Verizon Wireless Launches New Droid, HTC Droid Incredible

I understand that BB has been out for a long time and has played a great role in business services that only the BB can offer with its OS. Android is new to the playing field but it has done a dam good job of climbing to the top.

No doubt Android is blasting its way into the market, and it's super cool. I just don't think the HD2, Evo, Incredible can compete with the pure functionality of Blackberry, not to mention it just seems over kill and not practical.

I do agree that the BB is meant for one thing and its business oriented which is cool because sending and receiving emails on it is a breeze. A lot of the phone snow a days have crazzy apps that are not needed but that is just part of it. It takes a lot now a days to be a smart phone and with the features that are coming out it is good to have a iphone or android to keep up.

Good points I guess I'm just moving slower at keeping up, but geez I just don't know if I want to lug that phone around! 😉 I just have the 8530 on verizon, but with the Commuter Otterbox on it I treat it like a flip phone.

.. I can understand, as an apparent BB owner that you may not SEE the practicality in the functions added by the Android OS. But as a BB owner, and taking full advantages of the uses of my Storm.. I was very happy with the usefulness of the BB's PIN community, seamless email and messaging bliss, media organization and the like.. Photog and facebooker..to the point that I downloaded the Plazmic kit..and experimented with making my own themes.. and do you know why I did that? Because, besides checking emails, clearing FB and bbm alerts and getting a few corny apps.. by BB Storm is booooring.. I would like to be able to ENJOY the piece of technology that I've invested my money in..AND formed a bond with, on some metaphysical, bio-electric techl...
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The HD2 on T-Mobile with windows is a better business phone than any of your blackberrys.

Right on how so?

hmmmm, no tethering. No BBM. No wifi calling. Lower Battery Life. Less secure internet browsing..... Yea, like platypus said... how so?

I don't get what the ?BIG? deal is with BB email! Android has push email, my gmail msg's come straight to my Droid. And it doesn't require any complicated server settings neither.

What are you talking about... THE HD2 has Wi-Fi Version(s): 802.11 b,g and Tethering... BBM who cares, you have access to microsoft exchange server emails without the buy up... It is a windows phone so is more compatible with windows based computers. It last a full day so i don't see how battery life is a issue. How is the INTERNET more secure on your BB lol....

Tell the to the millions of BBM users across this country. With Blackberry Messenger you do not pay additional to send to users in other countries and it does not require you to have a text message plan. If you're in business it's a must.

Most companies require a bb plan to have a bb, so yes it actually cost extra. And yes i would tell the millions of BBM users this because they are already shrinking, more people are buying android phones and iphones.

hmmmm, no tethering. WRONG! No BBM. No wifi calling. WRONG! Lower Battery Life. THEY DO MORE! Less secure internet browsing..... WRONG! Yea, like platypus said... how so? The ability to run 1000s of apps.

There are apps that allow tethering..but if you are a VZW customer, you are paying for tethering with either devices.. the battery life is partially relative to the user in most cases.. BBM is going to be a sad loss.. until Blackberry becomes and open platform, and there's a "bridge" application developed for messaging.. (Perhaps requiring the pin of your former BB device). That is the beauty of Android that makes it better than ALL of the rest.. as an open development platform.. the PEOPLE..can see an need, and actually DO something about it.. of course, this means you need to know something about developing..or have enough money to pay someone to make your application..but the possibilities are almost infinite..as far as Blackberry securit...
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That share will go down. Android has only been around for a little over a year and they were only on one network for the majority of that time. Google will have the largest market share soon enough. It will not take long before people are as fanatical about Google as they are for Apple.

Can somebody please tell me what is so, so special about BB email? I have push email on my Droid, gmails come straight to me, and it doesn't require anything extra on my acct as BB requires BES.

Maybe for you but not for many people. I cant even log unto my corporate website with my blackberry. My windows mobile and android phones do it without a hitch. The only good thing about blackberry is its BES/Email. And Im a person who used to love blackberry. But they went from being innovative devices to lackluster devices.

I guess it boils down to what you value most or need the most. I can't see walking away from my hundred plus BBM contacts! I have Opera Mini works great, and plenty of cool apps for weather, travel, exercise, not to mention my calender. My entire life is on there back up by DM, i think it's unbeatable.

Google syncs everything and backs it up for you.

Gtalk is basically BBM (though this is the hardest to give up, I'll give you that)

Blackberry is a great device, but it's hardly above and beyond for most people anymore.

Nice I guess it depends what world you travel.

