dustin4863
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well just picked it up and love it
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storm vs droid
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atomicwedgie
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I LOVE my Droid but... there are things my Storm did better.
Video... played smooth as silk on the Storm. On the Droid it often pauses and sometimes my bluetooth headphones lag with the onscreen video.
Profiles... I could have an individual sound/volume for calls AND SMS per person.
Surepress... I know I am in the minority but I grew to like it.
Waking it up... I HATE this little teeny power button I have to find to wake up the Droid. On the Storm, all I had to do was hit the screen
Dedicated phone buttons... There are none on the Droid so you have to look at the screen to dial. Also the Storm had a dedicated voice dial button.
I am not looking to go back to my Storm but I thought it fair to mention good points about the Storm.
Video... played smooth as silk on the Storm. On the Droid it often pauses and sometimes my bluetooth headphones lag with the onscreen video.
Profiles... I could have an individual sound/volume for calls AND SMS per person.
Surepress... I know I am in the minority but I grew to like it.
Waking it up... I HATE this little teeny power button I have to find to wake up the Droid. On the Storm, all I had to do was hit the screen
Dedicated phone buttons... There are none on the Droid so you have to look at the screen to dial. Also the Storm had a dedicated voice dial button.
I am not looking to go back to my Storm but I thought it fair to mention good points about the Storm.
He did quite well. Some others are:
Thinner than the Storm.
Native Exchange support and not having to use BES/BIS. If you don't have BES, then you have to get 3rd party support for Exchange, and the offerings are slim and pitiful. I was using Astro Sync and it was just an awful experience.
I've been pummeling this phone, and the battery is doing much better than my Storm ever did. No lie.
Multimedia dock better than the Storm dock. When the Droid is placed in the dock, I get more than the clock the Storm offers. I get weather, alarm, dimmer, and more all on the screen.
Speaker is SUCH an improvement over the Storm.
Bluetooth performance is so much better. The Storm would give me that breakup in transmission if I had the phone on one side of my body and the earpiece on the opposite ear. No such thing with the Droid. Plus clarity is much better. I have it paired with a Plantronics Voyager Pro, so I'm using a quality headset to judge this by (used on both).
3 home screens. 3. and all customizable. Sure, there are themes on the Storm, but out the box, no themes needed to get this customization.
Widgets. Who doesn't like widgets?!?!
I'll stop for now, but this is after having it for only 48 hours. I'm sure I can find more. Now, there are a few things the Storm does that I don't have on the Droid such as Facebook notifications, which is something I'm sure will improve. Not worried about that one bit. This phone is brand spanking new. It will improve by leaps and bounds in a much shorter time I believe than the iPhone has. As I stated in another posting, I can't put it down and I just want to keep learning about it. No quirks and no issues. this thing is beautiful.:icon_ banana:
dustin4863
Member
Dustin you got the droid???
Yep picked it up about 3 o'clock and love it. :icon_ banana:
kansas city Mac
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i loved the storm until i picked up the droid
dustin4863
Member
I still love my storm but thus thing is wicked
posted the below over at crackberry, figured i'd post it here to as it's relevant...
former storm 2 and storm 1 user here. got the droid friday morning and use it for work and personal about 50/50. here's my 2.5 day take on storm 2 vs droid.
things that stand out to me:
-the native email client on the droid is not good at all compared to the blackberry. however, the touchdown email client for the droid fixed this. it does push email using active sync just like the native email client, but it has better features and is more on par with a true business class email client. syncs calendar, contacts, tasks, sent items, and selected folders just fine.
only thing it's missing is being able to sync notes from your outlook which is minor.
-typing on the droid takes some adjustment. i find that i've been using the virtual keyboard in both landscape and portrait about 80% of the time over the physical keyboard, probably because i'm used to an onscreen keyboard from using the storm 2. i'm almost as good on the droid keyboard as i was on the storm 2. the predictive text engine works very well, so i've learned to let it do it's thing as i get better with the virtual keyboard instead of trying to correct minor errors.
-the physical keyboard could be better, but i don't use it much (yet) anyway. fully comfortable and satisfied with the virtual keyboards. having the option of the physical keyboard with a slimmer profile than the storm 2, and the added functionality of the d pad in some situations and applications is nice to have though.
-the camera has actually worked very well for me. maybe i'm lucky or something, or moto tweaked/fixed something right before they released it, but i had low expectations after some of the reviews. good to see that it's pretty good so far and takes better pictures than the storm 2.
