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I'm sure it's a piece of junk. The various "analysts" and "reviewers" gave Droid 1 rave reviews. Owning one, I have to question their integrity. Droid 1 is an absolutely AWFUL phone. I had it less than 12 hours and found massive numbers of issues. If I hadn't just been through THREE Motorola Devours, I would have returned it. So when the Droid 2 reviews are middling, I know it's going to be a bad phone.
The Devour had an AWESOME keyboard, best I've ever used on a mobile device. Droid 1 is one of the worst (which is why I got the Devour in the first place, over the Droid) and Droid 2 looks little improved. Faster CPU? Makes sense, because the Droid 1 is SLOW (despite the endless reviewers ranting about how "snappy" it was). Still doesn't impress me.
And you still can't work around the fact that Android's version number should be 0.2.2, not 2.2. I've got 2.2 on my Droid and it is RIDDLED with bugs! Stupid stuff, like not keeping the phone locked half the time, or while the phone is ringing, the display will mysteriously bring up the clock.
Shame on Google for putting out such a wretched OS, and SHAME on the "analysts" and "reviewers" who recommended this garbage. Blinded by the shiny new toy and not noticing the stench. I'm utterly disgusted. I've spent $1,500 on phones in the last few years, all of which got top marks from "certain publications", all of which were critically flawed.
J.Ja
The Devour had an AWESOME keyboard, best I've ever used on a mobile device. Droid 1 is one of the worst (which is why I got the Devour in the first place, over the Droid) and Droid 2 looks little improved. Faster CPU? Makes sense, because the Droid 1 is SLOW (despite the endless reviewers ranting about how "snappy" it was). Still doesn't impress me.
And you still can't work around the fact that Android's version number should be 0.2.2, not 2.2. I've got 2.2 on my Droid and it is RIDDLED with bugs! Stupid stuff, like not keeping the phone locked half the time, or while the phone is ringing, the display will mysteriously bring up the clock.
Shame on Google for putting out such a wretched OS, and SHAME on the "analysts" and "reviewers" who recommended this garbage. Blinded by the shiny new toy and not noticing the stench. I'm utterly disgusted. I've spent $1,500 on phones in the last few years, all of which got top marks from "certain publications", all of which were critically flawed.
J.Ja
I'm not sure why the reviewer seems to equate weight with sturdiness. Most cell phones die for reasons having nothing to do with being broken in half.
My 2 year contract with Verizon is up next week and I'm in the market for a smartphone. I'm leaning toward Android because I recently began learning Android sw development. But I've played with both the HTC Incredible and the Droid 2 extensively and I agree with Justin James, who said "Android's version number should be 0.2.2, not 2.2. I've got 2.2 on my Droid and it is RIDDLED with bugs!"
My experience is the same - the software is BUGGY! I can't tell if the bugs are in the OS or the app layer but Google needs to get their act together because right now if the iPhone came out on Verizon and Sprint it would eat Google's lunch.
My 2 year contract with Verizon is up next week and I'm in the market for a smartphone. I'm leaning toward Android because I recently began learning Android sw development. But I've played with both the HTC Incredible and the Droid 2 extensively and I agree with Justin James, who said "Android's version number should be 0.2.2, not 2.2. I've got 2.2 on my Droid and it is RIDDLED with bugs!"
My experience is the same - the software is BUGGY! I can't tell if the bugs are in the OS or the app layer but Google needs to get their act together because right now if the iPhone came out on Verizon and Sprint it would eat Google's lunch.
My Droid 1 also has the heft that reviewers found "satisfying", but it definitely is not "sturdy". I don't drop my phones, period. When I leave my desk, they are in a hip holder. All the same, the sliding mechanism on my Droid 1 feels awful after a few months of use. Many times it is slightly ajar when it used to have a positive "set" to it. My Motorola Devour was even worse. Out of the box, the sliding screen felt practically spring loaded with a real "snap" which I loved. But after a few months, the sliding mechanism got very loose, lost the "snap" and when open it wouldn't stay quite in place. It felt like I was eating on a table where one leg was slightly shorter than the rest, enough to drive you mad. And that phone weighed a ton, with an all-aluminum body, which I thought would make it more "sturdy".
Lesson: learned.
J.Ja
Lesson: learned.
