iPhone vs. Droid Reviews
I’ve had the iPhone for almost 3 months now and it’s awesome. It’s about time I actually have a state of the art, awesome phone. See my original iphone review after I first got it. So now the Droid is out from T-Mobile and Google. Talk about a war on the shore. Apple vs. Google is a heavy weight fight for the ages. Admittedly, I don’t have the Droid but a friend at the office got one the other day and I was able to play around with it. It had some cool features, but I like the iPhone better than the Droid. Here’s why:
- The iPhone is sleeker. The Droid is cool, but the iPhone just has a better feel and look to it.
- The Droid has a pull-out keyboard that is harder to type on. The buttons are that of a rigid calculator and they need to be pressed hard. This does help prevent slipping and pressing the wrong button, but not worth the trade off.
- Along with the sleeker comment, the iPhone is thinner. The Droid is kind of like having a bulky Texas Instruments calculator – come to think of it that reminds me of it a lot. The iPhone is thinner in depth.
- The iPhone is cheaper. I think my friend paid $199 and that was after some $200 rebate on the Droid.
- I prefer ATT to T-Mobile service.
- I couldn’t remove the Facebook App on the Droid. My friend had asked me to take it off, but I could only figure out how to take off nondefault apps.
- Not as cool phone cases.
That’s all I can think of on iPhone vs. Droid right now. I had some more when I was initially holding it but I still wanted to let you guys in on it as most people haven’t come into contact with the Droid. Just a quick mention, if you are thinking of using either of these phones as portable media players, you may want to first look at buying an ipod alternative and keeping your media and phone in seperate devices.
Some cool stuff about the Droid:
- Really good screen resolution – on par or maybe a hair better than the iPhone.
- It says DROID when you receive a text message in a very 1980s tech-robot way. That sounds so simple, but it definitely makes getting a text message fun.
- Cheap screen films. My friend said she got 3 for $12.99 or something like that when she bought her Droid which is a really good deal from what I’ve researched.
Overall, I thought it was a quality device but it didn’t really 1-up the iPhone. It’s more like Apple set the standard and they did a good job following the blueprint. I’m sure there are more differences between the iPhone and Droid that I don’t know about yet but these are just my impressions from owning the iPhone and handling Droid for 15 minutes.
Final Score on an independent scale of 1-10 (no decimals):
iPhone 9
Droid 7
