Verizon Droid compared to Blackberry and 4g ?

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I currently have the Blackberry Bold 9650 on Verizon in a 3g area. I am on my third Bold and having problems with this one again. The first one froze with lights going nuts on the second day after I bought it new then the second one the speaker went out on after 6 months then the third and most recent one is having speaker problems again as well as has never let me transfer my email setting or set it up on it since I have gotten this replacement and the local verizon has no clue how to fix it. I have always been a blackberry person and all and I went from a curve to this bold about 10 months ago and have hated this one every since due to all the problems. We are getting 4g in my area in the next week or so so I am looking to get a 4g phone if i upgrade which I dont see blackberry having for some time. I want to know what anyones experiences have been switching from blackberry to droid systems and which 4 g phone out of the 3 verizon currently offers are the best of the 3 right now? What are the pros and cons of the new droids compared to the blackberry. I dont use blackberry messenger so I am not worried about losing that. I basically use my phone for windows live mail, internet usage, pandora and sirius xm streaming, and gps maps. I would like to watch netflix on my new phone which as far as I know no blackberry phones support adobe flash so netflix wont work on my current phone. I have also heard internet is much faster on droid. Is that correct? Also are there more apps for droid compared to blackberry? Any feedback would be appreciated before I make my decision. Thanks

Join DateNov 2007Posts1,320PhonesMotorola Droid A855Palm Pixi Plus (backup/fun)Motorola Krave zn4CarrierVerizon WirelessFeedback Score0

If you can wait just a bit they're saying the Motorola Droid Bionic will be out I believe August 8th. Which if it all goes well will be the best LTE handset available at Verizon.
I don't believe you'll have any issues going from BB to android. Considering you don't use a whole lot of BB exclusive features.
I basically use my phone for windows live mailYou can set up your Live mail via EAS. pandora and sirius xm streaming, and gps maps.Pandora & Sirius both have dedicated apps. As for GPS maps you can't go wrong with android. You'll be able to get the free turn by turn navigation support for driving (and a bunch of other stuff). I would like to watch netflix on my new phone which as far as I know no blackberry phones support adobe flash so netflix wont work on my current phone.All the LTE devices will have adobe flash. To my knowledge though the Thunderbolt does not have netflix available in the market. I'm not sure about the Charge, but the Revolution comes preinstalled with it. You MAYB be able to sideload netflix on them but I'm not 100 on that.
In addition even if a device had flash you wouldn't be able to watch netflix on it. Netflix has a list of requirements on what browsers it supports and OSs. For example I can't watch Netflix on Opera or on Linux.
I have also heard internet is much faster on droid. Is that correct?Faster as in rendering? I've never has any complaints on my Droid. I'm not much into the BB news but depending on your BB OS version the older browser was crap. I THINK OS 6 (or 5?) brought the Webkit browser but I don't know how good it is.
But even if you don't like the stock android browser you can always download Firefox, Opera, Skyfire, or dolphin.
Also are there more apps for droid compared to blackberry?As far as apps, android does have a lot more then BB.
market.android.com (if you want to browse at what's there).

Join DateOct 2005Posts1,395PhonesDroid XDroid XDroid 3CarriersVerizon WirelessFeedback Score0

Probably the only things you will miss on the blackberry is email delivery. On a Rim device. BAM email is there... On a droid device or other device for that matter.. there may be a delay for a minute or so. Thats why RIM is still in business, they are the leader in email delivery.
Now, I firmly believe that a newer android device is MUCH MORE superior. SO is an iPhone of course. The internet is faster because of the processors. 4g device? I would say stay away from the thunderbolt. Bad battery life. The Droid charge seems to rule in the battery life portion. I dont think there are any 4g keyboard phones tho.
The droid 3 is really impressive by the way. However, no 4g.

Join DateFeb 2003LocationSE MichiganPosts76PhonesOG DroidOG DroidCarrierVerizonFeedback Score0

Probably the only things you will miss on the blackberry is email delivery. On a Rim device. BAM email is there... On a droid device or other device for that matter.. there may be a delay for a minute or so. Thats why RIM is still in business, they are the leader in email delivery.It's due mostly to BBs having a dedicated server (BES) as opposed to polling for mail. If you stand up say a Traveler server in a Lotus Notes shop the mail delivery is just as fast for the devices attached to it.

