Wow, you can almost smell Steve Jobs' jizz dribbling down this guy's chin.

Because that first Gen iPhone certainly didn't have bugs

Um. Only three of those are actual issues with the phone.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: img21.imageshack.us

LOL

psst, TMLO. Is this the FFBCW?

So, if I want a greenlight I mention corn? Got it. Don't care about submitting stories.

FTFA: "DROID can't get girls to like you
When I got my first iPhone, girls were all about checking it out. "Wow, it's so simple, it's like magic," they would (generally) say, awed and delighted.

Ah, that was a good time of life..."


The mere fact that this is in the list shows that the author was desperate as shiat to find things to say. Additionally, if you need a phone in order to get girls to like you, well...

*sigh*...

I honestly can't tell if that article was being sarcastic. Can anyone clue me in?

It can't play Crysis.

/returned it for store credit

I love how he calls out Droid on call quality, considering that people have been biatching about iPhone's call quality since the day it came out with no fix in sight.

dasqoot: I honestly can't tell if that article was being sarcastic. Can anyone clue me in?

It's simply another garbage article from the Apple-Fanboys/Apple-Anti-Fanboys war.

In other words, WHARRGARBL.

1) I don't agree. Sound sounds fine to me. No complaints from anyone I call either.

2) I'm betting that a firmware update will be released in less than 24.5 days making this a moo point.

3) That sounds like a personal problem to me.

4) Maybe not, but at least now with Verizon, I have the ability to make calls, whereas before with AT&T, I could have been in a horrid accident and left for dead with no way to call for help, because one of the most futuristic mass communication tool humanity has ever devised was little better than a shiny brick in my pocket thanks to AT&T's crappy network.

5) If you're so image conscious and devoid of self confidence that your iPhone is the only move you have to pick up chicks...then I'd say you have bigger problems that you ought to be working on rather than writing a blog about why someone else's newer, shinier phone sucks.

That's funny the one our company bought for testing didn't have any issues except the cow bell app didn't ring when shaken.

App Store.

moooOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

I remember when the Palm Pre was going to be the biggest phone ever.

HeartBurnKid: I love how he calls out Droid on call quality, considering that people have been biatching about iPhone's call quality since the day it came out with no fix in sight.

So because they iPone has problems makes it impossible for the droid to have similar problems?

I have a Droid, and it's by far the best-sounding cell phone I've ever had. Even my dear old mother told me it sounded like I was "in the room" with her. The battery cover's a biatch, though.

/use my personality to get chicks

Someone sounds bitter

TheRetropolitan: I have a Droid, and it's by far the best-sounding cell phone I've ever had. Even my dear old mother told me it sounded like I was "in the room" with her. The battery cover's a biatch, though.

/use my personality to get chicks

I use chloroform.

Butthurt fanboy?

Fark will submit itself.

jspenguin: Wow, you can almost smell Steve Jobs' jizz dribbling down this guy's chin.

This.

I've had my droid almost a week now, and it's an amazing little machine. No call problems, no battery cover issue, camera works fine. I haven't gotten any extra action with females, but i'm married, so I haven't been trying.

/using it as my internet connection currently

Rickerkioz: I'm betting that a firmware update will be released in less than 24.5 days making this a moo point.

It's like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter what it is. It's moo.

/Intentional Friends reference or innocent typo?
//Or something else?

1) First phone where my mom didn't complain when I was talking to her on speaker phone. Only time it sounds bad is when I hook it into my cars speakers via cassette adapter.

2) It's working fine now, and the permanent fix is coming.

3) Ok, yeah that bugs.

4) Not nearly as creepy as Pre ads. Also, the included GPS does kinda make me feel safe.

5) My phone might not get me girls, but my girl got me the phone, so, neener neener.

/should probably post this on his site instead of here, but not worth joining

Corvus: HeartBurnKid: I love how he calls out Droid on call quality, considering that people have been biatching about iPhone's call quality since the day it came out with no fix in sight.

So because they iPone has problems makes it impossible for the droid to have similar problems?

I think you may have missed the point...

chrisdmid: Rickerkioz: I'm betting that a firmware update will be released in less than 24.5 days making this a moo point.

It's like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter what it is. It's moo.

/Intentional Friends reference or innocent typo?
//Or something else?

yes

Typing this on my droid rightt now. Though I have found some bugs, I've not had any of the problems he mentions. I can confirm that it makes an excellant phone.

