Hello my name is... and i do droid

[gwhitbeck]

today i was driving to another city to go shopping when i saw a bill board with a store name that looked like the type of store i was looking for.  i couldn't read much because i zipped by it and noticed it too late.

i realized i had my droid, took it out and hit the voice search. i said the store name and city, got results, clicked navigate and it brought me right to the driveway. it was too easy.

my original destination city was 50 miles away, the droid assisted store was 20 miles away.  i got what i needed and returned home.  the adventure only took a couple hours instead of 4 and saved me some gas.

[willanaya]

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gwhitbeck wrote:

today i was driving to another city to go shopping when i saw a bill board with a store name that looked like the type of store i was looking for.  i couldn't read much because i zipped by it and noticed it too late.

i realized i had my droid, took it out and hit the voice search. i said the store name and city, got results, clicked navigate and it brought me right to the driveway. it was too easy.

my original destination city was 50 miles away, the droid assisted store was 20 miles away.  i got what i needed and returned home.  the adventure only took a couple hours instead of 4 and saved me some gas.

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way to go. we need more stories like this about the droid instead of everyone giving up on this wonderful device after  couple hours of usage.

[AFguy]

I agree, people tend to flock to these forums when they are upset with their device, instead of posting when they are happy with it.  I love my Droid.  

[Valhalla7676]

Beside my one issue with the droid, I'm loving it! Was really helpful on my business trip last week finding a hotel. One of  the apps I downloaded gets my location and tells me the nearest hotels to me. Very helpful since I never know what area I'll end up at when my day has ended. Best phone I have ever owned.

[GreySeal]

Well, you are always going to have the ones who are not satisfied with any device.  And you'll have those who are satisfied with almost anything.  Fact of life.

For myself, I love this thing.  By FAR, the best phone/media/gps/video player/plaything I've ever had.  Is it the best at any one of those things, no.  Well, maybe best at the screen.  D***, that screen is nice.

For comparison, I had a Blackberry Pearl before the Droid.  Loved the Pearl, but it wasn't in the same league as the Droid.  My son has the Blackberry Storm and absolutely loves it.  I don't think the storm is as good as the Droid either.  Try to convince him of that, good luck.

People complain that everything should be built into the Droid and you shouldn't have to get 'an app for that'.  Well, folks, that'll never happen on any device.  Why do you think there are 100,000 apps for the iPhone?  I had a special email viewer for my Pearl that allowed one to see emails in HTML.  Cost me $29, and it was worth it.  A replacement app that adds some email functionality to the Droid and is worth paying something for and is free.

I paid $9 for an alarm app for the Pearl.  It was a great alarm program.  Way better than the one built into the Pearl.  No complaints about it.  It was worth every penny.  I also have one for the Droid. Cost me $2.95.  It's worth 3 times that.

I bought a stopwatch/timer app.  It talks.  It cost $2. 

Installed a replacement Home screen app.  I still haven't figured out all it does.  It's great.  It was free.

Bottom line it this.  No device is EVER going to be the best at everything.  Maybe there will never be a single device that is the best at ANYTHING.  Not the iPhone, not the next Android device, not the next any device.  Sure the Droid has issues.  Will they be fixed?  Some of them will be for sure.  Some of them maybe never.  This is true for any electronic device.  Personally, if they never fix any of the issues with the Droid, I will still love the thing.  It's a good device.  It's worth what I paid for it.  I do, however, think that the majority of the issues WILL be fixed with updates.

Whew, rant over.

[Ardoreal]

I see so much potential with my Droid.  I downloaded the Feedr rss aggregator and WOW.  I haven't seen an app this tight before.  iPhone's got apps like "Feeds" and the newsreader, and both of those pale in comparison to Feedr.  

Newsrob being a great free app that's also better (but it's a resource hog, so meh).

Plus, having a concurrent API for the "share" function, incredible.  As you download apps that are capable of taking your media/tweets/news articles and uploading them into their own respective services, they show up in the "share" functions of other apps.  I can "share" my tweets to facebook, I can "share" my facebook newsfeed output to twitter, I can "share" my pictures from the gallery into facebook, twitter, google finance, etc.  People are taking this sort of feature for granted, because it's so modular in nature and expands in the future based on what YOU download.

WHY OH WHY Apple still hasn't figured this kind of crap out on iPhone is simply beyond me.  No other smartphone OS offers this type of simple expandability.  Blackberry OS sorta does, but when you hit the menu button on a BB you get what, like 30 different options?  Not smooth, not simple, or intuitive.  In iPhone OS for a dev to add a share function he has to include the other service's entire API framework in his app.  On Android, you don't worry about it.  

Droid is where it's at.  Developers are a bit gunshy at the moment, but once they see the lucrative user-base they'll dip their toes in.  Once they've dabbled a bit into developing for Android 2.0, they won't look back.  How the iPhone has built such a developer-base is confounding to me.

Objective-C being the ONLY option on iPhone?  Get real!  Yeah great, let's just arbitrarily make it like double the work because we can...that's right.  What a crock.