You Have Two Choices To Start With
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With the collection of Android gadgets growing by the second, a gadget-crazy consumer may well get confused with the offerings of the market. From brand alone, the hapless consumer may already get a migraine from the choices to make. Add to that the form factor, the model, the Android version, and as the choices grow, more sources of confusion arise.
How about we start simple? Let's narrow down the choices to just basic Touchscreen or QWERTY?
Advantages of a Touchscreen Android:
1. Easier to play with. Most high-end Androids, especially from the HTC line, are equipped with Gorilla Glass, which is highly resistant to abuse. So if you're the type who likes decimating pigs in Angry Birds while you wait for your dentist's appointment, the Touchscreen Android is for you.
2. Easier to read with. A Touchscreen Android has larger screen real estate, so you can read emails, documents, and even e-books with better ease. Compare that with a QWERTY Android that may have a touchscreen but the screen real estate has to give way to the QWERTY keypad, reading would definitely be much better on a fully touchscreen model.
3. Easier to surf the Internet with. The Android's main purpose was to be a platform for a mini-computer that happened to be a phone. And if surfing is top priority with you, then you're letting the gadget serve its purpose.
Advantages of a QWERTY Android:
1. Easier to type with. If you're an email fiend or you just need to manically post status updates thrice an hour, then a QWERTY Android would be perfect for marathon Tweeting, Facebooking and even chatting. On a touchscreen Droid, you'll be all thumbs; on a QWERTY Droid, you'd still be all thumbs, but for better reasons.
2. No more iPhone Fail-esque typing fails. The big problem of touchscreen is that it's really not as good as a physical keyboard. Even the best of the lot, the iPhone (which isn't a Droid, but reportedly has the most-developed and best rendering of the Capacitative Touchscreen so far), still cannot perfect the precision of a physical keyboard. Thus a QWERTY Droid would offer the best of both worlds: a touchscreen display and a QWERTY keyboard beneath it (at least for the Acer beTouch E130, Acer beTouch E210 and HTC Chacha models).
3. Convenient texting, Facebooking, even chatting while walking, in a moving vehicle, or even surreptitiously during classes and meetings. Just don't get caught or have the phone snatched from under your nose.
The choices are going to be simple if you start with only these two options first. What functionalities do you need? What could you live without? The features are laid out for you to decide.
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