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what's up everyone jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here there are a lot of fantastic Android devices on the market but the two best at least that are available right now the motorola built droid running on verizon's 3g network and the Google built nexus one running on t-mobile's 3g network so once or a run through the specs and show you a sort of a head-to-head comparisons work generally when I do my head to head they're two different operating system so you can see how each one would do tasks differently here we're running the sort of the same basic operating system so it's going to be a little bit different how we run things here so the difference is this droid is running Android 2.0 or 2.1 to be more accurate whereas the nexus one is running an updated version dubbed 2.1 and this is the first update to 2.1 a little confusing there are some key differences and i'll show you syrup as we progress now google and motorola have said that the droid will be getting a 2.1 update but won't be having all of the same features will cover all those sort of as we continue let's go over some of the specs so for the US carrier for each of these this is verizon exclusive and this way you can actually get unlocked but if you want 3g you can only use it on tmobile you can use a tease edge service if you'd like now Google has also said that there will be a verizon version of the nexus one further complicating your decision coming out sometime in the next few months so from a price standpoint which is really everybody in with their wallets nowadays the droid is going to run you 199 earth of course the two-year contract the nexus one is going to be a hundred and seventy nine dollars with that same to your contract and that's again with tmobile versus verizon size and weight here you're looking at about five point nine six ounces on the droid as opposed to the 4.59 on the nexus one or speaking of sort of side let's do a real quick size comparisons you can see the difference the nexus one is notably thinner it's probably one of the thinner smartphones that i've seen but the droid is by no means chubby but it does have that extra girth because of the slide-out keyboard will talk about that in jest a minute let's continue with some differences here included in the Box you're going to get a 16 gigabyte microSD card with the droid and you're only going to get a four gig with the nexus one screen size they're both 3.7 inches and they have the same resolution of 854 x 480 cpu speed and ram are sort of wearing some of the bigger differences are as well the nexus one has a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor whereas the Droid has a 550 megahertz processor in it miranda standpoint the Droid has 256 whereas the nexus one has a significantly different 512 they can both multitasks they both run the same operating system certainly they both have Wi-Fi and gps 3.5 millimeter headset jacks and all the rest let's talk a bit about Tamra the Droid has a 5-megapixel four-time digital zoom with a dual LED flash and the next is one has the same 5 megapixel sensor with only two times digital zoom and a single LED flash so there you go the they both have sort of a rudimentary autofocus as well so enough about all the specs let's show you how they both work now from a purely statistical standpoint you think that the nexus one has a big advantage because of processor and ram let's see how that actually translates out so first let me show you that these are both going to be have all their tasks out applications sort of killed so I've got a third-party application here called task killer i'm going to go ahead and cut down everything you can see that we're starting from all of our free available ramp now some programs are going to load up on their own to make things running like we'll see on the nexus one it's got a load of live live wallpapers and things like that but i wanted to start from a baseline 0 so you guys can see that everything has been shut down so with everything closed we're looking at an available one hundred and forty megabytes in 109 here on the droid so a bit of a difference let's go ahead and close these some of the differences there you'll notice as well i think is going to be the navigation you can see right here having a hard time you've been pushing the buttons i am not a fan of the capacitive buttons on the Nexus on their oftentimes unfair response with you have to can really use me use your forefinger that much it's actually use your thumb and really hit it they're pretty responsive here on the droid on the nexus one you can navigate with the scroll ball here with the nexus one you're sort of limited to your finger so some of the 2.1 updates well you can see the sort of zooming line in the background those are called live wallpapers and then they don't really add any sort of functionality just sort of fun to look at in addition to 2.1 you get a few more home screens I only have three home screens here unfortunately and I've got actually five i believe on 2.1 now you will be getting the same home screens on to 12.1 comes to the joys things will get your same five you're also going to get this new design sort of scrolling applications doc here it looks a little more simple here on the on the droid nothing terribly fancy just some graphics cues you're also going to get access to multi-touch the browser will be a full multi-touch browser which is not currently the case on the droid on the unlocked version called a milestone it is but there are third-party browsers right now called dolphin for example that will give you multi touch when 2.1 does come to the droid it will be endowed with multi-touch so I'm not going to hold that against it right now so let's do some speed tests for browsing they're both running right now on the same Wi-Fi network and then we'll sort of shut down the networks are the shutdown the Wi-Fi we'll see how they compare on their own 3g merits let's go ahead and