IGX

Posted: **Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:30 pm**

Made the leap to 3G phone world. I'm a Verizon guy, so no iPhone. Picked up the Droid, and I am enjoying it mucho. Does:
- Phone calls
- Text messages
- Multiple email accounts. Best integration is with gmail, but it accesses my POP3 easily
- Web browsing
- Google maps and directions, so it replaces a Tom-Tom
- 5 megapixel stills and nice video
- Lots of other stuff I haven't tried yet

I jumped in and started using without reading the directions, of course. Figured everything out fairly easily.

Posted: **Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:33 am**

Thanks for the review. I am also on Verizon and was thinking of upgrading to the Droid.

Posted: **Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:46 am**

Verizon where I live. So what's the keyboard: screen or thumb dealies.

Oh, and for driving directions: does it call them out pretty loud or do you have to look at it?

Thanks.

Posted: **Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:54 pm**

It has a keyboard, but I haven't been using it. I've been just touch screening it.

It loudly calls out the directions too. But I haven't been anywhere where I didn't already know where I was going yet. I'll give it a shot today, let you know how it goes. Better now than when I just got off the wrong exit into Harlem.

Posted: **Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:49 am**

nafod wrote: I'll give it a shot today, let you know how it goes. Better now than when I just got off the wrong exit into Harlem.

Seriously. Something tells me that whatever taps on your window there, won't respect "This is not the Droid you're looking for".

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:22 am**

Can you get it to use MS Exchange?

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:18 pm**

Pre > Droid.

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:30 pm**

Schlegel wrote:Can you get it to use MS Exchange?

This I would be careful with depending on the work you do. There is a reason most legitimate organizations pretty much limit access to their intranets to Blackberry phones.

For reasons, too boring to go into here. I have had the misfortune of using the iPhone, Pre, xDroid, and Blackberry.

If I had to pick one of the above for overall quality and head of the curve features (along with 4G on Sprint), the Pre is the clear winner.

But if you want the most reliable and secure phone your IT guys will know how to trivially integrate into Exchange, Blackberry is the best in my opinion. (Palm's legacy is starting to show in the robust support they are beginning to offer, but I don't know exactly where it stands at the moment.) BB is still the most boring, but best for email if you are doing a shit ton of it.

Didn't use any of the droid phones long enough to get a good feel for their durability, but the iPhone just does not hold up to much abuse.

FWIW.

Posted: **Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:13 pm**

Slow coming back to the thread. I'm not accessing an Exchange server yet, so can't say for sure. But they advertise that it does it. I'm just hitting Google Mail and POP3. This support thread speaks to it... http://www.motorola.com/consumers/v/ind ... 06b00aRCRD

I'm not fanatical about any particular smartphones, I just think smartphones have totally hit their stride. The droid is a good one, in 4 months it will be overcome by some new thing with 4 times the processing power, etc.

Posted: **Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:36 pm**

Mannatech phone:

Posted: **Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:03 pm**

The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:Mannatech phone:

I am writing an emulator for this phone on my droid.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:18 am**

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:
Schlegel wrote:Can you get it to use MS Exchange?
But if you want the most reliable and secure phone your IT guys will know how to trivially integrate into Exchange, Blackberry is the best in my opinion. (Palm's legacy is starting to show in the robust support they are beginning to offer, but I don't know exactly where it stands at the moment.) BB is still the most boring, but best for email if you are doing a shit ton of it.

Mail on a phone is for retards and faggots. Really, are you that important? No. Only POTUS should have email enabled on his blackberry.

Also, if your organization is too cheap to buy the "Blackberry Enterprise Server" like mine was, you are SOL, but setting up an iPhone on exchange is trivial.

I don't know about fragility, my iPhone is 3 years old at this point and the email works fine, probably making me either a retard or a faggot.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:10 am**

dogchild wrote:Mail on a phone is for retards and faggots.

