My recent phones:
iPhone->iPhone 3G->iPhone 3Gs with a couple of BlackBerrys in there
I did not port my number over to Verizon yet. I was given a new number for testing, which I may end up keeping.
After two minutes of use, I realized why a lot of Blackberry users are getting the Droid.
My experience so far:
1. call to Verizon - Outstanding customer service, had me up an running in no time. was not a typical activation. I had to cancel the port and get a new number.
2. Set up Gmail - Google Apps Account, the integration is the best i have seen. The only thing just as good is Blackberry / Exchange integration.
3. Made a couple of calls and received one incoming. Two drops (a little concerned)
4. The Droid is outsanding, battery life seems a lot better than the iPhone 3GS. The email & calendar integration is a lot better.
5. I can hear the speaker and feel the vibration. No missed calls, txts or emails.
6. The bluetooth is usable. The quality on the iPhone was terrible.
7. Build quality seems better than the iPhone, except for the camera button.
8. The only advantage the iphone has is the iTunes integration. this makes it very simple to sync Music.
9. Call quality on the Droid smokes the iPhone, after 3 generations you think apple would have gotten it right.
10. More customization - More customization - More customization it is ridiculous that I can download an alternate Browser to the iPhone with Jailbreaking it. Apple should be ashamed of themselves.
I wish the Droid did not have a slide-out keyboard, my opinion on this may change.
My wife came home and saw the Droid and said to me "you wont keep it, the iPhone is prettier"
I think the Droid is a capable device and I am enjoying it very much. Bring on the Apps.
I will be happy to answer any other questions
You're kidding me right.... My path is 10+ yrs pocketPC/winmo up to Touch Pro then between my wife and I 30 days on the Sprint Hero & Palm Pre, then 30 days on Droid & Eris and got shafted by VZ so I ported to AT&T with the 3Gs. So far 4 days on the Iphone and as a whole it truly destroys the droid.
I really dont feel like typing pages of info because this board has proven to be just filled with guys who don't like honest opinions, but what promted me to post was your bluetooth comment. The droid and Android in particular is currently so far behind in Bluetooth that it is ridiculous.
Currently I am using sony bluetooth earbuds and they work phenomenal on the 3Gs. Yesterday as I am working in the yard and listening to the podcasts in 2x speed (more info in less time) that BTW PC itunes manages beautifully and automatically. I can stop, FF, pause RW, make voice activated calls and commands all without a bluetooth drop, interference or having to ever take it out of my pocket and touch with my soiled hands.
Try that with a droid or any current android phone, impossible.
As far as signal goes AT&T might suck in your areas but in Jacksonville FL so far I have not seen signal drop below 3 bars whereas in my particular hood Sprint, Tmo and Vz have 0-1 bar and Sprint cant make a call longer than 5 secs although with 0-1 bar I rarely would drop an Alltel/VZ call.
I thought the Eris had sufficient battery life for my wife who could take the phone off charger at 7am or so and get home by 6pm and be almost red (she is a moderate phone user and light data user, where the Pre was a little better for her, but the 3GS so far looks to last at least a full day, the 2nd day she had it she forgot to charge it overnight and she still made it through the 2nd day.
For me the 1500ma in the Hero was pretty good getting me about 10-12 hrs and I was pretty astounded at regularly getting 10-14 hours out of the droid with moderate to heavy use the 3Gs seems to be almost doubling that although it is hard to tell because I have been playing a lot og games for the first time ever on a handheld because they are pretty freaking awesome whereas all my other phones games are limited to very old console style games with poor graphics. When guys are touting Robot defense as an awesome graphics games you'll know what i mean.
Even guys on here would defend Moto's lack of .wav support, which i needed for my company voicemail system through Ring Central, but they play fine on the 3g as attachements from email, but SURPRISE there is an integrated app that manages the whole sytem and even makes voip calls through RC.
Honestly i could keep going on and on with substantiated reasons why the droid with native android does not pass muster against the iphone or even the Eris and even the eris software on the Droid HW would actually be a closer competitor but to make those statements of the droid or eris alonebeing superior overall is just not even sensical.
That being said there are things that ARE big drawbacks to the iphone. As a busioness user the iphones notification managment and lack of LED are SORELY lacking if you miss or forget an audible alert you are Fed unless you happen to turn your screen on. No way to sound profile, yes it has a nice vibration hardware switch but that is it... No incremental snoozing of todo or calendar notifications (both iphone and android have some apps that sort of make up for this but not really that well) Proprietary connector sucks, nonremovable battery sucks and no file system saving of attachments or browsing sucks.
So being a business user and depending on notifications I am hoping that the Passion/bravo will come to a reliable carrier in the next 30 days unless I continue to be blown away by the plethora of useful apps and the reliability i am continually seeing with the iphone. Although knowing that in about 4-6 months the 4G iphone should be coming out would make me antsy although resales of iphones go for better prices than any other handset....
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Just thought about C&P.. You try that on android, terrible. iphones cursor placement and c&p is genius. Also the new free app dragon dictate is amazing. I almost never even use they keyboard at all. Everytime i use the built in voice command app or dragon dictate it executes 100% of the time. I was lucky for google voice search to execute without a connection error at least 30-50% of the time on the droid.... although it executed almost always without error on the Hero or eris albeit much slower to launch and execute because of the ancient processor.