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Are you considering buying a new Droid cell phone? I just did. I discovered the best feature was the 14 day manufacturer's return policy. Let me explain for a moment.
Rule #1: If you happen to be a business person looking for a phone with solid business features/functions, don't ask a 20-something in a blue shirt with a name badge what their opinion of the Driod is.

If you want a phone that has video more clear than your HD TV, a camera with resolution so high you can see actually see the flaws on Bionce, or apps that can remotely launch the space shuttle, this phone is for you.

But..better yet..BUT, if you want a phone for business purposes, let me share the shortcomings:

1. Email-Droid's platform is abysmal for email. I happen to have a Godaddy domain, and could never get the Driod to send out email. Luckily enough, I received each incoming email 3-4 times. Literally, I spend about 12 hours with tech support from both Verizon and Motorola. A solution was never found. I was told by both companies that email is an ongoing problem for Droids. Silly me..Here I was thinking that a phone that can tell me, show me and drive me to a pizza place in Tulsa could actually function as an email relay.
2. Battery Life-Because I spent the better part of this year trying to solve my email issues, I never actually got to one of the reasons I bought this lil' technological marvel, that being apps. Just as the phone comes, it has so much loaded into it that, the battery wore down almost every day long before the end of work. In fairness, I was doing complicated things like talking on it and sending texts. So there's always that.
3. Battery Life(Part II)-In that the Driod does have so much to offer, one of the tricks to save the aforementioned battery is that the phone goes into "Sleep" mode in a matter of seconds or minutes. What does this mean? Well,while my Droid enjoyed nap time, the entire screen goes black. Now that's OK except when you call and get someone's voice mail, and need to access the touch screen key pad to bypass. That's when a screen that continually goes black will get very annoying.
4. Touch Screen-OK, I'm old and I know it. But in trying to get used to a touch pad for typing, my thumbs felt like they developed elephantitis. Even if you turn the phone sideways to create a wide screen, the touch pad is VERY sensitive. It would have taken me less time to hand write and mail a text.
5. Spell Check-It doesn't have one. Again, for business purposes, an email or text really should not have, LOL, TTYL, much less, misspellings. As you type what Droid does is give you a menu of correction choices above what you are typing. The problem is, you have to constantly look up to see what choices it gives you. As soon as you continue,the choices disappear. You can  not complete a message and then spell check like with any basic email.
6. Lay Out- To get from Really Cool Point A to Totally Awesome Point B requires a map.Unless you know the secret code to highly classified information like, Camera Focus, you may never find your way out of Oz.

So there is a brief synopsis of the issues you too may enjoy with a Droid. I've returned mine. I am now happily looking to upgrade my user friendly,simple functioning, spell check enabled, email accessible Blackberry.

 Pat Palmer-Realtor/Broker
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