So, here in my job we are getting our enterprise phones renewed and our carrier have just refreshed its phone options, previously it was either Blackberries, the iPhone 3G or the Nokia E71. I had already bought the E71; so I went with a free dumbphone, but now the carrier is offering the Motorola Droid as well.

What can I expect from the Droid? Any feedback?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3764/t...torola-droid/1

Here is a good comparison of the droid and n900 (spoiler alert: the n900 comes out on top!)

a few of my users have droids

what i have heard and seen:

very good hardware, metal and VERY slim for having a keyboard

battery life sucks

takes a third party filemanager app to do some of the stuff we want to do in house(the nokias make this so much easier

I had to add some stuff on mailserver because of this( http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2630 )since we have some processes where users send data in via email which is processed by server side scripts, which kind of pissed me off

keyboard is pretty good, you can get used to it pretty quick. It doesn't suck.

default drooooiidd notification is as annoying as hell

app devel is fairly easy and sideloading helps tremendously for small shops like us

I don't think I should worry about the email integration, but I do worry about battery life. I am used to the 3-4 days of the E71, how come it the Droid battery sucks?

oh man, if you are used to battery life on e71, you are in for a rude surprise

the droid has a WAY bigger screen and WAY more power hungry processor than an e71 AND droid has a SMALLER battery

not picking on the droid specifically, most of the fancy new bigscreen phones(3gs, n900, evo, etc etc) do not fare much better compared to the battery life of an e71 or e72

I'm a little confused by some of the statements said in here.

First..which DROID are you talking about? The Motorola Droid? The HTC Droid Incredible? HTC Droid Eris? Motorola Droid 2? Motorola Droid X? The term "Droid" is a Verizon brand slapped onto certain models from, so far, HTC or Motorola.

I myself have a Motorola Droid and the keyboard is awful, despite the earlier person's comment. However, the battery life is VERY good for a smartphone--about 250 hours standby, 6 hours of continuous talktime. I get MUCH better in both respects because I use the built-in Power Widget in Android's Google experience desktop. The complaint about the "Drrrroid" notification sound is silly--it's a default alert tone--and no more annoying than a myriad of any default tones in any number of phones. Just select another--just like you select another ringtone.

What you'll get is, generally, a closed environment sitting on an open operating system (very hackable.. intentionally) but it'll be very smooth and comfortable. An EXCELLENT phone experience with lots of applications and usefulness as a tool. The N900 is a much better all-around computer but the Droids are all FAR better phones.

That's my impression so far, anyway.

I was refering to the original Motorola Droid, the Milestone, with the QWERTY keyboard.

Thanks for the input!

Q: What can I expect from a Motorola Droid?
A: It's a DROID. When the machines rebel, the droid will kill you.

I doubt this thread is helping you much

I doubt your reply is helping him much either.