Number One Reason: Conveniently outside of the 30 day return window, the slider on my Droid started to loosen up. The crazy thing is I don’t even use the keyboard, so I rarely if ever move the slider! At first it was a small bother, but over time the thing kept getting worse to the point the slider would move with simple gravity. I took the phone to two different stores and the sales reps both told me the same thing,
“Oh yeah that is just normal”.
“Really? How come the store models don’t do that?”
“Well they are new, but they are supposed to loosen up”
It may seem somewhat minute, but the thing moving all over when I am trying to type, surf, or talk, drives me nuts.
Anyway, I gave up for a while. Then the other day, I did something stupid: I dropped the phone in the toilet. Phone is fried. I have always taken good care of it and NEVER dropped it before. I called Verizon and let them know I have the insurance but have always been unhappy with the phone anyway. I looked at the new DroidX, which has no slider, and thought I could get some sort of deal on a new one. Nope. 30 minutes of polite discussion and nothing. I am stuck with a new Droid, which others on this very website have said that it will loosen up as well. I am appalled that a new version of the Droid is out only 6 months later, which by its very own existence affirms the slider had issues, and Verizon will do nothing.

Other Reasons: So I have played with my Wife’s Iphone plenty, but have been using it exclusively for the last 4 days while waiting for my replacement Droid. Over time, my Droid has slowed down, it turns on and off over and over by itself at times, and the sound quality has degraded. I have had a bunch of app conflicts, a serious issue with GPS that did not work for almost a month. The answer to the ability to use two fingers to expand, the Dolphin Browser, is still just a cheap knockoff of what Iphone did right from the beginning and is buggy at best. The Iphone is just as fast as day one, has apps I have STILL been waiting on for the Droid, takes better pictures with less Megapixels, oh and here is the big one: It costs LESS! That’s right, her service costs less than mine. Her insurance is just an $80 up front fee. No $7.99/mo and then $90 deductible for a new phone. She can go to a store and get a new one, not wait 4-5 days (no weekend delivery) for one to be shipped and then you have to figure out the setup yourself.

So Verizon, I don’t expect to bring you down, but it is going to cost a lot more than the $369 discount you could have given me. Well actually, seeing as Motorola sells the phones for $150 (hearsay), you are not really paying anything to help make it right. Instead, I will be posting messages like this on ANY forum that could possibly sway a customer from joining Verizon. And if you think my keyboard is loud, you should hear my mouth. And all you had to do was continue to profit and sell me another 2 year contract a bit early and a $200 Droid X. Nuts.

*Had to completely wipe EVERYTHING on the phones memory including every app that I paid for with no refunds, just to change my primary email address. Thats the only way it will let you change it. Totaly unnessecary.

*When I'm on a phone call I constantly bump the home button by accident which wouldn't be a bid deal if it wern't for the fact that whenever that happens I cant just, hang up. No, that would be too simple. I have to find the “phone” app, click it, then click return to call, THEN I can hang up. And no, there is no app for that. I've looked…

*They physical keyboard is great, but not responsive all of the time. When using it while viewing a web page it often ignores when I click on something, forcing me to use the touch screen anyway which ussualy results in clicking the wrong thing unless I zoom in first…which I wouldn't have to if the keyboard was fully responsive.

*GPS is awful. It tells me my apartment is in the middle of a corn field, not even the right address, and when I gave it a test run to a destination I already know 15 mins away it took me on a 45 min u-turn to get there.

*Glitchy alarm clock. I found out the hard way that the alarm clock dosen't work at random, even though it says its ringing. Ended up being late for work…

*Little or no tech support. When I talked to Verizon in store about these problems they told me to call tech support. Tech support tells me its new tech and they are still getting familiar with it themselves. Fixed nothing.

As I said, I have been happy with Verizon for 7 years. But I am so unhappy with the Droid I would rather pay $350 to cancel my contract then keep using this thing. I would just get a different phone but I already used my upgrade to get this one. Congrats Android, you just cost Verizon a 7 year customer.

I do believe Motorola mentioned dual processors one for graphics one for everything else.
10,000 apps for 2.0 but many more coming since it is a free SDK and the emulators are easy to work with.
my one dislike for the phone is there seems to be no dedicated hardware key for the phone(answer or initiate calling), it seems to be all software side. still best phone I have ever used (better than iphone, which is very very fragile… montana is not easy on any phone -40 normal winters and 100-110 summers…)