Need help with deciding on witch phone to get

The Droid X has 8GB of interneral memory. You can buy a higher memory card for the phone. The phone comes with a 16 GB card,but it supports up to 32 GB. As for the GPS thing, Google Maps is your GPS. You can get that free in the market if it already does not come preinstalled on your phone

So either Phone can support the GPS. And the Droid-X it will only see 32 gig's? or if I have two 32 gig micro cards in the adapter will it see 64 gig? Also the apps it shows when I compare the 2 phones on the Verizon web site are just the pre installed apps?

Big_Ron wrote:

So either Phone can support the GPS. And the Droid-X it will only see 32 gig's? or if I have two 32 gig micro cards in the adapter will it see 64 gig? Also the apps it shows when I compare the 2 phones on the Verizon web site are just the pre installed apps?

Any android phone can have google maps on it. Google Maps has GPS on it. I have used Google Maps on my phone when I needed directions on where to go wine tasting. I read on phonescoop that Droid X supports up to 32GB only. Don't think a 64GB would work in the phone. On my HTC phone google maps already came preinstalled on it, but just in case this app does not already come on the phone, you can go to the market & easily download it there for free. There are MANY more apps you can get then the one's that come preinstalled on the phone.

ldpsychic

I have been very disappointed with my droidX. already needed a new battery, the universal inbox doesn't work,even though i have all my gmail accts,voicemail set up as accts in the settings none show in the universal inbox. the battery life is terrible and my phone contacts quit showing. i was told at the store you can only have 1 email account or the phone won't recognize phone contacts.

Ok, here is some more questions?

When I click on compare phones it has X’s in some blocks and in other blocks there are check’s on them like both phones have V Cast Media Manager but only one has V Cast Videos. One has Mobile Broadband Capable and the other doesn’t. One has VZ Navigator and the other doesn’t. Now are these just apps that can be downloaded or is these fetchers I need to look at before I buy?

thanks thus far for all teh help

Big_Ron wrote:
Ok, here is some more questions?
When I click on compare phones it has X’s in some blocks and in other blocks there are check’s on them like both phones have V Cast Media Manager but only one has V Cast Videos. One has Mobile Broadband Capable and the other doesn’t. One has VZ Navigator and the other doesn’t. Now are these just apps that can be downloaded or is these fetchers I need to look at before I buy?

thanks thus far for all teh help

I don't have the Droid X or any other android phone from Verizon. The apps that you see on each phone (from the site) sound like those apps come preinstalled on the phone. If you don't see the app on the phone when comparing then, I think you should be able to download them in the market place. Like the Vcast Videos is not preinstalled on 1 of the phones then I think you should be able to download that in the market. Maybe someone else can shine in on this to confirm.

Just so you know you can access TV shows and even music videos from apps that are offeed in the market place.

i don't believe the x supports vzn navigator, but that is a pay/subscription app and either phone has google's navigation for free so ignire that. here is what it really comes down to......do you want a phisacl qwerty or a full touch screen phone? some people like to have the physical qwerty keyboard and other like the full touch screen. for the most part the phones are identical, other than the qwerty keyboard. you'll be able to download the same apps on either device, they both have 1 ghz processors and both have micro sd card slots that are capable of a 32 gig micro sd card (you will not need more than that unless you plan on loading 50 movies onto your device). i'm not aware of any phone that handles 64 gig (yet). i would suggest that you go to a store and play around wil both and decide based on the look/feel of it, as, for all intensive purposes, they are the same phone.

I would love to go play with one. But I’m currently deployed over sea’s with the Navy right now due to come home back to the states in a few months and I’m looking for a new phone, the one’s in Japan suck and so does the service. Can’t wait for an American phone. I compared both phones on the version website and it shoed the Droid x to support VZ navigator. And it showed the Droid 2 to be expandable to 40 gig. My wife wants the keyboard I personally don’t like the drop down keyboard. Is there any thing else you all can tell me every body has been extremely helpfully. But at this point it looks like I’m going with the droid X and my wife will be getting the Droid 2. What about sound, camera is the touch screen accurate?

