Anyone get the Moto Droid today?

[lokiju]

Tell us how you like/love/hate it.

I'm tempted but still holding out a bit until more opinions come in.

 

[Bateluer]

I'm curious as well. I've looked at a number of reviews, both printed and video, and it looks fantastic, but first hand from normal people is good to know too.

As I've said in my thread about the Eris, I'll be swinging by the Verizon store or the Best Buy on the way home, if they can move my New Every 2 date from March 2010 to now, then I'll probably walk out with a Droid.

 

[Kaido]

My brother got one; I posted my impressions here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2021067

If I didn't have the iPhone, this would be the nerdy gadget to get. Very neat. Not as polished as the iPhone - sluggish GUI & slightly clunky animation. Great call quality, really excellent outdoor readability. If the iPhone didn't exist, this would be the phone I'd get.

 

[shortylickens]

I LOVE THIS FUCKING PHONE! I'm going to have sex with it tonight. Seriously. I'm gonna boink it.
I wont go into too much detail since we will probably have a hundred Droid threads by the end of the day.

Verizon opened early today but I went in at 9 AM and the big crowd was already gone. Got hooked up in short order and am so happy I may just have to fap before I can talk about it.
Its certainly the best hardware Android has ever seen. All metal and feels solid like the Nokia E71x. Keyboard is not fantasic but very usable. Screen in gorgeous and all around the hardware feels more serious than the G1. This is a mans phone, not a prissy little girly phone. It isnt sleek like the iPhone but it is definitely a quality item.

I wont go into all the awesomeness right now, but I will say there is a screen with data showing which items are using the most battery power. Since I disabled all the radios and turned brightness up full power (to play with it) the data says my backlight has used up more power than anything else.
They also include (right out of the box) an app that lets you instantly shut off any radio and also active sync, all in a 1-click widget.

Verizon has just officially got ownage on everybody else. More details and pics later today. For now: FUN TIME!!!
Also, I just ordered an Invisible Shield for the Droid. There is no Body Glove or custom Otterbox for this phone yet. I also cant find the dock for sale anywhere. No extended batteries either. Was hoping that stuff would be available for launch. Such is life.
I meant OUTSIDE of Verizon. I cant find decent accessories off the Verizon site. I wont buy direct from them. They charge too much.

 

[Deeko]

All those battery things you described are standard in Android 1.6 and beyond, by the way.

 

[Zenmervolt]

I'm posting from my new droid right now. Very happy with it so far; it's a huge leap forward from my old Palm 700. Too soon for a detailed review but I really like it so far.

ZV

 

[Zenmervolt]

I'm posting from my new droid right now. Very happy with it so far; it's a huge leap forward from my old Palm 700. Too soon for a detailed review but I really like it so far.

ZV

 

[Jeff7181]

Haha... double post from the new phone.

I got one today too... so far I'm liking it. The only issue I've ran into so far was that it requires manual setup of Yahoo Mail, you have to type in the server addresses, but other than that no problems yet.

Seems to charge rather slow... I got it at about 40 or 50% battery power I think, used it for almost 2 hours playing around with it, downloading apps and adding contacts and whatnot and it was down to 20% so I started charging it via USB port on my computer. It's been charging for almost 2 hours and it's up to 70%

I REALLY like the Power Control widget. Other vendors need to copy that ASAP. I'll be posting more about it the more I use it.

One thing I was weary about was the speed of the interface. There's a very slight jerkiness when sliding back and forth between desktops but so far apps are running just fine. I've you've ever used an Instinct (I have the original for reference) the Droid will feel/look perfectly fluid.

 

[Spineshank]

I have it. So far i love it. I sold my Iphone 3GS for it.

 

[troytime]

totally loving mine.
the camera is WAY better than all the ppl complaining about it say.

UI seems nice and snappy. the gps nav rocks.
the keyboard, while mostly flat, DOES have a little bit of bump to each key...not much though.
my thumb tips are typically numb from carpal tunnel, but i don't have much of a problem using the keyboard.
the onscreen keyboard is sweet and fast too (even in portrait mode...which really surprised me)

video on it ROCKS, and the screen is kickass. it's big and bright, and it auto-dims depending on the light environment you're in. pretty neat.

 

[lokiju]

I actually stopped by a VZW store a bit ago just to get my hands on it and compare it to my iPhone.

It is thicker, but not a drastic amount and ever other measurement was similar.

I liked how the keyboard felt when it snapped into place.

The browser looked great and was pretty snappy though it did lock up and froze the phone for about 5 seconds before closing out and taking me back to the home screen.

Overall nice device, but I'm still not sold enough to give up my free (work pays for it) iphone in order to get this (which my work wouldn't cover).

If someone comes out with a way to enable multitouch throughout the OS then I'll be mighty tempted though.

 

[Jeff7181]

Multi-touch shouldn't be a problem since EU is getting a very similar phone with it enabled throughout the OS already. I read something that suspected Google may be working out IP issues with Apple before releasing an update to the OS to enable it.

Apparently apps can be written to use multitouch already... the OS itself and preinstalled apps just doesn't make use of it.

 

[destrekor]

I LOVE THIS FUCKING PHONE! I'm going to have sex with it tonight. Seriously. I'm gonna boink it.
I wont go into too much detail since we will probably have a hundred Droid threads by the end of the day.

