Motorola's Droid is Memorable, But Won't Make You Forget the iPhone

Oct 28th, 2009 - Wired

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Like it or not, Motorola's new Google-powered Droid smartphone will be compared to the iPhone.

The good news is that this feature-rich handset, running version 2.0 of Google's Android OS, compares very favorably to the Goliath of the smartphone world as a utility mobile computing device — and, oh yeah, a phone.

The bad news is that there may be too many good things going on to make using this device the quick, intuitive, out-of-the-box experience it should be. That's a problem, given that the iPhone has set the usability bar so high.

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