Big_Ron wrote:
I would love to go play with one. But I’m currently deployed over sea’s with the Navy right now due to come home back to the states in a few months and I’m looking for a new phone, the one’s in Japan suck and so does the service. Can’t wait for an American phone. I compared both phones on the version website and it shoed the Droid x to support VZ navigator. And it showed the Droid 2 to be expandable to 40 gig. My wife wants the keyboard I personally don’t like the drop down keyboard. Is there any thing else you all can tell me every body has been extremely helpfully. But at this point it looks like I’m going with the droid X and my wife will be getting the Droid 2. What about sound, camera is the touch screen accurate?

Thank you for serving the U.S. Navy!

I hope you do enjoy the new Droid X and your wife enjoys the Droid 2. Remember this....you both have 30 days to try out the phone. If you don't like for whatever reason or something is wrong with it just exchange it. This is nice because you can pretty much test out the phone & see if it meets your needs/wants. Not sure about the sound or camera. For touch screen I have read it is pretty responsive. Have you ever owned a touch screen before? If not it may take a little time to warm up to the touch screen part. Just remember, practice makes perfect for typing on the touch screen and other things. I think the Droid X has swype built into it which makes it easier to type on

jasnmar

Swype is different than predictive text. Android itself has a pretty good predictive text function. You can almost touch type with the on screen keyboard (which really means to just hit "close" to the letters you want and Android will figure out what you mean).

Swype is something of an alternate keyboard (or alternate input method using the keyboard) that allows you to not really hit keys,but just drag near them. See http://www.swypeinc.com/index.html for information.

Thank you very much for your service.

thanks for all the info. how does it handel E-mail and texting. i see it only will handel 1 e-mail provider so i guess i can get a Gmail account. now does it save every thing to your SD card or is teh SD card just for music and video

jasnmar

You can have multiple email accounts. I have Gmail, yahoo and my corporate email address all running on mine. I've heard of others with more than 10.

and you can customize where it saves everything. if it wont allow you to save something to the sd card, then there will be an app that you can find and use that will let you do this (or at least back it up to the sd and delete it from the internal memory). and i should've clarified earlier.....both devices have 8 gb internal and both will handle a 32 gb sd so i guess that's where "expandable to 40 gb" comes from.

thats tha best example that i have herd of how teh RAM in teh phone work adn it makes more since to me now. 32+8=40Gig. so teh apps are not accable from the SD just teh internal 8 gig. will music play from SD card or do i have to have that on teh interanel 8 gig also

jasnmar

Some apps can be placed on the SD card. Others cannot. It is a decision that the application developer must make when building the app.
Music can be stored on the SD card and played without problem.

as well as pics, video, documents, etc. you can use the sd card for "almost" everything. it's just some apps that have to be installed to the phone's internal memory.

how is signal strinth on teh Droid X and Droid 2. i know that there was a issue witht eh iPhone 4 with it and does teh droid have the same issue?

i haven't seen too many issues with signal strength. however...i think the overall concensus is that these new, high tech devices don't quite get as good of signals as the trusty flip phones.

does teh Droid-X and the Droid 2 use a SIM card. this will be a make or brake deal with the phone

Ann154

Big_Ron wrote:
does teh Droid-X and the Droid 2 use a SIM card. this will be a make or brake deal with the phone

Neither of the phones has a SIM card. They use CDMA technology that does not require SIM cards. GSM technology uses SIM cards.

well thats kind of a let down. i travel a lot over sea's and its a big pluse to be able to use SIM card's from that countery. like i do with my cpary iPhone.

RonAnderson

The x has a HDMI output as well as records video in hd.

yep teh Droid X has a lot of great things. but when i'm in HongKong ,Menila,Singapore, tahiland,Korea,Austrila or any of teh other cuntrey's i go to not haveing teh abulty to change sim cards is a big deal. is CDMA new tech or is it old i thought that CDMA was what all cell phones used and when 3G came on to teh marcket it went to SimCards?

Schmoo

CDMA is the technology Verizon and Sprint chose to go with. AT&T, T-Mobile and most of the rest of the world chose GSM.