Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Droid recommendation

A friend of mine asked me if I'd recommend the Droid, as he needs a new phone. Here's what I said:

I'm torn. It's a decent, solid enough mini-computing device. But it's almost as if they forgot it's a phone first. I love the ability to sync my Gmail contacts and FB info and all that other social stuff but I hate guessing at what the back/clear key might do, or wondering which application is going to launch when I press the Messaging icon (because sometimes it launches the phone or the FB app, funnily enough). Multi-tasking is cool... but only when it doesn't slow the system down where mis-taps start to happen. Still, I like it better than every other phone I've used short of the iPhone (which has its own host of issues, but at least they were consistent with the UI).
The Messaging app mis-launching is a frustrating one indeed. Once, I had to power cycle the phone because I couldn't get to the messaging app, even indirectly. Who knows what registry-type settings got messed up.

To re-iterate. Decent computing device, poor telephony device, better than most of your other options.

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