Comments on: Droid Deal

By: aczarnowski

aczarnowski — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:30:32 +0000

Of course the price dropped. I really should’ve known that would happen after watching it happen on the iPhone’s release. Ah well. If I actually see the rebate check I’ll still be ahead of the last time I bought a new phone from Verizon.

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:06:41 +0000

Droid vs. iPhone
Glock vs. 1911
My invisible man in the sky vs. your invisible man in the sky
The right way to make a martini

Does it ever end?

By: Rivrdog

Rivrdog — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:10 +0000

I have Verizon in Oregon, have traveled extensively with Verizon through WA, ID, MT, WY, CO, SD, NM, AZ, TX, CA and find no issues with connectivity.

Verizon has good customer service.

I hate their fees. To get this Droid, I have to have broadband, $45/mo, phone plan (currently $60, but I could get by on a $40 one), Laptop modem fee (to use my smartphone as a modem) $15, insurance, $6, adds up to more than $130/mo with taxes. For the Droid, I have to add another $15, because Verizon doubled the laptop connection fee.

Or, I could do this: get a Verizon netbook and a “dumbphone”.

The netbook costs $45/mo broadband, period. The dumbphone will be $40/mo, period.

Leaves me an extra $45/mo to spend on ammo.

By: KingsideRook

KingsideRook — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:09:36 +0000

I love that big, gorgeous droid screen, but the keyboard just flat (haha) sucks. Seriously, I have an iPhone, so I know what a suboptimal keyboard is like, and I still prefer it to the droid one, because I can’t press 3 keys at the same time on the iPhone.

The Blackberry keyboard is heaven, of course, but that’s the only good thing I can say about the Blackberry right now.

KsR

By: Linoge

Linoge — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:01:22 +0000

*sigh* Desperately want one. Cannot rationalize an extra $30 a month on top of what is already an $80 phone bill. Oh well. Guess I will survive .

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:42:42 +0000

Where’s it made at?

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:11:53 +0000

Like Phelps said – every provider sucks. (The “$15″ thing, not so much, since that’s just bad reporting – both AT+T and Verizon charge more for hosted Exchange accounts.)

I don’t know that a 16 gig SD card that you can’t install apps on is a win compared to 32 gigs of unified storage, myself.

(And removable batteries? Well, for one person in 10,000 or so that’s an important thing. For everyone else, including me, it’s one more part [the battery door] to break, and adds weight and size to the phone.

Kinda like with laptops; lots of people complained that the MacBook/MacBook Pro was horrible because the battery was permanent… but they sell like hotcakes to that 99.99% of the market that never had two batteries for their laptop anyway.)

Multiple non-Apple apps running at once is potentially good, though.

(And potentially bad, which is exactly why the iPhone doesn’t let it happen – it can completely kill battery life, and then the maker or the OS gets blamed, not the app the user “forgot was running”…)

By: PhillipC

PhillipC — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:45:10 +0000

I live in Central FL, and have an AT&T phone. My wife has a work-issued Verizon phone. My phone works in the house, hers does not. Side by side I can have four bars of signal and she’ll have one. Going into the forest or out of state seems to have the same problem. So for here, AT&T is the best choice… and they don’t have the Droid.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:08:24 +0000

Living in a rural area in Texas, I have 2 options for phone service: Sprint or Verizon. Verizon offered me a lot better deal than Sprint, so I went with Verizon. Besides, I’ve been all over Texas and the mountains of New Mexico, and have never had an issue with cell service. Heck, the last time I was in New Mexico, the only choice for reliable cell service was Verizon.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:19:06 +0000

AT&T sucks around here. And I’ve not been nickled or dimed so not sure what you’re talking about there.

By: Phelps

Phelps — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:15:17 +0000

And Verizon, unlike AT&T, doesn�t suck.

lolololololololol

They all suck. Besides, how are you liking the nickel and diming that Verizon is giving you? And by “nickel” I mean $15 and “dime” I mean $30.

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:01:49 +0000

Maybe I just have low standards or something, but my experience with AT&T has been fine. Then again, I don’t travel anyplace that’s not covered completely, so that might have something to do with it.