J.Ja
Greeting Jason, et al,
I have a droid 2 that replaced a droid. I was happy with the droid and I am more so with the droid 2. Although it is a little heavy, I find it, after 2 months, to be very solid, responsive, snappy and my phone calls have never had a problem.
Everyone has different expectations and everyone has different results from where they use the phone so there will be people who have better or worse service. I live out in very rural southwestern New York state and my droid 2 performs great on phone calls.
And on the keyboard front, I have not had a problem with the slide out hardware keyboard. I use it several time a day every day and it is the reason I got the droid 2 instead of the droid x. The droid 2 is infinitely better than the droid in the keyboard department. The droid keyboard was the big disappointment to me in the original.
What I am most disappointed in is that all these posts seem to be be negative to be negative. No constructive thoughts about the phone or how to improve it. And I do not really care what version numbers they assign.
So that I do not fall victim to what I have already noted, here are my thoughts on improving the droid 2. 1.) Make Skype an app you can install and uninstall and turn on or off. 2.) Advanced Task Killer should be part of the OS. 3.) The on/off button on the droid 2 is not as good for my fingers as the original droid. And it would be improved if it had a way to hardware lock the button like the Ipod Nano to avoid accidentally turning the phone back on in my pocket. 4.) More on-phone flexibility to load apps and data on or off the SD card. The LG Touch had this ability build-in and it was a godsend 5.) Restore the ability to put direct dial shortcuts on the home screen. If this is possible on the droid 2 I have not found it.
That's about it for me. I have more problems with my toshiba laptop and win xp than my droid 2 and they've both been around a lot longer and had far more improvements made to them. And I use my droid 2 far more that I use my laptop now. Maybe we should all think back to what it was like before we could say that and say thank you to the people who have made this possible.
Best,
Scott B
in beautiful Chautauqua County, New York
I have a droid 2 that replaced a droid. I was happy with the droid and I am more so with the droid 2. Although it is a little heavy, I find it, after 2 months, to be very solid, responsive, snappy and my phone calls have never had a problem.
Everyone has different expectations and everyone has different results from where they use the phone so there will be people who have better or worse service. I live out in very rural southwestern New York state and my droid 2 performs great on phone calls.
And on the keyboard front, I have not had a problem with the slide out hardware keyboard. I use it several time a day every day and it is the reason I got the droid 2 instead of the droid x. The droid 2 is infinitely better than the droid in the keyboard department. The droid keyboard was the big disappointment to me in the original.
What I am most disappointed in is that all these posts seem to be be negative to be negative. No constructive thoughts about the phone or how to improve it. And I do not really care what version numbers they assign.
So that I do not fall victim to what I have already noted, here are my thoughts on improving the droid 2. 1.) Make Skype an app you can install and uninstall and turn on or off. 2.) Advanced Task Killer should be part of the OS. 3.) The on/off button on the droid 2 is not as good for my fingers as the original droid. And it would be improved if it had a way to hardware lock the button like the Ipod Nano to avoid accidentally turning the phone back on in my pocket. 4.) More on-phone flexibility to load apps and data on or off the SD card. The LG Touch had this ability build-in and it was a godsend 5.) Restore the ability to put direct dial shortcuts on the home screen. If this is possible on the droid 2 I have not found it.
That's about it for me. I have more problems with my toshiba laptop and win xp than my droid 2 and they've both been around a lot longer and had far more improvements made to them. And I use my droid 2 far more that I use my laptop now. Maybe we should all think back to what it was like before we could say that and say thank you to the people who have made this possible.
Best,
Scott B
in beautiful Chautauqua County, New York
OK, let's show how to turn this pig into a princess instead of walking to the sty with a tube of lipstick...
* Get some space between the keys
* Get some space between the keys and the screen so my thumbs can reach the top row
* Get a proper number row
* OK, take the top 3 and change them to "use the Devour's keyboard"
* Make Android re-connect with my Bluetooth headset when it comes back in range. It used to do this, but the upgrade to 2.2 broke it.
* Make Android lock the screen properly. On 2 different Droids, the screen will randomly not be locked when I take the phone out of my hip holster or pick it up. I've experimented with it, just locking the screen and then turning it on, it is VERY frequently not locked!