open with the browsers on each of these and should default rights to google so i'm going to go ahead and launch technobuffalo calm and each of these and technobuffalo has been loaded on both these before so it'll be a test of a site that you visit on a more regular basis all right so i would try and hit these both at the same time which is more difficult than you think it would be all right and we're off on both of them and again running on the same Wi-Fi network like the nexus one is displaying the concept first the droid was pretty close behind the nexus one is done and droid is still loading and it's done so finished just a little bit behind not much but there was definitely a noticeable difference let's see how the processor in the RAM handle scrolling here if you scroll very quickly to keep up it does appear to keep up you don't get any sort of that checkerboard pattern at the bottom which I find very annoying the sort of a sign of a slower processor none here of course on the nexus one as well if you don't see it on the joy to and expect to see it on the nexus one either okay so next we're going to load website that I've never visited on either of these devices so it'll be sort of a raw test with nothing stored in memory nothing cashed at all will go to comedy com which i assume is a site so we've got a cute up ready to go go at the same time and this will be again a test on the same Wi-Fi network of the speed see if you get the same result that we had last time all right and they are both offloading comedy calm which has never been put on either of these again looks like the nexus ones got a slight edge but the droid appears to be pretty close behind nexus one is done and the droid is still loading if you probably start counting so maybe two or three seconds behind so we did see the same results now here with 2.1 we do have native multi-touch we do not have native multi-touch here though on the motorola droid so let's turn off Wi-Fi and try one more test and you can compare a network to network so if you want to pick these phones up as they are right now T Mobile versus verizon let's see if there's a difference okay so we're going to load technobuffalo calm again again using verizon's 3g evdo network and t-mobile's 3g hsdpa network let's go ahead and hit em both the same time and see if we can get a winner so they are both off I look to be pretty close to sams like the droid is actually a little bit quicker now is actually showing content much earlier than the nexus one is piers is the nexus one made a quick comeback it's a head-to-head epic battle here they both appeared to be an almost exactly the same place you can see that yellow bar across the top on each and the droid actually finished first and the nexus one is still loading and there was a reason I wanted to show you this and all the websites that i loaded verizon's network was faster than t-mobile's and that's despite the significant processor advantage of the nexus one so if you're using Wi-Fi like you saw you're going to get faster load speeds on the next one if you're using just your 3g network you are going to be a little bit quicker on the verizons and i do have pretty much full bars of 3g service on each so something kid to keep in mind let's see now how these load programs and they've had both these same applications are loaded on each let's see how they load the same things and see if there's any sort of speed difference so we will load let's say we launched Android Marketplace the same time we'll see if there is any difference with either these so a little bit quicker on the droid actually the nexus one is still loading it again we are not on Wi-Fi we're still using the 3g connection so there you have it once again another sort of shocked at how much faster of risings network is than t-mobile's let's go ahead and launch another program let's go ahead and try at calendar for example so actually a little bit quicker on the droid not much let's launch a few more we're using the same program the same time so the same amount of RAM is being consumed on each let's go ahead and pick something different let's go ahead and launch let's say the gallery none each and you'll see the difference in the gallery to between two point O in the 2.1 so pretty close they show things differently but you know relatively even as far as how they am how quickly they launch so let's talk about a few more they even try not to make this an hour long video there's so much we can cover here camera quality I found to be almost identical on each and includes camcorder quality so that's sort of a wash I'd say I really do like the buttons much same having that trouble again the buttons much more on the droid now if you prefer a qwerty keyboard the droid is going to be your best option because of course it has 1 i'm admittedly not a fan of the qwerty keyboard on here the physical keyboard the keys feel a little bit mushy and I think this d-pad is taking up a lot of unnecessary space I actually prefer to type on the full qwerty keyboard that you can use here and you can type either in landscape or portrait using the on-screen keyboards on each so the both pretty much the same experience so if you have to pick a device you know it's really again going to be your choice if I had to choose one today I would probably pick the droid running on verizon's network I found it to be a little bit more reliable than t-mobile's and a little bit more widespread depending on where you are now it's not to say I haven't been happy with the nexus one it's a fantastic phone if you get great t-mobile service where you are it's certainly worth considering your best bet in the long run maybe to even wait for the nexus one to come virat to verizon you can get the best of both worlds so that's one thing give you sort of a abbreviated hits ahead of the two big shot android devices on the market right now hope you guys enjoyed i'm jon rettinger and i will see you in the next video bye 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