Here's the Engadget hands-on: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/m...irst-hands-on/

The other big news today is that Google has updated the Google Maps app to do free turn-by-turn navigation with overlays on aerial photos and using Street View to do lane guidance at turns. The app gets rolled out to Android 2.0 first, and the first Android 2.0 phone is of course the Motorola Droid. Garmin and TomTom stock took a major shit today. h: Hands-on here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/g...you-want-this/

Also for the AT&T users there is a version of the Droid in the works with HSPA 850/1900 which is going to be sold for use in Latin America. The unlocked importers should get it soon after it comes out. Otherwise as Android 2.0 rolls out on more existing devices, plus new ones, there should be more choices on more carriers.

You can download the Android 2.0 SDK which includes a full emulator environment to play with the overall OS. Doesn't have the Motorola customizations in the Droid but can give an overall feel. http://android-developers.blogspot.c...rt-in-sdk.html

 

wow very very impressed! and i havent been impressed with a phone like that in a long time. may have to get a unlocked one

who wants to buy my unlocked storm

 

I think I'm going to be getting this. I think I will wait a week or two after the phone comes out just so I can hear how good it actually is.
I have to sell my ipod touch though. Anyone want to buy a 32 gig 2nd gen touch with a Zagg InvisibleShield?

This thing looks pretty awesome. I'm digging the voice activated speech turn by turn google maps directions

 

Verizon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>anything in SD. Nothing works at my apartment except Verizon.

Love having people try their iPhag in the apartment and going...oh your most advanced phone doesn't work here....here use mine h:

 

maybe you should move to another apt if only verizon works there.

 

sounds like jealousy.

 

i might have to pick this up. my venus is a piece of shit and it's time for an upgrade.

 

I've come to rather appreciate the thinner form factor of going without a keyboard. I'm sticking with AT&T, but I'd probably skip the unlocked HSPA version of the Droid even if it is the thinnest qwerty slider out there. Give me a slab with Android 2.0 and a 4.3" screen, resolution around 800x480 (like the Droid), and some kind of faster Cortex A8-based processor with like an 800+ Mhz clock, I'd drop the cash for an unlocked version. I figure the way AT&T and Google are fighting lately there probably won't be any carrier-subsidized Android phones on AT&T any time soon.

 

they are going to be coming out with a keyboardless droid phone soon and its supposed to be thinner than the current droid with a keyboard. so you wish has been granted, its just of matter of when it will be avaliable.

 

As long as its not very thick I'm cool. Its a bitch using a virtual keyboard sometimes.