New Phone On Verizon? Blackberry Tour or Droid Eris?

[Caroline]

i am 16 years old, and a girl
i will mainly use the phone for calls, email, instant messaging, twitter and facebook. as well as the browser now and then.
and i need something will a decent battery life.
which should i get?

[laurabristow5]

Well to be honest with you I was once a Blackberry Woman but I had so many issues with my Blackberry Storm. Now I am not 100% sure about the BB Tour but all I know is that the BB App World is terrible! On all three Storms I couldn't have more than 3 Apps in the memory! Seriously?! Now you can use the browser to get to Facebook and etc, but there are Apps that make it faster and easier to get to the social sites. What is the point of having a smart phone with Apps if you can't have many Apps?! To make a long story short: after 13 months, 3 Blackberry Storms & one Blackberry Curve; I gave up on Blackberry. It was a great phone when it worked which was about 25% of the time.

I just recently bought the HTC Droid Eris (buy one get one free & the one you buy is $29.99 after rebates ) I absolutely LOVE this phone! I email, text, twitter, myspace and Facebook A LOT so this phone is perfect! You can customize 7 screens and create your own Scene or "desktop" for different needs. For example: I have one "desktop" for messaging and another for my mom duties, so on and so forth. I think there is 15,000 Apps in the Market. There are a ton more things I can go on and on about but it would take like 5 pages to explain.

Speical note:
Don't be fooled by the short battery life. I went to Android Forum and typed in "extend battery life" and got ways to prolong the battery life. The reason why the battery life is so short is that out of the box, the settings that are preset are hoggingn up the battery, so make a few adjustments and your set.

Bottom line: My opinion - Go with a HTC Droid Eris. Better Phone and the Best Android phone I have come across. It is the true iPhone Killer.

Good Luck!