May the berry be with you 😉

Maybe you can explain this to me. What is so, so special about BB email?!!!? First of all it requires BES on an acct for it to work, whereas you and I don't require anything extra on our accts for push gmail to work, gmail is pushed directly to the device, so I really don't see what differentiates BB email, especially considering it costs more to have BES to get push email

the email is nothing special, it's black berry messenger (like an IM for just blackberry users) that is the hardest to give up. UNless you have a corp account, there is really no additional value in BES/BIS

Jay, I've got a ? for you about the music player. If I click on artist, for example Phil Collins, a drop down appears that says 62 of 1639 songs, but that's it, how can I scroll through only the songs of a specific artists???

I think you have to look by album and not a view all (mixzing allows you to play all from an artist, but you still need to view by album)

You could do a search in the app for the artists name and it will show all the songs done by them though as results.

This is really interesting, Google is working on "cloud printing"

http://android.cbsnews.com/site?sid=cbsnews_ip&pid=s ... »

Do you know of any calender/task/to-do apps that actually have an alarm? Something simple, I don't need to be entering when a task ends, I never understood that about calenders on cell phones, a task ends when it ends! I'm more concerned about when it begins.

Anyway I need a task app that actually has an alarm, any recommendations?

Hey Jay this is kinda funny, this guy said that Bluecoyote is his hero, and I said are you aware of what you just said? You should think about what you just said. And he responded saying this, I thbought this was so, so frinkin funny!!!

https://www.phonescoop.com/news/discuss.php?fm=m&ff= ... »

I saw it 🙂

Hey Jay, I need an app recommendation. I tried typing in the app market "mp3 ringtone" but I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for.

I want an app that can help me make a 10-15 second chunk of a song a ringtone. For example I like the song "In Too Deep" by Genesis a lot, extremely biographical. And I would like to make
3:08-3:34 of the song a ringtone. Just that part of the song. Do you know of any apps that can make certain chunks of a song a ringtone in this way?

If not, perhaps you could make one? 😁

Ringdroid. It will allow you to cut down the clip and make it an notification, or ringtone.

You know, the name Ringdroid, that makes sense! Thanks I'll check it out.

Btw, I got a really cool news app called Newsy recently, and it has this cool 3D like interface, you might want to check that out, and what's nice is the apps size is only like 230kb's, so it doesn't take up a lot of memory.

Can you give me a battery % recommendation? I was reading an article about battery life on Android Central, and the guy had 70 right over his battery, next to the clock on top of the screen, I want the same thing! Do you know of such an app that can display the % of battery life remaining right over the battery on the top of the screen?

He was using Cyanogen's Custom Rom. It requires Rooting

Damn!!!!!!

Well I did d/l this app called Battery Meter, it does what I want, just not where I want it. Perhaps Google will consider some of the developers ideas, and the things that they are doing with rooted Android smartphones and incorporate some of these things into future versions of Android.

? For you. You've seen that YouTube vid showing the Droid measuring a womans boobs in a bar, right? Also in the same video the guys are using their Droid to change traffic lights,

I sent that vid to my sister and she wants to know if it's really possible to use the Droid to change traffic lights. I doubt it, bus is it?

So your laptop works well while your driving.... 🤣 you fail. Its supposed to be a pocket PC, so when you don't have access to your COMPUTER you are able to do the same things on your phone.

Precisely!!!

while driving? um yes it does it's bolted to the dash you know like with cop cars? Anyway you laughing aside ( not sure why still) what are you doing on the Internet with your Android OS that's so special??

It's just the speed and what you can see. while opera is nice for browser, the android browser (and any webkit one really) renders pages better, and with sites starting to develop HTML5 web apps, the difference is insane.

I use my home computer for SC2 Beta and trolling forums. Pretty much everything else web related I can do on my android phone

No doubt I've never owned but played with the Droid and knew hands down rendering web pages was very nice. The way so were raving about their Android OS experience had to double check I wasn't missing some easy button that would make my life so much more enriching.

Blackberry: Great devices for business users who need all their corporate info synced and secure (though android is catching up). oh, and the best physical keyboards ever invented.

Android: Everything else. From light business users to media consumers.

BBM is hard to give up. but if you see someone with a moto droid (or any other google experience device) check it out. I think you might enjoy just how different they are. my phone previous to the Droid was a Tour so I am familiar with both Operating systems.

Android just needs to make an app that will sync with BBM, ill try to set aside my love of BB and be more open 😉

What are you going to do when BBM dies out? Are you not going to be able to function, I thought all business people were versatile and able to change with the flow.

I said the HD 2 which is Windows based, which gives you access to SKYFIRE which is full flash capable.