Comments on: Ultimate smartphone smackdown: Motorola Droid vs. iPhone 3GS

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:37:17 +0000

@Bostongirl The service part I can see depending upon where you are. However saying that your iphone is better/sharper display is proven to be WRONG simply by, well, FACTS of the screen res olutions.

By: John-Michael

John-Michael — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:26:18 +0000

@Lava You have to have a serious number of apps to run into that 256MB wall. You cannot have apps on the sd card because it is removable. There are several security issues with why you should not have apps downloaded to a particular phone(and consequently identified with that particular phone) be able to be transfered to any other phone. They are working on encryption software that will solve this problem. No word on just when that will be available.

By: John-Michael

John-Michael — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:04:55 +0000

@Clinton Cimring It is true that you have 10 fart apps for every one that I as a droid user have access to. However you are hard pressed to come up with truly useful apps that do not at least have a competent corollary for android and the few remaining are becoming lonelier by the day. There are several trading apps available for the android os. If anything the iphone is more tailored towards youngsters with its 'so easy a three year old can understand it' ui, its cartoonish graphics, and its lack of customizability. The iphone is still a phenomenal piece of technology, but I found the droid to be the more attractive option. As far as I could tell the only department where the iphone was clearly superior is in handling media, and that just is not a huge area of concern for me.

By: John-Michael

John-Michael — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:45:33 +0000

@Justa Notherguy You forgot to mention that on the Droid you can create folders! What a novel concept;) I have my home page with essential apps and date/weather widgets, left for regularly used widgets such as google voice and a power bar allowing me to quickly turn on/off things like wi fi and bluetooth, and right for my folders page. If you do want more space though, there are plenty of free apps that allow you to incorporate 5, 7, or even 12 \home\ pages. Oh and being able to customize backgrounds and icons on that gorgeous screen aint too bad either.

By: Clinton Cimring

Clinton Cimring — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:49:53 +0000

iPhone with 93K+ apps would have to be the better pic. Droid also seems more targeted towards teens. I can run several different types of stock trading platforms on the iPhone.

By: k.b.

k.b. — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:17:32 +0000

I went today to buy the driod and after having it in my hands I thought that it felt very cheap. I have an ipod touch 3rd gen and love it, the construction is very solid and damn near indusctructable but the driod phone feels like a cheap pile of sh*t

By: Zachary

Zachary — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:33:30 +0000

As an outdoorsy person that didn’t want to stick with his crappy bar phone while he went hiking/skiing/surfing I needed a phone that could take a beating. Right now I have an iPhone with the water/shock resistant otterbox case. This case has saved my phone several times already, and by design could not be used with the droid because of it’s sliding keyboard. Also as an engineer I’d like to note that simplier, less cluttered designs are much less prone to problems, and apple achieved that with it’s iPhone.

By: Drew B

Drew B — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:52:15 +0000

A couple things to note… I just got my droid about a month ago, and am loving it! I noticed the iphone had a higher rated camera, as the droids has a couple bugs to date. I do believe a release to fix some of those is due out tomorrow(the 11th) and more updates to come. Remember people it is a new phone in theory, bugs always exist at first! I look forward to everything getting only better. I also heard the android operating system is working on coming out with a flash player very soon from adobe, which will bring the android to a whole new level! Very bias opinion, but I love my Droid so far! INCREDIBLY fast

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:26:44 +0000

You forgot one thing…….The Iphone will work overseas (I travel alot) The Droid is US only.

By: Bigsky

Bigsky — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:10:21 +0000

I’ve had cell phone service with Verizon since 1989, no kidding, 20 years! There is no company out there that even compares to Verizon customer service! It helps if you’re simply polite. I can’t imagine bothering with any other cellular service. There’s not a single company (cellular or otherwise) that comes close to Verizon’s customer service! Just an fyi – use a corporate store and not an independent dealer. If you have problems with Verizon that’s probably the reason. Plus, you get much better deals through corporate. I was waiting for them to get the iphone but decided to get the Droid now!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:34:45 +0000

DROID is the better phone, HANDS DOWN. Period.

