Verizon Officially Announces Droid Light- Err, Droid Eris
Verizon Officially Announces Droid Light- Err, Droid Eris
Posted 11/06/2009 at 6:26am
| by Paul Lilly
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Not digging Droid's price tag but are still intrigued by the device? Maybe Droid's little sibling -- the Droid Eris -- is is more of what you're looking for.
For starters. Verizon is selling the Droid Eris for a single C-note (after $100 mail-in-rebate) when you sign up for a two-year commitment on a voice plan with an email feature or email plan. Throwing down a Benjamin on the Droid Eris nets you a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen and trackball interface, a 5MP auto focus camera, 8GB of memory (via an included microSD card) expandable to 16GB, Bluetooth, WiFi, integrated GPS, full HTML browser with Flash Lite capabilities, and of course Google's Android OS along with a 7-panel home screen.
But the real question is, how does Eris stack up to its bigger brother? It comes clocked at 528MHz, compared to Droid's 550MHz processor, and it ships with Android 1.5 (Donut) instead of 2.0 (Eclair). You'll also sacrifice a physical QWERTY keyboard by stepping down to the Eris.
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Obsidian
November 06, 2009 at 7:20am
I still need a physical keyboard for my smartphone. I'm using an old HTC right now. The new HTC Touch Pro 2 phones look and feel great but they're heavy and pretty large. I want to see the same sized screens, but with better resolution.
Aren't these memory chips super-cheap now? Why can't a phone include 8GB of internal memory these days along with the micro SD expansion? What does that 8GB chip cost them, another $2 to the price of making the phone maybe?
hiatus
November 06, 2009 at 7:13am
I've been waiting on a Droid phone. I get a good discount through the company and i'm up for renewal. Looks like I'm trying out a new phone.
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