-the native media related features could be better, but it's passable and gets the job done. nothing 3rd party apps won't soon improve upon.
the storm 2 is still a good phone in it's own right if you have to have a touchscreen blackberry. if you're not a blackberry loyalist then the droid is a better overall smart phone imo. the speed/stability of the os, the apps, the browser, the screen, on and on. using android 2.0 on the moto compared to os 5 on the storm 2 is a revelation. this phone feels like it can do anything i throw at it, conversely with the storm 2 i was still kind of tip toeing around the os, babying it, and waiting for it to catch up with me in a lot of cases.
with the os enhancements/improvements on the way and with the 3rd party support for android 2.0 brewing, this is one of the top two touchscreen phones right now. it might take a few days of use to see it, but it is really that good. very happy with the droid.
former storm 2 and storm 1 user here. got the droid friday morning and use it for work and personal about 50/50. here's my 2.5 day take on storm 2 vs droid.
things that stand out to me:
-the native email client on the droid is not good at all compared to the blackberry. however, the touchdown email client for the droid fixed this. it does push email using active sync just like the native email client, but it has better features and is more on par with a true business class email client. syncs calendar, contacts, tasks, sent items, and selected folders just fine.
only thing it's missing is being able to sync notes from your outlook which is minor.
-typing on the droid takes some adjustment. i find that i've been using the virtual keyboard in both landscape and portrait about 80% of the time over the physical keyboard, probably because i'm used to an onscreen keyboard from using the storm 2. i'm almost as good on the droid keyboard as i was on the storm 2. the predictive text engine works very well, so i've learned to let it do it's thing as i get better with the virtual keyboard instead of trying to correct minor errors.
-the physical keyboard could be better, but i don't use it much (yet) anyway. fully comfortable and satisfied with the virtual keyboards. having the option of the physical keyboard with a slimmer profile than the storm 2, and the added functionality of the d pad in some situations and applications is nice to have though.
-the camera has actually worked very well for me. maybe i'm lucky or something, or moto tweaked/fixed something right before they released it, but i had low expectations after some of the reviews. good to see that it's pretty good so far and takes better pictures than the storm 2.
-the native media related features could be better, but it's passable and gets the job done. nothing 3rd party apps won't soon improve upon.
the storm 2 is still a good phone in it's own right if you have to have a touchscreen blackberry. if you're not a blackberry loyalist then the droid is a better overall smart phone imo. the speed/stability of the os, the apps, the browser, the screen, on and on. using android 2.0 on the moto compared to os 5 on the storm 2 is a revelation. this phone feels like it can do anything i throw at it, conversely with the storm 2 i was still kind of tip toeing around the os, babying it, and waiting for it to catch up with me in a lot of cases.
with the os enhancements/improvements on the way and with the 3rd party support for android 2.0 brewing, this is one of the top two touchscreen phones right now. it might take a few days of use to see it, but it is really that good. very happy with the droid.
My impressions being a Storm and 8400g user (As they were both Corporate provided) and this is my personal phone replacement, here is what I have seen.
Nicer on the eyes, the basic widgets are nice to customize the screen versus the themes I was looking at for Blackberry.
Applications - Easier to find. I do post on Crackberry a little, and found the Storm and 8400g okay, hardly ever had to do anything with the Storm or the 8400g as people have posted about, such as battery pull or what not.
Average battery recharge from use I have done was usually about 3 to 4 days for the Storm, about 1 week for the 8400g. Both I have the ability to have the phone shutdown and restart the following day. I am still working on finding something similar for the Droid at the moment.
Internet browsing on the Droid - Much better than trying to do it on the Storm. The 8400g is rather weak for actual web browsing. I found the droid version much easier to work with than the Storm. I found that the rendering of the pages seem to be faster, this is being on the Verizon Network for both the Motorola Droid and with the Storm.
Setting up for the Exchange server - Easier. My company has a Blackberry server setup with our parent company. In order to set up my blackberry, I need to call the parent company to setup a Blackberry account for the Blackberry Enterprise Server, wait for them to set it up, then pair it up with the Blackberry. If there were issues or needing to redo it, I would need to contact them to set it up. With the Droid, I set it up with the proper information for the Exchange Server (Exchange 2003, with OWA2003 Front End Server), boom, it was set up, and actually doesn't seem to have as many issues with syncing as the Blackberry occasionally caused sync errors.
Ringtones - Surprisingly, no need to hack in order to setup ringtones. I had to hack my way with the Storm and also with my personal phone to setup custom ringtones. This one, you can use a nice simple app to take what sounds you have or use the default system's ability to just make a song into a ringtone.
