scratch that last one. They're available at Kohl's and JC Penny's! Can you handle that?

Perhaps the best part of the Dockers imperative to "answer the call of manhood" is the links at the bottom to "shop men" or "shop women's." I feel gender confusion and androgyny kicking in. ROARR! WHY AM I SHOUTING? IT MUST BE THE TESTOSTERONE IN THESE PANTS!

It's vaguely consoling to be reminded that advertising doesn't merely prey upon female insecurities. But maybe someday they'll be enough roaming data and trouser wearing in the world for all of us -- male and female, princesses and Droids.

[FredK]

lol

[Ryan Stewart]

iPhone + Jailbreak > All other smartphones.

Unless you want a decent data network. Sadly the only offering is CDMA so Sprint/Verizon. That and I dont want a hacked phone. Not only is the iphone the most vulnerable phone platform so far with respect to a trojan but rooting the damn thing just makes it worse.

I ended up picking up the Sprint Hero. I stuck with Sprint because I get two unlimited lines for $110. It would have been double that with anyone else. So far I am loving Android, its probably 99% the iphone (with multitasking).

With respect to GPS, that sucks that Verizons isnt working. What application are you using? I know verizon has their own but for Android 2.0 devices there should be the google maps one, you just have to make sure and turn on the actual GPS to make it accurate.

[TheEtaUnderdog]

Unless you want a decent data network. Sadly the only offering is CDMA so Sprint/Verizon. That and I dont want a hacked phone. Not only is the iphone the most vulnerable phone platform so far with respect to a trojan but rooting the damn thing just makes it worse.

I ended up picking up the Sprint Hero. I stuck with Sprint because I get two unlimited lines for $110. It would have been double that with anyone else. So far I am loving Android, its probably 99% the iphone (with multitasking).

With respect to GPS, that sucks that Verizons isnt working. What application are you using? I know verizon has their own but for Android 2.0 devices there should be the google maps one, you just have to make sure and turn on the actual GPS to make it accurate.

navigation is the app, GPS would be the satellites. If its not near you, the dot you are seeing is the cell tower which means you have gps turned off.

[Atreus]

i heard rooting the phone will void your warranty though, at least on my phone, the samsung moment. not the same for the droid?

i'm still on 1.6, the moment should be getting a update shortly though, i hear.

[TheEtaUnderdog]

if you rooted it, you can unroot. no way for them to tell

[smonkbmw]

info from a buddy at verizon. the eris is the slowest currently, the motorola is faster. htc is coming out with a phone called the passion which will be faster than the motorola (1ghz processor). so chances are the motorola will drop in price because the new phone coming out is going to be priced close to the motorola.

thats all i know for now, im getting interested in the motorola but i want to see what it gets down to price wise.

[TheEtaUnderdog]

snapdragon chipset is what the world is waiting on. droid is plenty fast with the 2.0.1 update. don't hesitate

[silversleeper]

I'm currently an iPhone fanboy... I'll hop on any bandwagon that I can afford. I came from a Blackberry background, but chose the iPhone because AT&T was asking too much for the Bold. With that being said, I've come to enjoy the iPhone to the fullest. It has some very nice strong points, and has its weak points like any other device.

A few of my friends went forth and copped the new Droid and have been doing nothing but trying to find ways to bash the iPhone. I've still got a 3G, so I can't really put up a good fight but the 3GS is essentially my phone with some extra muscle.

Now, my take on the Droid. Good phone overall. Size is decent, and while the dimensions are similar to the iPhones, the shape of it isn't the "smoothest" feeling when it comes to manipulating the phone in your hand.

Hardware-wise, the phone is great. Perfoming a boot test back to back with an iPhone 3GS, the iPhone beat it, but not by much. Browsing on the iPhone is still better and I'd say probably the best on the market right now. No, the iPhone doesn't support Flash or anything like that, but when it comes down to raw webpage rendering and speed, it wins. The iPhone specs are better hands down. And then there's the iPhone's screen, which I think no smartphone on the market can come close to. I'm not referring to the resolution, but rather the glass. While both phones use a TFT capacitive touch screen surface, the iPhone just seems to perform flawlessly in regards to smooth scrolling and what not. And the screen in physical terms is the best glass. Fingers glide effortlessly across the screen, and it's scratch resistance is outstanding!

My thoughts on the OS... it's nice. It's notification feature is awesome. The fact that you can multi-task (without jailbreaking) is always sweet. The way I see it now, I feel it's still underdeveloped. The OS doesn't looked "polished" enough for my liking. But it's still fairly new to the game, and I have really big expectations for the Android OS. I think the key component here is the fact that Google is behind the operations here. Apple is pretty clever, but I think Google is as just or more. I absolutely love the fact that Google pushes the envelope with the apps it puts out, which all are free for the most part. The free navigation utilizing Gmaps is outstanding. The keyword being "free" should be enough to reel consumers in. TomTom and Navigon among many other GPS companies have released their turn-by-turn navi apps for the iPhone, which are great for what they are. But the retail price is roughly $99 for the piece of software. You can buy a dedicated GPS unit for the same price for christs sake. And while I'm in an Apple bashing mood, what the hell is up with GVoice? Well, I actually heard AT&T was the cockblocker in that case. But still, the fact that Apple's approval process for apps to be placed in the App Store is just stupid, and I feel that will be the achilles heel for Apple. Googles OS, the freedom to do what you wish to do with your phone, the "open-source" aspect of things, are all really awesome selling points for the Droid.

I used to be opposed to the iPhone because I wanted to be different, but with all the Androids popping up left and right, I feel I will stick with the iPhone to be different now.

[E30FourLife]

I picked up a motorola droid over a week ago and I love it. very fast, lots of apps, screen size is huge. Great phone overall.