Broadcasting Live from Mt. Hood on the Droid

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In case you were wondering what I bought myself for Christmas, it was a much-needed new phone in the form of the Motorola Droid. Verizon managed to grant me my bitchin’ $50 credit towards a new phone on actual Chrismas, which meant I had to wait a full day to get this bad boy. In short, it’s like an iPhone, but not as “cool.” To save you from having to comment, I didn’t get an iPhone because I’ve had Verizon since 2001 and I figure, why switch now. So whatever.

I’m sure you’ve seen the “droid does” commercials, unless of course, you don’t have TV, in which case, I’ll sum it up for you. The claim is this thing can do a bunch of shit the iPhone can’t. Since the third member of my relationship is actually an iPhone, I feel pretty qualified to answer to this claim. Now keep in mind, I refuse to read directions (and the Droid didn’t really come with any anyway,) so this is just from me playing with it.

Pros

– Slide out keyboard and on screen keyboard. NBD.

– There is a Happy Cow app, which is like Urban Spoon for vegetarians. I am not downloading it simply to punish Jared (and cause it costs $1)

-Way, way better service than my broken Blackberry Pearl. And seemingly better battery life than the iPhone.

– Most importantly, (and in no way better than the iPhone, which also can,) I can livestream from my phone, as I have done from family dinner, when my cats got a new toy, and yesterday riding at Meadows:

You can follow all my pointless and uninteresting exploits here, and yes, I insist on starting every broadcast with “you’re live, on the internet!”

Cons

– The camera sucks. Slow, bad at focusing etc. It took my way too many tries to get a cute cat shot for my wallpaper.

-No scrabble app! And the “words” one plays annoying music and costs money to get the real version. Not into it.

– Every time I try to make a call, my cheek manages to repeatedly hang up on people. Now as you will be able to tell from the following photo,  I have abnormally large cheeks, but seriously, this shit is ridiculous.

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In other news, 50 state blogging will be back after the Holidays as I must track down photos from Wisconsin, Minnesota and other random places.

  1. “I got that.. Live on the internet”

    “Siiicckkkk!”

    ROTFLOL!

  2. r cotton

    did they really build the end call option into the touch screen? thats stupid. instead of scanning anything ever again, just dl fxcamera and use the polaroid plugin

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