I've been debating on whether I should get the Pro or the X. I really like both phones. I'm leaning towards the Pro. I know the Pro has a smaller screen, adn smaller resolution, but is the quality of the screen bad compared to the X? If anyone has the Pro, what do you think of the keyboard?
Or should I just wait to see what comes out next year?
Thanks for the help!
I've been debating on whether I should get the Pro or the X. I really like both phones. I'm leaning towards the Pro. I know the Pro has a smaller screen, adn smaller resolution, but is the quality of the screen bad compared to the X? If anyone has the Pro, what do you think of the keyboard?
Or should I just wait to see what comes out next year?
Thanks for the help!
I've been debating on whether I should get the Pro or the X. I really like both phones. I'm leaning towards the Pro. I know the Pro has a smaller screen, adn smaller resolution, but is the quality of the screen bad compared to the X? If anyone has the Pro, what do you think of the keyboard?
Or should I just wait to see what comes out next year?
Thanks for the help!
Unless you have another line coming due for an upgrade soon if I were you I would wait at least two weeks till we see what's announced at CES. As for the Pro I've used it a bit and the keyboard SUCKS (least if you have 'man-sized' hands... might be fine for some but useless for me). The 'virtual' keyboards available for the X (swype and SwiftKey particularly) will serve you far better on the X than the POS keyboard on the Pro.
As far as 'functionality'... the Pro is a real letdown considering it is supposed to be the closet thing to a BlackBerry that Android has... It lack virtually ALL of the iniate functionality of a BlackBerry and the exchange support is laughable. That being said there are GREAT workarounds (read 3rd party apps ect.) that will give you that functionality (if you need it) but nothing that you won't be able to use on the X or any other android, including future devices.
I've been debating on whether I should get the Pro or the X. I really like both phones. I'm leaning towards the Pro. I know the Pro has a smaller screen, adn smaller resolution, but is the quality of the screen bad compared to the X? If anyone has the Pro, what do you think of the keyboard?
Or should I just wait to see what comes out next year?
Thanks for the help!
Do you even own a Droid Pro? Its funny how some people play with a Droid Pro for a few minutes and feel that thats enough to know everything about the phone. I dont care what anyone else says, there is no substitute for a physical keyboard, sure you can write paragraphs with Swype, but once you get good enough with the Droid Pro, you'll be typing with a quickness and you'll have no problem typing looking down and that, thats just golden.
Do you even own a Droid Pro? Its funny how some people play with a Droid Pro for a few minutes and feel that thats enough to know everything about the phone. I dont care what anyone else says, there is no substitute for a physical keyboard, sure you can write paragraphs with Swype, but once you get good enough with the Droid Pro, you'll be typing with a quickness and you'll have no problem typing looking down and that, thats just golden.
Do I currently no, I got my fiance one and she had it less than two weeks before going with a better phone because even she couldn't stand it (she has very small hands and even she found the keyboard hard to use). I've also helped several friends and co-workers try to fix theirs and it was nothing but a pia. Of the ~8 people I know that have had it only 1 has NOT exchanged it for other Droids and NONE of them regret it either. They all share mine and my fiances very about the virtual keyboards (hell I still have a OG Droid and outside of using recovery I never open it to use the physical keyboard, and the whole reason I got it was because I once that that a virtual keyboards could never equal a physical). But to each their own, if you want a tiny, low res screen, a miniature keyboard, poor battery and lousy email in a phone that cost more than alternatives just so you can satisfy you BlackBerry physical fixation go for itdancedroid.
OP, get it and try it, remember you have 30 days. But again at the least you should see what's unveiled at CES in two weeks. Bottom line is the PRO and most other current Droids will be vastly underpowered compared to phones coming out in late January or early Feb. Also are you in an area that has 4G yet? If so that would be another reason to wait (here in Nashville we have it, so until we here a definite on when the first 4G phones will be available it's can of stupid to get on now unless there is an absolute need for it).
Do you even own a Droid Pro? Its funny how some people play with a Droid Pro for a few minutes and feel that thats enough to know everything about the phone. I dont care what anyone else says, there is no substitute for a physical keyboard, sure you can write paragraphs with Swype, but once you get good enough with the Droid Pro, you'll be typing with a quickness and you'll have no problem typing looking down and that, thats just golden.
Do I currently no, I got my fiance one and she had it less than two weeks before going with a better phone because even she couldn't stand it (she has very small hands and even she found the keyboard hard to use). I've also helped several friends and co-workers try to fix theirs and it was nothing but a pia. Of the ~8 people I know that have had it only 1 has NOT exchanged it for other Droids and NONE of them regret it either. They all share mine and my fiances very about the virtual keyboards (hell I still have a OG Droid and outside of using recovery I never open it to use the physical keyboard, and the whole reason I got it was because I once that that a virtual keyboards could never equal a physical). But to each their own, if you want a tiny, low res screen, a miniature keyboard, poor battery and lousy email in a phone that cost more than alternatives just so you can satisfy you BlackBerry physical fixation go for itdancedroid.
OP, get it and try it, remember you have 30 days. But again at the least you should see what's unveiled at CES in two weeks. Bottom line is the PRO and most other current Droids will be vastly underpowered compared to phones coming out in late January or early Feb. Also are you in an area that has 4G yet? If so that would be another reason to wait (here in Nashville we have it, so until we here a definite on when the first 4G phones will be available it's can of stupid to get on now unless there is an absolute need for it).
