Thread: droid ongoing review

sorry...not too much to say but WOW

this thing is slick as crap. downloading apps is truly a joy. some of the apps i was wondering if i was going to miss from blackberry were easily found with a search and downloaded in seconds. the sports tap is great and so far a huge upgrade from score mobile. my banking app i was woried about losing was found and downloaded in seconds. a bible app(don't read it near enough) i found is great. downloaded weatherbug and weather channel...might delete one later but both look pretty nice...WB looks just like the BB version. found a nice tip calculator.....off to play more.....

one other note,the camera focus is a little disappointing so far. takes 2 or 3 tries to focus but once it does the pics look great. i put the focus on infinity instead of auto focus and it takes good pics instantly

Aha!! I found it!

Sounds great so far. Knew the phone wouldn't disappoint.

Sounds good Cat :fing02: tell me this (since I am waiting for mine to ship to me) how is receiving and making calls. I believe Jlevy said the hard buttons don't operate the phone, so I am curious as to how you like that?

Originally Posted by Bryan

Sounds good Cat :fing02: tell me this (since I am waiting for mine to ship to me) how is receiving and making calls. I believe Jlevy said the hard buttons don't operate the phone, so I am curious as to how you like that?

just made my first call just for you....call quality was excellent on both ends

making calls is cool...in contacts you can set your favorites so most called folks are easy to find....touch their pic and it gives you a list of communication options available...touch the tele pic and connect....no phone hard buttons but do you really need them?i don't.

Originally Posted by catstide

just made my first call just for you....call quality was excellent on both ends

making calls is cool...in contacts you can set your favorites so most called folks are easy to find....touch their pic and it gives you a list of communication options available...touch the tele pic and connect....no phone hard buttons but do you really need them?i don't.

No I don't either just curious on how it worked for someone that wasn't a paid reviewer at a site

pandora is awesome....found visual voicemail for youmail and installed....works great,a bit better than on the storm....well works the same just UI is a bit better

Originally Posted by catstide

pandora is awesome....found visual voicemail for youmail and installed....works great,a bit better than on the storm....well works the same just UI is a bit better

Your killing me Cat :aargh4: Can't wait for my phone to get here. So how is the market? UI and choices wise? A good selection of free vs paid apps?

Originally Posted by Bryan

Your killing me Cat :aargh4: Can't wait for my phone to get here. So how is the market? UI and choices wise? A good selection of free vs paid apps?

the market is super (disclaimer: i didn't use BB app world so i can't compare)

apps are super easy to find and download in seconds...i mean like 10 seconds give or take for the ones that i have downloaded so far. i have only downloaded free stuff so far. there is a bunch and the ones i have downloaded look cool. the sportstap is super cool...i just hope it updates scores fast. i'll test that out tomorrow.

Thanks for the early review Cat!

I was hoping that the droid would turn out to be the real deal....I'm fed up with my Storm...after constantly trying to find the "Gold" code for my Storm, I've determined that there's not ever going to be one.....

I will wait for my 1 year upgrade option at the end of January, or until Verizon makes an official early upgrade available to Storm users...then I'm off to something else....sounds like the droid may be it.....

gotta find out for sure if the droid will work on my company's exchange server.....

How about the email issues that have been floating around out there? Some people have been saying there is quite a delay and also problems connecting to Exchange acct.

Originally Posted by catstide

the market is super (disclaimer: i didn't use BB app world so i can't compare)

apps are super easy to find and download in seconds...i mean like 10 seconds give or take for the ones that i have downloaded so far. i have only downloaded free stuff so far. there is a bunch and the ones i have downloaded look cool. the sportstap is super cool...i just hope it updates scores fast. i'll test that out tomorrow.

Trust me I did use app world and it was horrid :lmao: so the market sounds great so far.

lololol i'm listening to pandora through my headphones while i play....DMB paused and...."driod"....email came in lol

Originally Posted by db306

How about the email issues that have been floating around out there? Some people have been saying there is quite a delay and also problems connecting to Exchange acct.

email delay for gmail was total bunk....all other accounts are pulled every 5 minutes i think. i only use gmail and have all other emails funneled to gmail so i can only speak for gmail.

Originally Posted by catstide

email delay for gmail was total bunk....all other accounts are pulled every 5 minutes i think. i only use gmail and have all other emails funneled to gmail so i can only speak for gmail.

Gotcha thanks

bear with me...i will update this thread with quick findings and will write up a full review in about a week.

the mp3 player sounds better that storm1...well pandora but i'm talking sound quality...

does it have any kind of IM such as BB messenger?\
have been able to get any videos loaded to see how well the quality is?
anyone with a droid has a moodio account? none has commented on the Hulu thing yet

Cat I am curious about something and I hope you can help me out.

I was thinking to the email lag time video Sal posted vs what you have experienced. I know you say around 10 seconds for gmail to arrive on the phone. Can you hook your phone up to wifi and test it? He was running on wifi and I wonder if that was the underlining issue??

Originally Posted by Bryan

Cat I am curious about something and I hope you can help me out.

I was thinking to the email lag time video Sal posted vs what you have experienced. I know you say around 10 seconds for gmail to arrive on the phone. Can you hook your phone up to wifi and test it? He was running on wifi and I wonder if that was the underlining issue??

Good point Bryan. The lag I had on gmail was when connected to wifi. I never tested it alone just on the vzw network.

Originally Posted by jlevy73

Good point Bryan. The lag I had on gmail was when connected to wifi. I never tested it alone just on the vzw network.

That makes no sense though.

Originally Posted by Bert336

does it have any kind of IM such as BB messenger?\
have been able to get any videos loaded to see how well the quality is?
anyone with a droid has a moodio account? none has commented on the Hulu thing yet

of course it doesn't have BBM but it does have most other kinds of chat....msn,yahoo,google,twitter....haven't loaded any vids yet but the screen is stunning...i'm assuming vids will depend on the quality that you use to convert and such

Originally Posted by Bryan

Cat I am curious about something and I hope you can help me out.

I was thinking to the email lag time video Sal posted vs what you have experienced. I know you say around 10 seconds for gmail to arrive on the phone. Can you hook your phone up to wifi and test it? He was running on wifi and I wonder if that was the underlining issue??

very interesting bryan....i haven't used wifi but i set it up just to test your theory... i tried it the first time and it took about 2 minutes...on the second try it was about 10 seconds just like 3g...may have been a hiccup on the first try