I got the droid but still feel...

[kdarling]

No one said the Prada was good, we said the Prada had a full touchscreen when someone said the iPhone was the first phone to have it.

Exactly.

And another item of historical importance:

The original iPhone wouldn't have even had any cell tower locating ability, without the GPS+tower data that Google collected from millions of previous smartphone users in the years before the iPhone existed.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

We understand what you're saying; it's just asinine. Of course the original iPhone will be slower than the Droid. It's laughable to compare the two even if you try to rationalize it by calling the phone a "first attempt" and ignoring the hardware differences between the 2G iPhone and the Droid.

I do think the Droid is a nice phone, and I can't wait to see the Google Phone in person...but to compare contemporary phones to something released 2.5 years ago is fruitless.

No I think you all are still missing jessica point. The first gen iPhone was missing something that there is no excuse for at the time.
1. MMS - no excuse for not having day 1
2. Video recording - no excuse for lacking
3. Copy/paste- no excuse for taking so long to add it
4. 3G - almost no excuse for not having day 1. It really should of been there
5. Voice dialing/voice control - debatable but should of been there.

Of those 5 features the only thing that dumb phones at the time lack was copy/paste and that is just because it is really not useful dumb phone.

The droid is still a first gen product and for a first gen phone it is really pretty damn good and has much fewer no excuse or near no excuse issues. The first iPhone had quite a few.

 

[DakotaGuy]

Exactly.

And another item of historical importance:

The original iPhone wouldn't have even had any cell tower locating ability, without the GPS+tower data that Google collected from millions of previous smartphone users in the years before the iPhone existed.

And another item of historical importance:

Without Motorola and Martin Cooper we would not even have a cell phone.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0403#

Now someone else might have came along years after Motorola engineered the first cell phone, but I think if you are giving credit to other companies for their contributions you should give credit to the company who started it all.

 

[kdarling]

Now someone else might have came along years after Motorola engineered the first cell phone, but I think if you are giving credit to other companies for their contributions you should give credit to the company who started it all.

*chuckling* Okay, okay.

The reason I brought up what I did, was specifically in response to the claim that:

The Droid and many other smartphones today are only possible because of the iPhone's advanced innovation.

When in fact, one of the most infamous iPhone "advanced innovations" (cell tower locating) was only possible because of the many smartphones that came before it.

Regards!

 

[darngooddesign]

No I think you all are still missing jessica point. The first gen iPhone was missing something that there is no excuse for at the time.
1. MMS - no excuse for not having day 1
2. Video recording - no excuse for lacking
3. Copy/paste- no excuse for taking so long to add it
4. 3G - almost no excuse for not having day 1. It really should of been there
5. Voice dialing/voice control - debatable but should of been there.

Of those 5 features the only thing that dumb phones at the time lack was copy/paste and that is just because it is really not useful dumb phone.

The droid is still a first gen product and for a first gen phone it is really pretty damn good and has much fewer no excuse or near no excuse issues. The first iPhone had quite a few.

The Droid is not really a first-gen phone. The hardware is first-gen but the OS is several generations old.

 

[nefan65]

I don't get any of it. If you like AT&T Service, and the iPhone, then be happy! If you like Verizon Service, and the Droid, then be happy!

I have a 3G on AT&T, and service is great, no dropped calls, and the phone is all I had hoped it would. I played around with a Droid in the Verizon store recently, and it's a cool phone. Personally, I don't see the hype; really. But to each his own. I also played around with the Palm Pre when it too first came out; thoroughly unimpressed; garbage IMHO.

I'm sure when the 4G rolls out, it'll have all the things we'd hoped for, and then some. Then the next gen. Droid will come out shortly after, and leap frog some. It's part of the cycle, and will never change. What matters is that we all benefit from the innovation...

 

[Rodimus Prime]

The Droid is not really a first-gen phone. The hardware is first-gen but the OS is several generations old.

Even kicking the software to 2nd gen which the droid is it kicks the iPhone 2nd gen software ass because all that solved of the list is removed the lack of 3g and kicks the only debatable item to no excuse and the no excuse items to just plan embarrassing.

I think you were better off considering the driod a 1st gen and not 2nd gen because in that category the iPhone was just pathetic

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

Even kicking the software to 2nd gen which the droid is it kicks the iPhone 2nd gen software ass because all that solved of the list is removed the lack of 3g and kicks the only debatable item to no excuse and the no excuse items to just plan embarrassing.

Was I the only one unable to comprehend this?

 

[gloss]

Was I the only one unable to comprehend this?

I think I was able to decode it, but it took serious doing.

 

[darngooddesign]

Even kicking the software to 2nd gen which the droid is it kicks the iPhone 2nd gen software ass because all that solved of the list is removed the lack of 3g and kicks the only debatable item to no excuse and the no excuse items to just plan embarrassing.

I think you were better off considering the driod a 1st gen and not 2nd gen because in that category the iPhone was just pathetic

Regardless, the Droid's software is 2nd-gen.

The iPhone's uis 3rd gen and while it is lacking in some areas, its not pathetic.

 

[joshwithachance]

android is sloppy, i didn't like it when i had my G1 for 6 months. sure it's better now with 2.01 than it was before but android itself is quite sloppy and feels so much more unfinished than the iphone did when it was first released; apple was missing basic stuff, not the whole picture.

i think the smartphone world should focus on the pre/pixi and webOS more than they do on stupid ol' android which is only getting attention because it's made my google -_-

 

[Ferris23]

android is sloppy, i didn't like it when i had my G1 for 6 months. sure it's better now with 2.01 than it was before but android itself is quite sloppy and feels so much more unfinished than the iphone did when it was first released; apple was missing basic stuff, not the whole picture.

i think the smartphone world should focus on the pre/pixi and webOS more than they do on stupid ol' android which is only getting attention because it's made my google -_-

This.


I have an Iphone 3GS and a Droid Eris for work. I still don't see what all the fuss is about with Android. I find it slow to navigate, a little sluggish, sloppy and just not nearly as fluid as my Iphone.

The Iphone UI is just so natural, fast and well thought out.