droidStory

Well, it is almost exactly 24 hours since I purchased my Droid.  Everyone wants to know, what do I think?  Well, I will be more specific in subsequent posts.  But, at the moment, it comes down to this …

If the iPhone did not exist and if I had never used it, I would have thought that the Droid was the best wireless handheld device that I have ever used.  It is fast.  It is reliable.  It has lots of features.  I am never going to look back to my BlackBerry Curve or Palm Treo.  (There are some things that I miss.  But, that is a later discussion.)

The problem is that the iPhone does exist and I do not understand how the software engineers for Google Android missed it.  Don’t they own one?  I don’t think they are hard to find.

From the first moment I had my hands on an iPod Touch / iPhone, I knew exactly how to use it.  Things were seemless and well integrated.  The UI was consistent and elegant.  It was easy to use iTunes to copy files and make backups.

The Droid is none of these things and I have several complaints — all of them can be easily fixed.  As a matter of fact, if I knew how to program Android apps, I would be writing some right now in order to sell them.

At the end of the day, however, I will not be getting an iPhone because Verizon does not offer one.  I am locked into Verizon Wireless because my entire family, including the extended family, use it and get free mobile-to-mobile calls.

So, the Droid it will be.  And, now, the rest of the story …..