iPhone 4 or Droid-X?

I continue to hear good things about the Droid platform, but have not experienced it myself. I recently bought an iPod Touch ("iTouch") and NOW I understand what all the fuss is about; the Apple iOS devices are pretty cool. With the iTouch I get web access via WIFI, which of course I have at home... and Starbucks, and McDonalds, etc.

Not sure I can justify the expense of a data-plan (I work at home, so there isn't any "on the road" time).

For what you are talking about though, an iPhone may be too small; you may want to check into an iPad or the Android equivalent. There is also the Motorola Atrix phone has a docking station with full screen and large keyboard. AND, of course look into a Netbook computer which should fire up faster, be smaller, and can be had with WIFI or wireless broadband from your choice of carriers.

Disclaimer: I am an AT&T employee

I have the original Moto Droid, and while the interface isn't nearly as slick as the iPhone, there are a lot of features that the Android platform provides that I'm always amazed are not available with the iPhone. For example, the iPhone (from what I've heard, no direct experience) does not allow you to choose ring-tones for things like SMS messages, and the volume isn't loud enough to wake you up at night if you use it as a pager. This was a major source of irritation at a previous job for those with iPhones where we were on-call 24x7.

Android is mulit-tasking, iOS is not. Turning your Android phone into a WiFi Hotspot is trivial, doing so with an iPhone is more work, though possible. Android has much better Google integration than the iPhone, so being "in the cloud" is more seamless, whereas Apple wants you to use their storage, their maps, etc. Android comes with Gmail, Google Maps, Google Navigation, etc.

All that being said, most of the differences are minor and if you don't need them, you won't care that much. I know plenty of folks who have had both, and mostly you can do all the same things with either. Everything you list as stuff you want to do above can be done trivially on either phone: both have cameras, both have multiple WordPress apps, both have browsers, etc.

I'd go and try one of each out and see which you prefer. If you already have Apple stuff, maybe the iPhone is the way to go, since the iPhone's major advantage is integration with other Apple products. If you're Windows oriented, then perhaps Android might be a better fit. It really comes down to personal preference.

Hey thanks! I got the iPhone today, mostly because the review of the camera was a little better quality, although pixels were less. good to know. jttb