Verizon Wireless continues the masculine marketing with the Motorola DROID X

The iPhone looks great — just wish it wasn’t tethered to AT&T. For the time being, the Droid X will be the better choice for several reasons: first, the network — anyone who is happy with AT&T over Verizon doesn’t do any significant traveling (say, more than 3 miles a day in any given direction); the OS — lots more freedom to customize and tweak the device to how you prefer to use it; the hardware: three mics to combat noise interference shows a lot of ingenuity and — assuming it works — unlike Apple’s creative implementations (the dysfunctional cosmetic antenna, the wifi-only front-facing camera, etc.) it shows that HTC, Motorola and the other Android-OS phone manufacturers aren’t just about innovation, they’re also about efficiency.

I think the iTouch running the new iOS is a nice plaything, but I can’t see myself hitching my business communication to that wagon. Noper…not a chance.

Hope everyone enjoys whatever they intend to use: the iPhone, the Droid X, a Blackberry or whatever else. Me, I’m gearing up for the X.

Enough enough….

Let’s be honest with ourselves. The iPhone is doing all it can to compete with the Android OS. Which is probably why they “leaked” information about it’s release date right before the Incredible was released. And, honestly, I don’t think Verizon needs any help right now with advertisements. Being the largest network in the USA says they are doing something right. Now, you iPhoner’s are right, the iPhone can be used by 8 year olds and 80 year olds. What does that mean? You don’t need a brain to have one. Now I have a brain, so I want to be able to do more with my phone, thankfully Android OS has customizable options. Will Verizon ever get an iPhone? I hope not. Run with Android and prove that you don’t need it to be #1. Is Verizon going to get rid of unlimited data plans? Yes. But when LTE launches the whole way that you customize your plan is going to be 100% different from anything you have ever seen. Minute plans won’t exist anymore. And as for Verizon being more expensive? Are you going to pay more for Nike’s or a pair of knock off shoes from Payless Shoes? This is the USA, if you can’t afford it, go down to your local Cricket Wireless store because you probably have a $400 dollar deposit with Verizon anyways.

Now let’s not compare iPhones to Android, because that is like comparing apples to oranges. If you want to be a name brand whore, go stand in line at the Mac Store with all the other drones.

I love the Droid’s marketing, it is very effective. I’ve noticed for the first time how much it works the other day when talking to a few friends with simple flip phones. They allow know about the iPhone of course but either didn’t want one or weren’t on at&t. But they all know about the Droid, and a lot of them want one.

Droid X on Verizon – a great phone on a great network. But their marketing is embarrassingly patronizing.

I would give verizon a shot if they had any coverage where I’m at. their map shows red but you can’t get anything, anywhere around here. my friends that do have it complain of dropped calls all the time when they do get a decent signal.

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I would look into verizon if they had any coverage here but they got nothing. my buddies droid is only good on wifi cause their map is bullshit. he called customer
service and they said he should have signal everywhere around here.

verizon and it’s map is full of shit

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This will be my first venture into the super smart phone market (been with a blkberry). Once upon a time I was an iPhone fan on the sidelines. The reason I went against Apple is the whole Adobe Flash war going on and I have always been a fan of Adobe plus I use their products everyday. The whole drunken kid “losing” the new iPhone at a bar took the excitement out of a proper release. I preordered my Droid X and judging by my brother and friends excitement over the Droid Incred. ill be damn happy on the Android side.

@BoogieNYC,
I’ve had Att for 4 yrs and travel alot. I do most of my travel by plane with occasional road trips and have very few problems with dropped calls except last yr there were brief problems drop issues here till 850 was lit up. 3 miles in each direction? come on now

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@James,

Spoken like a true Verizon employee. And if not, you really need to get a life.

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This response is disgusting. Is that how you respond to people who admire your product, by calling them ignorant? What a piece of shit, there IS a problem you moron, acknowledge it, apologize, announce a fix. Those three A’s was all it took.

never understood why manufacturers assume ladies want tiny, svelte little phones… there’s plenty of women out there who like their phones like they like their men; big & muscular. I know of 4 ladies myself who all have Droids and love them.

so i’ll admit, i use an iPhone 2G (gasp!) on tmobile. I decided, (especially since work will pay for my phone now) that I could justify giving AT&T (work’s) money.
I tried to pre-order and was rewarded for my troubles in the pre-order process with NO phone ordered and 3 hard checks on my credit (thanks AT&T!) with nothing to show for it. I called in to AT&T and was told if i wanted to go into a store they were going to have to run my credit yet again (wooo! 4 hard checks in two weeks, bye-bye good credit rating! i dont have a low rating but i care for my rating a great deal) I might have been willing to go through with it.
So i decided to go into the apple store on day 2. there were about 60 people standing in line outside, and i swear to god, you would have thought the fucking Baby Jesus was laying in a manger inside the store. These people were standing around, slack-jawed, wide-eyed, staring into the store like they were waiting for the voice of God to call “Next!” allowing them entrance into the brightly lit doors of Apple Heaven. It was disgusting, frankly. Having been an Apple user for 23 years now, Ive been with them through thick and thin. I remember when the stock was $7. I remember the Performa line and the PPC603. But now… Apple has become like the woman you’ve been married to that one day you wake up and realize they’ve turned into someone you dont love anymore, or really want to even be around anymore. Their quest for market share and dumbing down everything they do has finally succeeded; they’ve got every frothing, mouth-breathing mongoloid with a pulse drooling and leaning on the windows like some scene out of Dawn of the Dead.
Granted, im not ready to throw in the towel just yet, but the writing is on the wall; locked-down iOS is where the company is going, OS X is becoming a fly on the wall, their pro-apps continue to get “refined” into gooey blobs impossible to get fine-scale control over (imagine FCP on a touchscreen iOS-powered iMac) and getting less and less control over the underlying functionality.
If that’s where Apple wants to go, fine by me and best of luck to them, I’ll still see them at parties and around the neighborhood, but im going to go with something else now… something that “just works…”

@Tino — you are the first person I’ve encountered who has has proudly claimed AT&T service doesn’t blow. Die-hard iPhone users complain about it. I’ve personally tried 2 separate Blackberry handsets on the AT&T/Cingular network and have dropped calls and lost data connectivity in midtown Manhattan (in a twenty-block span), and each of the three IT people who visit our office has cited similar midtown experiences.

My girlfriend travels between Mountain View and San Fran (60-75 minutes each way) and drops calls three/four times each way (she’s running a Blackberry Bold).

I don’t care if AT&T was paying me $150 a month to use their service and I don’t care what handset they gave me to use, it — and my AT&T relationship — would wind up under my front tire within a day.

You’re lucky, out of the throngs of people who tout the iPhone, you’re the first person I’ve come across who actually thinks AT&T service isn’t substandard if not downright awful.

It would be nice if they would consider females in their designs and marketing. I guess they don’t realize the buying power of Women if something looks great. Most Women I believe love phones that can be customized but also has a little feminine look to them. I find the Droid very masculine. A reason I never upgraded to the first droid on vzw. I now have a pink Blackberry Curve. Design of a phone is important as well as specs. The Droid X is a very nice phone. But I’m a keyboard user so I pretty much decided against gettting it. Not sure if the design had been different It would have gave me the urge to get it without the keyboard or not.

thanks info