So my first generation Motorola Droid has been getting progressively worse lately.It’s almost to the point where it is not a functional phone.
The old joke is that the iPhone is a great phone, you just can’t use it as a phone. My Droid makes me wish i had an iPhone.
Leaving an application, it takes 10-45 seconds for the home screen to load. Applications fail on me, constantly. Twitter, Facebook, Gmail all will crash. The only remedy I’ve found is rebooting every few hours. I’ve removed almost all applications, I’ve done a factory reset. I just don’t know what the problem is.
Is it an over the air update gone wrong? Can I fix this with a local update? Or is this just crappy hardware? Either way, it sucks. I want to believe in the Android platform. I like iOS just fine, but I prefer my Google apps integration, the open app market (thanks, Apple, but I’m a big boy, I can look after myself in the App Market). I like the Android notification system. And I really like Verizon’s network.
I still have another year on my contract. Now that Verizon has the iPhone, I’m torn. Do I go with the iPhone (probably 5th gen, at that point) when my contract is up, and start from scratch rebuilding my habits? Finding and setting up new apps, trying to get Gmail and Google Calendar to work on an iPhone. Or do I go with the best offering from the Android platform.
I’m thinking, whatever I choose, Motorola won’t be in the picture.
