The Motorola Droid is the first truly lust-worthy smartphone from Verizon Wireless, and it puts all other Google Android phones to shame. Motorola may have stinted on a few of the basics in its quest for mind-blowing smartphone power. But the first Android 2.0 phone is definitely the most advanced and exciting device connecting to Verizon today.
Want a Verizon Droid, but, you know, with less Droid? The HTC Droid Eris is Verizon's slightly watered-down Droid: slimmer, lighter, and less powerful, but still a good smartphone for Verizon Wireless.
It had to happen eventually. The launch of Motorola's Droid makes room for a new kind of fanboy in the tech world: The Droid fanboy, armed at last with a phone that fits with any anti-iPhone lifestyle. Are they legion? Not yet.
Verizon is set to make tethering on the newly released Motorola Droid phone official next year. But to use the feature, most consumers will have to pay an additional $30 a month.
The industry is abuzz over the Motorola Droid, the first Google Android 2.0-based smartphone, to be released on Friday, Nov. 6, in the United States, with network access provided by Verizon Wireless.
Verizon Wireless is sending strong hints that it believes it has an iPhone killer. The maker of this new phone? All signs point to Schaumburg-based Motorola, which is.
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