Droid Day 3

After 4 calls to AT&T and 2 calls to Verizon, finally and sadly the iPhone is bricked.  The iPhone without a plan is pretty much an iPod Touch.  It works with WiFi so it still has decent utility.

I was wrong about the Droid lacking the intelligence to recognize phone numbers.  It is not so obvious, but if you touch a phone #, the Droid recognizes the number as a phone number, and like the iPhone autofills the phone number and launched the phone feature.  Unlike the iPhone, the number is not highlighted, so this feature is less obvious.  Thanks to Yuan Lin for the tip.

The Android Market is easy to use.  It functions similarly to Apple's App Store.  I downloaded Skype Lite, Flixster and Yelp so far.  I have not had a chance to explore these apps yet, so it will be interesting to see if there are any major difference from the iPhone versions.  I did not find TweetDeck, but I'll need to see if there is a similar app for Android or if I am just not searching correctly for this app.

Still trying to figure out how all the notifications and alerts work on the Droid, but so far finding most of the key functionality that the iPhone provides.  Yuan Lin mentioned that their is a new Android OS being released soon.  I am hoping that this will incorporate the pinch-zoom control.  Zooming in and out is not so easy on the Droid (tap to access zoom controls).  I have also noticed that the Droid is not as intelligent about guessing the optimal size of a page.  Therefore, the lack of the pinch-zoom control is even more frustrating.

The pull out keyboard is ok, but still not loving it.  The onscreen Droid keyboard is not as good as the iPhone's, so the pull out seems to be the way to go on the Droid.

I took Qishan's idea, and setup a new Google Gmail account and sync'd my iPhone contacts to this Gmail account.  Then I sync'd the Gmail account to the Droid.  The process was quite easy and the contacts came over without any noticeable problems.

A little early to tell, but seems like the battery is slightly better on the Droid than the iPhone.  Will need to keep an eye on this to see if the Droid can last two days instead of the customary 1 day that the iPhone provides.

Apple did a great job with the ring tones and beeps on the iPhone, so I was pleasantly surprised at how good the Droid's are.  The default phone ring is pretty rocking, and hearing the "DROID" alert noise puts a smile on my face.  Advantage Droid on the sound options.