Join DateJan 2004LocationNew YorkPosts5,621PhoneHTC ThunderboltCarrierVerizonFeedback Score0

4g device? I would say stay away from the thunderbolt. Bad battery life. The Droid charge seems to rule in the battery life portion.And it's not like there is a quantum leap in difference between the TBolt battery life and the Droid Charge battery life. I believe that the difference stems almost solely from the fact that the Droid Charge comes with a larger battery to begin with.

Join DateJun 2003Posts584PhoneHTC ThunderboltCarrierVerizon WirelessFeedback Score0

I believe that the difference stems almost solely from the fact that the Droid Charge comes with a larger battery to begin with.That's probably accounts for some of it... According to this comparison on Wirefly, the Droid Charge comes with a 1600 mAh battery while the Thunderbolt comes with a 1400 mAh battery.

Join DateJan 2003Posts855Feedback Score0

I'm surprised you're having so many problems as RIM makes excellent hardware. I'd say RIM, Apple and Motorola have the best hardware for phones (ignoring OS).
I'd also hold out for the Bionic and I'm taking my own advice as I really want a 4G phone. I had a Blackberry for about five years before getting the original Droid on the release day. I could write paragraphs on the pros and cons but I find Android to be far better than the Blackberry (my last was a Bold on AT&T). I do miss having BBM as I used it quite a bit.
If you're using google mail, either gmail or an apps account, it works as good as a blackberry. I find the exchange client to be lacking when it comes to marking messages as deleted or read on the server. You can use the exchange setup as mentioned above for hotmail/live/msn email accounts; set up manually not automatically or you get the pop client.
The big benefit for Blackberry right now is data compression. They use efficient compression on all data which, in the world of tiered and expensive data as we now have, could be a big selling point for RIM. My data usage, and it isn't a truly fair comparison as I do much more with my Droid, was a fraction of what I'm using now (I don't to any streaming).

Join DateOct 2003LocationSan Francisco Bay AreaPosts2,244PhonesBlackberry Storm, Motorola Droid, W385Retired: Motorola V710,V9M, StarTac7868,T730, SC725, DPC550(analog), V325CarrierVerizon Wireless (since 1994 as GTE MobileNet)Feedback Score0

It's due mostly to BBs having a dedicated server (BES) as opposed to polling for mail. If you stand up say a Traveler server in a Lotus Notes shop the mail delivery is just as fast for the devices attached to it.BES is for a corporate server. For personal use, one uses BIS (Blackberry Internet Services), where the server is at RIM. That server takes responsibility for connecting to the various e-mail services you have configured (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, whatever), using (instant) push functionality if available, else polling if, for example, only POP is available. The phone has an open connection to the BIS server, and as soon as the BIS server gets the e-mail, it is sent to your phone. This means that the phone does not have to do any polling, regardless of the capabilities of the e-mail provider. And, as pointed out, the data is compressed (in a way that does not lose any information), lessening the data traffic.

Join DateJul 2011Posts6Feedback Score0lg revolution

Anyone had any luck with 4g lg revolution? I beleive this is the phone I will go with. I saw the specs on the new bionic and it doesn't necessarily look like it will be much better than the charge or the revolution and I am thinking if I am going to upgrade I might as well get the newest 4g availible at the time which happens to be the revolution. Verizon has been very helpful throughout this. My upgrade date on my current contract wasn't listed untill 08/20 and they are willing to go ahead and let me upgrade now if I want to the revolution on a new 2 year contract. As I posted on another thread they also let me switch my friends and family from the 1400 plan with 10 friends and family to the 700 plan with 5 friends and family as a part of my upgrade because i was told i was "a good customer" and we hardly used any minutes that were outside of verizon. Also how does the mini hdmi out ports work? Will I basically be able to doc my phone to my hd tv and see everything on the tv? I am basically getting looking to almost use my newer smartphone as a netbook replacement and it seems like all the new phones are almost there.

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