I got a Verizon Motorola Droid on the first day it was available in November. I was previously using a Treo 700p. After getting over the initial learning curve, I am very happy with it.
I have been a Palm user for forever (seems like, LOL). I had my 700P for about 3 years and several other Palms before that. I liked my Treo very much, but it was needing a new battery and having little quirky things go bad. Since Verizon was no longer supporting it, I knew it was best for me to switch eventually to something else. I have to stick with Verizon for coverage reasons. The Palm Pre wasn't available on Verizon at that time; there were rumors that it would be in Quarter 1, but nothing concrete enough for me to continue waiting. I made the choice to change, reluctantly. For the most part, I have not been sorry. I had some problems with the transfer of my Contacts (some 2000+) from Treo and Outlook to Gmail and Droid, but I now attribute that to the fact that I let the people at Verizon do the transfer instead of doing it myself. I had been thinking of going to an internet-based email instead of an ISP-based one for some time, so this was going to happen sooner or later anyhow. I don't like the Contacts feature on the Droid as much as the Treo, but I can live with the differences. The email feature had some initial problems for me, but after the Droid OS was upgraded (automatically) it works fine. Again, part of this was my misunderstanding of how to set up the email retrieval feature, not a problem of the phone. I miss some of the third party applications that I used frequently on the Treo, but for the most part, I've been able to replace them with similar ones on the Droid. These were mostly health, diet and fitness third party applications. (I'm diabetic so I used to track my blood glucose readings and diet on the Treo). The only application I haven't been able to replace yet is Pocket Quicken by Landware. I've contacted them and at this time they have no plans to write an Android OS version. But I figure it's only a matter of time before someone writes an app that will do the same thing. The Android Market is constantly comming up with new apps (many free) and it's very easy to download and install them. I love the internet capabilities on the Droid, and the fact that it allows me to use WiFi instead of Verizon to access the web. I hope this helps people that are considering a change. If you have more specific questions, please let me know and I'll do my best to answer them.
