Bijan Sabet

Still evaluating the Droid

I bought my Droid last Friday.

And I’m still not sure if I’m going to keep it or return it.

There are a bunch of things I really like about the Droid

-Android 2.0 is a huge improvement over 1.5

-Verizon Network is awesome.

-The Maps app is much better on Droid than iPhone

-Exchange sync is great.

-gmail integration is better on droid than on iphone (one click archive, etc)

-I like the FourSquare Android app better than the iPhone app

-improved battery life

-GoogleVoice rocks

-Open app model

Things I don’t like:

-maybe I have a lemon but the battery door is way too loose for my taste.

-There isn’t a Tumblr app for Android

-There isn’t a Yelp app for Android

-There isn’t a flickr app for Android

-The camera is fussy (i understand an update is coming dec 11th that should fix this)

-I’ve tried a bunch of Twitter apps for Android. My favorite so far is an app called ‘Swift’. But it doesn’t hold a candle to Tweetie2 on iPhone

-The music player on the Droid isn’t great. It doesn’t sync with iTunes which is a buzzkill. I’m using DoubleTwist to sync my media and that works out okay.

-I’m getting better with the keyboard but its far from ideal

If I keep the Droid it will most likely mean I’ll end up carrying two devices which is suboptimal. A number of my friends do this but I never thought i would.

Giving this Droid test run another week.

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ps: while I’m doing this test, I may not respond to txt messages on my iphone quickly. so please send email or Twitter DM instead of SMS for now…. thanks.

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Update: looks like there is a tumblr and flickr app for android by 3rd party developers. gonna give those a try.