iPhone beats Droid in Manhattan speed tests

December 19, 2009 by admin · View Comments
Filed under: Verizon 

Note to New Yorkers: Carry your new Droid phone to Wall Street, Grand Central Terminal, Union Square, or Madison Square Park, and you may find AT&T iPhone users — the ones who are always complaining — are actually downloading data at four times the speed of your Verizon phone.

A new report from mid-market investment banking firm Piper Jaffray rebuts the notion that the new Verizon Droid phone gives better service than AT&T’s iPhones. The three analyst authors summarized, “While there were certainly locations where the iPhone was bested by the Droid, two-thirds of the time the iPhone had much better throughput.” They went on to rate AT&T’s stock as  overweight, meaning you should buy more of it despite the conventional wisdom that AT&T’s iPhone deal with Apple has brought down the company’s value.

The Droid did better in Times Square, Central Park, and Rockefeller Center, among other locations. The iPhone failed the worst in Times Square, missing its connection on two of five time trials and crawling to an average 39 kbps, versus the Droid’s 703 kbps.

Read the full report on the Venture Beat.

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Google Search by Voice, Motorola Android Droid Invade NYC’s Time Square

November 26, 2009 by admin · View Comments
Filed under: Motorola Droid 

For the last few weeks, those who have access to Google Search by voice from their mobile phone have been able to call a special number, do a voice search for a business or tourist attraction, and see the result displayed on the Reuters sign and the NASDAQ sign in Times Square:

Motorola Android Times square

Beginning tomorrow at 6 a.m. EST, those who have iPhones, Android devices such as the Droid or Droid Eris, Blackberry devices or Symbian gadgets will be able to call 888-376-4336, Search by voice for eateries, retail stores or attractions that strike their fancy and see their results displayed on these signs for 20 hours straight:
Motorola Droid Times Square

Read the full story at Google Watch

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