well i tried and tried, had an eris and tried a moto droid as well for almost two months and i just finished returning the droid and placed my order for an iphone 3gs. ill stick with the iphone it looks like as i've been using one for over 3 years now, the droid just didnt cut it for me and in my area verizon isnt even 3g but at&t is surprisingly enough.
so i say goodbye, maybe by the end of this year droid will have caught up to what i need it to be, but maybe not. maybe apple will surprise us all again this june and i'll be able to update my iphone to 4.0 for free. we'll see but for now im gone.
well i tried and tried, had an eris and tried a moto droid as well for almost two months and i just finished returning the droid and placed my order for an iphone 3gs. ill stick with the iphone it looks like as i've been using one for over 3 years now, the droid just didnt cut it for me and in my area verizon isnt even 3g but at&t is surprisingly enough.
so i say goodbye, maybe by the end of this year droid will have caught up to what i need it to be, but maybe not. maybe apple will surprise us all again this june and i'll be able to update my iphone to 4.0 for free. we'll see but for now im gone.
Sometimes the area you live in is everything. I was on Sprint before I got the Droid on Verizon. When traveling, I just expected to be without a signal in many areas. I didn't get upset because it was expected. If I called my husband when he was in his office, I expected that he would have to call me back because he would see that he was getting a call from me but the signal was no good so he would call me back once he moved to an area where he had reception.
On my recent trip, there was an area south of Louisville all the way down to the Tennessee border where I had no signal on Verizon. If someone lives there, they would HATE the Droid and Verizon. Not worth it. The rest of the trip all the way through Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, the signal was outstanding!! Much better than my old Sprint phone. So you have to go with what works for you on the network that works in your area. Pleasant phoning!
ETA: And Alabama. I forgot about them. Alabama was good too!
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It is very rare that at&t has service in some areas and verizon doesn't. It just my opinion. I hate the iphone . I had the 3gs and returned it went with verizon and its been smooth sailing.
It is very rare that at&t has service in some areas and verizon doesn't. It just my opinion. I hate the iphone . I had the 3gs and returned it went with verizon and its been smooth sailing.
well whatever works for you. where i live i got about 100k speed on my droid and got about 2000k on my iphone 3g. i gave my 3g to my girlfriend when i bought a droid and just had to return it today. the dark ass black screen camera and apps that force quit, as well as the slow data speed are just not for me.
android will eventually catch up i imagine and there was a lot i liked about it, but honestly for me the iphone is still the best and im headed back after placing my order for a 3gs tonight after doing my return.
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well whatever works for you. where i live i got about 100k speed on my droid and got about 2000k on my iphone 3g. i gave my 3g to my girlfriend when i bought a droid and just had to return it today. the dark ass black screen camera and apps that force quit, as well as the slow data speed are just not for me.
android will eventually catch up i imagine and there was a lot i liked about it, but honestly for me the iphone is still the best and im headed back after placing my order for a 3gs tonight after doing my return.
Well, I know the frustration.
Anyone that's read my posts know that I'm in the same boat with the pitiful reception with Verizon in my area. What's worse is that Verizon's online maps show our area to be fantastic! They even sent a tech out to confirm.
I'm trying to get an "extender" to see if i can at least get service for the few hours that I'm home in the evenings, otherwise, it works fine at my job about 40 minutes away in Houston.
I get no web service in the house, so I use wifi. As for the phone, I get zero bars. We went to a local restaurant near my home (about 2 miles away) where I was getting 4 bars for phone reception, but as for web service -- my wife's ATT Iphone (1st generation) smoked my ass with a side by side race to pull up androidforums.com It took about 2 minutes for me, 26 seconds for her.
That was the lonnnnnnnnnngest 2 minutes....
To clarify, I love the Droid, just not having luck with the reception. If the extender doesn't work, I may have to wait till ATT offers their Android phones. Either that, or just friggin relocate!
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Some like the iPhone. Some like the DROID. I fine with that.
At least that'll be one less person mucking up this forum with posts on how to make their DROID more iPhone-like.
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verizon rules utah, at&t users always switch back, its nuts. ps it can be just the iphone, i know a guy who now prefers his mytouch to the iphone. its really funny.
