I'm a lurker here, but happy to give my two cents:
I'm a Droid X user, more or less alone in a sea of iPhone 4s and the
occasional Blackberry. Previously a BB Tour (world phone) user.
Neither the iPhone 4 nor the Droid X are world phones, and I'll avoid buying
a non-world phone again unless as is often the case Verizon only offers
mediocre world phones.
Other:
Form factor Droid X is large and for some a little bulky. I think this is
something you either accept/like or don't. The weird camera bump on the
back is definitely an aesthetic faux pas for me, but I've come to like the
form overall and at this point the iPhone seems puny, especially for the
soft keyboard and the screen in general.
Battery not great, doesn't really last a full day even with an app killer
installed and regularly used. I don't hear much better from iphone users.
That complaint aside, I'm probably going to go one step worse and upgrade to
the Bionic or its HTC equivalent this summer. I wonder how long a battery
for a dual-core phone on an LTE network will last 4 hours? 4 minutes?
Screen very nice. Size advantage to Droid, web-browsing easy and good.
Accelerometer stuff is also good. I'm a happy ipad and ipod touch user too,
and I'm not noticing a lot of difference.
UI I am starting to think I like the HTC UI better than the Droid, neither
are necessarily as tight as iOS. I think the analogy might be a
better-than-Windows vs. OSX from a user perspective. Of course, that
comparison is true on many levels.
UI speed Droid is zippy but occasionally the screen is unresponsive,
usually due to sync activity, but not always. Never seen that on an iphone.
That said, it never freezes.
Camera never really use it. Doesn't seem that great even at 8MB. UI is a
little clunkier than iphone.
Soft keyboard I prefer the Droid. In part that's because you can rotate
to landscape mode and have larger keys.
Call quality very nice. My guess is comparable to iphone on Verizon.
Never had a drop. I also use Skype on it often.
Apps in a year I think it will be impossible to distinguish between the
range of selection between Android and Apple. However, it's also true that
there is less curation that goes on in the Android market, so quality and
discoverability are still an issue. Again, I think it will diminish.
Music -- ain't no iTunes on the Droid.
Exchange integration. Pretty seamless. Five minutes to set up. Neither
compares to blackberry, though Enterprise Activation on the bb can take more
than a few cups of coffee to get done.
When I first got the Droid (because my colleagues use them) I thought I'd
made a mistake. Then I lost my Blackberry and had to rely on the Droid.
Once I changed the case (get the clear plastic one not the rubberized one)
honestly, my whole attitude changed. I much prefer the size of the phone to
the iphone and while the rest of my gear is Apple, at this point, I am going
to stick to Android (be it Droid or HTC).
Honestly, I wouldn't be either right now. I'd check out the HTC Thunderbolt
which is an LTE phone, or wait for the Bionic and invest in whoever their
battery supplier is :)
Hope this helps.
Robert
From: George Duncan gtdun...@gmail.com
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 11:35:22 -0600
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Friam@redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] Droid X vs. I Phone 4 on Verizon
Your thoughts on relative merits? Any experience?
Thanks, Duncan
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