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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.