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 I did not want to get too technical.  Wouldn't understand it anyway.
And did not want to get in an argument between the Iphone and the Droid.
And I guess they are kinda the same thing??

I see Straight Talk thru Walmart has  a Droid.
Cost of the phone is $150.
Unlimited usage is $45/ month.

Was thinking about giving it a try and upgrade from my Tracfone.
Any comments?
 It depends on what you want to use your phone for.  If all you want is to make voice phone calls, I don't see any reason to upgrade.  But smartphones like iPhones and Droids open up a VERY large new world of capability, but with a very large accompanying learning curve.  The new smartphones are basically very small computers with cell phone circuitry inside.  Thus they can do some of the things typical computers can do besides making voice phone calls.  If you are not all that comfortable learning new capabilities on a regular computer, you might want to rethink getting into a smartphone.
 BTW/ iPhones are proprietary and only made by Apple. Droid is marketing shorthand for "Android" which is the software developed by Google and made available to other manufacturers to use for phones, tablets, etc.  Several companies make "Droid" phones, and it seems like new ones are released almost daily.

Art

 Thanks Art... I just thought it would fun to try.
I see all these people with there heads turned down, staring at their phones.  Nobody talks to anybody these days... just stare at their phones. HAHA.
And Guess I want to "keep up with the Jones's" and see what its all about.
And thought $45/ month seemed reasonable for unlimited usage.
Am I crazy or not?

If you haven't seen it, here is a short marketing video on what I think is the phone you are looking at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNV3Vny6Bo

If you get one, I'd recommend finding a friend with a Droid phone and getting a thorough walk through.  Then play with the phone to get familiar with it's operation before you really need to use it.  They tend not to come with separate instruction manuals, and finding the help information on the phone itself may not be obvious to a novice.

Art

Do you think it would a navigational application too, instead of having to buy a separate unit?

cell phone's battery by using it for a GPS for any length of time.

On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:18:20 -0000, Andy Baird wrote: "  I should have been more precise. As shipped, the iPhone comes with Maps, an Apple application that gets its data on the fly (from Google Maps). It can create routes for you, but unless I'm overlooking something, it can't give turn-by-turn verbal directions. Even with Apple's VoiceOver speech-assisted interface turned on, it doesn't speak directions."

By the way-- IF you've got an iPhone and want to use it for navigation purposes, I stumbled across an app for free called Waze which works really well in my limited experience so far-- it will give turn-by-turn directions, provide re-routing around traffic and you the user provide information back to help other "wazers" when roads slow down -- I was driving through Culver City the other day using Waze and it tried to steer me away from a traffic jam near a construction site but I ignored it..
So, it noticed I was going slow through this one section of road and a dialog box popped up asking if I was in traffic..
Pretty slick feature if you ask me.. All for Free!!

Anyway, as with any GPS app they're not always the smartest things out there and will occasionally take you the not so direct path from point A to B but this one is free and has all the bells-n-whistles that the $50 programs cost for the iPhone but without the expense..

Verizon may be bundling VZ Navigator with a "value-added" feature package, but you're paying extra every month for it, one way or another. For example, if you bought VZ Navigator by itself, it would cost $4.99 per month. That's fine if you really wanted the other features in that extra-cost bundle, but paying by the month for GPS capability that only works when you're near a cell tower is not an attractive proposition for most of us.