That he blames the droid for the fact that women find him so repulsive is just hatefull.

Corvus: HeartBurnKid: I love how he calls out Droid on call quality, considering that people have been biatching about iPhone's call quality since the day it came out with no fix in sight.

So because they iPone has problems makes it impossible for the droid to have similar problems?

No, but it does make it somewhat suspect that bad call quality is one of the reasons Droid isn't an iPhone-killer.

Corvus: HeartBurnKid: I love how he calls out Droid on call quality, considering that people have been biatching about iPhone's call quality since the day it came out with no fix in sight.

So because they iPone has problems makes it impossible for the droid to have similar problems?

No, but it's a stupid reason to claim the iPhone's superiority.

/considering a Droid, will probably wait for v2.0

App Store!

I don't know if it's supposed to be an iPhone killer; it's definitely a Garmin/TomTom/Subscription-based GPS killer.

Speakerphone is great, the photos are great quality and the video streams pretty smoothly from the phone on Qix.

I'm excited for next year when Flash player gets developed for Android next year. At that point, it'll be a fully portable streaming media player for things like Hulu, etc.

Biggest beef with the Droid is the network switching. You can hop on your own home wifi, but if you're streaming anything you've gotta restart the feed manually when you are coming home or leaving. But it's neat being able to use my own or a public wifi network instead of the 3G.

Battery cover has yet to even rattle, no idea wtf he's talking about. Call quality has been pristine over ear, speaker, and over my car speakers via 3.5mm jack. I never noticed the auto-focus bug so I can't say it didn't affect me, but as of today the camera takes great still shots and video to boot.

It hasn't gotten me laid. Yet. In all seriousness guys and gals alike are oh-ing and aw-ing over it at work. Everyone likes to play with it. I'm ridiculously happy with this little gadget, it's my gps, mp3 and phone at the very least.

The droid by itself is not an iphone killer. The dozens of android based phones either out or coming will swamp the iphone's marketshare. Much like like pc vs mac. Apple is for people with too much money and too much smug. Meanwhile everybody else who wants a smartphone will find an android based phone that suits them.

I also stand by my claim that the Droid MP3 player sounds better than my iPod Touch.

TheRetropolitan: I also stand by my claim that the Droid MP3 player sounds better than my iPod Touch.

I'm not thrilled with the layout of the player tho

Rickerkioz: TheRetropolitan: I also stand by my claim that the Droid MP3 player sounds better than my iPod Touch.

I'm not thrilled with the layout of the player tho

Yeah, I'm disappointed with the UI as a whole. It's laggy and not exactly intuitive. It's a good phone -- not a great one, I think -- but still a very good one. I hope the December 11 update smooths things out a bit.

I have a droid eris.... love it. my first smart phone and I can't put it down. probably not a good thing. I laugh at all those with a motorola droid.

I just checked out a Droid today - My phone is a simple 4-year old LG and I've been thinking I need to upgrade and upon actually getting my hands on one for an hour or so I headed to the Verizon store to ask a bunch of questions and see what it would cost.

I can confirm that the call quality wasn't that great even though it's usually fine on my phone - admittedly I didn't talk on it much and the battery was low but it was good enough to communicate. The back did come off too easily. I only took a couple of pictures but they weren't that great either (much better than my current phone though).

Despite this I walk into a Verizon store. I start wandering over to the wall where I can see the Droid when someone greeted me and asked if she could help. Good I thought! She pointed me to the Droid I had already spotted and almost immediately I was ready to ask a few questions but she was already ignoring me. WTF? So I get her attention and she quickly says she doesn't work for Verizon (she's a temp she says). She's wearing a Verizon name tag greeting customers in a Verizon store. It doesn't farking matter if a temp agency pays you, you are farking working for Verizon today.

She tells me to sign into one of the touch-screen stations and someone will help me soon. So now I'm suddenly in a race with the person who walked in after me to reserve my place in line. Success - even though I had to put in both first and last names AND my Verizon number - why the fark can't I just take a number? (Save the expense of the touch-screens and the useless greeter and hire more sales people).

So I wander around a bit thinking it will only be a couple of minutes. I see they have a "Next In Line" feature on the touch-screens and there's only 1 person in front of me. Good, I thought. (Even the postal service realizes that taking a number and having a "Now Serving" sign works better).

