With three months' experience using a Droid 2, what have we learned?
The Droid platform is for users who like to browse the Internet. The phone has the same iPhone feature of changing from portrait to landscape display by rotating the phone. With the lack of a method of syncing your calendar, contacts, memos and tasks with Outlook, the phone is not suited as well for business users.
Here is a list of specific issues regarding the Droid phone:
The Droid platform is very iPhone like, but lacks the maturity of the iPhone. We would describe the phone as having been developed by a group of smart engineers who didn't get together and talk.
Are you an Outlook user? There is not a straight forward way of synchronizing your calendar, contacts, tasks, and memo with Outlook and the Droid. Synchronizing data is through your Gmail account. Unfortunately, the free program that used to sync Outlook with Gmail does not work with non Outlook Exchange Server email accounts. Most businesses that use Outlook, deploy Outlook using Microsoft Exchange Server. If your email account is not a business account, there is no straightforward way of syncing Outlook and your phone.
The Droid phone does not have built-in task or memo software.
Do you want a particular ring tone to ring for different people like your wife or boss so that hearing the ring tone tells you who the call is from? This is a great feature if it works consistently. There is a problem with the current Android Operating System software for the Droid where the phone sometimes plays a different ring tone than the one specified by you. The current solution is to reboot (pull the battery out and put it back in) your phone occasionally.
