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Review of the Motorola Droid

I have owned my Droid since March of this year, so about 3 months now.  In these three months I have come to the conclusion that I made the right decision to stay away from the Iphone.  For one thing, Verzion's service is much more reliable than AT&T's, I have had a 3G connection in the middle of nowhere, can't get that with AT&T.  Something else that I want to mention is that although it might be more bulky than the Iphone, the screen size and resolution is slightly better, plus you have the option to use the qwerty keyboard, which I only use once in a while.

Functionality wise the Droid has everything I need, great applications, speed, memory space, and great call quality.  I enjoy the screen resolution on the Droid, it is clear and as long as there isn't a glare on he screen it works great.  The glare issue is fixed for the most part as long as you turn on the backlight, which drains the battery more but I charge it every night so that is not an issue.  Speaking of the battery life, since I got the multimedia dock I have had no issues with the battery life.  I plug it in every night, use it as a clock and an alarm and undock it before I leave for the day.

Price wise it is fairly expensive to keep this phone, $29.95 a month for the data plan, along with the rest of my plan makes it just slightly better than the Iphone, but as stated before, Verizon has a much better coverage at least where I live.  It is great to have unlimited data usage wherever I go in the US.  As for is it for everyone, of course not.  If all you need is a phone that makes calls and text messages this is not the phone for you.  If you are looking to use internet like a browser, email, and a GPS, this is the phone for you!

Overall I want to say that I have had a few issues with my phone freezing here and there, restart of the phone usually fixes the issue.  Another issue I have run across is the wireless being very touchy, it seems that it needs a fairly strong signal to keep connected, and once in a while I would have to restart the wireless to have it find a network I was trying to connect to.  The wireless isn't a big deal, as long as you are in the US and have the data plan access, but it is nice to use it like in Canada which I lived in for about four months, used it for two months in there.  It is also useful for heavy downloading, when the wireless is faster than the connection you are getting with Verizon.