Anyone planing on getting the Motorola Droid?

[Tom_Tildrum]

I recently discovered a white-noise app that was useful for sleeping while traveling over the holidays.

[Misnomer]

Gmail push stopped working today. The Motorola Droid forums are no help: several people have started threads about this issue, but there are no replies other than “check your sync settings.” Which I have, over and over, including stopping and restarting sync. I tacked a “me too” post onto the most recent thread, and will hope someone sees it.

I happen to have an errand to run at lunchtime tomorrow just down the street from where I bought the phone, so I might swing by the Verizon store while I’m out and see if they can can help me.

Gmail push is pretty much the only reason why I have any smartphone, and the notifications are a big reason why I wanted a Droid. Sigh.

[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

@Sal_Ammoniac

I’m sort of thinking about it, but not the extent of looking at pricing. I’d have to switch from T-Mobile, which I’m a little reluctant to do, though their coverage isn’t as good as Verizon’s. But having the kind of connectivity that the Droid (and iPhone) affords is light years ahead of where I am with my old Nokia phone. Email, internet, GPS, apps – I don’t have any of that now. And I kind of want it. It really feels like the future to me.

But what options are really out there, besides the Droid and the iPhone? Yeah, I know there are a million phones out there, but is there anything remotely comparable? I suppose if I’m patient T-Mobile will come out with something sexy, too.

Kaboom.

[Quercus]

@World_Eater

While the G1 and MyTouch are great phones, they don’t hold a candle to the Droid when it comes to hardware.

CPU (major major advantage)
G1: Qualcomm MSM7210A running @ 528 MHz
Droid: Arm Cortex A8 (same as iphone 3GS)

So, I’m honestly asking here – not trying to debate any particular phones – what’s the big advantage of a faster CPU for a phone?

I mean, I’m not expecting to be running protein-folding calculations on my phone, and even the MyTough/iPhone seem to have enough power to make phone calls, play .MP3s, do GPS calculations, calculate star positions etc., even run compressed video. What tasks would the faster CPU make a difference for?

[Misnomer]

@me

Gmail push stopped working today.

Oops, forgot to post an update: push started working again by itself the next day. Since then, whenever push seems to stop working I just restart the phone and it’s fixed – but I’ve only had to do that a couple of times.

All in all, almost 3 weeks in I freaking LOVE this thing.