HTC Droid Eris

: I purchased the Eris on the day it came out because it is the best phone on the market for MY intended uses. I have used the iphone extensively and tested other phones in the store including the motorola droid, storm2, palm pre and Hero. I left AT&T to buy this phone. The finish and feel of the phone is great. It seems a little wider, but thinner than the Hero. HTC sense was a little overwhelming at first, but after only two days of owning the phone I have the phone set up the way I want, which is something the iPhone can not do. The web browser is excellent. It has pinch or tap zoom and webpages load very quickly. The scrolling and zooming is not quite as smooth as the iPhone but the Eris supports flash while the iPhone does not. Youtube videos seemed very poor at first, but then I figured out that you can choose to watch them in high quality and they look great. One thing that I love and many people overlook or don't care about is that the Eris charges and connects to a compute... Read more

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This is an amazing phone! It's like having the power of a small laptop with you wherever you go. I recently made the switch from a Blackberry device to the Droid and it was like springing forward 10 years in technology. Texting was easier, managing contacts was easier, my phone doesn't randomly crash on me anymore, and the internet browser was so far ahead of anything my old phone could do it was just amazing! There are plenty of great apps to extend the functionality which makes for an added bonus. My only regret is that I couldn't get my hands on one of these sooner! This is easily the best phone I've ever owned and I would have no problem recommending it to others.

Replaced iPhone: I got this phone just as it came out. It has been a very amazing phone to say the least. I replaced my iPhone with this. Mostly because ever since AT&T; bought Cingular the service has been absolutely horrible. It could be my area but I do live in a semi-large city. New friend: The Droid Eris seemed unremarkable on the surface. The screen is a bit smaller and it looked like it would not be all that impressive with regards to the apps. Within the first week I saw it had serious battery issues sprouting up. I will list some tips to circumvent these issues until we get Android 2.0 on the Eris (see below). Since owning it a while I have completely fallen in love with this phone! It is very light, the OS is super intuitive, and there are several fora out on the web where you can find help and tips for the phone. Being it is an open source operating system and the apps are able to be developed with little or no restriction, I see this phone/OS as a real contende... Read more

I'm within my 30-day-return period that Verizon offers, and not sure if a touchscreen is the way I want to go. I would say if your primary use is texting and email, you might want to stick to one with a physical keyboard of the Blackberry style. * The battery life is atrocious (all I have to compare it with is my old 'dumb' cellphone, which could go days without a charge)- it's nice that it can recharge via a standard USB-to-mini cord, however. * The tiny vertical keyboard is maddeningly frustrating (I often need to be able to work the phone one-handed so horizontal is out of the question). Yes, the auto-correction is very good for most mistypes, the problem is the space bar is so close to the period and the BACK key, and hitting either of those means having to stop and correct. Also, if you don't realize that the phone guessed the wrong word until you have typed the message you have to use the crappy little trackball-thing to move the cursor to the word to correct it - no e... Read more

The HTC Droid Eris surprises you with an amazing operating system and well built hardware. Comparisons are hard to avoid with the iPhone, which has proven to be the benchmark for touchscreen smart phones and the overly hyped Moto Droid. I went to the Verizon store to buy a Moto Droid and found it to be poorly built. It looks terrible, feels terrible, and I couldn't type anything on that keyboard. Then I noticed the Droid Eris on the same shelf and before I picked it up I could tell the Eris was a solid phone. I have owned it for a week now and I'm still impressed. The build quality is fantastic, clean lines, feels good in your hands, brilliant screen, thin yet solid like a brick, and a wonderful rubberized matte black finish, which does not show fingerprints or scratches and will not slide around on smooth surfaces. This is my first HTC, but it won't be my last. The phone is well thought out. Android is great and with HTC's Sense UI it is slick, completely customizable and easy t... Read more

I had been watching the Droid for a while, and so when I received an Email notifying me of it's release, I headed on over to the Verizon Store on launch day. All of the employees were wearing shirts that said, "Droid does," and there was a small, but significant crowd in the corner right beside the entrance. There I saw a stand where some redneck was eying this blocky, shiny black phone. Abandoned, on the same display set-up, there was a lonely, small, much sleeker, touch screen phone I did not recognize. Still eager to take my turn with the Droid, I decided to play with this other one to pass the time. It was not long at all before I realized that the unadvertised, un-hyped Droid Eris was vastly superior. Let me start by comparing it to the Motorola Droid (MD) (Motorola Droid A855 Phone (Verizon Wireless)). The MD Has hard edges, corners, and an unfriendly box shape. It has a thin slide-out keyboard, the keys of which have very little tactile feedback, and the rows aren't offset... Read more

I was in the market for a smart phone, especially after reading about the Google Android OS. I have a Verizon contract, making it relatively easy to buy either the HTC or Motorola based systems. After watching some interesting YouTube reviews and reading more about each phone, I chose the HTC Eris Pluses 1) Uses the Google contacts in my Gmail account system, making the transition instantaneous upon powering up. Whenever you change your Google contacts, your phone is automatically updated. 2) Slim size and rounded corners - I prefer a sleeker look to my cell phone. 3) Hundreds of helpful applications to choose from, including the bar code scanner - check online prices out while you shop in the mall. 4) WiFi and 3G switchable - it easily goes between my home, my office and my favorite hot spots with ease. 5) No pesky flip keyboard - This may be a plus or a minus. For me, I like the way the phone seems to know exactly what key the middle of my finger pushes. When I tried to u... Read more