After about 10 minutes the person ahead of me is no longer listed and it says I am "Up now" (or something like that). I'm expecting a Verizon employee to approach me any second and I play around with a Droid checking out its features.

This time the web-browsing (which had been reasonably fast on the one that Verizon had loaned our CIO) was suddenly dog-slow and searching for Droid on Google turned out way fewer hits than it did when I got home and typed Droid into Google on my PC which made me wonder if they were filtering out online reviews of Droid from anyone but their corporate shills.

Did Verizon loan our CIO a better Droid than the ones available to the public in an effort to win over our business from AT&T? Could that be the reason for slowdown when downloading data?

Over the next 20 minutes I waited and even though I saw people I thought were employees not doing very much (perhaps they were "temps" too? They were wearing Verizon name tags).

I finally walked out and called up Verizon to see if I could make an appointment at a store. I was told "We don't do that" to which I replied "You're also not selling a Droid tonight".

Fark cell companies - I would drop Verizon in a heartbeat, but the only 2 carriers I haven't ever used are Cricket and US Cellular which don't inspire much confidence in me.

AT&T literally threw my business away forever about 8 years ago over a couple-hundred dollar billing dispute. Go figure - If they had worked with me just a little on that I would still be an AT&T customer. I had been one for a number of years before that and always paid my bill on time and that was the first time I ever actually disputed any charges.

It is not a stretch that I could have paid them $10,000 since then. Sure $10,000 is chump change to AT&T (or Verizon) but I'd bet 90% of their customers pay $50-$150 a month. Instead of realizing these customers are their bread and butter they just say fark 'em especially since so many are on contracts and will put up with the bullshiat because of that.

And I realize the article is about Droid, but as long as these types of phones are going to be exclusively available to certain carriers one cannot consider a phone without considering the carrier.

As for #1, you can't currently talk on an iPhone on ATT's network and it's been out for years.

And when will people stop using the term iphone killer, FFS. It's a competitive device but it stands out on its own.

The reason that Verizon continues to make headlines with the Droid is because they are giving the big FU to Apple. And rightly so. AT&T will lose exclusivity shortly, and their network sucks, so they're almost forced to try and pay big money to keep Apple exclusive. Sprint bleeds customers like a stuck pig. What does Verizon have to lose at this point?

Nothing. By going with the Droid, they have started down a path which will has the potential to lead to further market domination, and if the iPhone does in fact ever shows up on their network, chances are Apple will have had to beg to the point that Verizon pays beans for it. Win-Win for them.

/No, I don't work for verizon. It's just clear where this is headed.

I *love* it how Apple folks convince themselves that a drawback is actually a plus- this article does so on the swappable battery point. OK, so the Droid's back doesn't stay on. There's a shiatload of phones with backs that do. That isn't a reason to turn your phone into a friggin' bank vault.

Swappable batteries aren't so that you can swap it out if it dies. You can do that, most don't need to. They're so that when the farkin' battery dies after 14-18 months, you can swap it out with one you bought for less than $10 shipped on eBay in about 30 seconds and be back in the game after a quick charge. It beats the living fark out of having to send it in or try surgery that can destroy the device if you screw it up. It's a simple concept, and Apple's refusal to include it isn't out of concern for the users. It's to sell you a new goddamned phone the moment your upgrade window opens. Period. The iPhone batteries aren't any more resilient than other power packs, so don't be pretending that their special unobtainium battery will last forever. It's designed to die so you have to pay them for a new device or for expensive service.

It may or may not be a reason to pass the phone up, but pretending that Apple's looking out for you by doing it is the height of fanboy asshattery.

Android 2.0 is promising, but I'm going to wait for someone like cyanogen to root it and let me install it on my G1

Google nav is pretty sweet though, I've installed it on my rooted G1 and it's very nice.

SeamusFerrell: So, if I want a greenlight I mention corn? Got it. Don't care about submitting stories.

the gods mods must be crazy feeling corny

mud_shark: I just checked out a Droid today - My phone is a simple 4-year old LG and I've been thinking I need to upgrade and upon actually getting my hands on one for an hour or so I headed to the Verizon store to ask a bunch of questions and see what it would cost.

I can confirm that the call quality wasn't that great even though it's usually fine on my phone - admittedly I didn't talk on it much and the battery was low but it was good enough to communicate. The back did come off too easily. I only took a couple of pictures but they weren't that great either (much better than my current phone though).

