Personally, when my new every 2 is up in March, I'll probably pick up the best Android option for Verizon but if an iPhone was offered on Verizon, I would buy one without giving it a second thought. As a Mac user, it's the only phone syncs easily with my contacts/calendar.

I agree with the app thing and I am excitied to see the benefits if automation to catch hold to more phones, but a lot of people don't have the same routine day in and day out. Yes, most people work a 9-5, 40 work week. But Most people don't have the exact same thing going on eeryday. I see yur piont though being. OPTIONS!! The iPhone needs more options like some things as little as being able to change the theme clots ik it sonde dumb but those little options are what make a phone and the big optiong too obviously. I own the 3gs iPhone and if this next one doesn't blow this one completely away I will switch to whatever is the best at the time.

Its almost embarrasing to see our country looks at this horrible excuse for a phone to be good. blackberry's have to be the saddest but the only thing good for verizon going besides this new droid phone (motorola... Awful) Blackberry's have a hourglass loading animation what is this windows 95 and their phones litterally take almost 2 full minutes to boot up. if you or anyone else thinks blackberrymakes a good phone than I dint see why your ivolved on this blog.

Plus all of the things "iDon't" are weak to begin with. Anyone who NEEDS a physical keyboard has already made their choice. Background apps are great... but when they start messing with the performance of the phone, you'll see more and more people closing apps to open others.

My favorite part of this whole thing is that Apple has the balls to actually SHOW their product when advertising it. This "Droid Does" commercial avoids it's OWN PRODUCT and then links you to a website that DOES THE SAME THING?! Weak!

However now that I see the product, I understand. Better to have a slick looking commercial (that was probably produced on a Mac), than showing the best cell phone of 1995!

If two product are moreles comparable function wise I will prefer the most nice. If not, I will prefer the one wich gives me the functions I need.

At this moment, Android phones give me more function than iPhone

Seriously, how are you going to compete with the iPhone when aesthtics count just as much as anything else?

Until the OS developer and hardware vendors communicate better with each other, i'll pass.

A WinMo mentality person should never give an opinion. period.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/16/will-apple-meet-quarterly-iphone-sales-expectations-next-week/

Apple is more controling than the fictional leader in the commercial that launcher the Mac in 1984.

The competition should launch a new campain: iAmnotallowedto about all the apps rejected or neuterred by Apple.

There was an app for that... But it was rejected.

Even if these new devices coming out blow away the iPhone in every functional aspect, they won't be iPhone killers if they look like this, and that's just a fact. Apple understands that aesthetic design, packaging, and marketing are just as important, if sometimes not more important, than functionality.

If these iPhone competitors really do have better products, they'd better get with the program on making them more attractive. That would be better for all of us. I WANT more cool devices to force Apple to keep on its toes. Sadly, there just aren't any. Not this year. Sorry.

That's overall. At the end of 2009, WinMo had sold 20 million while iPhone only sold 14 million.

Then for the first and second quarters of this year, Blackberry Curve has been the top selling phone.

One other thing I'd like to mention is the keyboard next to the 80's style atari d-pad. The d-pad is a very potential pain in the ass and this comes from having used the eNV series of phones.

After having used a touch pro and an N97 I can tell you that you're better off with no keyboard than a janky one like this. I'd rather type on a Pre than this thing. The only Android phone I've seen that stands a chance is the HTC Hero, more specifically the Sprint variant. Even still though, that phone will not handle media like an iPhone. Taking video and getting a clean picture, then we're talking about how they fit in the hand.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Apple fanatic, I call them out on stuff that sucks, like the camera resolution, UI, and the back of the phone. Crap crap crap on all counts. The iPhone has no "UI", just a desktop with a bunch of shortcuts on it. This reason phones like the Pre and HTC's Hero are more of a vision of the future than the iPhone is. The first iPhone was a vision of the future, and that future is now the present, going forward the iPhone has no future until they change it. I think that Android showing its naughty bits as we go along is why people get all into these phones, by the time they become relevant, hopefully iPhone's new future is out for us to enjoy. I have no doubts Apple will sit on this for long.

Anyone who says AT&T has acceptable service is kidding themselves. I live in NYC, probably the most important market in the US, an I’d say that 1 in 3 of my phone calls, regardless of time of day, is dropped!!

Important market for you, but not for me. That being said if it is really one in three, take it back to Apple and they will plug it in and pull statistics off the phone and tell you the EXACT rate.

Of course, if its jail broken, you dare not take it back, and also have no basis for complaint. I'm guessing it IS jail broken, because otherwise you would not put up with this level of service.

I have had one dropped call in the last month.

iPhone OS...meaning iPod and iPhone. 50 million is not the final numbers for iPhone sales. The number one selling phone across the board is still the tried and true Blackberry Curve.

As Stated by Jobs and Shiller at Apples September event 50 million. I tried to post the link here, but for some reason it wouldnt post. but I googled

"50 million iPhones OS sold" and you will find the answer there.

http://bit.ly/2hK88s

That was rambling nonsense. Do you have a point?

These claims of "#1" status are confusing to me... Even staying within the realm of US only...it's not number one...Blackberry still holds that spot (last time I checked).

And last year I could've sworn Windows Mobile sold 20 million phones. Where as iPhone OS equipped phones (read: iPhone) sold 13-14 million.

So where does this #1 come from?

