iPhone or DROID?

Okay, I’m feeling like a dinosaur this week. I’ve had it! I have to get a new smartphone and soon. My cellphone is now officially the oldest piece of equipment I have in my arsenal and it's showing its age. I’m almost embarrassed to admit, I have an old Blackberry 8330. Not that it’s a bad phone. Actually, it’s been very good to me.

But all my friends, my cool social media aficionados have the latest wiz-bang toys.
Am I suffering from peer pressure?

Believe it or not, most of the photos I use in my blogs I took with my trusty Curve 8330. The camera is only 2 mega pixels, yet that’s plenty good for the web. I usually upload the photos to Picnik.com for a little touch up to get them ready for primetime.

I have Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare on it and I couldn’t live without my Google apps like Gmail, the calendar, maps, and alerts. I added a 16 gig memory chip so I can store 100’s of pictures and I use it like a thumb drive.

With all these accolades you may be thinking, “so what’s your point?” Well it’s choking a lot. Foursquare is the biggest culprit. It’s a matter of timing but if a check-in notice pops up at the same time I get a call or I'm trying to take a photo it’ll freeze up and I have to take the battery out and reboot. Yes, I have the memory to store a thousand pictures, but if I have more than 50 stored the camera takes forever to fire up or save. I’ve lost a lot of great photo opportunites this way.

Is this screen getting smaller or is it just my eyesight?

The new smartphone screens look like Cinerama in comparison to my 8330 and video has certainly improved 1000%.

Funny but there’s a part of me that feels a little guilty for thinking, “You gotta go! You’re just not cutting it anymore. Yes, you did a great job but things are different now. Time is everything. I got work to do and it’s got to get done now, in the field, on the spot. I can’t afford to wait anymore until I get home at night to finish up.”

Hm-mm... This is kind of reminiscent of the last meeting I had with an old boss a couple of years ago,
but she was talking about me! ;O)

Anyway, I researched smartphones so much I paralyzed my brain. And to make matters worse (or maybe better?) I have an Apple iPad 2 and after only a few weeks, I'm totally in love.

So help me out here... DROID or an iPhone?

Which one do you suggest?

The Nielsen report (11/29/2011) notes that 71% of all U.S. smartphone users and 83% of all app’s downloaded were either for an iPhone® or an Android smartphone.