Who's Got A Droid?

[forestacademy]

Originally Posted by bigcritter

Here's the link! It's easier than explaining! The main thing is the 'road level actual street scenes' and live interaction with the internet!

Google Maps Navigation on your mobile phone

If it really can work that fast, its a hole lot faster than my home Internet

Hopefully you have an unlimited data plan with that phone without fair access policy restrictions.

[dancote]

I've had mine since last Friday and I'm evaluating it before making the switch from Sprint (actually Sprint would have kept me as a customer if they didn't insist on a $100 mail-in rebate for the Palm Pre).

Over all I'm very pleased with the phone so far. I get better reception at home than I do with Sprint. (To be fair, Sprint gave me an Airrave device to boost cell reception at home for free and has waived the monthly fee.) Call quality is excellent. No dropped calls yet. Wifi works great.

The Droid has a nice feel to it - it's weighty but in a good way. email is a snap especially if you're a gmail user as I am.

GPS works as well or better than my TomTom and I won't have to pay for map updates. Nav is still in beta though and on our first trip with it we wound up in an endless loop in a residential neighborhood about a mile away from our intended destination.

Verizon folks have been pleasant to deal with.

The multimedia dock is very cool and quite handy/useful.

The car dock I got from Verizon is excellent but it doesn't come with a car charger despite what it says on the Motorola website.

I'm still playing with the various apps but the lack of any kind of user manual is making that tough sledding. This is a complicated device with lots of capability.

Right now I'm leaning toward making the switch but I'll take a bit more time to decide.

Regards,

Dan

[geosynch]

I like mine quite a bit. The only negative is that the hardware keyboard has been reported to suck and I can report same. Fortunately, the software keyboard is quite good.

I'd love a silky smooth Bluetooth connection to my head unit that would allow me seamless use of my Droid's .mp3 library.

I've been looking everywhere for the car docking cradle and I've been told you can't get them anywhere.

Where did you get yours?

geosynch

[Big Panda]

OMG......Droids ARE the rage now. Should this be considered 'droid rage'?


I would LOVE to have one, but like BB, I'm with AT&T. Not a poor Government worker, just poor....PERIOD.









sorry, but you guys already took my 'roid' line.

[Big Panda]

Just curious.......what does Verizon charge for all these services? Like I said, I've got AT&T but just phone service, no texting, no nav or apps, etc. JUST PHONE.

Honestly, I can't see paying for all that stuff unless I was on the road all the time and needed it for work. I have a PC at work, a PC and a Laptop at home. While in the car I have my phone if someone needs to reach me.

In other words, I DON'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED 24-7! I'm OLD, I need my REST!

[geosynch]

I think it is $70/month for an individual. I have a family plan so pay considerably more than that.

geosynch

[Woody14619]

I have an earlier bit of hardware that runs Android 1.5 right now. I've seen and played with the new 2.0 version, but it's not a huge change really. While I like the interface quite a bit, the underlying bits are not that hot. The development environment is VERY limited, it doesn't lend itself to multitasking, and communication between running programs is almost non-existent.

Hardware wise, Motorola's Droid looks nice, but it's CDMA, which is great in the US, but useless just about anywhere else. And the fact that you have to use Verizon in my area is a complete turn-off. They nickle and dime you for everything, even when you get their over-priced mega plans.

Personally, I'm waiting for the arrival of my N900. It's GSM/3G, works on any GSM network, including those inside and outside the US, and has twice the storage of the Droid nativity. It also runs a Linux distro, with a freely downloadable SDK, where most of the stuff (including all of the GUI elements) are completely open-source. And since I' have GSM, I can just pull the sim out of my current phone, drop it in the new one, and keep right on using my existing plan/provider. No re-up, no contract, no up-sell, just what I already have with more power.

[dancote]

Originally Posted by dancote

GPS works as well or better than my TomTom and I won't have to pay for map updates. Nav is still in beta though and on our first trip with it we wound up in an endless loop in a residential neighborhood about a mile away from our intended destination.

Regards,

Dan

Update: I submitted the error to Google Maps and got this reply today:

"Your Google Maps problem report has been reviewed, and you were right! We'll update the map within a month and email you when you can see the change."

Regards,

Dan

[Decidebay]

i've been trying to find a live wallpaper of the droid eye both online and on the android market but i havent been able to find one. if anyone has one could they give me a link to where they got it

[dancote]

Will this work for you? Droid Eye Verizon ~ Android Application v1.4 By spicysquid | Personalization

Regards,

Dan