Camera - Seems a bit more responsive. One thing that is consistent for both phones, however, is the inability to 'truly' function with another app. From playing around with it, I found the Google Navigation running on the demo Droid to cause the Camera's ability to do something having issues. I saw the app having issue trying to switch from camera to video mode while the navigation was running.
Application installation - Way easier. The Application model in the Blackberry allowed installation of Applications provided through Blackberry, more so the limitation seemed to cause problems as I could not look up beyond very few listed from it. However, with the Droid, even though looking on the website, seeing not as many, the Android Market, while cludgy, seems to produce more apps than the Storm. I will admit, from what I am hearing though, not as nice as the iPhone App Store, but I am willing to bit that it was not designed with a stronger corporate background like Apple does.
Nicer on the eyes, the basic widgets are nice to customize the screen versus the themes I was looking at for Blackberry.
Applications - Easier to find. I do post on Crackberry a little, and found the Storm and 8400g okay, hardly ever had to do anything with the Storm or the 8400g as people have posted about, such as battery pull or what not.
Average battery recharge from use I have done was usually about 3 to 4 days for the Storm, about 1 week for the 8400g. Both I have the ability to have the phone shutdown and restart the following day. I am still working on finding something similar for the Droid at the moment.
Internet browsing on the Droid - Much better than trying to do it on the Storm. The 8400g is rather weak for actual web browsing. I found the droid version much easier to work with than the Storm. I found that the rendering of the pages seem to be faster, this is being on the Verizon Network for both the Motorola Droid and with the Storm.
Setting up for the Exchange server - Easier. My company has a Blackberry server setup with our parent company. In order to set up my blackberry, I need to call the parent company to setup a Blackberry account for the Blackberry Enterprise Server, wait for them to set it up, then pair it up with the Blackberry. If there were issues or needing to redo it, I would need to contact them to set it up. With the Droid, I set it up with the proper information for the Exchange Server (Exchange 2003, with OWA2003 Front End Server), boom, it was set up, and actually doesn't seem to have as many issues with syncing as the Blackberry occasionally caused sync errors.
Ringtones - Surprisingly, no need to hack in order to setup ringtones. I had to hack my way with the Storm and also with my personal phone to setup custom ringtones. This one, you can use a nice simple app to take what sounds you have or use the default system's ability to just make a song into a ringtone.
Camera - Seems a bit more responsive. One thing that is consistent for both phones, however, is the inability to 'truly' function with another app. From playing around with it, I found the Google Navigation running on the demo Droid to cause the Camera's ability to do something having issues. I saw the app having issue trying to switch from camera to video mode while the navigation was running.
Application installation - Way easier. The Application model in the Blackberry allowed installation of Applications provided through Blackberry, more so the limitation seemed to cause problems as I could not look up beyond very few listed from it. However, with the Droid, even though looking on the website, seeing not as many, the Android Market, while cludgy, seems to produce more apps than the Storm. I will admit, from what I am hearing though, not as nice as the iPhone App Store, but I am willing to bit that it was not designed with a stronger corporate background like Apple does.
YaaaayDustin you got the droid???
Yep picked it up about 3 o'clock and love it. :icon_ banana:
I'm glad you got it dustin you see it is a much better I know you still love the storm but believe me you will soon forget about once you get to know the droid I'm still waiting for mine 
it should be here by wednesday droid vs storm
Only been 24 hours but so far I like this droid way better than the blackberry storm. The texting is way better, I switched because I hated texting on that storm and now i have discovered that the touch sreen on this droid is awesome plus you have the slide out keyboard also. The last and final thing im trying ot figure out is syncing with ease my outlook calendar, mail, contacts with this droid. If I can get that going, I am definately keeping it. The apps are better and internet is quicker. I have noticed it's getting hung up in the texting though and I have not figured that out either.
Only been 24 hours but so far I like this droid way better than the blackberry storm. The texting is way better, I switched because I hated texting on that storm and now i have discovered that the touch sreen on this droid is awesome plus you have the slide out keyboard also. The last and final thing im trying ot figure out is syncing with ease my outlook calendar, mail, contacts with this droid. If I can get that going, I am definately keeping it. The apps are better and internet is quicker. I have noticed it's getting hung up in the texting though and I have not figured that out either.
open up the market app on your droid, go to search, type in touchdown and then search. it will show up as exchange by touchdown and there is a trial version. good luck!