- HTC Droid Eris
The HTC Droid Eris marks the additional in Verizon Wireless’s array of the Droids. Additionally due this anniversary from Verizon, the Droid Eris ($100 with a two-year contract, amount as of 11/5/2009) shares the Droid moniker and abounding appearance of aggressive Android phones, but it additionally adds some touches that advance the acquaintance for business users.
The Droid Eris touchscreen handset (a CDMA adaptation of the HTC Hero) has ambit agnate to, and abundant of the aforementioned functionality as, the T-Mobile myTouch 3G GSM unit, additionally fabricated by HTC. Ancillary by side, the aboriginal affair that all-overs out is the Eris’s brighter, sharper-looking display. While both handsets accept a 3.2-inch, 480-by-320 pixel screen, the Droid Eris supports 262,000 colors while the myTouch 3G has aloof 65,000 colors.
Unlike the myTouch 3G, which has six accouterments keys on the advanced additional a roller abrasion button, the Eris replaces the top four buttons (Home, Menu, Back, and Search) with anchored softkeys. In practice, the fourcomputer appliance keys were usable, but not as attainable to actuate as their accouterments counterparts. I’ve begin the myTouch 3G’s absolute Send and End buttons and roller abrasion (which glows if you accept an admission argument bulletin or added notification) added advantageous than the Droid Eris’s softkeys back averseness about in the dark. (The Motorola Droid lacks any front-panel accouterments buttons.)
The Droid Eris has a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM 7600 CPU, while the myTouch 3G has a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM 7201A chip. The Eris has a 5.0-megapixel camera (up from a 3.2-megapixel camera), Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0; includes a GPS receiver; and supports the 800MHz and 1900MHz bands on the Verizon Wireless network. It additionally has a accepted angle jack, article the myTouch 3G lacks.
Under the awning is the Android 1.5 operating system, not the Android 1.6 (Donut) amend or Android 2.0 (on the Motorola Droid). (T-Mobile has already pushed out the Donut amend to its G1 and myTouch 3G customers.) However, some of the improvements tossed in with Donut are in the Eris anyway. For example, the adapted Google Maps application, which includes alteration directions, comes with the phone; and the video and still cameras are attainable through the aforementioned interface, as is the case with Android 1.6. Not present actuality is the Google Maps Navigation turn-by-turn appliance that comes with Android 2.0.
