Comments on: It's Droid, Droid, Baby

By: HappyHappyDroid

HappyHappyDroid — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:36:20 +0000

DROID is a cool name as far as I'm concerned. But whatever the name, the Motorola Droid the best smartphone/device out there right now. Whatever replaces it as "king of the hill" will probably be ... another Droid OS device!

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:28:13 +0000

It was good to see Motorola making a comeback. It just goes to show that for the industry, remaking yourself usually must start at the top.

Droid was certainly a coup. HTC was early out of the Android starting gate and could have extended their dominance had they chosen to produce a Snapdragon based model when they could have. Instead, they choose Windows Mobile for their first Snapdragon device, a tactical and strategic error in my opinion. Of course, the Nexus One could have figured into the decision.

I wish Motorola success. The increased competition in the Android space in particular and the smartphone space in general will be good for all of us.

By: erlangga

erlangga — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:40:31 +0000

thisismy dreaqm gadget,..i hope next year i can use that...amien..

By: James

James — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:18:57 +0000

Droid is a good phone. I wish Google had not launched its own phone since it should not show step father treatment to companies that adopted its OS.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:10:03 +0000

You didn’t have to wait for Christmas to heavy app usage on the DROID.

At Localytics, we saw the DROID already exceeding 40% of app usage across Android devices in by Nov 10, just days after the launch. See our full blog post on both the DROID and the Nexus One:
http://www.localytics.com/blog/

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:17:06 +0000

I believe the Droid is on par with the iPhone, but it's really just the fact that Verizon finally has an Android phone that's selling this device. The Eris doesn't count because it's still using old hardware (ARM11 CPU) and an old version of Android. Not exactly comparable.

As soon as Verizon has another Android phone with cutting edge hardware no one will care about the Droid anymore. It'll never be like the iPhone where it's known far an wide for years. Android may get that status, but not Droid.

By: P. Ravi

P. Ravi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:39:11 +0000

Rob – I’ve had the Droid since it came out and used the iPhone for 2 years. Several of my issues are minor and a few are major: a minor one for example is when you punch in the phone number (and before you hit dial), the iPhone does a look up in Contacts and shows the name of the person the number is associated with, while the Droid does not (you have to dial the number for that look-up to kick-in); a major problem is that the battery cover keeps falling off. The iPhone has well-thought through UI and usability elements that other mobile OSs lack – Android does a decent job, but is not quite there yet.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:34:32 +0000

By droid do you mean both the Moto droid and the Eris (which is also branded droid)?

By: PaulH

PaulH — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:43:39 +0000

Eh? How does “Droid” roll off the tongue any easier than “Dream” or “Hero” – in fact I think that “Dream” and “Hero” are easier to say. Your examples didn’t exactly prove it in my opinion.

By: monal

monal — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:32:39 +0000

I'm a power iPhone user but the Droid is definitely solid competition to it....this phone is very impressive in several areas and the biggest bonus is being on VZW network