Almost a month ago I moved from AT&T and my iPhone 3gs to Verizon and I had the chance to try a Droid Charge. After having the Charge for 10 days I exchanged it for an iPhone 4 32gb. I consider myself pretty tech savvy and I like playing around with gadgets. Now that I am back on iOS platform I find myself missing some of the flexibility, bigger screen, etc of the Charge. However iOS is simply polished. There are too many quirks and issues with Android which is obviously from the open-source nature of the OS.
I did find that I had to remove the battery several times. I had to restart at least once per day. And, the battery life is tough to deal with. I'm not sure how the battery in my iPhone 4 which is listed at 1420 ma, can perform so much better than the Charge at 1600 ma. I go to bed with my iPhone battery somewhere around 70% so far with no charging during the day. The Charge needed to be charged during the day so that I could use it in the evening if needed.
Other deciding factors which led me back to iPhone:
1. Quality of apps
2. Bluetooth connectivity - My iPhone can connect to multiple devices at once and doesn't lose connection on a dual phone BT headset if the other phone is in use. Since I have to carry 2 phones I have a 2 phone BT headset. I also have BT in the car.
3. My $100 Klipsch wired earphones with 3 buttons didn't work at all without app support, then still didn't work all that well with support. I had to change TTY settings to use the inline mic if I needed to make/receive a call while using the earphones.
4. The Droid doesn't attach to my iHome alarm radio - which I was okay with if it was the only issue.
5. A lot of work to truly sync music with iTunes.
6. Inability to arrange app icons and have them stay where I put them. I didn't mind arranging them. I just didn't like doing it every time I had to remove the battery.
Bottom line - I was disappointed because I really wanted to like Android. I hope that the platform continues to evolve, which I'm confident it will. I would like to try again in the near future when some of the kinks are worked out.
, Why don't you use the verizon trade in and trade the phone in and you'll get a gift card and put it towards the iPhone? Up to you.. But first you have to make up your mind and be sure you really want to get rid of the Droid X.
