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Verizon Droid Quick Review Plus Comparison with iPhone
- unalone 17y agoDan Fischer's still around! Small Internet: I used to be a moderator on a forum he owned.
- dfischer 17y agoHa hey! Which mod were you? :)
- unalone 17y agoHey! Geez, you've been here longer than I've been. I was on Writer's Beat. I think David/TGO introduced me to it? I just went on and checked how it today, out of curiosity: I was ronoxq.
- dfischer 17y agoOh, hey! I remember you. I sold WB a lil' while ago... what are you up to these days?
- spot 17y agothere's a bug in the droid camera focus software (so should be fixable OTA).
- kreneskyp 17y agoIts a very simple bug, and will be fixed via an update not sure when that will be though.
- djahng 17y agoI'm not sure what he's complaining about with the Droid camera. It looks like it's just using a different white-balance setting than the iPhone.
- dkokelley 17y agoI don't think he was complaining about the quality (although for a 3+ MP advantage I wouldn't be proud of those shots). To my eyes… they’re roughly the same quality once taken. And if I’m not mistaken the 1st gen iphone is a 2.0 megapixel camera and the droid is 5 megapixels. Yeesh that’s embarrassing. Reports have complained that the Droids camera takes ages to open, shoot, and process. I'll bet that's what he meant when he said it really sucks. That would make sense, given that the device must process a lot more to take in all 5MP. Hopefully they'll refine this process in the future for faster shots.
- dfischer 17y ago+1 you got it.
- rimantas 17y agoIs there any hope that someday people will stop to think that more Mpx is more quality? It's just bigger size, that's all. And if more Mpx are crammed on the sensor of the same size, that usually means more noise too.
- kwamenum86 17y agoRight but you get better quality in two scenarios: 1) take two pictures of the same size yields a better result with more megapixels 2) taking a larger sized picture on a camera with more megapixels and scaling it down yields a better result than taking a picture at the scaled down dimensions with a lower megapixel camera
- pkulak 17y agoI don't think so. A high noise shot scaled down still will have a bunch of noise in it. Double the pixel sensor size and you get a much better picture, in my experience. For example: HD video cameras. They look like crap in the dark, even at YouTube dimentions. My Flip video SD beats them hands down.
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- vegashacker 17y agoI was surprised by this conclusion: "I’d say [the Droid] is definitely the second best phone on the market..." It seemed to me that his points added up to it being better. The only one that was a solid win for the iPhone was the camera.
- pyre 17y agoI read another review that put the browser performance as better on the iPhone.
- charlesju 17y agoThe main competitive advantage of the iPhone is not the features. It's the overall polish and UI.
- symesc 17y agoAgreed. I haven't held the Droid, but most video reviews of the interface reveal a need to re-click items and a delay in scrolling/reacting to touch commands. That's my impression anyway. This doesn't happen with regularity on the iPhone. I'm not saying this is a show-stopper; Android will get there. What's amazing, however, is that we're almost 3 years past Steve Jobs' first demo of the iPhone at Macworld, January 2007. I still can't believe how well they nailed it, first time. I own an iPhone, but I love the open nature of Android. Whatever the Droid may lack in fit and finish it is going to be more than made up for by the degree of control it places in the owner's hands.
- pyre 17y ago> What's amazing, however, is that we're almost 3 years past Steve Jobs' first demo of the iPhone at Macworld, January 2007. I still can't believe how well they nailed it, first time. Let's not forgot that many features were missing from the initial iPhone release, and that there were rumors of the iPhone for years (i.e. how long were they working on it pre-release?). I imagine that the internals could have been a mess too; there was no SDK for that initial release other than "Use AJAX and Safari to make Web Apps for the iPhone! Yay!".
- unalone 17y agoYeah, and a year later they had the app store, and they nailed that. That's the exact point of the guy you replied to. Apple doesn't always win feature battles, but it always wins in terms of how perfect its existing features are.
- elblanco 17y agoWell it's obvious that in the balance between look & feel and features, Apple went with the look & feel with the goal of features later. That turned out to be a good choice.
- dustingetz 17y agowait, so verizon is actually allowing the google maps gps app for free?
- IonicWalrus 17y agoHaving written apps for both iPhone and Android I rate iPhone over Android - around 10x better - both as a user and as a developer.
- dfischer 17y agoWoah... I'm surprised one of my posts is on hacker news. WTF? That makes the geek inside of me want to throw a party. I'll clear up some questions that were asked here... I was really shocked to see "danielfischer.com" when I loaded up news.ycombinator.com as per my daily schedule...