Or people who have jobs where email is the primary form of communicating of secure documents which are urgently relevant for when you are places you cannot or don't want to use your laptop.

Tiny bit of a salt solution = dead iPhone
Dropped from waist level on concrete = Top half of touch screen unresponsive
Accidentally tossed about 30 yards = Dead iPhone

Cheapest Nokia I have had dropped into a deep puddle while drunk at a cab stand. Retrieved next day still submerged. Within two days: Worked for two more years till I upgraded.

BB been through everything the iPhones had been through and worse with no problem.

The iPhone is a toy people wrap in covers to protect for a reason.

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:16 am**

dogchild wrote:Also, if your organization is too cheap to buy the "Blackberry Enterprise Server" like mine was, you are SOL, but setting up an iPhone on exchange is trivial..

That's good to know.

This is where not trying to go against the current matters. Our company is married to BB. If you are a 25 year-old or younger broad or metrosexual and insist on the iPhone, then you have to deal with support not being trivial. Most end up with a BB and iPhone.

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:58 pm**

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:
dogchild wrote:Mail on a phone is for retards and faggots.
Or people who have jobs where email is the primary form of communicating of secure documents which are urgently relevant for when you are places you cannot or don't want to use your laptop.

For jobs is why I ask. Neither the Mrs. nor I want to carry 2 electronic devices if one can be made to do the job.

Posted: **Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:32 pm**

dogchild wrote:Mail on a phone is for retards and faggots.

The things are computers first, phones second. I use my DROID for contact list and notes, maps, GPS tracking of runs and bike rides, pictures and video taking, email, little bit of texting, and web browsing 90% of the time. Went shopping yesterday, saw something interesting, whipped out the DROID and browsed some reviews on the web, and avoided buying a POS and got something good. Did the search by voice command too, "Speedplay drillium pedal review" and damned if GoogleGod didn't present me with 50 reviews. I haven't tried "find me a titty bar" yet but will on my next business trip.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:22 pm**

I'm on the Sprint network and use the Samsung Moment. It's also an android phone with a full keyboard.

I just read a report where Android phones have already passed Palm phones in market share, and are gaining on Windoze phones.

I used to use a Palm (non phone version) as an electronic organizer, calendar... Now I have it all on one, and it's easier to boot. Though I became pretty good at doing letter on the palm with the little stylus.

A bunch of people in the office have crackberries, but I find the apps and interface way better on the android. I've downloaded a circuit timer and Trimble has some cool apps for utilizing the built in GPS and tracking distance, speed etc.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:52 pm**

I really want the Droid but I am currently unwilling to pony up the $30 extra on my bill a month. It seems like a kickass phone though. My thoughts are to wait and see if it continues to hold its own and probably get one in the summer if I keep my piece of shit Envy2 alive that long.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:15 am**

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:
dogchild wrote:Mail on a phone is for retards and faggots.
Or people who have jobs where email is the primary form of communicating of secure documents which are urgently relevant for when you are places you cannot or don't want to use your laptop.

Yikes. Using email to communicate secure documents sounds like a really bad idea. You can use all the crypto you want; all it takes is one stray BCC and the security turns to shit. Even if that's not a concern; you lose your phone, what happens to your security?

I would prefer something like a server that you SSH into with a netbook. Or use a secure gateway; or use a VPN + RDP. Muck around on your work network all you want, disconnect. You can see the document, but it never hits the HDD of your netbook/notebook.

I agree with your statement of iPhones being a toy, but I would say that all email on your phone is basically a toy. Email on your phone is like airline food: it seems more like a proof of concept than something you should actually use.

Maybe I'm just jaded from all the assholes at my work who think their email is important enough to get on their phone, and I'm sick of people who call me immediately after emailing me--"yeah, I just emailed you" ... like I'm supposed to have an instantaneous response time.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:24 am**

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:
dogchild wrote:Also, if your organization is too cheap to buy the "Blackberry Enterprise Server" like mine was, you are SOL, but setting up an iPhone on exchange is trivial..
That's good to know.