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i did kind of realize that all the iphone hating trolls might stop in and say something
It's not so much the iphone hating trolls but you did post this on a Droid forum so what would you expect? Most Droid owners are VERY happy with their purchase. A very small percentage are not. You won't get much love posting hate on a Droid forum. You would have more success on an iphone forum. But like I said earlier, I feel your pain. It's not the phone's fault. There is a small area of the country where Verizon does not reach. I wouldn't like the droid if I lived in the boondocks either.
Well, if I were in your situation, I wouldn't have switched to Verizon and Droid in the first place. I mean, you had to know that Verizon had no 3G in your area, right? Smartphones like these are really limited by their data connections, and 1xRTT will not cut it.
Anyways, have fun with going back to AT&T. If I had to use AT&T, personally, I'd get a Bold 9700. It's plenty fast and you still get that multitasking ability. I have an iPod Touch to run the apps and games that I want, but for a phone, I need something more capable than an iPhone.
And what are you talking about getting an iPhone 4.0 for free? That's very unlikely, so you may want to re-check the details of whatever you're referring to, if that's what's motivating you to buy the 3GS now. It may save you some money 6 months down the road.
i didnt post any hate though. im disappointed that the droid wasnt as good as i expected it to be. but yeah if the boondocks is one hour outside of Dallas/Fort Worth metro area then yeah I guess Im in the middle of nowhere lol
i didnt post any hate though. im disappointed that the droid wasnt as good as i expected it to be. but yeah if the boondocks is one hour outside of Dallas/Fort Worth metro area then yeah I guess Im in the middle of nowhere lol
I'm just saying that the only dead area I have found so far is south of Louisville, KY down to the Tennessee border. If I lived there, I would hate the Droid and Verizon. I can't speak to Texas because I haven't been there yet. I do know that another poster on here in your area is having the same problem and there is a "promised" "maybe" "potential" tower coming. That doesn't help you now but again, it's not the phone's fault. It's the network.
Only to get a rise out of us. Funny thing is most of us here had iphones for many years so there's nothing new this guy is telling us. To each his own, but when you've had both and can't decide on one...maybe there's a OCD conflict here?
I'm going back to the iphone 3gs as well, why? Because the OP is going back. I'm so glad he took the time to inform us about how crappy the droid is. I'm going to take this crappy droid back tomorrow and buy the iphone 3gs right after!
Thanks OP for letting us know, what would have I done if you did not post! Now let's hold hands and go join the iphone forums and let's stop posting in this thread. LOL!
And what are you talking about getting an iPhone 4.0 for free? That's very unlikely, so you may want to re-check the details of whatever you're referring to, if that's what's motivating you to buy the 3GS now. It may save you some money 6 months down the road.
I had an iPhone for a long time. They've always given iPhone users the software upgrade for free. iPod Touch users are the ones that had to pay for 3.0.
But if I know Apple, 4.0 will be optimized for the new iPhone they release this summer. Running 3.0 on a 3G was awful (It was clearly meant for the 3GS), and it might be the same with 4.0 on the 3GS. That's what really aggravated me about the iPhone; Apple only really cares about the people that run out and buy the new stuff right away.
I forcibly payed for the first 3 updates on my Touch before I ditched the POS.
Heh, I'm still not really sure what I got for the last 10$ update. I guess I'm a sad sucker for the promise of better gadgetry...
Anyhow my 'upgrade my 1G ipod touch' budget was alloted until late last year, when it turned out that their upgraded model was pretty much pointless. Happily, said budget turned into my 'upgrade my dumbphone to the droid' fund. I wiped the Touch, gave it to my husband and haven't glanced back.
Thanks, Apple, for releasing a disappointing product and sending me into the arms of android!
If I lived in one of those rare spots in the US where AT&T had 3G and Veizon didn't, I would stay with an iphone too. But after two years of dropped calls with AT&T there was no way I was going to tolerate them any longer. I also go camping throughout Utah, and Verizon is just much better. Furthermore, I actually like my Droid better than I liked the iphone. To each his own.