* Stop it from jumping to the "clock" app at random times! My phone will be ringing, and suddenly the clock app will come up so I don't know who is calling. I'll got to make a call, and when I pick the phone up... yup, the clock app is running... it makes ZERO sense.
* Fix the signal strength meter (the "bars") so that it has an actual relationship to reality. Go to the phone's status and compare the actual signal strength and compare it to the meter. You will see ZERO correlation. In fact, sometimes once will go up while the other goes down, sometimes both will go down (or up) in sync. Huh?
There's plenty more, but as someone who has already lost well over 20 hours of their life with Verizon because of this lousy phone, and 10 hours of their live with Motorola, I don't care anymore. I just want my money back or a replacement phone (note: I didn't even WANT a Droid, I bought a Devour, but because Verizon can't deliver me a working Devour apparently, I got moved to the Droid). And quite frankly, I feel that the reviewers who gave this phone should be ashamed of themselves and offer a public apology. Their integrity and judgement are clearly in question.
J.Ja
* Get some space between the keys
* Get some space between the keys and the screen so my thumbs can reach the top row
* Get a proper number row
* OK, take the top 3 and change them to "use the Devour's keyboard"
* Make Android re-connect with my Bluetooth headset when it comes back in range. It used to do this, but the upgrade to 2.2 broke it.
* Make Android lock the screen properly. On 2 different Droids, the screen will randomly not be locked when I take the phone out of my hip holster or pick it up. I've experimented with it, just locking the screen and then turning it on, it is VERY frequently not locked!
* Stop it from jumping to the "clock" app at random times! My phone will be ringing, and suddenly the clock app will come up so I don't know who is calling. I'll got to make a call, and when I pick the phone up... yup, the clock app is running... it makes ZERO sense.
* Fix the signal strength meter (the "bars") so that it has an actual relationship to reality. Go to the phone's status and compare the actual signal strength and compare it to the meter. You will see ZERO correlation. In fact, sometimes once will go up while the other goes down, sometimes both will go down (or up) in sync. Huh?
There's plenty more, but as someone who has already lost well over 20 hours of their life with Verizon because of this lousy phone, and 10 hours of their live with Motorola, I don't care anymore. I just want my money back or a replacement phone (note: I didn't even WANT a Droid, I bought a Devour, but because Verizon can't deliver me a working Devour apparently, I got moved to the Droid). And quite frankly, I feel that the reviewers who gave this phone should be ashamed of themselves and offer a public apology. Their integrity and judgement are clearly in question.
J.Ja
Last night, in the middle of a phone call, it just dropped the call. It then REFUSED to even *attempt* to dial out to *any* number! I had to power cycle the phone to fix it.
That sounds like a software bug to me!
J.Ja
That sounds like a software bug to me!
J.Ja
I remember thinking Droid (vs. iPhone) was where it was at because they didn't drop flash.. (Get all the web on your web device) .. until I saw a review where a certain Droid phone couldn't even play youtube at full framerate. I got the idea other models weren't any better.
Have Droids made flash worth having yet?
Have Droids made flash worth having yet?
My first Android phone, so i cannot compare other than to my friends with a DroidX and a EVO... First impressions are very positive, and will wait to pass judgment on battery life for a few weeks.
Android is very user intuitive in my opinion. Love the features and have not yet had a moment where it did not meet or exceed my expectations.
Android is very user intuitive in my opinion. Love the features and have not yet had a moment where it did not meet or exceed my expectations.
I went from the Droid to the Droid 2 and I like the Droid better for some reason. I don't see and feel any difference in performance and quality of phone calls and operation. Yes the OS is a little different and the Droid 2 looks a tad bit cleaner, but I don't think it's worth the upgrade from a Droid to the Droid 2.
As for mine, mine is a week old and my calls are fading in and out when making and receiving phone calls. Not too happy with it so far and there's another person with the same issue in our organization that hasn't been solved yet.
As for mine, mine is a week old and my calls are fading in and out when making and receiving phone calls. Not too happy with it so far and there's another person with the same issue in our organization that hasn't been solved yet.
Will it sync properly with Outlook 2010? I mean Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes if possible. My Outlook is stand-alone (doesn't use Exchange) so I'm not really bothered about synching emails.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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