iPhone 4 vs. the Droid

[BailOut]

Originally Posted by eric81

We are going to replace our home phone, cable, and internet with these phones, so they need to be very reliable and very good.

That immediately negates the possibility of a Windows-based phone (longstanding known reliability issues) and makes an iPhone an iffy proposition (without a home computer that can download iPhone OS updates your only choice for them would be to go to an Apple store, and you'd also be limited to purchasing music via the phone's iTunes app as you'd have no other way to get new content onto the phone).

Given the situation you plan I'd definitely go with an Android-based phone.

On a different note you keep saying "Droid" but that is simply the name of Motorola's Android-based smart phone. The operating system's actual name is Android.

[Altitude]

Originally Posted by BailOut

That immediately negates the possibility of a Windows-based phone (longstanding known reliability issues)

Utterly false. Nevermind the fact the the new version is a complete rewrite of the OS so there is no history to claim it's unreliable.