HTC Droid Eris, An Affordable Feature-Packed Alternative To The Motorola Droid

The HTC Droid Eris is the second Verizon Wireless' Google Android phone after the Motorola Droid. Where the Droid was flashy and high-end, the Droid Eris offers a simpler, slimmer design. Eris is a quick powerhouse packed with a 5 MP camera, including a 3.2” capacitive touchscreen, WiFi and visual voicemail, multitouch pinch-to-zoom, and offers seven home screens, four more than the more expensive Droid, HTC’s Sense UI, which adds a user-friendly layer above the stock, similar to TouchFLO 3D on their Windows Mobile phones. The Droid Eris has a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM 7600 CPU and runs Android 1.5 OS. However, the Eris, like all Android phones, is upgradable to 2.0.

Eris is an austere black slab rather than champagne gray, is a bit thinner, and has four touch controls (Home, Menu, Back, Search) horizontally arrayed under the screen to complement the physical Send, End and jog nipple, rather than the slightly confusing toggle board layout on the Hero. The Droid Eris has plenty of soft curves and is covered head to toe with a black soft-touch coating over plastic construction. HTC Droid Eris feels less “square” when holding it and not as heavy as the Motorola Droid. Verizon generously includes a pre-loaded 8 GB microSD card. 


The 5-megapixel camera lacks a flash but performed adequately, capturing reasonable images under adequate ambient light. Sharing photos, though, is easy. With a single click you can upload to Flickr, Picasa or post an image on Facebook. The Eris is a decent music phone and a lousy video player. As with all Android phones, you have to drag and drop your music onto the phone or use a third-party program likeiTunes Agent to sync it over. Once your music is on the phone, the Eris's music player handles WMA, AAC, and MP3 tracks and pumps them out pleasingly either through wired, 3.5mm music headphones or over Bluetooth. Are you looking for HTC Droid Eris repair parts. It also offers video-recording capabilities and geotagging through the HTC Footprints app. But the Eris had some serious problems with video playback. 


The Droid Eris offers a loaded feature set that rivals other Android phones. You'll find Bluetooth, voice dialing, Verizon visual voice mail, a calculator, a calendar, a speakerphone an alarm clock, Wi-Fi, PC syncing, USB mass storage, and a voice recorder. And of course, you get access to the full set of Google applications like Google Maps, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google search (with voice), and Google Talk. 

Overall, HTC Droid Eris has a lot of features packed into a slim and attractive device and if you want a cheaper Android-based alternative to the Droid and can live without a hardware keyboard, the Droid Eris is a good choice. The Droid Eris has a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM 7600 CPU, 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. The best thing is HTC Droid Eris repair services are not so costly. Hardware smoother than a shave with a cutthroat razor. Brilliant touchscreen is shiny and responsive. It also has a standard headset jack. The Droid Eris has a rated battery life of 3.5 hours talk time, which is a half hour less than the Hero.