I’m guessing that is “fellow” :-)

for the difficulty in quickly navigating around to apps, I would suggest using the quick search box; you can always get to the global search by hitting the search key a couple times (once to bring up in app search, again to pop out to global), and from there you can launch apps, go to contacts, etc, and the frequently used stuff is shortcutted and immediately available on subsequent uses.

while the music experience is a bit clunky I admit, I actually find myself using pandora, last.fm and imeem more than listening to my own music, and with the ability to stream from these in the background combined with verizon’s awesome network makes the droid a pretty good music device for me.

and aside from the use cases you mention, there are just some many things I can do with droid that kick ass, like make outgoing calls from google voice, use turn by turn directions, quick access to voice search, track my runs with cardiotrainer, sync all my contacts and email from multiple gmail accounts…

but overall, good feedback, i’ll forward on to my former co-workers; hopefully you’ll have a better experience next time

Can’t wait to see what happens with chokehold :)

I don’t find music navigation bad at all, you thumb down the status bar and click your music and go. Your iPod is a media player, not a phone, navigation device, etc.

I do agree with your ability to uninstall apps with ease. That is why you install the quick uninstall app that is free from the market. Although another quirk I have personally that you didn’t mention is that when you upgrade apps you already have installed, I hate that you have to run through like 6 confirmations screens for it. I understand google is trying to keep in secure but I think if you install it and answer yes the first time you install then you should only be prompted if you want to upgrade or if the intents of the program change.

Things android has to offer that the iPhone doesn’t is multi-tasking without having to root. I can be playing music in my car and use navigate, when the navigate voice chimes it, it automatically pauses my music, says “Turn left in X feet”, then continues my music. I’ve been quite impressed with google goggles as well, and it also has google voice. None of these apps are available on the iPhone, and yet they are free on Android. I also like that my contacts, e-mails, etc will just sync up. I meet someone, I add them on my phone, they are automatically in my gmail contacts. Another app which I don’t know if other phones have or not which is awesome is gmote. Plus being able to plug my phone into a mini-usb to usb port to charge is awesome, and I can mount it as a jump drive so I can use it at any computer and not have to use special software.

I agree with your battery life statement. It is terrible. I think it is more of a hardware issue than the OS itself though. I have a G1 and it came with a 1200mAh battery, I bought a 2600mAh hour and even though it fattened it up my battery will last up to 2 days with music, wifi, GPS and location services, etc.

I also agree that google could take a few UI pointers from Apple.

I have problems with people convincing me to use iPhone when it is on one carrier. Android I can pick my carrier. On the other hand tomorrow at Noon PST is operation chokehold, google if it you haven’t heard about it.

What do you mean “difficult”? What problems did you encounter?

Pressing and holding the Home button will give you a list of all running apps, making it easy to switch between them as long as the screen is unlocked.

I’m also using my Droid as a music player, and having the screen lock on me and require unlocking before I can pause/skip/whatever my music is a real annoyance. It can apparently be fixed by getting headphones with a control button. Meh.

Agreed on the app store complaints and part of the app management. This needs to be improved.

And battery life, oh my goodness, what battery life?

The UI for multitasking and swapping between apps is smooth like butter. Killing apps is a matter of flicking them off the screen. The App Catalog is in early days yet, but pretty explorable. App Management is better than Android, IMO, but not by much. Battery life is so-so.

Personally, I like the Palm webOS platform better than Android so far, both as a user and as a developer. But, I’ve got a bit more digging on the dev side to really feel strongly about that. Have an app released in the Palm App Catalog, but not in the Android Marketplace yet.

1) holding the home button pops up the 6 most recently used apps. you can easily switch between things that way.

2) yeah, valid, but some users (like me) are very picky and want an app to work JUST a specific way and LOOK just a specific way. besides, most apps are free so it doesnt really hurt you to try 3 or 4 out. choice is a feature, not a bug.

3) uhh, its under “Settings -> Applications -> Manage” sure, you can only remove one at a time, but are you really so lazy that you cant click a few times? its NOT a desktop computer so the interface is inherently limited. protip: Google Sync keeps track of your settings so if you nuke your phone (or get a new one), you’re old settings download in just a few minutes. sure, you dont get a pretty frontend to manage it, but the use case is backups/restores, not lazy users.

4) *shrug* I need to charge my battery every night and occasionally in the car, but I’ve only ever had it die when I had class underground. cellular devices try very hard to connect if there’s no signal and it eats battery.

5/6) could have been a lemon mang. my dad’s needed returned in the first 8hrs it was so broken and my camera completely failed in the first week. however, after a replacement, both our devices are functioning great.