Will Motorola Droid pose threat to iPhone? Or will it kill RIM Blackberry instead?
Droid handheld communication devices by Motorola have hit the market. The list of features suggests it will offer stiff competition to Blackberry smart phones by RIM in Verizon Network.
Motorola Droid is the newest entrant to the smart phone battlefield. It is powered by Android, the open source operating system that has the full backing of Google™. This smart phone already has the blessings of technology pundits as the breakaway winner of smart phones. This is even before Verizon drop date, November 6.
Verizon commercials already poke fun at things that iPhone lacks. The ‘iDon’t’ blitz has attracted the attention of young population. The full-page ads on major newspapers also help. However, iPhones are not there in the Verizon network. It will pose a threat to another cutie, Blackberry, which dominate the smart phone segment of Verizon network.
Motorola Droid would spell an end Blackberry’s domination in Verizon networks. AT&T network does not have any Android phones in its network yet, but has all the iPhones in the US.
Although Verizon and Motorola would love to target iPhone users, it will be very difficult for them since AT&T customers have signed multi-year service agreements at the time they purchased an iPhone. Switching the network would attract hefty fines.
Droid boasts a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 385 minutes talktime and 270 hours standby time. Email support for IMAP and POP, Macmail, Gmail, Hotmail and AOL mail is pretty news. The display is a 3.7″ 480×854 WVGA screen, with a display resolution of 400,000 pixels. HTML5 browser, support for different audio and video formats, a 5 mega pixel camera, 16GB memory card, etc are other specifications.
If that is not enough, Motorola/Verizon Droid also supports more than 10,000 apps – to do anything and everything a smart phone is supposed to do.
Going by present trends, anyone can reasonably expect Android phones to dominate the smart phone market. Experts believe there will be as much as 40 such phones in the market before the end of 2010. Other major Android phones are:
HTC Dream
HTC Magic
HTC Hero
Huawei U8230
Samsung Galaxy
HTC Tattoo/HTC Click
Motorola CLIQ
Samsung Moment/InstinctQ
There are dozens others, rumored to hit the market in the coming months.
4 Responses
nice article
iPhone still dominate because of the glitz and the content.
I agree that this will not kill the iPhone, but at the same time i really wish that Verizon was the carrier for my iPhone, as the reception in my area is sub-par at best.
However, recent innovation in cell phone technology really makes me excited for the future of hand held devices!
This phone will be the end of the usless over priced BlackBerry!, finally!