Droid Purchase Poll

[gatewayad]

Had the Storm for the last year (so many issues), upgraded to the Storm2 and within a week called VZW to ask about the Droid I didnt see any major improvements that made me go WOW, so they sent me one to compare side by side, to say the least I was really impressed. A few weeks later sent the S2 back and am loving the Droid. I see why it's #1 on Time's 2009 must have list.

[JFM-jr]

I had an LG Dare for about a year and a half. Got the Moto Droid about a week ago so far smokes anything I have used to date.

[kamileon]

I started with the Storm 1 and went to the Tour hoping it would bring some sort of justice from having the Storm. Boy was I wrong!!!! Then thought about getting the Storm 2 with hearing all the promises from RIM that it was a vast improvement over the first failure. Then I read in the forums how the new Storm 2 owners were having all the same problems we had with the first failure. No big shock there....Now I have the Droid and will NEVER go back to the blackberry....

[DesktopDevin]

Have used BB's for years at work but only had a slvr for personal use. I was going to upgrade to the Storm2 when it came out then I started hearing about the droid on verizon.

As tempting as the iphone was, I was never going to give jobs or at&t any of my business due to the way they bend you over constantly.

[johnflo88]

@ desktopDevin: you finally got it, Steve J. is always been a corporate dictator.Look,how he control the iphone users,even down to the battery.Where in the smartphone world,you cannot replace the battery. Tell me which parts of the iphone that you can customized? He even owned the iphone that you paid for! Can early 2010 Im selling my iphone 3g for the Milestone in canada which will be launched by Telus. Finally, I am free from the control of Steve.J. Now that iphone can be replaced with a much better devices.

[lockman]

Had the LG VX 8800 Venus. Decent phone, even survived a dip in the pool lol.

[Electrode]

This is my first smart phone, I've been with. Verizon sense 2005. I like the moto droid. Having hard time getting use to slide out keyboard. I like the onscreen landscape keys better, but like being able to se more then what I'm typing too.

[MizLiz]

I dumped the Tour. I had to turn the miserable thing in twice before I got one that worked-sorta. I sure love the Droid....

[DesktopDevin]

i would love to see apple fall. i believe i share your absolutely hatred for apple.

I would love to see Apple knocked down a few notches. That's at least in part personal -- they directly damaged me with their policies, years back. I was the principle hardware engineer at a startup company based in Germany, back in the mid-to-late 1990s. We were working on a PowerPC-based computer to run BeOS and Linux, but after a meeting with Apple's "CHRP" group (January of 1997), we were totally convinced that we should re-design the system to support MacOS. We got into the Mac Clone business using UMAX main board, we shipped the world's first production 300MHz Mac compatible, etc.

Then they just said "sorry, no more MacOS for sale"... about eight months after we put the company into serious Mac mode, based on their many promises. That's the kind of company Apple is, once you scratch away the glossy laquer finish.

But personal issues aside, it never does anyone any good for one company to get too powerful in a business. But especially one based on proprietary technology, whether it's Apple, RIM, Palm, whomever. World-wide, Apple is number three in the smart phone business, after Nokia and RIM, but they're already the most profitable smart phone company, US-wise. Their policies, application sensorship, the belief (like Microsoft, only worse) that they somehow "own" your iPhone, thus no customizations, no software outside of the iTunes store, etc. really needs to NOT be the winning solution to the smart phone problem.

And folks can claim fear of Google's size all they want, but there are three salient differences. One is that, unlike Apple, Google has yet to flex their power in evil, destructive ways. Secondly, Google is providing an open solutions... any hardware can run Android. And finally, it's not just open, but open source, so that if Google were to fail, turn evil, or just lose interest in Android, the platform continues on. Not that any of those things are likely, but year in the business have taught me that there's a real investment in these things... not just in your time and money, but (particularly if you're on a board like this) where you spend your energies and what you're representing.

I've been surrounded by iPhones... family members, friends at work, etc. My wife, rather uncharacteristically, had been saying "just get the iPhone, will ya" for the last six months. But when you're using that, you're kind of representing the iPhone, and thus Apple... people see you using one, they may decide to follow. Know what Apple's really like, I could not be a supporter, not ever again.

Motorola... well, I have fond memories of what they were back in the 80s, when I used to design Amiga computers, and worked very closely with Motorola documentation, and occasionally, support people. They're a different company these days, dramatically, but I still have no problem with the DROID. Android, on the other hand, is something I'm quite happy to promote.... I think it's the proper future of the smart phone.

if i had millions of dollars.. i would video tape a brand new iMac being run over by a monster truck, and then blowing the crap out of it with a stick of dynamite.. and then send the video to steve jobs.

Naaa... he made the sale, even if you destroyed it right away. Unless that video could someone be used to prevent future Mac sales, it doesn't really hurt Apple.

I think I had one of your machine's ....it was a Power Computing mac, clone the thing worked great until it suffered the misfortune of a ground surge from a lightning strike near my gas line. otherwise a great machine I wanted another one but I was not going to give my money to jobs he pisses me off with the way he jacks up his prices on hardware.

[markmicallef]

Samsung through Verizon. Had Internet for a short time and it was really slow, nothing like the Droid experience.