My wife got me the Motorola Droid for Christmas (isn’t she amazing?) and I really wanted it because I’m such a geek, but I was also curious to how well it would hold up to being a business phone compared to my Blackberry Curve.

The Droid has proven to be a great business phone during the past month that I’ve owned it. The main reason is its great integration with the Google services. I practically live in Gmail and Google Calendar and these two components work great with the Droid without any additional apps having to be installed.

Gmail’s labels work perfectly within the Droid email software giving you the ability to view labels, apply labels to emails or even change the labels on existing emails. This was a huge drawback on the Blackberry for me.

The calendar works great, but there are a few things that bother me.

1. The calendar defaults to a month view each time you open it. If you change the view, close it then reopen it you will see the latest view, but if you have to stop that app it goes back to the monthly view.
2. When changing the date of an existing appointment you don’t get to see the calendar so you have to know the date beforehand or guess at what Monday’s date is 3 weeks from now.

Of course everyone has heard about the Droid’s physical keyboard and its quirks, but I personally never use it and prefer the on screen keyboard. It is very fast to learn to use and I have become quite proficient at using it. Another item that people try to use to compare the Droid and the iPhone are the number of apps available. At last count there were over 20,000 apps in the Android Marketplace. Sure there aren’t over 100,000 like for the iPhone, but I have been able to find pretty much anything I’ve been looking for.

Other than those few things the Droid has really been a great phone to own.

If you are considering changing your business cell phones anytime soon I would not hesitate to recommend the Motorola Droid especially if you use Google for emails and calendar.