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hey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm here with an Android showdown that's been over a year and a half in the making I'm going to be comparing the absolute best Android phones that you can buy on the market today I'm going to go over four of them want to go over the Motorola Devourer I'm going to go over the HTC Droid heiress the Motorola Droid and of course the Google Nexus One one should go over all four of these majors Android smartphones I want to tell you guys about the prices the features what versions are running and special little things about them all on go it all over it all and tell you guys what I think anyway let's get this one started okay so let's begin with the Motorola devourer this is the newest Android phone is just come out for Verizon Wireless and really to sum it up in just one sentence it's like a aluminum smaller Motorola Droid it's it's it's like that one of the major differences is that it's a little bit of a lower spec phone you know instead of running full Android 2.0 actually runs 1.6 but there is a reason for that it actually has the moto blower interface now if you don't know what the motoblur interface is it's Motorola's special skinned version of Android so basically it runs Android but on top of it you'll see a lot of different things such as like status updates for all kinds of social networking and a lot of different uh you know custom touches nothing like something like the Droid or the Nexus One both of which this one's stock Android you actually you get the phone but it might take a while for them to get updates if you get updates at all but that said the motoblur interface has some putting these nice things and for a lot of people it's pretty heinous motorola devourer does run on some lower specs than the droid it's got a similar form factor with the slide-out keyboard but it runs a slower processor less ram and a worse camera as well as a three point one inch touchscreen which is smaller than the 3.7 inch that you will find on the droid now it's not meant as you know something the next version of the droid is meant more as like a scale back the smaller version and that's okay but the problem is there's really not a whole lot of reason to buy it compared to the droid they both technically if you look at Verizon at stores that prices are different but generally on the you know a normal price like on Amazon to buy it both of them are fifty dollars with a two year contract Verizon so between the two it's kind of hard to you know pick the Devourer when you got the droid but you know if you really do like the motoblur on her face it's still pretty strong especially for $50 you might want to take a look at it so the next Android smartphone we're going to cover is going to be the HTC Droid heiress from Verizon Wireless now right off the bat I've got to mention that this is kind of one of like the older generation of Android smartphones if you know the HTC Hero that came out last summer I believe that was the you know the cutting-edge Android smartphone you can get back then well this is basically a very very similar version of it they've just basically reward the shell looks a little bit different and it obviously runs on Verizon Wireless so if you know the hero you're gonna know that this is very very similar it runs Android 1.5 which is a pretty old version of Android you know you're missing a few features but it does come with the custom HTC Sense interface i got'em it per my just speaking from personal preference I really like the HTC Sense interface it really looks good it looks very modern you have the the clock you're able to run a lot of different programs such as like a customizable interface slight social networking all kinds of stuff and it's totally customizable which is pretty cool for one of the really most important things about this phone is the price it is free on a two-year contract from Rison that's unheard of this is the very first Android smartphone that is actually being offered for free and that's pretty good considering that you know if you look at this compared to you know like some little flip phone or something I mean this is going to win by a mile so that alone really just puts it in the lead by itself of course you know if you look at it compared to the Nexus One which is probably the closest phone similar to it because both of them do not have the physical keyboards then you know the Nexus One it's gonna you know totally blow it away it's fast or new or sleeker all kind of stuff but the Nexus One runs you almost of two hundred dollars whereas this is free and now that's a pretty major factor so buy that by itself really puts the HTC Droid arish does really good job so if you're looking for a cheap basically free Android smartphone and you cannot go wrong with the HTC Droid Eris okay so the third Android smartphone that I will be covering today it's got to be the motorola droid the motorola droid I'm sure there's really one of the major phones that pushed Android and - you know everyone knowing about it you know before it's just like iPhone Blackberry and you know there's this thing called Android well then also and Verizon spend like millions and billions of dollars on all these really cool ads like Droid does and all kind of stuff and something really androids taken off so obviously the end motorola droids that really saw the phone and you know it's really taken off if you look at it it's a pretty thin device it's almost better than the iPhone I believe and it sports a 3.7 inch capacitive multi-touch screen as well as if you flip it out a full keyboard underneath the keyboard is not actually amazing it's it's okay but it can kind of be a little flat and you know not that great but if you like you know obviously a lot of people myself included prefer a actual hardware keyboard so if you're looking for a hardware keyboard that's great and it works pretty decent now one of the major things especially when it was first released was the fact that it ran Android 2.0 which brought over a lot of new features that's still the case it has not got an updated as of yet although it will be updated soon and the main reason is that is that it does not run any kind of custom Android scan or anything like that which would cause the updates to come slowly pretty much as soon as an update comes out you can get on the droid fairly quickly so I would definitely expect that you will see the droid being updated constantly for quite a while to come the droid is a really really good phone I've got to admit it's probably one of if not the absolute best phone in my opinion on the market today the one big deal about it though right now it is actually down to $50 as the two-year contract also from Verizon Wireless and for $50 this is a lot of phone I know the iPhone know you also have the Nexus One you know those three is what was the palm the Palm Pre Plus all four of those phones are really solid but the Droid gives you something that really none of them can really put together it's got the great combination of Android a really nice sized high resolution screen and a really good keyboard so put it all together and the drawer does a really solid package so lastly but certainly not least we have the Google Nexus One which is built by HTC but that's a different story the Nexus One really is the top Android smartphone right now now the Droid is great don't get me wrong but the but the next one really just step-step notch it runs the latest version of Android 2.1 but it also has a lot of really killer features it's very very very thin what it then is in the iPhone it has a full 3.7 inch color multi-touch touchscreen the whole works and it's running at a very very high resolution so the screen on just looks excellent it but the probably the biggest deal about the Nexus One is the fact that runs a Snapdragon processor the Snapdragon is a very very very fast processor you know running close to 2 times faster than a lot of others so for it to be running like that the Nexus One is very snappy and it really moves really fast so that alone really puts the Nexus One very high but it's just a very good looking device - and the fact that runs the newest version of Android and you know it just put it all together it is the top Android phone right now so it's hard to argue with it it does run on t-mobile at the moment and it will be $180 if you are a new t-mobile customer with a two-year contract you can also buy it unlocked for I'll leave little bit less than $600 but if I were you if you don't like to mobile it will be coming to Verizon here sometime in the spring so if you like to get Verizon you should be able to pick it up as well as AT&T should be coming so pretty much if you want that because one before long you should be able to get on three of the four main carriers so that's a pretty good deal and so you should be the Nexus 1 so that is the Android smartphone showdown there's four really good phones and you know you could get to pick any of them if you wanted to but in my opinion it really comes down to three the Droid heiress is great and it's free okay you just can't understate that that's it's great deal as a really solid phone the Droid is only fifty dollars and if you really need a keyboard and you want to want a solid phone you know you've got to put a high on your list if the keyboard doesn't matter to you too much and you don't mind it either waiting a little while for to come out on Verizon or going ahead picking it up on t-mobile right now it will run you $180 but the Nexus One is absolutely a very very solid bone and it's really the cutting edge right now so really it's it pretty much comes down to what you think to be honest I like both - I like them all really but it's pretty much all down to you so whatever ends with smart phone you want it's really hard to go wrong anyway thanks for watching