Goodbye AT&T, Hello Verizon.
If you're staying up-to-date, you'll know that I was not happy with the service on my iPhone. The phone was okay enough, but the service in this pissant town, left much to be desired.
Because of this, I decided to make a change. One of the companies in which I am involved had a "Premier Account" through AT&T. Unfortunately for 18 lines, it was costing us slightly over $1500 per month, so essentially $83 per line per month. The call quality in this area had went straight to hell, and I got fed up, so I called Verizon.
Switching to Verizon meant those of us at the company, who were iPhone users would have to switch to something else. So, everyone decided to go with the Droid 2. Me personally, I didn't want a keyboard, so I opted for the Droid X.
When all was said and done, we now have 5 Droids, and the remaining 13 phones are ruggedized Samsung Convoys. Even with adding unlimited texting, which we didn't have before, we are now only paying $785 per month.
However I feel that the savings is only gravy on the top of the biscuits. We now have 3G service, and it's really fast, and I no longer have to go out onto my front porch to get enough signal to make a call.
The Droid X that I received is, in a word, AWESOME. The operating system is slick, fast and it simply works every time. I do have to warn you however, if you're considering a Droid X, that it is one very big phone. It doesn't bother me, because I'm a big guy, but if I set my iPhone on the Droid X, there is a lot of droid sticking out, all around the now whimpy feeling iPhone.
The camera on the Droid X is excellent, even if the LED flash is a little blue/green and washes the picture out. The zoom works well, the auto focus is quick and also works well.
The only thing I have a problem with is the syncronization of the Droid X, to the OS X (Mac Leopard 10.5.8) operating system. It is not a happy union. I kind of felt that since the Droid X is designed to best the iPhone, that Motorola/Google/Android would work toward a complete sync solution with OS X first, and then worry about Windows. But, that's not the case.
I can plug the Droid X into the Mac with the supplied USB charging data cable, and it will mount and show me the SD card storage, but the simple act of transfering data to the SD card is not simple, and prone to cause my Mac to get angry and quit talking to the Droid. So, I am now waiting for Google/Android to fix this little problem, but other than that, this phone gets my highest praise for everything it does.
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Last Updated (Friday, 17 December 2010 18:52)