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Review roundup: Motorola Droid, Verizon's first Android handset

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From David Pogue's review:

There's not much room for the apps on the Droid, either. Although Verizon includes a 16-gigabyte memory card for your music and photos, apps have to be stored in a 560-megabyte chunk of built-in memory. Some Droiders will fill that up quick.

Wait, what? That's incredibly lame, and a deal breaker, in my view.

I'm pretty sure that some of the larger apps on my iPhone are bigger than the size limit imposed by the Droid.

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Also of note. It's mentioned in one of the reviews that the Droid is 25% heavier than an iPhone. Kinda take the shine off of Verizon's boasting about it being only slightly thicker than an iPhone.

As an aside, Mossberg refers to it as a super-smart-phone. (Using that phrase for iPhone, Droid, and the Palm Pre to distinguish them from regular smart phones.)

I *hate* that phrase. It should not be allowed to catch on. If we have to distinguish between smart phones, how about: Smart Phone or @!$%#ty Smart Phone?

Or, as David Pogue suggests: App Phones.

I like it.

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