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7 days ago

Well, what can I say? The Motorola DROID is such an awesome phone - so awesome, that it took me away from being here on RATEITALL.com because I was so busy enjoying it.

As I could hear my mother's voice as a child say "A phone is not a toy," I had to laugh as I continued playing with my new phone all giddy with glee.

The Motorola DROID kicks the crap outta the iPhone and actually has the backing of the Verizon network - so after you're all done playing with the lightsaber, the 'mood ring-esque' touch reader, lots of music, videos, movies, your fortune cookie for the day and using all the coupons, guess what? You can actually make a phone call, check your email and do everything you want to do! What a concept! (Take that AT&T!) Unlike what AT&T says, you can actually talk on the phone and surf the web at the same time! What a multi-tasker!

What's nice about the Motorola DROID is that it features the best of both worlds for texters - the slide-out keyboard (for those who are addicted to their LG EnV2 phones. It has a touch screen for all the iPhone converts and is combines the functionality of a Blackberry (business) and iPhone (toy/fun) all-in-one.

You know -if this phone were hair, it would be a MULLET - business in the front, party in the back.

This phone has 16 gigs memory - and has a 5 megapixel camera. It shoots video, it can scan your gym or grocery membership barcode cards and so much more. It has a navigator (that doesn't cost extra) - voice activated (you can feel like James Bond!)

And at the end of the day, with all the business and play, you can actually talk to someone... pretty amazing!!
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14 days ago

one of my sales guys decided to leave his Treo in the woods of Maine. Verizon doesnt really carry the Treo anymore so i was in a bind to get him a new smartphone. I went with the Droid because like many of you, i have been sucked in by the Borg.. i mean google.

The first thing i noticed is that the phone seems heavy, heavy in the way that it feels metal and not cheap. the red eye flashes at you at boot up and it yells DROID at you in a robot voice. that made me laugh until however i found out that the DROID yell is also the default you have new email ring. "hey why is the phone yelling droid over and over from my office? Oh thats because the email account i synced with it has 15 new emails in the inbox."

setting up email syncing would have been really really easy if i was syncing a gmail account, but i wasnt. i was syning exchange and i had been using the verizon wireless sync push app on my desktop to sync the 10 other treos i have. the droid only syncs exchange via active sync which is fine but not the easiest thing to set up and get working right in exchange 2003. once i got that working all the contact, calenders and email pushed right to the phone and i was rocking.

the calender app, email app and contact area are all laid out nice and easy to use.

the camera app worked well but seemed slow in taking pictures. the fact that it can focus and has a flash could be the issue as i'm used to the iphone camera and quick shooting.

maps app worked well and street view is nice

i'll try to update after he's been using the phone for a while.
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27 days ago

Simply amazing. I only I wish I had purchased one sooner. Basically a laptop in my hand, but can switch between wifi and cellular network for internet. The wealth of applications only helps, and my dependence upon this device grows each day, but rather than being reticent to accept that fact I am embracing it. I have had a Blackberry and it does not even come close to the iPhone.
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28 days ago

Simply amazing. I only I wish I had purchased one sooner. Basically a laptop in my hand, but can switch between wifi and cellular network for internet. The wealth of applications only helps, and my dependence upon this device grows each day, but rather than being reticent to accept that fact I am embracing it. I have had a Blackberry and it does not even come close to the iPhone. If you are hesitating between which phone to purchase, don't. Just get the iPhone and save yourself the trouble of buying it in six months when you are sick of your other phone.
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29 days ago

I love my iPhone 3G, best GPS I've ever had! Sadly, I've had better phones and I've had better camera phones. BUT, I've never had internet browsing the way Apple does it, Flash support is badly needed and regular browsing still crashes from time to time even after all of the updates.

About the camera, i wish there was another way of activating it externally, like a button rather than on-screen. I've often found myself wanting to take a quick picture on the spot only to fiddle with the un-locking, entering my password, finding the camera icon, waiting for it to warm up or whatever it is it does... finally it's ready to take a picture, but by then the moment has passed.... =(
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32 days ago

Decent phone - I don't go crazy over apps and this one provides what I need. Mostly I only use my cellphone for phone calls and internet so if you are like me, this is a great phone. One minor thing that I dislike about it is sometimes the keyboard is too small for me.
It is an eco-phone and is produced in an environmentally friendly manner :D
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32 days ago

Touch Light, talking current time and temperature at the same time
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39 days ago

this is a good cell phone with all that can be thought about.actually it is a mini laptop.it is very handy and easy to use.while using it one can never feel that he/she is browsing internet with a cell phone.its a must buy for businessmen.
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42 days ago

This is an "okay" phone. The touch screen is great except it locks the dial pad on calls, so if you need to press a # for an extension or to enter your password to check voice mail or something, you have to double tap it to unlock it, OR sometimes it totally closes. This is a pain in the arse if you are checking voicemail and you want to save or delete a message and you are driving. Just looking down to have to unlock the keypad and then see/press the 9 or 7 is not good to have to do... not so bad if it was ALL you had to do, but the added step of having to unlock the keypad or bring it back up is totally idiotic. I do not have time to listen to vpicemail except when I am in my car and have a little down/driving time and peace o be able to do so. If I want to press 8 to call the person who left me the voicemail of press ## to return to voicemail, again, I have to unlock or bring the dial pad back up to do so. It is really a huge inconvenience. The "Android" system is great though. I like the GPS and mapping and I like being able to do google searches and check my e-mail and stuff.

The swivel out keyboard is a nice feature for typing long-worded text or email messages, BUT it is bulky and it is a heavy phone AND I hate my keyboard... I got one of the first G1's and I hope they no longer even have this keyboard, but mine is light colored and the letters blend in with the pad so you can SEE the letters/#'s if it is lit up in a light setting. I HAVE TO LOOK to type! (yeah, pitiful, but I do) so it is a struggle to see. Most of the time my on screen keyboard will not work. I have contacted T-Mobile and motorola requesting a different phone, but I cannot get them to work with me unless I PAY for a new one. This phone was not cheap and I cannot afford that, so I am stuck with it.
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53 days ago

For all the hype behind this phone, the Blackberry Storm is terrible! I have never owned a phone that was that difficult to type on before. Just writing a simple text message is an exercise in insanity! Thinking about making an important phone call or taking a picture with the camera, forget it as it always seems to manage to freeze up at the worst possible time. The only way to bring it back to life is to take out the battery and restart the entire phone. Worst cell phone I have ever owned!
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