HTC Droid Eris Review

HTC Droid Eris Review

If the Motorola Droid is as well very much and as well pricey an Android cellphone for you, Verizon now provides an entry level Android phone, the HTC Droid Eris, for half the price tag ($99 with contract and post-rebate). Even although oddly named for the Greek god of strife, Eris offers something but. essentially a slightly spruced-up edition inside the HTC Hero from Sprint, Eris is generally a fast powerhouse packed possessing a 5 MP camera, WiFi and visual voicemail, and provides 7 residence screens, 4 a complete great offer much more compared to a complete great offer more pricey Droid.

Unlike the genuine GSM variant inside the HTC Hero, which experienced a protruding "chin" on the bottom, the two the CDMA Hero and DROID ERIS lack this, which tends to allow it to be sleeker as well as a complete great offer more attractive. The DROID ERIS has lots of gentle curves and is also covered mind to toe possessing a dark soft-touch coating much more than plastic material construction, in contrast toward the defined corners and metallic building used with the Motorola DROID. thinking about that of those differences, the HTC DROID ERIS feels much less "square" when holding it and never as heavy since the Motorola DROID. As they say "Beauty is within your eyesight inside the beholder", but we think the DROID ERIS to turn in to the a complete great offer more eye-appealing equipment between the two, dependent on appearance. although we also think the fact that metallic building and additional extra fat inside the Motorola DROID allow it to be really feel like a higher-end device.


The HTC DROID ERIS retains a comparable 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen with 320x480 resolution that is found on Sprint's HTC Hero, but coloring support have been amplified from 65K to 262K. The sensors above it will also instantly adjust the backlight dependent inside the surrounding brightness level, and turn the show away when it is subsequent for the cope with through a call. When comparing the show found inside the HTC DROID ERIS subsequent toward the Motorola DROID, the variation is significant. not merely is going to be the show inside the Motorola DROID bigger (3.7") and higher resolution (480x854), however it also facilitates 16M colors. thinking about that of this, you can obviously see the variations between them, as pictures inside the Motorola DROID appear truer to lifestyle and therefore are clearer with out any pixelation. We also observed that when developing utilization of the equipment outside through the morning the fact that display inside the Motorola DROID was brighter and much less difficult to view, even although the HTC DROID ERIS wasn't as bright. We attempted the two the automated and handbook brightness settings, however it do not create a noticeable difference.

The genuine guts and display undoubtedly are a comparable as previous Hero phones—which can be to say, almost a comparable as all of HTC's other Android mobile phones so far. The 480x320 screen's even now nice, even if it feels dated now the fact that Droid's substantial screen, beckoning the subsequent generation, looms huge much more than it. Oh yeah, HTC? how can you remove your stupid, pointlessly excellent edition inside the mini USB port? Let's go to micro USB now, yeah?

The even now camera's much better compared to Droid though, and about a comparable since the Sprint edition inside the Hero, executing quite decently in low-light situations. Video, not so much.

While Motorola's Droid is going to be the major with Android 2.0, Eris is equipped "only" with Android 1.5. However, the Eris, like all Android phones, is upgradable to 2.0, but Verizon reps do not show when. What Eris purchasers will lose like a complete result is going to be the no price tag yahoo and google Maps Navigation with voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, obtainable only with Android 2.0.