Verizon, Motorola Unleash the Droid

Check out the first phone to sport Android 2.0 and Google Maps Navigation.

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[verizonagent32]

"DROID Does" A hell of alot more than the Iphone. The Iphone is getting old, and that Droid has definately taken its place. I hear people keep stating that the Iphone is better, because of the 94,000 apps. Let me tell ya, half of thoes "94,000 apps", are stupid and pointless. I mean who really uses 94,000 apps on their phone. I might use maybe 10 to 15 at most. When you have a combination of Motorola, Verizon and Goolge, you cant go wrong. DROID ALL THE WAY!!!! (Bye, Bye Iphone)

[Rockinbass2007]

This guy is wrong... Moto Droid does have multi-touch support it is just the browser app doesn't take advantage of it yet...

I wish ppl did their homework before they review phones.

[modmadmike2]

@Rockinbass2007 and with 2.1 to 2.2 it does

[verizonagent32]

@chargerfun34: I completely agree with you, The battery life on the iPad as well as the iPhone is unbelievably outstanding. But I had the first gen iPhone years ago, and ended up having to send it back twice to have the battery replaced which is quite an inconvenience. Apple would benefit by making the battery removable. Now if I have a battery issue all i have to do is snap the back off and take the battery out and install a new one.

[verizonagent32]

@chargerfun34: The Incredible does have and internal 8GB SSD but is expandable up to 40GB. Removable Storage is only as fast as the speed of the card you install into the device. If you install as slower, less expensive card then the data transmission rates are going to be considerably slower. But if you shell out about $200 for a high speed card then you will greatly improve your transmission rate, therefore making the device perform faster.

[verizonagent32]

@chargerfun34: I too know about camera's. The iPhone4 does have a 5MP camera and the Incredible has and 8MP camera. But as you stated megapixel does not mean anything if the camera's software does not have good image stabilization and noise reduction. And yes I agree that the iPhone's camera is excellent, but so is the Droid Incredibles. Now the DROID Motorola's camera is absolutely horrible. Both devices have great camera's, but again i do prefer the Incredible's 8MP camera.

[chargerfun34]

@verizonagent32 Also Removable Storage would be nice, but removable storage is also SLOW. iPhone's new battery will smoke every new phone out their for quite a while. Just look at you're iPad and imagine that one a smaller less-power consuming device. My iPad lasts forever. So please don't tell me I haven't done my research, because that's an idiotic comment to put. I clearly understand what I'm backing up!

[chargerfun34]

@verizonagent32 Tethering and Multi-Tasking just weren't readily available. They were just a little tricky to get. You must know nothing about how a camera works. I have a lot of knowledge in photography and it does not matter how many megapixels you have!!!! iPhone 4 used the same size pixel as the 3Gs and just added more of them. In term, this means the iPhone added much quality without adding noise or blurring. The new Droid did not. They only shoved more mega-pixels on there. Continued----

[verizonagent32]

I am in no way meaning to sound rude or disrespectful, but your opinion seams to be bias. I do prefer to have an Android powered mobile phone, but I also love apple products as well, as i mentioned previously, I am an iPad user and you probably couldn't pry it from my cold dead fingers...LOL. I use both platforms but for my mobile device, again I prefer Android's OS especially when running on Verizon's Network.

[chargerfun34]

@verizonagent32 Wow, you must have no clue. Like I said I know your post is 7 Months old. And there are a ton of incredible apps on the App Store. More than that you would see on the Droid. I too have an iPad. I too have browsed thousands of pointless apps. You make think their pointless, and I do too. But their is people out their who do not think their pointless. So what if the Android's Platform already had it. The iPhone was still capable of multi-tasking and tethering. Continued--------

[verizonagent32]

In contrast to that, I have also found a lot of the apps in the android marketplace to be pointless as well. But right now I currently have an HTC Incredible. And I must say, all of the new features that the iOS 4 boasts have already been available on android's platform for over a year with the exception of facetime. Plus the Incredible has a higher MP camera, expandable memory, removable battery and wireless hotspot tethering, available on the new android 2.2. Research before posting please.

[verizonagent32]

@chargerfun34: I would be a fool to say that the iPhone 4 is not a great smart phone, with facetime and a variety of other great features. But as you previously stated, that comment was 7 months old, therefore the iPhone 4 has not even been revealed and furthermore at that time there were only 94,000 apps. And yes, the bulk of them are useless. I have an iPad and i have browsed through the thousands of apps and found a lot of them to be "pointless", CONTINUED IN NEXT POST