Verizon opened early today but I went in at 9 AM and the big crowd was already gone. Got hooked up in short order and am so happy I may just have to fap before I can talk about it.
Its certainly the best hardware Android has ever seen. All metal and feels solid like the Nokia E71x. Keyboard is not fantasic but very usable. Screen in gorgeous and all around the hardware feels more serious than the G1. This is a mans phone, not a prissy little girly phone. It isnt sleek like the iPhone but it is definitely a quality item.

I wont go into all the awesomeness right now, but I will say there is a screen with data showing which items are using the most battery power. Since I disabled all the radios and turned brightness up full power (to play with it) the data says my backlight has used up more power than anything else.
They also include (right out of the box) an app that lets you instantly shut off any radio and also active sync, all in a 1-click widget.

Verizon has just officially got ownage on everybody else. More details and pics later today. For now: FUN TIME!!!
Also, I just ordered an Invisible Shield for the Droid. There is no Body Glove or custom Otterbox for this phone yet. I also cant find the dock for sale anywhere. No extended batteries either. Was hoping that stuff would be available for launch. Such is life.
I meant OUTSIDE of Verizon. I cant find decent accessories off the Verizon site. I wont buy direct from them. They charge too much.

No body glove?
Maybe your store or the online store was messed up. When I got the Droid today at the store, they had two different protective cases. Fairly certain one was a Body Glove, and the other was a clear hard protector.
I just went with a screen shield and the home dock. 10% off both for picking up two "accessories". Deal.
The glass screen makes me not worry about scratches, and wasn't going to get a film screen shield but what the hell. If I decided I did want it down the road, it would cost a few bucks more in the end.


However, I basically have the same things to say:

this phone. is. fucking. amazing.

Everything I wished I could do with my Omnia (WinMo6.5 modded, HTC M2D UI, great apps - better than the stock phone but still had a ton of issues that I kept looking past until the Droid forced me to look really hard at my phone ), is such a breeze with this phone. Plus living in the clouds with Google is exactly what I've always wanted. :biggrin: Just synced my Omnia with Outlook, exported the contacts to a file, imported to Gmail, and shortly after they showed up on the Droid. Facebook grabs pics and other contact info for the contacts it can match names up with (and my next chore is cleaning up my contacts to best take advantage of this, as a lot are one name only (first or last) so Facebook cannot do anything with them. The contact integration is just very well executed.

The app selection may be small in number, but I've already found quite a few apps that do what I want very well. The push nature of Google info like Gmail and Calendar is excellent too.

I am not quite a fan of that 5-way clicker to the right of the keyboard as it forces my right thumb into an awkward typing position, which leads to mistakes. Otherwise for what the phone is, I don't have complaints about the keyboard. If it were thicker, I'd complain about that. Always a trade up to be sexy. I too want to sex this thing up. :awe:
The keys work for me, and I think I'll be able to pound out some emails with some errors but ultimately rather pain free as I adjust to the keyboard.

I might be looking into an Android Market "Home" app, something like dxTop or aHome/OpenHome. More home screens would be nice.

Also, I think I know the problem of the "stutter" in regards to the home screen and app dock. It's not so much of a coding error but rather animation style. If you slowly move between pages or pull up the app dock relatively quickly but not flick crazy fast, it's smooth.
I wouldn't argue it's inefficient coding, and definitely not a performance problem. Something awkward in the way the scene is drawn that makes for the animation looking jerky when performed fast.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Haha... double post from the new phone.

I'm old and I still haven't figured out this new-fangled thingamabober.

ZV

 

[Jeff7181]

I'm old and I still haven't figured out this new-fangled thingamabober.

ZV

Haha, yeah, I just had to point that out

 

[Muadib]

I have it. So far i love it. I sold my Iphone 3GS for it.

Whoa! Be sure & post your impressions.

 

[lupi]

I'm on tmobile so can't use it unless they have a gsm version, and it probably has a damn camera which means I couldn't buy it anyway.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Haha, yeah, I just had to point that out

Can't blame you for it, I would have done the same to someone else if I'd had the opportunity. This is where we find out if it's the phone or me double posting.

ZV

 

[zerocool84]

I actually stopped by a VZW store a bit ago just to get my hands on it and compare it to my iPhone.

It is thicker, but not a drastic amount and ever other measurement was similar.

Of course it's thicker cus it actually has a physical keyboard.

 

[Bateluer]

Picked mine up today. Its a little thinner than my Env2, but much heavier. Still playing with it, learning its ins and outs.

Had to buy mine from the VZW Store because the BB was unable/unwilling to move up my contact date. So I have to deal with the MIR thing.

One thing I noticed though, the volume rocker feels weak. The rest of the phone feels carved from stone, but the volume rocker feels extremely weak.

 

[dartworth]

anyone get the dock for it? it look pretty cool

any nice cases out for it yet?

 

[gizbug]

Grabbed mine today. The store told me only 5 people there at 8am for opening. I was there at 9am. Left my SCH-i760 WM6.1 device in the breeze. This phone is great.

 

[maziwanka]

anyone know how to create or have a one touch vibrate setting? instead of silencing all sounds, i'd like to have a vibrate setting for incoming calls - instead of going into the menu or holding down the volume button

 

[Bateluer]

Anyone buy the screen protectors from VZW? My spidey sense told me they were a rip off even with my 25% work discount.

 

[Kaido]

Anyone buy the screen protectors from VZW? My spidey sense told me they were a rip off even with my 25% work discount.

My brother did. Might as well snag them and protect your screen right away instead of paying shipping & waiting a few days. They work fine; his came in a 3-pack.