Droid Now or Wait for New Flock of Androids in 2010
This is one of the questions I faced when considering the Droid purchase. See my first post on why I bought the Droid. Besides the iPhone allure, the issue around keyboards and which wireless carrier to go with. There was also the possibilities of other Android based phones to consider.
Verizon currently only has two Android based phones the HTC Droid Eris and Motorola Droid. Cellfanatic.com has a good detailed comparison of these two. For me the decision to get the Motorola goes back to the keyboard thing. The HTC was tempting. It feels nice in the hand (more like a phone, less like a device). It also has HTC’s pinch zoom (iPhone-ish) functionality. The other thing about Eris for me that was a hard sell is that it’s only $100 less than the Motorola but spec for spec it seems you get so much more from the later. I expect Verizon will have one or two more Android based phones in 2010… and possibly the famed iPhone.
If you are not tied to a certain network like I am then options abound. I know that Garmin-Asus, Dell, Sony, Kyocera are all planning 2010 new Android based phones on various networks.