Signup For My Low Volume NewsLetter!
Words

Wednesday Nov 18
iPhone vs Motorola Droid
     tech, mypiehole
 
There are many reviews comparing the iPhone to the newly released Verizon Motorola Droid. Most of them have the same amusing plot. Each exudes a "wow, what a very cool device containing everything that everyone wants except of course the Apple(tm) operating system."

Tada! That lone fact makes the iPhone better. Some magical twist happens and this trendy little toy miraculously comes out on top. Some of the reviewers blatantly avoid mentioning the most amazing features of the Droid and actually award points for "stylish-edges". Ridiculous.

I truly wanted to be one of you iPhonies, I really did. But I just couldn't get over the dropped calls and the internal battery. I need my phone to be a good phone at the very least and carrying a dead cellphone when you need it feels like carrying an empty 5 gallon can all the way back to town. Nope.

Here's the skinny. Motorola has a bone to pick with Apple. Remember whose brains were in Apple computers prior to Intel's. That's right. Motorola. They are motivated to win this. You can bet that Motorola, just like everyone else in the world, sees the promise of the mobile digital device.

It appears that they have entered the fight with a ringer of a fighter which features:

The heavily muscled arms of the most sophisticated portable device ever created: the Droid. It boasts a removeable battery, digital storage, multiple radios, hi-res graphics, a hardware keyboard and it has a simple USB charging system.

It has the agility of the quick and sturdy legs of the best carrier in existence and the biggest network: Verizon.

It runs under the guidance of the most open and promising of all the smartphone operating systems: Android 2.0. Fast development cycles will advance this OS in no time especially considering the company backing it. Google.

These two devices aren't even in the same weight class. When the Android OS gets a few more seasons under its belt no one will be comparing the Motorola Droid to the iPhone any longer.

The iPhone of the future will likely be a relative of the Droid of today.


Silverhawk - Drunken Bike Ride
Reggie Houston Earth Island - Urgin for the Virgin
Jeremy Wilson - Independence vol. 1
St. James's Gate - Station to Station
Silverhawk - Westward
Billy Kennedy - Compendium
Biddy McGraw's Irish Pub
Lew Jones - Sublimation
Gravity and Henry - Sputnik
Dharma Bums - Welcome