About a month ago, I started using the Motorola Droid on a daily basis. I am actually making this post from the phone itself.
So here are some things I like about the phone:
* full qwerty keyboard. makes typing out texts, IMs, and even posts like these very easy
* touch screen. while it takes some getting used to, the interface is awesome
* multitasking. The biggest competitor to the droid and any android phone is the iphone. Unlike the iphone, android supports running multiple apps at once. This can be handy when wanting to use a browser window and an IM at the same time, just for instance.
A few things I don’t like about the phone:
* multitasking. While it is great to run multiple apps at once, most apps don’t provide an easy way to close themselves. This means an extra task killer app has to be installed. The memory gets bogged down with lots of open apps. Especially lately, since I’ve been trying out new apps daily, I’ve had to do battery pull restarts because of sluggishness.
* lack of good apps. While the android market is full of apps, most of them, quite honestly, are crap. The one thing the iphone definitely has on android is its app store. However, it is still very early in the game for android. Android phones are popping up everywhere. I expect over the next few months there will be a lot more development in the android market.
That’s my overall first impression of the phone and of android. I will make additional posts later about some of my favorite apps.
