My upgrade is coming up this weekend, and I am on the quest to find the perfect phone for me. I am coming from a Rival, and I loved it, but it was built like crap. I am really interested in getting a droid, but I am fine with any phone that has atleast these things.
Some form of touchscreen
Would LOVE to have a slide out keyboard
Not too buggy
I am a texter, but I want a droid for the apps.
Decent battery life.
Any suggestions?
@Hikaro22, Although you will be eligible for an upgrade this weekend, I would ask you to wait some more time! Two notable devices that I would keep an eye on are 1)HTC Thunderbolt and 2)DROID Bionic. There is also an LG phone coming up soon but not sure when. The other two devices may not be very far away from release.
HTC Thunderbolt will notably have the new version of its Sense UI which allows out of box skins and native maps application (other than Google) which wil allow offline maps. It needs to be seen if Verizon will keep these features or not.
http://www.htc.com/us/products/thunderbolt-verizon
Motorola Bionic is the first phone on Verizon network to run on the NVidia Tegra dual core platform. Bionic is a close cousin to the Atrix. Although unlike the Atrix, it has 512 MB ram. I just wish they come with the laptop dock and other cool peripherals for this one too!!!
I would suggest that you take your time to review what's there and what's coming soon before locking in for the 2 year contract!
Hope this helps!
Hikaro22 wrote:My upgrade is coming up this weekend, and I am on the quest to find the perfect phone for me. I am coming from a Rival, and I loved it, but it was built like crap. I am really interested in getting a droid, but I am fine with any phone that has atleast these things.
Some form of touchscreen
Would LOVE to have a slide out keyboard
Not too buggy
I am a texter, but I want a droid for the apps.
Decent battery life.
Any suggestions?
i would take nimiaj's suggestion. the thunderbolt should be avialable in a few weeks so you could go play around with it. it doesn't have a physical qwerty keyboard though. it's all touchscreen. the problem you may run in to is that none of the androids have an impressive battery. i LOVE my droid incredible and wouldn't trade it for anything (except the tbolt when it comes out...lol), but the battery is not that great and if you look through all of the android forums, you will notice that this is a common theme. if you really can't wait, and really want an actual keyboard, then the lg ally is affordable and has one. however, i would research all of the devices as you will find that some brands will recieve android OS updates sooner than others (if at all) and the hardware specs can be drastically different. androids are definitely not all created equal.
AZSALUKI wrote:
i would take nimiaj's suggestion. the thunderbolt should be avialable in a few weeks so you could go play around with it. it doesn't have a physical qwerty keyboard though. it's all touchscreen. the problem you may run in to is that none of the androids have an impressive battery. i LOVE my droid incredible and wouldn't trade it for anything (except the tbolt when it comes out...lol), but the battery is not that great and if you look through all of the android forums, you will notice that this is a common theme. if you really can't wait, and really want an actual keyboard, then the lg ally is affordable and has one. however, i would research all of the devices as you will find that some brands will recieve android OS updates sooner than others (if at all) and the hardware specs can be drastically different. androids are definitely not all created equal.
Other alternatives if you really need one now are the Droid 2 Global and Droid Pro, the Global has a slide-out keyboard, the Pro has a fixed blackberry type. As AZSALUKI suggests, these also have fairly short battery life. Both of these can be used globally (if that is of interest) they are offered buy one get one, and as the newer Androids come out, I expect prices to drop.
However, these are 3G devices, rather than 4G like the Bionic/Thunderbolt, which may not matter to you if 4G isn't available in your area (or you expect it to be too expensive).
That said, you can buy these devices now, and it's actually not clear when Thunderbolt and Bionic will really be here. Thunderbolt was planned for Monday, and that got put back......
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