Quick first look review of DROID

“Quick review of Motorola DROID just bought this morning. Recorded on the speaker phone. Great quality! Also a bit of baseball philosophy for the Yankees and Phillies.”

Dave is testing out the first Motorola Droid phone (an Android device released in Nov 2009) and is impressed with the call quality and connection compared to his previous experience with AT&T, which he describes as the “worst phone company in the world” due to frequent dropped calls and poor call quality. He likes the Droid’s fast performance, clean user interface, and customization options. While the camera is not as nice as the iPhone’s, he was able to easily upload photos to Gmail and Facebook. Dave is considering moving away from the iPhone, which he feels has become too restrictive with its app strategy.

Hey, Dave White here. I’m doing a little test here with the new Droid, which is what I’m calling you on right now. And I realized before the reason why I didn’t see the podcast from Stench is because this has got a different phone number.
Anyway, it’s a great phone. It ’s a great device, a great computer.
But let’s go back to the great phone. I had a long talk with a friend of mine this morning on the Droid, and it was remarkable. It was the best phone conversation that I’ve had in all you know since a very long time. Not just the iPhone, but the AT&T has got to be, and this was what I used to call the regular, has to be the worst phone company in the world.
I mean, they would constantly drop calls. I would hear sometimes every other word, sometimes would lose one in every three words. So for me, phone conversations was a lot of interruptions and saying, what did you say? Or just interpolation, or giving up, and just saying, I’ll just let them talk for a while.
Not figuring that probably I would come through any more clearly, but I called a friend of mine who was also on Verizon, and the connection was amazing. I mean, it was like phone conversations used to be before we all went cellular. So let’s give Verizon a big thumbs up over AT&T.
I hope I never have to use AT&T again for a voice conversation.
And otherwise, the Droid is fast. It’s got clean user interface.
It’s got more options than the iPhone does, which I like, because I like customizing things and getting everything just right. It’s intuitive. It’s very nice.
The web browsing experience is great. The camera, there’s the thing.
I love the camera on the iPhone , and I use it all the time.
Even though it doesn’t take great pictures, the fact that it’s a communicating camera made it great. I’m not sure that this camera is as nice to use as the iPhone camera is, but I’ll let you know. It works.
So I was able to upload a picture to both Gmail and to Facebook.
I already got a couple of comments. One from James Taylor at Rackspace, and from John Perry Barlow, who ’s giving me a little shit about the Yankees, because John knows that I hate the Yankees. I’ll probably do a podcast on why the Yankees, and why I was sad that the Yan kees said for the Yankees that they lost, what an opportunity to grow and join the rest of the human race .
Social media being fully booted up would have been a great opportunity for the Yankees to learn that they were part of , not so much the Yankees players, because I think they probably know this, but the Yankees fans need to learn that they’re just like every other asshole in the world, and winning for them is like you need a break. We know that you guys lose more often than you win.
I mean, that’s for sure, but somehow it’s like really boring when the Yankees win.
Anyway, so that was my little editorial. I didn’t quite get to finish the full philosophy of the idea, but I’m not sad that the Yankees won, because the only reason I’m sad for them is because they missed the opportunity to get the benefit of losing.
I’m very happy for the Phillies because they’re experiencing some very deep philosophy right now, and no doubt they will lead much richer and more philosophical lives than the result of their experience in the World Series.
Anyway, so the joint is a fine product. Somebody here is a guy on Twitter who says ATX Mobile Muse, whatever that all that is, says , “How long do we give Dave Weier before he runs back to his iPhone?” This is Max, guys, man. I use Max. I use iPhones.
I have no idea whether I’m running back to the iPhone or not.
Right now, if you ask me to guess, is that the iPhone is going to become the new Blackberry for me, which is the phone that I keep activated and keep running just in case, and all the while knowing that in a few months I’m just going to start it off.
Or I might give it to my mother .
It might be a very good machine to sort of like reformat so that she can learn about text messaging and have a nice little camera that she can carry with her.
It might make perfect sense.
The iPhone to me is a lost cause because of the app.
I mean, I could forgive almost everything with the iPhone, the shitty AT&T service.
I think that would be the biggest crime up until the point where they went, so where they basically everything about the iPhone is like you’re in jail.
My first hope for the iPhone was going to be that it was going to be a Mac and a portable form factor, which I thought would have been a great product, but they’ve gone the other way.
And they lost me with the app strategy.
I don’t believe in what they’re doing, and I cannot overlook that.
Sorry, I mean life’s too short, and well it’s a nice product and everything.
Now is Google any better? Suck now. I mean Google is a fucked up company and they’re a bunch of – they ’re just going to screw with us just like every other tech company does.
Well, but I might as well give them my money instead of Apple for a while just because they made a nice product, and it is a nice product.
So you hate the company, love the product, and you know, hold your nose, and Verizon is great. And maybe someday they’ll come out with F ios in Berkeley, or maybe I’ll have to move where the Fios is. Fios got to love it. It’s great.
Anyway, that’s my mini editorial review, first impression of the droids.
And hey, you know, we’ll see you on Monday. Let’s see if this thing is still running.
Yes, it is. See you on Monday with another episode of Rebo oting the News with Jay Rezzi and myself, and we’re going to start working right now and getting a great guest.
So that’s going to have somebody in mind. And anyway, that’s it for right now.
and talk to y’all later, bye.