Which Verizon smartphone...?

Celles

I need to upgrade my enV touch, since a mysterious crack on the inside of the touch screen is oozing black cell phone blood ... 

Any recommendations? 

tb583

Droid X for sure.  I used to be completely for Blackberry (my last 3 phones were Blackberry) but I LOVE the Droid X.  H had the Driod and I would definitely go for the X.  FWIW, I ordered my Driod X on Thursday July 22 (website said it would ship by 8/5 when I ordered) and I receieved it on Wednesday July 28.

vegasgroom

I am on my third Android-based phone and my first phone as a Verizon customer; I got the Motorola Droid, often called just the Droid or Moto Droid, which is not the Droid X.  Two big (no pun intended) reasons I do not want the Droid X, it's too big :-) and it doesn't have a physical keyboard.  I love my Moto Droid because it has a slide out keyboard; I use my phone for work and sometimes have to type out longer-than-i'd-like responses to customers' emails on the phone and the on-screen keyboard means I can't see half the email I'm trying to reply to and it's never as fast or accurate as a real keyboard.  I switched to Verizon from T-Mobile who's G1 Droid phone sucked in comparison due to speed issues and coverage issues.

Other nice things about Droid (any of them) vs iphone is you can use a free app called pdanet to tether your computer through the phone for internet access and you get that awesome Verizon 3G speed; if you want to browse secure web pages you have to pay for the app though, it's about $13 one time.  I liked that so much I dumped AT&T for the wireless card I used to use on my laptop and got a Verizon card for it too; I know I could keep tethering but it's a pain to talk on the phone with a USB cable coming out the side so your laptop can be online at the same time so I didn't mind paying even though I had a way around it.  The Verizon network is so worlds better than AT&T for my laptop, whether I'm using the native card or tethered through the phone, and my phone itself has no problems getting on the web or google maps from anywhere while FI's iphone 3gs is often having trouble even if we're somewhere you'd expect it to not have trouble.

If you have a gmail account, the Droid has native integration with google apps so you have very easy access to gmail, documents, the calendar and contacts sync up, etc.  I sync my calendar from outlook to gmail using a free google program and then that info ends up in my phone automatically so I don't have to do anything special to get my calendar from outlook into my phone, it doesn't even have to connect to my computer.

mary9449

My FI works for VZW and we both carry the BB tour....love love it!! However, for his work phone he also carries the Droid X.
He swears by the Droid X and loves it. It has great apps and the internet is AMAZING!
However, I'm super old school and hate touch screen, so I'm sticking to my BB and I am addicted to BlackBerry Messaging and refuse to give that up.

Good luck!