[Swordmaker]

It’s extremely quick, the battery life is excellent, and Verizon’s network coverage, both voice and 3G is excellent.

Ars Technica's Review of the Droid states that if you use its vaunted multitasking, music, or navigation, the battery life is only about 3-4 hours.

That's why Apple doesn't enable multitasking on the iPhone... to keep the core purpose of telephoning operating for the longest time possible.

• user swappable and increasable memory card—True... but the Droid has only 256MB of actual RAM for app use, although data usable by an app can be stored on the card.
• can tether with Android, iphone cannot—Uh, no, the iPhone is perfectly capable of tethering and in fact, almost all service providers permit iPhone tethering... and AT&T will soon be providing that service for an extra charge.
• 5 mp camera with dual LED flash and camcorder—the iPhone 3Gs has a camcorder
• open source OS — more user customizable than iphone—So what? Android has multiple size and multiple format screens and multiple input buttons that are mutually exclusive that will make customization more difficult for app builders. Meanwhile, there are 100,000 apps on iPhone and counting, estimated to reach 300,000 in 2010.
• better voice and 3G network—Uh, no, older tech, not multiplexing and slower, half the speed of AT&T's more modern 3G more modern network.

Competition is good for us all. Let the carrier wars continue.

Yup!

[Richard Kimball]

BTW, Verizon upped their cancelation fee to $350 if you cancel your Droid contract.

[webschooner]

3-4 hrs of batt life on droid — BS! If that were true, everyone would be returning the phone. The review is wrong!

The 256MB of RAM will hold hundreds and hundreds of apps — plenty for almost anyone. I have about 150 apps, and have 172MB of space remaining!

That’s the point — I know it is capable, but AT&T doesn’t allow tethering — and promises are cheap. I was tethering over a year ago on my G1, and I am tethering whenever I like on my droid (I only use for emergency — I don’t abuse the privilege). I don’t live on “promises”.

It doesn’t have 5MP or a flash, does it?

Open source isn’t “so what” if you have used it. Try getting out of jail and trying it.

Android market has all the apps most people need. iphone has many duplicates, plus your apps cost more. Most Android apps are free. I have only had to pay for say less than 5 apps out of 150 that I wanted.

I noticed you didn’t comment on the user removable battery — what a concept!! Personally, I wouldn’t buy an iphone for that reason alone (along with the crap network it is on)

Let the phone and carrier wars continue!