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i didnt post any hate though. im disappointed that the droid wasnt as good as i expected it to be. but yeah if the boondocks is one hour outside of Dallas/Fort Worth metro area then yeah I guess Im in the middle of nowhere lol
An hour out of the city? I live in this area. If you go an hour out of Dallas in any direction, it's the boonies. There is going to be spotty cell coverage cause guess what, no one lives there. It doesn't matter what phone you get when you can't get a signal. Here's a tip: move to the metroplex and join civilization. That way you would be able to enjoy your iphone.
I love my Droid, others love their iPhones. It is nice to have choices.
Very true. Competition and choices are good for all of us.
I've read some posters who are concerned about phones coming out that might be better than the Droid. I certainly hope better phones come out! I want to see better Android, Apple, Rim and Palm phones. Keep raising the bar. Plus, the larger the Android base the better the apps.
IMO the Droid is the best phone currently out there, but no one can argue it can't be improved.
Well, currently the nexus one is the next step up from Android from a hardware/software standpoint. But I too agree that where you live affects your choice of phone as well as the quality of the phone itself.
I currently have a samsung moment, and a mytouch 3g. Several of my friends have iPhones, and several more have the Droid as well as other Android phones.
Make the most out of your phone, regardless of carrier. Because you have to be happy with it... be it an apple product or a google one. Just know what you are getting into.
Honestly, it is sad that there are so many iPhone/Apple trolls that when anyone makes a positive comment regarding the iPhone, everyone calls them a troll.
Honestly, I cannot stand iPhone fan boys, but if this user says Verizon doesn't get service in his area, I don't blame him for switching. Actually, that is the reason I don't use AT&T. Their coverage in my area is spotty. I haven't even given AT&T a chance because most of my friends that have iPhones constantly complain about dropped calls. If Verizon was the same way, I wouldn't be on Verizon. There is nothing this user said that, at least to me, resembles trolling. I mean yeah, it is kind of weird that someone came here just to post this, but at least he gave the eris and droid a chance.
It is one thing if someone says the interface isn't easy to use after only playing with it for 10 minutes, but complaining about bad Verizon coverage is a valid argument. There is nothing the user can do to fix this. For example, if you think the UI on the phone is bad, you can at least sit down and try to figure it out, read websites, look at the manual, etc. You can't do any of these things to fix bad coverage.
Honestly, it is sad that there are so many iPhone/Apple trolls that when anyone makes a positive comment regarding the iPhone, everyone calls them a troll.
Honestly, I cannot stand iPhone fan boys, but if this user says Verizon doesn't get service in his area, I don't blame him for switching. Actually, that is the reason I don't use AT&T. Their coverage in my area is spotty. I haven't even given AT&T a chance because most of my friends that have iPhones constantly complain about dropped calls. If Verizon was the same way, I wouldn't be on Verizon. There is nothing this user said that, at least to me, resembles trolling. I mean yeah, it is kind of weird that someone came here just to post this, but at least he gave the eris and droid a chance.
It is one thing if someone says the interface isn't easy to use after only playing with it for 10 minutes, but complaining about bad Verizon coverage is a valid argument. There is nothing the user can do to fix this. For example, if you think the UI on the phone is bad, you can at least sit down and try to figure it out, read websites, look at the manual, etc. You can't do any of these things to fix bad coverage.
thanks for a good rational comment. i definitely dont hate or dislike android. i even paid a deposit to try out verizon whereas at&t never charged me one and still doesnt. i just think android is still behind where the iphone is and that coupled with the lack of 3g in my current area and as i mentioned the horrible camera app on the motorola i cant get myself stuck in a 2 year contract with a phone im not completely happy with.
if it wasnt for the contract issue i'd likely come back and try the eris out again after it gets a 2.1 update and i move back to the city where i know converage is better. but for 3 years i've been very happy with the iphone progress and since the way the US cellular system works is backwards and we buy phones locked to carriers with contracts i'll end up sticking with the iphone a while longer it looks like.
and if anyone wonders in my experience with the two, the eris is a much better phone and experience than the motorola with the exception of having an older version of android that causes horrible battery life.
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