Customer Reviews

Verizon Motorola Droid A855 Android Cell Phone (no contract)

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

I bought the phone over iphone and i never regretted my choice. it's very easy to use and the keyboard is awesome.

Pro:
-great and easy to use full-sized keyboard
-sturdy design
-fast
-never froze
-great signal
-loud and clear speaker

Con:
- a bit heavier than iphone

I've had this phone for a while now and it is FANTASTIC!
I upgraded to it from a blackberry storm thinking it wouldn't be that different from one smart phone to another, but boy was I wrong!

I love my Droid; there are SO many more wonderful apps available for it and it I love that it syncs everything with my gmail.

I am NOT very good with phones (tend to beat up on them a lot) but I have NEVER had any problems with this one breaking or anything.

Thought I was getting a new phone (purchased 12/5/2011). Found out from Motorola that the warranty expired 9/16/2011. Found out from Verizon phone had been active on another account from 7/7/2010 - 6/7/2011. Customer returned it for a "certified, like-new replacemnt." Sold new, it should also come with a 16GB SD card - not included. Verizon tech support told me the camera won't work without it.

I have had this phone for the last one year and so far it has been good and reliable. It looks sleek and the build quality is very strong. I recommend upgrading your Android OS to Froyo for the best performance.

I have to admit I was kind of skeptical about ordering my husband a cell phone from some place other than my provider, BUT I can happily say that the whole experience was worth-while. The order, shipment and product was easy and exactly what it's supposed to be. Shipping of the product was fairly quick and the package arrived in great condition. The phone has worked perfectly as well. Actually I'm thinking about buying the exact product for myself!

I purchased this to replace a damaged phone and it works well, but not as good as my Droid 2, but it came without a contract and I am very happy with my decision.

I've had my original Droid for almost two years now, longer than most phones have lasted. I don't use screen or any other protectors on it and as it has been dropped numerous times it is definitely the most durable phone I've had. A little sluggish now but like any other computer they quickly become outdated.

I have had two of these phones in 14 months and both have failed. The first (which I bought on Amazon Wireless) failed within two weeks. Verizon exchanged it- and now the same thing has happened again. The touch screen stops working and then the phone becomes "possessed" for lack of a better word. It starts doing things all on its own- calling people sending weird texts. The salesman at Verizon told me he sees a lot of this with this phone. The problem I have now is that there is no warranty and I am not up for my 2 year upgrade- so Now I will have to buy another phone full price. I plan on buying an unlocked phone with a warranty and taking my business elsewhere in 6 months. No $400 should fall apart like this this quickly. And Verizon should be doing something about this. I am very unhappy- especially when I see that a lot of other customers have the same problem.

First, and most importantly, this phone works well as a phone. It gets better service than does anyone else's phone I've compared it too, even the newer DroidX. The speakers are both loud and clear and people rarely claim to have a hard time hearing me (sometimes going down the highway in my '96 diesel pickup, but that's to be expected.) It's easy to answer calls. It's a little frustrating to make calls sometimes, because when you tap on the "phone" icon, you don't always get the keypad (sometimes you get recent calls, favorites, or contacts).

It's incredibly durable. It's taken a three foot fall onto asphalt, an almost five foot fall onto tile, and numerous falls from a shirt pocket when I bent over (the dangers of switching from a Velcro flapped pocket to an open pocket).

The hard keyboard is too flat to easily feel the individual keys. The top row is too close to the screen making it difficult to depress the keys on the top row. The keys lack a truly positive tactile response. It's fatiguing to reach the middle of the keyboard with my right thumbs due to the four-way rocker button placement on the right side of the keyboard. In my opinion, they would have done better to place the four-way in the middle of the keypad, separating the keys at the middle. The virtual keyboard is too cramped for me to easily use, although I can use it with word correction (I have no trouble using the virtual keyboard on the DroidX). I have small to medium hands for a man.

I've had the phone almost two years and the display does not seem to be as bright as it once was. When I first got the phone it was a bit of a challenge to see the display in full sunlight, now it's pretty much impossible to see. The battery life is still excellent. I can still get two days of use out of one charge if I don't use it too much.

I purchased this phone about a year ago and was initially ecstatic about the device's features as well as the intuitiveness of the Android platform itself. However, at the release of this device the Android platform was still growing and functioned in a much less advanced capacity than it currently does. Through several updates of core firmware, as well as various software updates to apps, the phone has become sluggish and often unresponsive.

Long story short, the hardware hasn't kept up with the every-growing demands on the software front. The Android Marketplace offers a great breadth of content that is simply impractical to run on this outdated hardware. If you're looking to have a phone that keeps up with current technological trends, think twice before investing in this sucker.

Also, battery life tends to become absolutely abysmal after the first 6-8 months or so, so definitely think about investing in some backup batteries.