Droid vs. iPhone. See how Droid bites that Apple

What the heck is Motorola Droid? (Left)

Droid just landed with Verizon and from the outside its a slider with full QWERTY keyboard (a rather small),  a big touchscreen and a Verizon logo, nothing fancy. Well, you are missing some awesome specs hidden behind this contender.

I’m not saying this is the best phone around, certainly iPhone has a tremendous advantage of having “There’s an App for that” — network of more than 85,000 of useful, fun or sometime useless apps, but still Droid is the closest non-iPhone that came so close and in some cases better than the all-mighty iPhone in terms of specs.Both phones are prices at $199 with 2-years of contracts (Prices differs with monthly plans) so let me address the practical tech-oriented advantages from both phones.

Motorola Droid’s factual advantages (Constitutes what an Awesome camera-smart phone is)

- Application “Multi-runability”, With Android 2.0 OS and its processing chipset (OMAP3430 – 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 + PowerVR SGX 530 GPU + 430MHz C64x+ DSP + ISP (Image Signal Processor). iPhone 3GS ’s CPU is able to do the same, but the OS by Apple still hasn’t exploit the multi-app potentials yet.

- 16GB pre-installed memory and additional memory card slot allows for additional 32GB (total up to 48GB)

- Higher screen resolution on a bigger screen – 854×480 on a 3.7” display

- 5MP camera able to capture 640×480 at 60fps videos (DVD quality video recording) , Autofocus, Image Stabilization with dual LED flash.

- Actually has a physical keyboard

- Google Stuff that’s not in an iPhone

• ANDROID MARKET™
• GOOGLE CALENDAR™
• GOOGLE CONTACT SYNC™
• GOOGLE LATITUDE™
• GOOGLE MAPS STREET VIEW
• GOOGLE MAPS™ NAVIGATION ^BETA
• GOOGLE SEARCH™ BY VOICE
• GOOGLE TALK™
• YOUTUBE™

- Apply to U.S Residents : Verizon visual voice-mail (As of Nov.09 AT&T still incapable for doing anything with that, not iPhone’s fault really)

Apple iPhone 3GS’s factual advantages (Constitutes what an Awesome music-smart phone is)

- Features the most popular music store – the iTune store

- Thousands of apps ready for disposal in whatever need (Although some might say Google’s open-source apps are catching up, I would have to agree, but currently Apple’s app store still wins in volume and popularity)

- Accelerometer for gaming

- Better battery life

Well that’s all I know about these two Phone when come head-to-head against each other. Try one out at your local AT&T for iPhone 3GS and the Droid at Verizon and see how they feel for you. I personally think the Droid has some serious potentials as in hardware when comparing to 3GS, because honestly the hardware is the stuff that last, not software or apps. Clearly the Droid has many hardware upsides (The 5MP camera, larger screen, slide-QWERTY keyboard). I can only hope that the Google Open-source phone OS get as big as the Linux community so in the future end-users and download & install whichever OS they want online (free or charged) on whichever smart-phone.

Open-source is the way to go for the future. Got Comments? Feel free to express them, correct me if I’m totally wrong on some of the specs.

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