By: DBerg

DBerg — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:31:09 +0000

I have an iPhone 3g and have also had a Droid for about three weeks. I have four iPhones on my family’s AT&T plan (wife and daughters insisted upon it!). I own the Droid as I NEED Verizon for by business network — AT&T is non-existent in the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming where I do much of my business. I feel, that purely from a user-experiece perspective, the iPhone is a more mature and seamless device. The Droid is definitely rev-1 gear and has a number of quirks (but so did the G1 when Apple released it). Fortunately, Motorola was able to clone many features from the iPhone and did not have to start from scratch with the Droid. I don’t feel the Droid blows the iPhone away with any features I am aware of. That said, I am enjoying the Droid and am glad that Apple is finally getting some real competition. Plus, the Droid is far and away a better phone that my old BB Storm-2 that I enjoyed melting in my fire pit because it was such a piece of grabage (no kidding). I am looking forward to both platforms evolving and seeing the benefits of some real free-market competition.

By: u382

u382 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:47:29 +0000

@Max Not to mention that Apple's development tools, support for those tools, manuals, etc ,etc blows away your normal development tools (windows/linux based). I'm a windows developer working primarily in .NET, but I've done a lot of work in C/C++ (windows), PHP, Java, yada yada, and decided to try out Apple's tools. I was able to create a workable app worthy of selling in about a quarter of the time. Of course to get those tools (Apples IPhone SDK) you have to pay $99 for the development program ;o)

By: Bostongirl

Bostongirl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:26:53 +0000

@LagerHead My freind has the Droid. I have an iphone. we put them side by side. my iphone screen is shaper pic. My hubby has a Verizion phone. His phone is always got something wrong with it. He has had 2 phones in the last year and there is always something wrong and customer service takes forever and they are rude at Verizon. His recepiton in the house is poor. My phone never drops a call, and works everywhere. We went to the Virgin Islands and my service worked. He had spotty service. Customer service at ATT is far better. He is going to switch when his contract ends.

By: David Musial

David Musial — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:07:32 +0000

@Prophet666 Hello debate. I love MACs and I use to love my iPhone: however unfortunately I went through 4 of them... j=had lots of problems (they were never dropped) and the At&T Service is simply AWEFUL... most of my calls drop. When I see an AT&T Cell service commercial, I can't believe how false the advertising is. I just got a Motorola Droid on trial. I hope the iPhone wins.

By: Harper

Harper — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:05:08 +0000

The one factor that renders the Droid unacceptable to many people is that there’s only 256MB of storage for third party apps. There are apps for the iPhone that go well over 100MB. As far as I’m concerned this makes the Droid a non-starter.

By: JK

JK — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:21:32 +0000

@K Like what, if I may ask? I'm actually researching both phones (and have been for the last 72 hours with almost NO sleep! Obsessed?), and I was fairly sold on the Droid thus far. Of course, this is before I ran across your post. ;P What should I expect if I go that route?

By: J. Madison

J. Madison — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:13:24 +0000

@hotdroidphonenews.com Aren't both phones $200? Droid requires a $100 rebate.

By: hotdroidphonenews.com

hotdroidphonenews.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:27:27 +0000

The single touch thing really sucks but in my opinion the big screen and the keyboard of the Motorola Droid make up for that. Like the software too. Navigation is very fast. Still not sure if I should totally drop my iPhone for it. Time will tell.

btw the price is way too high.

By: LagerHead

LagerHead — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:35:37 +0000

@Prophet666

If by “crappy” you mean vastly superior, then you are absolutely correct. I work for AT&T, and am provided an AT&T cell phone (Blackberry Bold) at no cost. While I like the Bold because it allows me to sync with Outlook, which is essential to my job, the AT&T network is not even close to Verizon’s. I have been on sales/design calls with salesmen a number of times when they complain about having no coverage while I have 3G on my Verizon Blackberry Curve. The reverse has never happened. Not even once.

Knock the phone all you want, but to say that AT&T’s network is better has no basis in reality, unfortunately.