Alright, it’s been just short of a week and I still love the Droid. I have some suggestions, but otherwise, good stuff.

I went to a party Saturday night and I unsuccessfully took some night shots using the flash. I think it was user error regarding auto focus and the flash options. I’m not ready to hate the camera flash just yet. On the bright site, the Droid takes great photos during the day light hours. Here’s the shot I took today inside Best Buy (click the image to see the full 5 pixel glory).

Droid Photo During Day inside Best Buy

Now I would like to talk about the problems I’ve had. One problem really – getting media onto the device. Specifically music and podcast. I’m not going to deny the fact that iTunes, as flawed as it is, is the best media management software I’ve used. As of today, iTunes does not allow Android products to sync or manage media. So that leaves me with sub-par, non-Google, non-Motorola software applications and 3rd party plug-ins to attempt to manage my media.

If you have less than 16GB of stuff, you’re going to be fine. You can drop all your music and stuff onto you media card. However, I have about 100GB of music, videos, and photos – so I am required to manage my stuff. I found a decent solution – Songbird with the Folder Sync add-on. It’s alright, but it does not replace the thought and development that went into iTunes.

I hope that Google realizes that when the original iPod came out, it was using Music Match to organize the music, and it sucked. So what did Apple do, they built iTunes because they knew that if you can make the management of the media easy, it’s reflected in the product itself. It makes the product (iPod) seem easy to use. Google needs to take a few months and build their own media management software. Either based off the Songbird engine or a stand-alone product of their own for the Android system.

**UPDATE: I was using Songbird ver1.2. The new version, 1.4 was released and supports the Droid and other devices much like iTunes. It does not run in Win7 perfectly, but an update should be out soon. It’s much better then what I was using before.**