Droid is by and large the best smartphone I have ever owned, and seems to be – at least for the moment – the smartest smartphone on the market.

I made the switch from my rock-solid and super dependable Verizon Blackberry Curve for two reasons: I had an upgrade come around a few months before Droid launched, and I have had Google plugged into every hole I’ve got for the last three years, so a flagship Android 2.0 phone sounded like something I could get along with.

DROID NOT SLICK, OR SEXY, OR LIGHT. DROID WILL DEFEAT GUTSMAN

My wife also had an upgrade and got the HTC Eris, her first smartphone. She got her phone first and for several days I thought about just getting an Eris, because it is also a rad phone and features HTC’s super-slick user interface, which I still sort of wish I could port to the Droid.

Where other smartphones are trying to get slicker and sexier, Droid staggers around and yells “SHUT UP COUNTRY MUSIC, LET’S PARTY.” It is all hard edges and industrial design. It is the smartphone equivalent of a muscle car: it looks like it kicks ass and then does.
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