Comments on: The Droid Is A Failure, How Surprising

By: KC

KC — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:41:05 +0000

I came upon this post by accident while searching for real information that mattered. what I got was 45 seconds worth of pure Apple fanboy BS…………
thanks for the laugh, I won’t be back.

By: Boston

Boston — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:35:05 +0000

I laughed when I read “farewell droid” because now at the end of march the droid has gone nowhere and is actually outselling the iPhone. How things have changed since then.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:30:30 +0000

Mark my words: The (current) Droid will never kill the (current) iPhone if it costs more than Free.

It’s simple. A decent MP3 player costs at least $100-200. If you get an iPhone, you get what is today the defacto standard in MP3 players for FREE, and you get it with what is pretty much the defacto standard in smartphones starting at $100.

That’s literally $200-300 in savings over a Droid, and Droid users have been complaining it’s sub-par as a music player to begin with.

Unless you absolutely hate Apple/AT&T or you are a complete Google/Verizon fanboi, you’d have to be an idiot to buy a Droid.

Thankfully, most of us are not idiots…

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:22:47 +0000

Just bought my Droid and can’t stress enough how well it’s gone. I *will* go so far as to say this is an iPhone killer. Apple innovates but beyond that, they always drop the ball. Droid/Google will blow by them within 2 years. Bookmark this and email me in two years…

By: snorkel

snorkel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:03:43 +0000

The droid has terrible 1x voice reception, gets good 3g, but voice reception and quality is terrible. I was on AT&T and dropped my account and switched to verizon and the droid, big mistake. My wife and I could not get past the poor voice quality and signal strength, so we ended up going back to AT&T and got Iphones.

Not to mention because of verizons crappy cdma network you can’t do voice and data at the same time(exception is wifi). If you listen to pandora radio for example you will not receive calls, they will go directly to voice mail, and if you are on a call you can’t look something up on line or get a new email etc. With the droid you are only as good as what’s in the cache.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:08:58 +0000

I just bought a Droid over an iPhone, partially because of the network, partially because the Droid ships with a 16gb microSD card and removeable battery, two things the iPhone doesnt have.
Whereas the iPhone set the pace for the modern smartphone market, i believe that the Droid might very pick up where Apple is leaving off, with uncensored app markets, multitasking, and overall a much more complete experience.
Whereas it might not be as user friendly as the iPhone, future updates of Android (incidentally, the iPhone didn’t upgrade for free from 3g to 3gS) that are released for free to any google phone user will see to UI tweaks and problems.
The end result? I am infinitely happier with my Droid than i would have been with an iPhone!
The marketing might not have been perfect, but soon word-of-mouth will create something else that was implied by the droid ads: viral marketing.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:47:39 +0000

I swear verizon must have told all its people to go to every post they could find to promote the droid. Now I wonder why. Is it that big a piece of sh_t?

By: what_the_!@?

what_the_!@? — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:35:36 +0000

This is a “news” article huh? How is it a new’s article and not an opinion piece when you call the Droid a “Failure” (you words, not mine) within the first few days of release? Try to sugar coat it and have all your buddy editors on this site to back you up as much as you like, you wrote words that you can not retract and now you have the nerve to call this a technical news article ending with the most fanboy comment ever (don’t try to patronize us by saying you aren’t a fanboy) saying “Farwell Droid!” What unbiased point could you possibly be making with that comment?

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By: Obiwan

Obiwan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:38:52 +0000

Apple? Taking the high road? Need I remind you of a little ad campaign they’ve been running for the past few years, called “Mac vs PC”? Not to mention that said campaign has been reduced to nothing more than different ways of saying “Windows 7 sucks”.

Pot, I’d like you to meet Kettle.