Impressing,1-upping friends with iPhones

[justbob]

+1 on the voice search. It's awesome. My personal favorite is to click the voice search icon and say "map of sushi restaurants," then watch their shocked faces as a local map pops up. After that, pick one item off the map and show them the "call" and "navigate" buttons.

Another favorite is to load connectbot and drive around the phone using regular *nix commands.

Of course, you can always show them how to install an extended run battery or upgrade the SD card.

 

[LuN3yDaV3]

iPhone has voice search too BTW. I would say anything Google is 1up for the Droid. Google maps, Google voice, Google talk, goggles, gizmo5 (coming soon), and that most apps are free or priced pretty low. Oh and I don't have my Droid rooted, but to have that possibility is a huge leap over iPhone. Lastly, I work in an area where many iPhone users are not getting 3g, while I can do what I need/want as they twiddle their thumbs. Glad I didn't get an iPhone like I almost did.

 

[takeshi]

Being a male in my mid 20s; having things that are cooler and better than my friends is obviously crucial to my self-esteem and personal well-being. :biggrin:

As common as that is, it's more a personal issue rather than an age issue. I've never understood people that rely on products for their personal identity. I could understand it if a person was a developer of the Droid but just buying the Droid (or clothes/car/you name it) doesn't prove anything about the person.

The only thing that impresses me about a person's device purchase is evidence that the person put some thought into it (i.e. how it suits them specifically) versus just going with whatever happens to be trendy at the time. Device pissing contests are pretty pointless IMO but to each his own.

 

[_33]

Here's my one up story...


My nitwit brother in law just got an iphone. So he's telling me how great it is and we debate some on the issue. He starts yapping about how I can't surf and talk. I tap my wifi toggle button and jump on the inlaws connection. I call the house and check out google news. I ask him to do it, but he declines. I then call his cell, with the speaker phone on. Everyone is looking at me like I'm nuts. Then his voicemail picks up... it didn't ring once. I told him my phone actually makes and receives calls.



So just making a call in some cases can be quite impressive.

 

[zakany]

Device pissing contests are pretty pointless IMO but to each his own.

Agreed. However, when an iPhone user expressed disdain for my Droid, I just had to point out that, "it's like an iPhone, except for men." He's very macho and gender-aware, so pointing out that my phone was more masculine than his was particularly effective.

:yeahbaby01:

 

[txrover]

Device pissing contests are pretty pointless IMO but to each his own.

Agreed. However, when an iPhone user expressed disdain for my Droid, I just had to point out that, "it's like an iPhone, except for men." He's very macho and gender-aware, so pointing out that my phone was more masculine than his was particularly effective.

:yeahbaby01:

ROTFL, now that was funny! I didn't like the Droid form-factor initially, but it's grown on me. It's good that it isn't another iPhone clone. I do like the solid weight feel.

 

[Scribble]

I didn't like the Droid form-factor initially, but it's grown on me. It's good that it isn't another iPhone clone. I do like the solid weight feel.

Do you, (or anyone) know if the weight comes from actual electronics inside the device?

I like the weight too, but I know there is at least one remote control company that actually puts lead weights in their device to increase the weight. It's been shown that people subconsciously feel "heavier" electronic devices are a better value then a lighter device with the same stats.

 

[PereDroid]

My nitwit brother in law just got an iphone. So he's telling me how great it is and we debate some on the issue. He starts yapping about how I can't surf and talk.

Not to sidetrack to much into ATT vs VZW debate but it stuns me that ATT's answer to VZW's commercials is: "But you can talk and surf the net".
Really? *YAWN*
Because y'know I am ALWAYS wanting to surf the net while on a phone call. Bums me out daily that my VZW phone can't do that.
Seriously ATT? This is your selling point? Come on now. How many people here have ever HAD to get on the net while you are on the phone? I am one of the "techiest people" you'll ever meet and I never have a need to get on the net while on the phone.
The ONLY thing I ever might do while on a phone call is look up a contact for someone. Surf the net? Spare me.

ATT's marketing department is brain dead.

 

[Droids]

While I've never had the need to surf and talk at the same time there was one time when I wanted to get incoming email from someone I was talking to. Second we hung up the email came, no biggie, would have been handy that one time but I can live without it. I highly doubt many people have a need to surf and talk at once, and besides the iDon't requires a stable 3G AND voice connection to do both at once. What good is surf and talk if AT&T drops your call?

 

[Rettocs]

My nitwit brother in law just got an iphone. So he's telling me how great it is and we debate some on the issue. He starts yapping about how I can't surf and talk.

Not to sidetrack to much into ATT vs VZW debate but it stuns me that ATT's answer to VZW's commercials is: "But you can talk and surf the net".
Really? *YAWN*
Because y'know I am ALWAYS wanting to surf the net while on a phone call. Bums me out daily that my VZW phone can't do that.
Seriously ATT? This is your selling point? Come on now. How many people here have ever HAD to get on the net while you are on the phone? I am one of the "techiest people" you'll ever meet and I never have a need to get on the net while on the phone.
The ONLY thing I ever might do while on a phone call is look up a contact for someone. Surf the net? Spare me.

ATT's marketing department is brain dead.

This x 1000. The ad that gets me the most is the one with the huge verizon map and the red marbles falling.

COMMERCIAL: "Lately verizon has been making a big deal of maps, but when you look closely, their story doesn't hold up."

ME WATCHING: ok... let us hear why ATT says Verizon's map campaign is not true.

COMMERCIAL: "You see, ATT lets you talk on the phone and surf the web at the same time, Verizon's... Doesn't."

ME WATCHING: SO? Who cares? That is not relavent to the maps at all! RAAAAGE!

At the very least, they should talk about their rollover minute idea rather than the talking and internet.

 

[alm0614]

1 word that makes me love my droid over the iphone: Widgets.

b/t cal widget, and beautiful widgets i couldnt live without them

 

[papy72]

At the very least, they should talk about their rollover minute idea rather than the talking and internet.

In a different commercial, they do.

 

[Fraxinus]

ME WATCHING: SO? Who cares? That is not relavent to the maps at all! RAAAAGE!

+1 Rettocs - I couldn't agree more! And incidentally, no, I don't think I've ever had a need to surf and talk at the same time....

 

[Guchi]

having a droid makes iphone fanboys get all defensive, they start telling you how much better their phone is than yours especialy once you hand it to them. then they start telling you how crappy their razor v1 was and how motorola sucks. the more pretentious they seem the more jealous they actualy are.

 

[Rettocs]

having a droid makes iphone fanboys get all defensive, they start telling you how much better their phone is than yours especialy once you hand it to them. then they start telling you how crappy their razor v1 was and how motorola sucks. the more pretentious they seem the more jealous they actualy are.

When iPhone fanboys bring up the fact that "Motorola sucks" because of the RAZR 1, I like to make sure they remember the god awful "apple disc mouse".