Thursday, November 12, 2009

Disspelling Droid Myths

So, in every review I read about the Droid, I heard a lot of negatives, all of which were valid, but were incomplete. I am going to address them here.

The battery sucks.
I have been using it hard as hell since I got it and yes, the battery life is nothing to write home about, but I think that for normal daily use, it will be fine. Of course, you need to charge it every night, but that goes without saying these days. The swappable battery definitely helps for travel!

The keyboard is terrible.
Compared to what? It is more then usable in my opinion. It isn't perfect, but it is so, so, so much better then not having a keyboard at all.

The music player is awful.
I don't get this at all. The music player is just fine. The fact that your running music can be a home screen widget or up in the notification area so you can get to it very quickly is amazing. I think what most people are complaining about is that it does not integrate with iTunes, which it never, ever will, but just copy music over to the phone and listen to it and it all works great.

Most apps are not Android v2.0 ready.
Developers seem to be busting their butts to get new apps out. I have only had the phone two days and at least a half dozen of the apps I installed right away have been updated specifically with bug fixes for the Droid. Give it 3 months and there will be an explosion of apps!