{"id":231,"date":"2009-11-29T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/droid\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:13:41","slug":"droid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/droid\/","title":{"rendered":"Droid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a Motorola Droid smartphone last week.  I&#8217;m pretty happy with it, and am pretty sure I will keep it.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that the iPhone has a few minor advantages over the Droid:  I like the way it feels in my hand better, with its rounded corners.  Pinch-zoom would be  nice.  There are more apps available (about 10 times as many).<\/p>\n<p>But the Droid has some advantages too.  Built-in turn-by-turn voice GPS navigation (which is an expensive app on the iPhone).  Larger, higher resolution screen. Hardware keyboard.  Multi-tasking.  Folders on the screens to help organize your apps.  Verizon&#8217;s superior network (in terms of coverage).<\/p>\n<p>The lack of apps isn&#8217;t as much of an inferiority as it may sound &#8212; most of the good ones are available for both phones.  <\/p>\n<p>All in all, I think they are pretty comparable.  Extreme fans of one or the other (Ken?) will scoff that there is no comparison based on xxx or yyy, but really they are in the same class.  It comes down to carrier and personal preference, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a Motorola Droid smartphone last week. I&#8217;m pretty happy with it, and am pretty sure I will keep it. I agree that the iPhone has a few minor advantages over the Droid: I like the way it feels in my hand better, with its rounded corners. Pinch-zoom would be nice. There are more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}