This is where not trying to go against the current matters. Our company is married to BB. If you are a 25 year-old or younger broad or metrosexual and insist on the iPhone, then you have to deal with support not being trivial. Most end up with a BB and iPhone.

Yeah, if I were in a corporate culture where BB ruled, it would be a layup, I wouldn't even be fucking around with an iPhone. As it is, I work for a large state University and they've chosen to only support iPhone officially. You can jury rig just about anything to talk to Exchange though, and I've had to do it with Treos, BBs, and Droids. iPhone was the easiest in my environment by far.

Posted: **Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:09 am**

Yours truly left his BB Curve on the roof of the Grand Cherokee and 'twas lost forever. BestBuy Mobile's 'insurance' isn't really an insurance, but a warranty....so the loss was not covered. I liked the BB a lot, but wanted all the bells and whistles the G3 smart phones have and ended-up buying the HTC HD2. I've not had a lot of time to really fuck with it, download apps, ect, but I love this phone. Works great as a phone that you actually have conversations on, too.

Thumbs high, so far.

Posted: **Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:53 am**

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Posted: **Sun May 09, 2010 12:57 am**

I got the HTC Eris to work with Verizon. Immediately thereafter, they came up with the HTC Incredible, which is supposed to be faster and all. Still, I love this Eris. Smaller than the Motorola Droid, no slide out keyboard but I prefer the on screen querty board anyway. This thing will, as Nafod said, track your run/walk/bike workout. Give you directions. Phone works well. Settles arguments on the spot. "Kobe beef cows are fed beer and hand massaged."

"Bullshit."

Pick up the Eris, hit the Google speech search, say "Kobe beef." It comes right up.

And then when you come stumbling out of the bar where you just won that argument, hit the "call me a cab" app. Locates you and gives you the names and numbers of nearby cab companies. Hit the company you want. Bingo.

Email, or at least Gmail, works fine.

Movie reviews.

Also, I can access my internet calender, 30 Boxes. I have the same calender on the Eris, the same ToDo lists. I check off a ToDo on the Eris, it's checked off on my computer. I change an appointment on one, it's changed on the other.

Oh, and you can get the Eris from Amazon for $0.01. A penny. Only deal is you have to spend the $30 a month it takes to make all this stuff work. You have to maintain the payments for 6 months or Amazon wants $250.

And if you get stuck somewhere boring for a long time, go to Google Books and read War and Peace or New Riders of the Purple Sage or any Sherlock Holmes book. Just about any classic that's out of copyright.

All in all, I'm really liking the Eris. Smaller than the Droid or Incredible. But does the same things. Navigation, for instance. Just not spoken turn by turn navigation and traffic, which they are supposed to change with a firmware upgrade this month.

I guess the Eris is a titch slower, though I went into a Verizon store and fiddled with the Droid and Incredible and didn't notice much difference.

One thing: you pretty much have to recharge it every day.

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2010 9:53 am**

This is by far one of the most over rated phones I have ever see. To start, the keys on the key pad are to small for the average mans fingers. Also while holding the phone using the key pad, your palms rub on the edge of the touch screen causing you to loose what you already typed. When transferring your contact info from you old phone to the Droid some numbers are just left out. Finally, Created a new contact named BOB and the Droid placed the info in an existing name I had "Robert". Version tech said, "ya, the Droid will do that sometimes!" The internet connection is fair and although the screen resolution is nice, its still to small to really work proficiently on the web. This phone is not worth the trouble!! I went back to my LG Dare. There's really not much of a difference between the two.

Posted: **Sun May 30, 2010 11:40 pm**

On Android Eris:

GPS calculations are wildly inaccurate. I wish they were the real thing, because they have me going much faster and much farther than my Garmin Forerunner. Sadly, after a number of calculations, the I've found the Garmin is correct.

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