As my 2 year contract with Verizon Wireless approached, I had to decide weather I wanted to leave the network or stay. I wanted to stay because Verizon’s service is great, never any dropped calls, however I felt restricted in their network and saw a chance to free myself. Verizon has been notorious for creating custom software for their cellular device that cripples their phones.

I was really considering moving to AT&T and getting the iPhone, I owned a iPod Touch a few months back and loved it, but it too wasn’t as open as I thought, Apple has it’s own limitations on what you can and cannot do. The only other option in my mind was to either go Blackberry or go Android. I liked the Blackberry a lot, it’s old interface threw me away but it seems to function quite well and the phones looked pretty decent, so why change something that works right? On the other hand, I got suckered into the Droid which runs the Google Android OS. Android is truly open source at heart and right now, development is a little behind Apple in terms of the development community and they number of apps but I’m sure as adopters increase, people will pay more attention to it.

I renewed my 2 year contract with Verizon and got a Droid, I like it a lot. I do have a few things to complain about but I’ve found ways around it so I’ll deal but I see Android growing in popularity in months to come. Who knows, maybe it will kill the iPhone one day.

UPDATE: March 25th, I returned to Verizon and did an exchange because of a defective micrphone on the Droid, they were really good about it. It also looked like they replaced it with a more current revision of the Droid.