Despite this I walk into a Verizon store. I start wandering over to the wall where I can see the Droid when someone greeted me and asked if she could help. Good I thought! She pointed me to the Droid I had already spotted and almost immediately I was ready to ask a few questions but she was already ignoring me. WTF? So I get her attention and she quickly says she doesn't work for Verizon (she's a temp she says). She's wearing a Verizon name tag greeting customers in a Verizon store. It doesn't farking matter if a temp agency pays you, you are farking working for Verizon today.

She tells me to sign into one of the touch-screen stations and someone will help me soon. So now I'm suddenly in a race with the person who walked in after me to reserve my place in line. Success - even though I had to put in both first and last names AND my Verizon number - why the fark can't I just take a number? (Save the expense of the touch-screens and the useless greeter and hire more sales people).

So I wander around a bit thinking it will only be a couple of minutes. I see they have a "Next In Line" feature on the touch-screens and there's only 1 person in front of me. Good, I thought. (Even the postal service realizes that taking a number and having a "Now Serving" sign works better).

After about 10 minutes the person ahead of me is no longer listed and it says I am "Up now" (or something like that). I'm expecting a Verizon employee to approach me any second and I play around with a Droid checking out its features.

This time the web-browsing (which had been reasonably fast on the one that Verizon had loaned our CIO) was suddenly dog-slow and searching for Droid on Google turned out way fewer hits than it did when I got home and typed Droid into Google on my PC which made me wonder if they were filtering out online reviews of Droid from anyone but their corporate shills.

Did Verizon loan our CIO a better Droid than the ones available to the public in an effort to win over our business from AT&T? Could that be the reason for slowdown when downloading data?

Over the next 20 minutes I waited and even though I saw people I thought were employees not doing very much (perhaps they were "temps" too? They were wearing Verizon name tags).

I finally walked out and called up Verizon to see if I could make an appointment at a store. I was told "We don't do that" to which I replied "You're also not selling a Droid tonight".

Fark cell companies - I would drop Verizon in a heartbeat, but the only 2 carriers I haven't ever used are Cricket and US Cellular which don't inspire much confidence in me.

AT&T literally threw my business away forever about 8 years ago over a couple-hundred dollar billing dispute. Go figure - If they had worked with me just a little on that I would still be an AT&T customer. I had been one for a number of years before that and always paid my bill on time and that was the first time I ever actually disputed any charges.

It is not a stretch that I could have paid them $10,000 since then. Sure $10,000 is chump change to AT&T (or Verizon) but I'd bet 90% of their customers pay $50-$150 a month. Instead of realizing these customers are their bread and butter they just say fark 'em especially since so many are on contracts and will put up with the bullshiat because of that.

And I realize the article is about Droid, but as long as these types of phones are going to be exclusively available to certain carriers one c ...

Oh.

Corn trifecta, or cornspiracy? You decide!

KILLS EVERYTHING.
Also, open development with tons of customization if you linux-root it. Interchangeable batteries, wireless charging, runs multiple-apps( thousands of apps), and runs the same kickass webkit browser as the iPhone. Syncs with gmail, yahoo, msn, facebook, outlook, AIM, anything you can think of, really.

Ftw.

/Not all iPhone users are smug.
//Many are.
///Droid users don't understand that Android's been around for a while, and the HTC Droid Eris right now is a better bargain, even tho it runs a lower-OS. (way more stable)

aurorous: The droid by itself is not an iphone killer. The dozens of android based phones either out or coming will swamp the iphone's marketshare. Much like like pc vs mac. Apple is for people with too much money and too much smug. Meanwhile everybody else who wants a smartphone will find an android based phone that suits them.

You're the smug idiot here.

16gb iPhone with Contract = $199
16gb Droid with Contract = $199
Pricier???

Also, Droid Eris is only $99. Palm Pixi also $99, and runs multiple apps.

in a landscape: 16gb Droid with Contract = $199

This is what's bothering me. They want me to be their biatch for the next 2 years just for the privilege of getting stuffed in the pooper.

But then I'm just a cheap bastard.
And bitter that they didn't want to give me a better deal to sign back up after my last pimp contract expired.

Haven't had any focusing issues with the camera since they pushed out the update. Call quality is better than what I've had before.

Is it perfect? No.

Is it a competitive alternative to the iPhone and Pre? Yes

Is it Verizon's best phone? Definitely. (Although if the Eris ran Android 2.0 I'd seriously consider it)