http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/ Engadget Comments for DROID ERIS hands-on and unboxing! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
*call dropped*]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
Verizon's Premium Unlimited plan offers unlimited text & data as well as unlimited minutes. That's great, but it's a CEO like $139.99 a month.

Sprint's EPRP gives you the same unlimted text & data with 450 land-line minutes which nobody uses anymore and unlimited calls to any cell phone on any carrier, essentially giving you unlimited minutes. And they do it for the good Christian price of $59.99

139.99
- 59.99
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80.00 In Savings

And if you one of the few neanderthal's that still call land-lines all the time then bump it up $20 and go for the 1000 minutes, still saving you $60 a month.

If your worried about Sprints coverage don't fret. In Moderate to heavy populated area's Sprint will roam on Verizon's towers. And their 3G is on par with Verizon's Coverage and Performance. Don't believe me? Just check out this handy dandy Comparison that PC world cooked up for us. http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=167391&page=1&zoomIdx=1

This is not a slam Verizon add, as I do think they are the best carrier out there. I'm just trying to educate people in a way that will save them $1840 over the life of a contract (difference in phone price included)

If you have Bentley money then by all means go with the Bentley. (Verizon)

But if your like me and have Used VW Passat money, and want the savings to slap a Supercharger on it then Go with Sprint.]]>Nov 5th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
I call landlines for my business all day long.

Sometimes I'm on conference calls for 2.5 hours. Yes conference calls DON'T CALL INTO CELL PHONES!

Most people that use "smart phones" use them for business, thus call business landlines!

If you are using it to talk to your friends on iphones, sidekicks, thats fine.. use sprint. But when I need something that works I'll get this!

Thanks in advance.

The free to other mobile people is stupid. They do that because they couldn't integrate their GSM (Nextel) with their CDMA (sprint) properly and people were STILL getting charged when it was supposed to be free mobile to mobile.

Why don't they just do completely unlimited like BOOST does? Same company, and unlimited minutes, text and data for $50.. why use Sprint for more money??

]]>Nov 5th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
For your specific situation I would go for the $99 EPRP plan and still save $30 a month.

"Sometimes I'm on conference calls for 2.5 hours. Yes conference calls DON'T CALL INTO CELL PHONES!"

If they don't call into cell phones, then it really doesn't matter then does it?

"The free to other mobile people is stupid. They do that because they couldn't integrate their GSM (Nextel) with their CDMA (sprint) properly and people were STILL getting charged when it was supposed to be free mobile to mobile."

1st off. Nextel is, has & will always be run off of an iden network, not GSM.
2nd of all. Anymobile Anytime is not network specific, so there can't be billing errors.

If you want to go to Boost then go ahead, they have no phones of value and they are on the iden network.

I really don't know how to respond to the talking to friends on iPhones and Sidekicks as neither of these phones are offered by Sprint, and all carriers offer the same basic needs. Data, Text and Voice. Some just offer it at greater reliability and a lower price.

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Trying to decide between getting this or the DROID from Moto.]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
But... i think I'm sticking with the Droid!]]>Nov 5th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Every iPhone enthusiast will swear on their dead grandma's grave (who is actually sitting in their living as they make this swear)]]>Nov 5th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 6th 2009 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
really? Really? REALLY?

My DSLR has that sensor. My enV touch has that sensor. just about every touch screen phone and camera I know, has that sensor.

So is it necessary to call it "iPhone-style" when it is an industry standard?

I'll answer that for you: no.]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
That being said this DROID ERIS looks amazing. Better looking than the iPhone IMHO.


]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/No, the iPhone invented the telephone. That's why it's at AT&T - so it can tell Ma Bell who's really in charge. /s]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
I figured the phone was also an industry standard for making calls, heh. xD]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Most *every* touch phone has it. My TP2 has it. If anything, it should have said:

"The Eris has a face proximity sensor for turning off the display during calls, just like all of HTC's other recent smartphones."

Compare HTCs to HTCs, and stop pretending it's necessary to compare everything to the iphone]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
So the references aren't always there because the iPhone was the first or the best. Rather, it's there because of the name recognition. When you mention a feature on the iPhone, more people (again, for better or worse) will have a frame of reference than if you mention any other smartphone.]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
"has the now standard proximity sensor that shuts the screen off when you bring it to your ear to make calls."

Everyone would understand that.

You dont have to reference a completely different product to make a point; you only have to to show bias. ]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
and secondly, the iPhone didn't even SET the standard because it was already on phones since 2002.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/nokia-vs-apple-the-in-depth-analysis/2#comments]]>Nov 5th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
By anybody's account (well anyone rational), those ARE good numbers, whereas the iPhone growth appears to be slowing, and WM/Nokia are sliding down.

PS: I'm no fan of the BB OS either, but the numbers (assuming they're accurate) don't lie.]]>Nov 5th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
Excuse my slang...but...

wurr dey do dat at?]]>Nov 5th 2009 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/apple-touchscreen-phone-circa-1983 ]]>Nov 5th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/
I'm sure I'm not the only one on the fence here.]]>Nov 5th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/droid-eris-hands-on-and-unboxing/Nov 5th 2009 10:19AM