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  • Droid: First Impressions

    Posted on November 7th, 2009 admin 19 comments

    Yesterday I traveled to Best Buy on Sagamore Parkway in Lafayette and picked up the Droid phone I had previously preordered. I arrived 12 minutes before my appointment time, which had no meaning, and after a couple minutes wait” Billy” waited on me. Thirty-six minutes later I walked out, with a Droid phone set up on a 450 minutes call, and unlimited email and web access at $79.++ per month. In the process, I probably hit the card reader dealy ten times, had a credit check run on me, and I’m still checking to see if my temperature was taken rectally. Just about everything else was checked one way or another.

    About the phone. Can’t tell you much. Farms have trees that shed leaves in the fall. We have massive amounts of trees that have laid in some places one foot layers of leaves. Yesterday I spent the day fighting my cold and fighting leaves with a blower and a Trac-Vac sucking behind our John Deer 318 mower. This much I can share with readers of this blog.

    1. It’s going to take me some getting used to the keyboard rather than iPhones interface. The keys are small and sensitive.

    2. The first thing I was asked upon booting up the Droid was to enter my Google account info. I have numbers and characters in my password. I had to read the instructions to learn that the “ALT” key turns on access to numbers etc. Avid texters probably already know this.

    3. Setting up access to my home wireless was just a matter of tapping the Settings button, selecting one of our two wirless networks, and bingo, its on wireless.

    4. There does appear to be a Verizon 3G signal available in our gravel-road remote location.

    5. I’ve got lots to learn about the Droid. More later.

    BTW, the location of Apps for Android-based phones is here:

    Hank

     

    19 responses to “Droid: First Impressions”

    1. Zacheriah Ruggles

      Hope you win the battle with your cold and the leaves. The phone seems very technologically advanced and I’m sure it will take some time to get used to and to figure out all of its functions.

    2. Quentin Campbell

      Sounds like i need to go pick myself up a droid

    3. Sounds good to me! I would like to try using it. But, I somehow feel like I would still stick to me iPhone over this one. That’s how much iLove my iPhone..

    4. I’m extremely interested to see how the Droid will compare to the iPhone and if it will actually give it a run for its money. Does it come any cool colors? (something i would like to know)

    5. This phone seems cool, wonder if it will be made for AT&T

    6. Keep it coming! Lets see how this “iphone killer” live up to the hype

    7. I’m looking to buy one over Thanksgiving when I’m eligible for a new phone.

    8. So you’re a Verizon and AT&T customer now? Who do you like better?

    9. So overall are you happy with your purchase?

    10. Looking forward to hear more about how well you like the android. I am going to buy one soon but I will be syuck with it for 2 years so I would rather hear from someone that has one first.

    11. Sree Harsha Uddandam

      I would like to ask Hank a question. Which phone do you like the most between the 2 phone u have ?
      The phone seems cool to me as well, but should wait to see if it can sustain and take the position of i phone…

    12. Shawn Tomlinson

      I look forward to hearing more about the Droid. I don’t have an iPhone because i use Verizon so i am particulary interested in hearing how the Droid is.

    13. It has a long way to go if it was to follow a similar path as iPhone. I will be waiting to hear from you more details about though I feel its good but not better that whats already ruling the market.

      Good luck with your battle !

    14. Thought I think the droid will be successful to some extent, I think the iphone will still be ahead no matter what because the droid is just getting established while the iphone has already been established for a while.

    15. Droids app. store is not as well developed as the iphones….its a gold mine for app developers.Now that there is a capable phone running on the android OS you will see a lot of attention directed on the app store.

    16. Can’t wait till may, I’ll probably upgrade my phone to this

    17. personally, im happy with a phone that makes phone calls. smart phones’ prices hasnt dropped enough to trigger my interest :P .

    18. I’ll stick with my iphone.. !!

    19. I wasn’t much interested in the Droid when I first heard about it, but after watching some of the promotional videos I think I would really like one. Unfortunately the data plans are too expensive. I don’t care about minutes! Give me a data plan with 100 minutes a month and unlimited data and texting for $40 a month and I’m there.

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