Should I go to Droid 2 or stay with the Droid 1?

[anchellada]

My droid 1 was stolen on sunday after having it for just 5 months. It was by far the best phone i ever had so im pretty pissed about it :angry:. It was a used phone i bought off ebay after dropping my palm pre in the toilet after only having it for about 5 weeks (i bad luck with phones, i know). Since im not even a year into my contract... and the ebay thing seemed to work out well so im thinking of doing that again and paying around $200 for a phone instead of $400+.

I loved my droid. i have an awesome setup in my stupid green 95 maxima with the car dock hooked up to my stereo which i use every day. i travel to see old college friends a lot so im always using everything on the car home app. so basically whatever phone i get NEEDS to fit in that car dock, which i dont think leaves me with too many options.



Anyway, i guess what im asking is, should i get another droid 1 since i loved it so much? or should i go for the droid 2? or is there something else that youd think i would like that wouldnt cost me an entire paycheck but would still fit in that dock? are there any major differences/improvements between the two phones?

 

[destin246]

Droid 2 already got gingerbread on mine and its amazing!

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[phreek]

Droid 2 has the locked bootloader.

 

[patmw123]

I made the switch from the d1 to the d2. I honestly feel like the d2 is considerably better than the d1 regardless of the locked bootloader. The d2 is much more responsive than a droid 1 regardless of how high you overclock the d1.

 

[BL4Z3D247]

D1 only because I'm loyal... now if there was a choice in there for the Thunderbolt, I'd say Thunderbolt.

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[elvis_marmaduke]

Wait two weeks to see if bionic comes out... personally I'd STILL be on my d1 if I didn't get this phone free

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[anchellada]

Wait two weeks to see if bionic comes out... personally I'd STILL be on my d1 if I didn't get this phone free

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believe me... if i could afford it, i would.

 

[phreek]

As much as I love my D1, I am now anti motorola due to the locked bootloaders. Half my fun with owning my phone is playing "russian roulette" every time I flash I new rom on it.

 

[mwhartman]

I have a rooted Droid. I've been eligible for an upgrade since last October. For now, I'm sicking with my Droid because I like flashing different roms.

 

[matt2783]

If rooting and flashing roms is an non issue for you, I'd get the droid 2 and preferably the Droid 2 Global because it has a 1.2ghz processor. Either way it's going to be more responsive and faster than the Droid.

 

[bishoy]

i had the droid 1 and now i have the droid 2. i hate my droid 2 with a passion. stay with the droid 1

 

[dishnu]

Depending on the type of Dock you have in the car you may have to spend more on a Dock as well if you go with the D2, I would stick with the D1

 

[gflam]

Well if it's between just the d1 and d2 i say d1

However if ur up to getting a new phone i say wait for the bionic or if u can't wait get the tb

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[patmw123]

To add to my earlier post, I certainly wouldn't sign a 2 year contract for a droid 2. I bought my droid 2 from a friend for just $75 even though it was only a couple mon ths old. As of now, there isn't a phone out on verizon that I would be comfortable signing a two year contract for. With that said, I honestly just want the phone to run well how its supposed to be run. I could honestly be content with the gingerbread leak for the next year or so. As far as a device goes, I don't see how anyone could consider the d1 to be better than the d2. Vanilla Android is awesome, and honestly what I prefer, but the launcher to me is really the only terrible part of blur in the droid 2...which doesn't matter seeing as most people use an alternate launcher...myself included. I do prefer the aosp messaging app, which I pushed to the leak and is working great. Besides the launcher and messaging app, I don't notice too much of a difference between the two UIs of the d1 and d2. Surprise surprise, its all about preference. I loved my droid 1, but I hated having to even tweak custom roms to get it to perform decently. I like having a phone that's great without tweaking, and only gets better with tweaking rather than having a phone that needs to be tweaked to even be compared to newer phones today.

 

[illmatic636]

Well if your in love with the design of the D1, then yeah go for it! If you want a bigger screen and wish to stay with Motorola, the DX is your best friend. But seems to me you want a keyboard. I never use mine. We have to become adaptive to the touch screens as they are more advance in technology then the qwerty keyboard. In my case, more user friends as I have huge fingers.