Gadgetblurb
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Well, just got back from the Verizon store. I went to actually see the Incredible and they had a working model of the Droid X! It is BIG. Luckily I have pretty big hands (long). The last Android phone I tried was the Droid and it was a piece O' crap. I was thrilled to be back with the 3GS. It had 2.0 so it was slow, buggy, and only had about 9,000 apps in the app store at the time and most sucked. Boy have things changed since then! Android is certainly making strides, i will give them that. The picture above was taken with my iPhone 4 and really doesn't do the phone justice. Like I said, I have long finger (I can palm a basketball). And after playing with it for about 30 minutes, I am pretty much sold on it. It does a lot of what the iPhone can do, and just about all the apps I want are on it.
*Twitter, Email, Facebook, Kindle, Last.fm, Wordpress, Dropbox, Directv, Fandango, Foursquare, Seesmic, Yelp, Evernote, etc. Dont play games so that doesnt really matter for me. Plus the Google voice integration is something i look forward to. Gotta say the Swype is unbelievable. It took me about 3 minutes to get the hang of it and boy can you type FAST!
The Store manager there told me that they should have enough inventory to last the day and that is about all they will have for the day. With the size of this beast, I highly doubt women will dig this thing. Once they try it, they will likely opt for the incredible or droid 2. It is just on the border of being too big. Even with my long hands, there were times where i felt it was almost too big.
They also had vlingo installed on this, which is a voice recognition software. This recognizes spoken punctuation and can look up everything on the phone and web. This service is awesome. The manager demoed it and had it look up a contact, type a text with punctuation and hit send and he only needed to hit two buttons. It was pretty cool.
I will likely return the ip4 and get the X. It is a great looking, feeling device that was snappy as hell and has an amazing screen. Sorry Apple. You lost me. Just so you know, I am not much of a fanboy (hate that name) I just go for the best device for me (I have had every iPhone since the first). Up til now, it has been iPhone hands down. Sorry guys at Android, your OS has sucked until now for my needs. I still think that IOS4 is way better than Android for MY needs, its just that the iPhone 4 is THAT BAD. Well, not to mention that AT&T is THAT BAD too. Android and Droid X are just getting that good, not to mention that Verizon does rock! And if it turns out that it all the problems that Apple is having are a design with the antenna and they do release the iPhone for Verizon with the same design, well, good luck with that.
Any questions? Fire away!