My current phone: what the heck am I using?

It's a 1st generation plain old Motorola Droid.  Nothing fancy and it's currently starting to show its limitations. I don't use a lot of "widgets" because they slow down my home screen.  I constantly install/remove apps because i'm near the 256mb internal storage limit (even though it has a 16gb memory card, some apps can only be installed to internal memory. But more and more apps allow "install to SD card"). It also has a nice 5mp camera which takes both video and stills.


I don't use the stock home screen, I use something called LiveHome which gives me some neat functionality which I've talked about previously.

The droid came with 2 docks.  One for the desk (a Multimedia dock) which turns it into the worlds most functional clock-radio. And another one for the car which allows me to use it as GPS.

The Car dock is great though. Because the droid can multi-task: I can use the GPS, listen to XM or my mp3s ... and when I get a phone call, it acts as a speaker phone.

I can't use a case on my phone for 2 reasons:
1) I would need to take it out of the case to use it in my docks.
2) almost ALL cases have magnetic latches, which trigger one of the "dock" modes and the phone stays on while in it's case, killing the battery ... took me WEEKS to figure that one out.

When I got my phone, there where no other droid phones available on verizon ... so I had no choice. But these days, verizon has 12 android phones listed on their site.  Ranging from 3" to 4" screens, some have physical keyboards and the newest ones have processors that rival computers from just a few years ago.

Seems like yesterday when I got my first cell phone, you know ... to make phone calls.

Ericcsson SH-888 (1997)