Verizon Wireless' home page for Motorola Droid. Verizon, after a blitzkrieg of ads aimed at Apple's iPhone, said it would officially announce the Droid on October 28. (Epoch Times Staff)
Verizon—a joint-venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and U.K.’s Vodafone Plc—also said that the Motorola Droid would be launched sometime next week.
Verizon’s "iDon't" campaigns for the Motorola Droid have been running on all media formats—in print, online, on TV and on posters—and they directly take aim at Apple's bestselling iPhone. The ads direct consumers to a long list of features that the iPhone currently does not have, with each of the points preceded by an "iDon't."
The ads end with "Everything iDon't, Droid Does."
Motorola's Droid will support Google's latest Android platform, Android 2.0. Verizon's Web site revealed a little bit of information about the Droid. The smartphone is equipped with a slide-out horizontal physical keyboard and a 5-megapixel camera.
The Droid is also rumored to have a 3.7 inch “multi-touch” display with a maximum resolution of 854x480 pixels.
While there has been no official pre-release of the Motorola Droid yet, the Boy Genius Report blog published a hands-on review of the phone, and called it "the Android device to beat, and easily the most impressive."
Pricing for Motorola's Droid is not yet known, though analysts predict that it will be in the same price range as Verizon’s other Blackberry and smartphone offerings.
Motorola is the latest major device maker to take on the ever-popular iPhone. Earlier this year, Palm Inc. introduced the Palm Pre on the Sprint-Nextel network.
