Motorola DROID

[ZInventor]

Anyone else have one?

opinions... thoughts?

I wrote this article about it for my school newspaper: http://hs.riverdale.k12.or.us/maverick/?read=757

New favorite feature: USB tethering - there are free apps that work great

I think the droid is wayyyyy better than the iphone, its definately my fav. device

-Z

[kramarczyk]

The droid is what pushed me over into a smartphone. The integration is far beyond what I expected.

[Schnabel]

I love the concept of the droid, I just have had terrible luck with Motorola kicking the bucket on me, friends, and co-workers in the past, so that makes me hesitate to say how much I like it. Also, I am on sprint, so I am going for the HTC Hero instead. I feel that Android as a whole is better than the iPhone in everything except media playback.

[Mike]

Are you using PDANet for the Droid? Are there any applications with OS X support? How reasonable is the 5Gb/month "unlimited" limit...?

I'm thinking of getting a droid. It isn't the cost of the phone that I'm trying to get over, its the $30 a month slow leak out of my pocket...

[JesseK]

I've played with it in the store. Great phone, yet the plans are just as expensive as the iPhone's plans. I don't think it's the iPhone killer that everyone's waiting for.

The iPhone killer will be a phone that isn't locked into B.S. exclusivity contracts with a single carrier. Instead it will be a phone that is compatible with a set of carriers (GSM vs. the other protocol).

[Mike]

I mean I suppose the $30/mo would be easier to pay if I could wrap my mind around what "5Gb/month" REALLY is. I know I can download a network utility and track my network usage for the next month, but being not at school, etc. it isn't going to be "typical" and it would take a month haha

I understand I shouldn't really be torrenting any ISOs while tethered, but I'm a fairly heavy user (sounds like a NA meeting...) and really wouldn't be surprised if just my browsing/random PDFs here and there took up the 5Gb in a week.

If Verizon had fulfilled the name "unlimited" I'd have signed up on Droid launch day.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by JesseK

I've played with it in the store. Great phone, yet the plans are just as expensive as the iPhone's plans. I don't think it's the iPhone killer that everyone's waiting for.

The iPhone killer will be a phone that isn't locked into B.S. exclusivity contracts with a single carrier. Instead it will be a phone that is compatible with a set of carriers (GSM vs. the other protocol).

In that case there will never be an iPhone killer because no matter how innovative the phone may be marketing will be there to ruin it with these inane deals that turn people off to it.

[ZInventor]

Originally Posted by Mike

Are you using PDANet for the Droid? Are there any applications with OS X support? How reasonable is the 5Gb/month "unlimited" limit...?

I'm thinking of getting a droid. It isn't the cost of the phone that I'm trying to get over, its the $30 a month slow leak out of my pocket...

Yes i'm using PDANet, it works great, and 5 gigs is a surprisingly large amount of data, considering that http connections compress the data.

the $30 a month is annoying, but my parents are paying it for now (YAY)...

if you read the Engadget review, you'll find that, overseas, they have a DROID with GSM... even so, i doubt Verizon's going to switch over from CDMA anytime soon.

I've now had the phone for a while, and it still runs at full speed (and i use tho multi-app feature much more than i thought i would)

Also, contrary to the VZW adds, you can use data while in a call. I've tried it, it works.

i've used more than 5 gigs, and they still bill us nothing extra! seems like unlimited really is unlimited... we'll see if that changes in the future.