Anyone who is going for Verizon's new phone, The Moto Droid, on November 6th you can preorder it at Bestbuy for $199.99 w/o a Mail in Rebate. Verizon charges $299.99- $100 MIR. You can pick it up on the Nov. 6th which is the same day as Verizon releases it. It will save you the 2 months without your $100. The Droid outmatches the Iphone in just about every category and you will actually have a working network. If you are interested, the specs are on Verizon's Website: Moto Droid Specs
Voice plan (lowest individual is $40/month, lowest family is $70/month) plus $30/month for required data plan. Exactly the same as AT&T for the iPhone.
abbygrace said: Voice plan (lowest individual is $40/month, lowest family is $70/month) plus $30/month for required data plan. Exactly the same as AT&T for the iPhone.
Definitely the hottest new phone on the market by a long shot, imo. Hopefully motorola is using this phone as a chance to turn their company's image around. Their built quality has been just about as bad as you can get for the past 4 years. I swore off of them, but I'm willing to give them another shot depending on how this phone turns out.
You can run about 300 apps on 256 mb as any properly written app will store most data on the 16gb storage card. Not to mention there are programs that will run apps from the storage card if you manage to use up all 256mb.
quickNdirty said: My understanding is Android isn't written that way...and the only way around it is via hacks. This ain't WinMo
Ya it is a spec that makes me scratch my head. I don't know what Motorola was thinking by only allowing 256 mb on the phone for apps. It will be more than enough for 95% of Droid users but the other 5% who want to have multiple 3d games and download many memory intensive apps are going to have to "root" their phone. As much as I would love to have a few gigs for apps, like many VZW customers, I'm due for an upgrade and I need the best phone they have.
I would think having the printout would be the only possible way that would happen, and at least at my local BB's would still have about a snowballs chance in hell of happening....
ondeez
Member
posted: Oct. 30, 2009 @ 2:52p
a jailbroken iphone will blow this out of the water. The only advantage the droid has is that it can run apps in the background, and the replaceable battery.
ondeez said: a jailbroken iphone will blow this out of the water. The only advantage the droid has is that it can run apps in the background, and the replaceable battery.
Except AT&T's network is horrible. I can't even get a signal inside my house you have to go outside. I'm 3 miles off a major interstate.
The functionality of the phone jailbroke might be better but most people won't/don't jailbreak their phones so to the average person, this is a much better phone and network.
ondeez said: a jailbroken iphone will blow this out of the water. The only advantage the droid has is that it can run apps in the background, and the replaceable battery.
verizon and jailbroken iphone am i missing something here? no sim card on vzw...
i guess if you are saying the iphone on att is a better deal then you could be right but for some users att coverage is simply horrible and this is a great alternative
personally im waiting for the samsung behold II on tmobile in the next few weeks myself to replace my 2gen iphone
torchedlh said: 256MB is quite a bit of space for storing apps. Does one really need to have 100+ apps one their phone?
256MB? "640KB is ought to be enough for anybody!"
errantneuron
Member
posted: Oct. 30, 2009 @ 3:38p
quickNdirty said: Still only 256mb available onboard for apps (Linky) has cooled my attraction to this somewhat.... that's just stupid.This is an insane decision. Especially with as cheap flash ROM (RAM?) is now, there's just no excuse or reason to cripple the machine like that. (Just to put this number in context, my Dell Axim from FIVE years ago has 128 mb onboard memory.)
boarder3
Member
posted: Oct. 30, 2009 @ 3:47p
If you know anything about phones you would know that the droid is going to kill iphone. Most people follow whats the trend and say iphone is best but only thing that makes iphone great is apps. doesnt have a keyboard camera isnt as good doesnt multitask come on and open source apps do you under stand there will be more apps in about 3-6 months than iphone plus there wont be apple getting there cut on everything. Apple has great marketing thats it and att service sucks. This phone will outsell iphone once the word gets out what it does. ANd remember verizon has 4 times the amount of customers than att.
errantneuron said: quickNdirty said: Still only 256mb available onboard for apps (Linky) has cooled my attraction to this somewhat.... that's just stupid.This is an insane decision. Especially with as cheap flash ROM (RAM?) is now, there's just no excuse or reason to cripple the machine like that. (Just to put this number in context, my Dell Axim from FIVE years ago has 128 mb onboard memory.)