Do you even own a Droid Pro? Its funny how some people play with a Droid Pro for a few minutes and feel that thats enough to know everything about the phone. I dont care what anyone else says, there is no substitute for a physical keyboard, sure you can write paragraphs with Swype, but once you get good enough with the Droid Pro, you'll be typing with a quickness and you'll have no problem typing looking down and that, thats just golden.
Do I currently no, I got my fiance one and she had it less than two weeks before going with a better phone because even she couldn't stand it (she has very small hands and even she found the keyboard hard to use). I've also helped several friends and co-workers try to fix theirs and it was nothing but a pia. Of the ~8 people I know that have had it only 1 has NOT exchanged it for other Droids and NONE of them regret it either. They all share mine and my fiances very about the virtual keyboards (hell I still have a OG Droid and outside of using recovery I never open it to use the physical keyboard, and the whole reason I got it was because I once that that a virtual keyboards could never equal a physical). But to each their own, if you want a tiny, low res screen, a miniature keyboard, poor battery and lousy email in a phone that cost more than alternatives just so you can satisfy you BlackBerry physical fixation go for itdancedroid.
OP, get it and try it, remember you have 30 days. But again at the least you should see what's unveiled at CES in two weeks. Bottom line is the PRO and most other current Droids will be vastly underpowered compared to phones coming out in late January or early Feb. Also are you in an area that has 4G yet? If so that would be another reason to wait (here in Nashville we have it, so until we here a definite on when the first 4G phones will be available it's can of stupid to get on now unless there is an absolute need for it).
Do you even own a Droid Pro? Its funny how some people play with a Droid Pro for a few minutes and feel that thats enough to know everything about the phone. I dont care what anyone else says, there is no substitute for a physical keyboard, sure you can write paragraphs with Swype, but once you get good enough with the Droid Pro, you'll be typing with a quickness and you'll have no problem typing looking down and that, thats just golden.
Do I currently no, I got my fiance one and she had it less than two weeks before going with a better phone because even she couldn't stand it (she has very small hands and even she found the keyboard hard to use). I've also helped several friends and co-workers try to fix theirs and it was nothing but a pia. Of the ~8 people I know that have had it only 1 has NOT exchanged it for other Droids and NONE of them regret it either. They all share mine and my fiances very about the virtual keyboards (hell I still have a OG Droid and outside of using recovery I never open it to use the physical keyboard, and the whole reason I got it was because I once that that a virtual keyboards could never equal a physical). But to each their own, if you want a tiny, low res screen, a miniature keyboard, poor battery and lousy email in a phone that cost more than alternatives just so you can satisfy you BlackBerry physical fixation go for itdancedroid.
OP, get it and try it, remember you have 30 days. But again at the least you should see what's unveiled at CES in two weeks. Bottom line is the PRO and most other current Droids will be vastly underpowered compared to phones coming out in late January or early Feb. Also are you in an area that has 4G yet? If so that would be another reason to wait (here in Nashville we have it, so until we here a definite on when the first 4G phones will be available it's can of stupid to get on now unless there is an absolute need for it).
I totally agree with the above, I was tracking the release of this phone for months, and bought it two days after sale date. I returned it within a week.... Huge disappointment... But there seems to be a lot of people that love it on here..
I hated the narrowness of the phone and keyboard, the location of the four home buttons -I kept accidently hitting them and it would bring me to a whole different screen- battery life, voice quality was terrible... Maybe I expected too much since I thought it was the BLACKBERRY KILLER...
In any case I returned it for the Droid X since I got hooked on the fast browser but was anti digital keyboard...
It will be four weeks on Sunday and I am EXTREMELY happy with my X and I am digital typing with one hand!
Good Luck, remember you do have 30 days, it SAVED ME!
I feel like a week just isn't enough to really test drive a phone but I get what your saying, the one thing that irked me the most was the home buttons, i"m surprised they didn't use actual physical buttons like the Droid X since that seems to make more sense. But overall, I like the Pro.
I feel like a week just isn't enough to really test drive a phone but I get what your saying, the one thing that irked me the most was the home buttons, i"m surprised they didn't use actual physical buttons like the Droid X since that seems to make more sense. But overall, I like the Pro.
On the contrary, anymore than a week and you're training yourself 'to' the phone. Unless it's your first 'smartphone' it shouldn't take more than a few days to familiarize yourself with the system/OS and figure out if it's the OS or the device that you are not liking. With enough use anyone can come to be familiar with and tolerate anything. If you don't like it initially than it is what it is. My fiance and I were already quite familiar with Android so we quickly realized it was the phone. Sure had I forced her to stick with it she'd be using it and in all likelihood be 'satisfied' with it but that doesn't change the underlying fact that she did not like it physically. As to the OS I can't comment on OEM/Stock ROMs too much as all three of our devices are rooted and flashed but the ROM on the Pro is HORRIBLE, and I'm sure it's the cause of most if not all of the major 'issues' I and my coworkers were having in regards to exchange servers ect. but at the time there were no (and don't know if there are yet) any good custom ROMs for the device.