As an aside, 1) The look of the keyboard (not the way it feels to use) is a ridiculous factor for decision making. You can't look at the keyboard when you're typing on it. And it slides out of view when you're not using it. 2) The inevitable problem with the onscreen keyboard (designed by anyone) is that you can't touch type on it. That is, you can't look directly in a sustained fashion at something else while you're typing. There's no way to design your way around that. It isn't a big deal for some, it is for others, because it depends on what you're doing with the phone. I've been trying to copy passages of text into my iPhone Notebooks app, and the onscreen keyboard is a bitch. It slows me down probably by 33% to 50%. 3) Individual reports of your local area's coverage is not that important. What matters is the overall coverage of the populace, the capacity of the network, and the company's business model. IMO, AT&T is in trouble because of its business operations, where it will experience a technical limitation in their ability to support more users on their 3G network that they haven't been able to overcome, while at the same time it may lose iPhone exclusivity, has failed to seek out associations with Apple competitors to the same degree as other telcos, and competitors who are going to leapfrog them in network speed. They were the first company in the U.S. to go with 3G in a big way -- they reaped some benefits from that, but they took risks as well.

There are multiple levels of strategy that AT&T competitors can and must use against AT&T: 1) Maintain current user base. 2) Attract new users who are looking for a new contract by means of: -a- coverage; -b- cost; -c- supported and subsidized devices. 3) Convince people to end their contract early and pay an ETF.

3 is the least likely scenario. Whether you'll pay to get rid of your current contract and to get a new phone is not really a realistic standard of whether one phone is better than another phone. A more realistic standard would be a two year old iPhone 3G with half to one-third of its original battery capacity and possibly a scratched or even cracked screen, that no longer works with all new accessories and is two generations behind in its hardware specs.

Android 2.0 has not been released and has really only been rumored until now. So, outside of iPhone-land, people are going to be looking at this to see how Android 2.0 works on a high end device. They'll be comparing it to Nokia's N900, and the HTC HD2. I'm looking at the OS performance -- the hardware sounds great, but it's really incidental to the performance of the whole platform, which will be on all kinds of phones on multiple carriers (except maybe AT&T).

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, "it's one device on one carrier..." Whoopty-fricking-doo

@Smitty: 30 million is for the entire world. They are on more than one carrier. For Christ's sake, that's one of their selling points.

@firesign: So now anything with a keyboard is a sidekick? Wow...how...perceptive of you?

@JoeMcG: I fully agree. The look is second to what I want out of a phone.

The look of this Droid is not even that bad. For every group saying it's ugly there is a group saying it looks good. As for usability....that's what it's all about. At least Android UI is evolving. Giving us different choice, looks, styles...something. The iPhone has given us the same UI and hardware design for 3 iterations now (which I'm not saying is bad at all, but come on) And it seems to be read...only things people are even bringing to the light here is how 'ugly' it looks. No other type of bashes...which says a lot.

What I take from these hits is that they're afraid that something might actually outperform the iPhone (Which many phones have been doing since day one)

The iPhone's advantages are slowly dwindling. Only thing being left now is the App Store and Apple's very name. With Google being as big a brand name than Apple, and more phones with better looks and specifications coming out...it's really going to be a battle.

I for one welcome all challengers. This makes everyone, as has been stated, get off their butts and work. Not just resting on their laurels. HD2, Droid/Dragon, iPhone 2010, Pre, Bold 9700. Good phones are coming, and keep getting nicer.

"@AL LOL “exciting events are on the horizon” you speak as if this is some sort of epic journey through the land of all things cellular."

Al is right, and you should broaden your perspective.

This next 18 months is that point in time in which Apple will either have to totally re-invent the iPhone, or watch their market drift away to Android.

While its popular here, among the fanboys to poo poo, snicker, snort, and chuckle about android I will remind you this is exactly where Motorola thought they were in the Cell phone industry 6 years ago. King of the hill with over 110 million *rzr sales.

The playing field is changing drastically. New players, new capabilities, new bandwidth, new rules.

If Apple doesn't have a new phone in test production ALREADY, they will be caught flat footed, and will be over-run. (I'm betting they DO have a new iPhone in the skunk works).

But Apple likes to move the goal posts.

Their speculated foray into re-inventing the Mainstream Print industry (with the iTablet) may indicate that they already KNOW they will not be able to dominate in a large well diversified Android marketplace, and are choosing instead to find another battle field to rule.

And don't forget Nokia. Their embedded Linux phone also has potential, and because it too is open source, they can swap ideas and code with Android.

soco_jon is right iphone did not sell millions on day one. It took three whole days for the 3GS.

Check your facts... Apple sold 3 million in just 6 months after it's '07 release. The iPhone's sales for it's full life stand at over 30 million prior to today's Q4 results. That's in just a little over two years. One product, one carrier, no two for one deals (like BlackBerry)! You're telling me that it took "years" for their sales to catch hold?

Certainly its nice to see a handset that would actually give me pause to think when considering a new phone.

it took the iphone years to get where they are as far as sells..they didnt start selling millions on day one. also..customer satisfaction is that great..this blog site proves that...

Anybody who does otherwise is a fool.

Not sure if you were saying that about my comment.. the clueless about motorola part.. but what I meant in my apple vs motorola comment was basically.. to most people, this is just going to be another motorola phone, like the razor, the rocr, the slvr.. and whatever else.. to me, the biggest advantage that apple has, is that they have one distinct phone.. it helps their brand by being a great phone that you don't think of anything else.. when common folk think of motorola.. I promise.. ravr problems and a lot of others will come to mind.. because of the brand name.

Do you really think apple is going to change up the iphone that much..? I'll be suprised if they do, pleasently surprised.. but I don't see too many changes in the looks department coming.. Maybe its just cause it hasn't changed since its come out.. I don't even know what they could make it look like.. this is all I know. lol.

Hint: it runs Android! Got that? It has an on screen keyboard too.

Oh, and... Anyone faulting Motorla build quality on high end phones is clueless.

I kinda like it. Get me a GSM version Moto.