boarder3 said: If you know anything about phones you would know that the droid is going to kill iphone. Most people follow whats the trend and say iphone is best but only thing that makes iphone great is apps. doesnt have a keyboard camera isnt as good doesnt multitask come on and open source apps do you under stand there will be more apps in about 3-6 months than iphone plus there wont be apple getting there cut on everything. Apple has great marketing thats it and att service sucks. This phone will outsell iphone once the word gets out what it does. ANd remember verizon has 4 times the amount of customers than att.
i think while slow out of the gate 2010 will be the year Android overthrows iphone...rememeber no exclusivity agreements and samsung/moto etc all building their own 'skin' for these new devices. apps are coming and some of the custom cooked firmware for them are nice. google apps and openoffice for them imagine soon will be killers
Put android 2.0 aka eclair aka what the moto droid will be running on my T-Mobile g1 and i'm not overly impressed. It's like an updated version of donut. I'll stick with hero on here for now. And to the guy that says a jailbroken iphone is better, try comparing it to any rooted android based phone. The iphone days are over. Idon't, DroidDoes. They can't compete with open source.
eugeneflim
Greedy Member
posted: Oct. 30, 2009 @ 4:38p
Many Android apps are <1MB when running, some of the bigger ones (Documents-to-Go, office suite) are <8MB. This is still 3.7" screen, can't really be running more than 10 separate apps at the same time
I was at a BB this morning and they had a "model" which can give you an idea of the weight and the slider feel and the keyboard size... but not the software... they also said that they know nothing about NE2, but usually beat the Verizon in-store deals. I'll probably end up buying it online, if I get the $100 off (instant, as opposed to waiting for a rebate) AND my $50 NE2 ... making the price $149. Having it on release day isn't worth $50 to me.
EFDisaster said: I was at a BB this morning and they had a "model" which can give you an idea of the weight and the slider feel and the keyboard size... but not the software... they also said that they know nothing about NE2, but usually beat the Verizon in-store deals. I'll probably end up buying it online, if I get the $100 off (instant, as opposed to waiting for a rebate) AND my $50 NE2 ... making the price $149. Having it on release day isn't worth $50 to me.
When I bought my KRZR online from VZW, my NE2 counter never reset. So I could have received my NE2 at anytime. I never actually took advantage of it since my phone is now over 3 years old, but you never know!
quickNdirty said: Still only 256mb available onboard for apps (Linky) has cooled my attraction to this somewhat.... that's just stupid. What are you talking about? It has 256MB RAM, and if you think that is less, for reference a PS3 has 256MB RAM. It has 16 GB user replaceable SD card for all the app you want and then some. And if you want more, get a 32 GB SD card, no one is stopping you. From a storage standpoint Droid has everything.
YumRaj said: quickNdirty said: Still only 256mb available onboard for apps (Linky) has cooled my attraction to this somewhat.... that's just stupid. What are you talking about? It has 256MB RAM, and if you think that is less, for reference a PS3 has 256MB RAM. It has 16 GB user replaceable SD card for all the app you want and then some. And if you want more, get a 32 GB SD card, no one is stopping you. From a storage standpoint Droid has everything.
I haven't read the actual specs myself, but what you say is exactly why people are calling it ridiculous because you would think what your saying would be accurate, but its not. You can get a 16 gig card for the phone, but it will still only allow you to use 256 MB of onboard space for storing the apps. AKA you can't put any apps on that 16 gig card they all have to go on 256 internal storage of the phone.
LordB said: YumRaj said: quickNdirty said: Still only 256mb available onboard for apps (Linky) has cooled my attraction to this somewhat.... that's just stupid. What are you talking about? It has 256MB RAM, and if you think that is less, for reference a PS3 has 256MB RAM. It has 16 GB user replaceable SD card for all the app you want and then some. And if you want more, get a 32 GB SD card, no one is stopping you. From a storage standpoint Droid has everything.
I haven't read the actual specs myself, but what you say is exactly why people are calling it ridiculous because you would think what your saying would be accurate, but its not. You can get a 16 gig card for the phone, but it will still only allow you to use 256 MB of onboard space for storing the apps. AKA you can't put any apps on that 16 gig card they all have to go on 256 internal storage of the phone.
You could be right, but that is not how I'm reading the spec. If that is true, and to be honest there is no way I think that is possible, yes it would be pathetically stupid. But as I said, I really doubt that is possible. I think "User Storage Available (max) 256 MB" only means that 256MB is available for any critical user data to be stored on on-board memory.
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jj4
Member
posted: Nov. 8, 2009 @ 10:00p
Moto Droid $199 at both Best Buy & Verizon. However NA2 Verizon went to $149 and Best Buy went to $129. Purchased from Best Buy.
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