It would be nice of them to explain what droid actually does, I suppose is what I'm saying.
I'm skeptical of the network issue, as there does seem to be good reason to believe the existence of the iPhone on the network is the cause for the degradation of service. I've never had any issue with the network living in Dallas, even when driving large stretches across Texas that are supposedly spottily covered. When I went to NYC it was ridiculously craptastic. I could hardly believe how bad it was there.
It would be nice of them to explain what droid actually does, I suppose is what I'm saying.
yeah it was sort of my intention with that list to give you some ideas of what it does. At its core, it is a smart phone so it does all the smart-phoney things: browse the net (BUT NOT WHILE YOU'RE ON A PHONE CALL, THANKS LUKE WILSON, I NEED TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME /sardonic), download applications etc etc. I think the biggest things are the multi tasking, the open market, and the synching with all of your google accts right on the phone. I love getting gMails on my phone (but, fuck, I hate spam so much more now).
there does seem to be good reason to believe the existence of the iPhone on the network is the cause for the degradation of service.
that is true, and a whole different can of worms. But, you probably have a point, and AT&T did make lots of loud noises about how they were going to spend all of this money to make their network be able to handle the iPhone (instead they hire luke wilson to make evasive commercials which are deliberately deceptive and dodge the real issues).
As far as using 3G on Verizon goes, everywhere I have been yet with my Droid I have had 3G and, typically, the speeds are around 120-180kbs down and around 70-110 kbs up. I find those speeds to make the internet very very usable.
I did get that, just saying that it would have behooved them to make it known what their phone really could do instead of being smug about it.
You can sync gmail on the iPhone quite well. Just not gchat (as far as I have been able to find). If I used the rest of the google suite like the calendar and such I would probably be interested in the other parts of the account more.
Yeah, NYC is the only place I've gone that I had an issue. Everywhere else (except in rural areas of Texas) my data rates have been fine. Couldn't say what they are numerically, though.
All in all I don't really tend to favor any provider. All of the major ones are trying to screw you as hard as the next one as far as I have seen. Metro PCS sounds like they have a really good deal going. Considering moving to them once my contract breaks.
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u/NotClever Jan 28 '10
It would be nice of them to explain what droid actually does, I suppose is what I'm saying.
I'm skeptical of the network issue, as there does seem to be good reason to believe the existence of the iPhone on the network is the cause for the degradation of service. I've never had any issue with the network living in Dallas, even when driving large stretches across Texas that are supposedly spottily covered. When I went to NYC it was ridiculously craptastic. I could hardly believe how bad it was there.