In the past four months, I have sampled all the big name phones that Verizon has to offer. I had the Droid Incredible for two weeks and I just sold it and bought a Droid X which should be at my doorstep on Friday. This will be the 3rd time in the past four months that I have owned a Droid X. I just keep coming back to it...
I had the iPhone 3G for a year and a half up until mid July when I decided to leave AT&T and jump ship to the Android wagon. After a lot of research, it came down to the Droid X and the Incredible. I decided to get the Droid X, but after a year and a half of having a 3.5 inch screen, it was tough to get used to the Droid X's size. After about three weeks of having the phone, I got the Droid 2 on release date. Honestly, it was a major letdown. I found myself missing the large screen and never even using the physical keyboard. In fact, I send so many emails and text messages in a day I found it cumbersome to actually have to keep flipping the device open and shut, and rotating it to type a message. This was at its worse when I was texting my girlfriend back and forth. I also missed the Droid X's camera and 720p video capture. I literally had it for three days before heading back to the Droid X. But then I hear of the Fascinate, and its amazing screen. I thought to myself, "4 inch screen sounds like a nice medium between the iPhone 3G screen I am used to and the Droid X's 4.3 inch screen." So when that came out, I got it. Unfortunately, call quality and reception was horrible on that thing. Absolutely horrid. Voices sounded muffled and people on the other line constantly complained that they couldn't hear me. Voices would cut in and out -- even when I was on the caller was using a LANDLINE and I was outside...There is no excuse for that. I also had three dropped calls in my two weeks with it. It honestly sounded like back when you were a kid and you would try to talk to your friend with those cups that were connected by string...Not to mention, the GPS was broken. After a ton of complaining, Verizon allowed me to have any other phone in their lineup for free. So I thought to myself, "Hey why not try out the Incredible now?" So I did. Unfortunately, the battery is horrid. With my usage, I am lucky to make it through half the day on that thing. Not to mention, audio for video capture sounded extremely distorted and muffled. I am a college student. I film a lot of crazy **** that happens on drunken weekends, so video is very important to me. I was on the bus with my friends heading home from a fun night, when Bohemian Rhapsody comes on the radio. All of a sudden, the entire bus filled with drunken students started singing. Naturally, I pulled out my Incredible and started recording because it was an amazingly hilarious moment. Unfortunately, the next morning I played it back and it sounded like ***. I was so pissed and that was the final straw. So here I am, ready to go back to the Droid X for the 3rd time. Just in time to record some good stuff from the Penn State game I am going to on Saturday. The funny thing is that this entire time I have been flip flopping phones, my girlfriend has been sitting pretty with her own Droid X just laughing at me. Each time I get a new phone, she says "Sooner or later, you will come back to the X. Just watch."
Ugh, when I tell her that I am getting the Droid X again she will never live this down. I think I am going to just stick with the Droid X until the HTC Desire HD comes to Verizon, or until the dual core processor LTE phones for Verizon start to come out.
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