I had an ipod touch for a year and then sold it for my droid inc. I loved it but then sold it after 2 months when i got off my family plan and got my own plan. Decided to risk getting att and got the captivate since it was the best hardware at the time(minus camera flash). So I've had experience with everything ur discussing.
My first gripe was the battery life. I could barely squeeze out a day. I tried all of the tips, none of them worked. I bought a 1750 Seidio, not enough.
True, it was idiotic of htc to put a 1300 battery in this phone what were they thinking. A lot of people reported that they were actually getting better battery life with the htc touch pro 2 1500mah batter over the 1750 seido. i used the tp2 batter and it was sufficient for me. My captivate does get better battery life with it's 1500mah battery tho, maybe an extra hour.
Also, I found that android's multitasking wasn't very good at managing open apps. I found that I would sometimes have 30 apps running, even though I had just booted my phone.
Multi-tasking is a love-hate situation on android. Its not perfected. M$ decided to not even include it in their win 7 phones so obviously it will be a while before multi-tasking is a standard on phones. It really does open up some space for ideas for developers tho so I bet when multi-tasking is perfected, android will have the best apps that take advantage of it.
As I grabbed more apps off the market, I realized how buggy they were. I started to reconsider this whole lack of censorship on the market. While Apple tends to censor too much, they did keep apps out if they were this buggy.
True again. i miss the quality of the apps and games in the app store. App store > android market. There are some interesting free apps on android like the navigation and sky maps, but its laughable that the best selling game is robo defense which pales in comparison to all of the really high quality games on the app market.
The phone likes to reboot, a lot.
My droid inc did the same thing. It probably rebooted 30x a day. You need a replacement phone. This is probably causing half your reboot issues.
My incredible also likes to creak. Not to mention it's almost entirely plastic.
ah, the infamous incredible "creak". Certain aspects of the droid inc's build are questionable. The only thing i liked is that with the rubberized back, you didn't have to worry about scratches on it as muc.
The apps it does have aren't near the quality of the iOS apps. They crash. They're slow. The UI of the app is junky.
True, none of the apps are as polished and a lot of them have the ugly typical vanilla linux look. I hate that.
Battery life... wow. Pathetic. Even my 3500Mah is under 50% by the end of the day after moderate use.
50% is bad for the end of the day? With my captivate, i have about 20% by the time i plug it in at midnight.
I'm just disappointed. I expected a Verizon phone to be solid since they're so strict. Even my network speed is slow (2-full bars!)
My droid inc NEVER held more than 2 bars. I don't think its verizon's network, its the phone. Something is up with the reception. That being said it doesn't really matter how many bars it has as long as it has bars. With my captivate, i can get full or very high bars in some places, but then in others like basements and elevators i get no bars when i used to keep a bar with verizon.
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Personally I think the AppPhone errr, iPhone is king because they let you do neat-o things like CHANGE YOUR WALLPAPER now! Oh and don't forget they teach you new ways to hold your cell phone to get better reception. I like the way they let you arrange the BEAUTIFULLY created app icons on your home screen and call it personalization! Steve is REALLY good to his customers in giving that much freedom and choice over a device that THEY purchased. I like how they protect their customers from having the choices they want on their phones. You can never be too careful as a corporation as to what you allow someone to put on THEIR phone, heck the customer may have paid for it, but it's Apple's baby, gotta protect that name. Who are you to want to put "unsavory" apps on it? What do you think? It's yours or something? I especially like how they force users to use their video sourcing rather than some "Johnny Come Lately" company like flash who is here today, but gone tomorrow and won't support their company. As an Applefanboy, I personally like that I can't actually see and interact with the web and many websites as they are coded and written, but actually I have to find work arounds. Don't get me started on how willy nilly Android and Verizion Wireless are for allowing customers the freedom of changing batteries when they die or get low. Anyone will tell you that only a properly trained specialist has the qualifications and proper know how to complete THAT task. Well, at the proper price with shipping and handling. 
