'Droid Does': Going after iPhone
Does the ad for Verizon's Motorola Droid phone signal a real challenge for Apple's dominant smart phone?
Will Droid dethrone the iPhone?
(verizonwireless.com)
Look out iPhone, said Sascha Segan in PC Magazine. Verizon Wireless "attacks Apple's iPhone in direct language that's rarely been seen before," in a website and video ad touting the Oct. 30 arrival of the new Android 2.0-powered Motorola Droid phone (watch the Droid Does ad). The ad says the Droid phone has what "iDon't," including a 5 megapixel camera, a real QWERTY keyboard, and, more importantly, "open development."
Many carriers and phone makers "have claimed to have iPhone-killers," said Jason Perlow in ZDNet. So we'll have to wait to see whether Verizon's Droid phone can succeed where others failed. But "I’m really looking forward to seeing what the Droid will offer"—this is where Google's Android OS is "put to the test to see if it is now ready for prime time."
Verizon's Droid Does ad says a lot about what to expect, said The Boy Genius Report. But Motorola Droid phone pictures say even more. "It’s thin. Just slightly thicker than an iPhone 3GS and the thinnest QWERTY-slider we’ve ever seen." And it's "easily the best screen we've ever seen on an Android handset." It looks like this is the best Android-powered handset in the cell phone wars so far.
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Posted by nocturnalcoven, Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:28 pm Can someone please explain what open development is.
Posted by aNONOHMes, Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:57 pm It doesn't even look that cool. I saw the commericials for this, and they totally dissed the iPhone. Not to mentioned that not all the things they said were true.
Posted by smaquois, Monday, October 19, 2009, 2:36 pm open development in this context refers to the fact that apple controls which applications get approved to be made available in the app store. it could also refer to the fact that in order to develop applications for the iphone, you must with a few very limited exceptions use apple hardware an iMac, for instance and apple's mostly proprietary language, objectivec. there are other aspects to what open source means, but in this conversation it is mostly about the app store and apple's approval process.
Posted by dj spellchecka, Monday, October 19, 2009, 2:45 pm i have to shamefacedly admit, i didn't understand the droid ad...i thought THEY were bragging about what their product DOESN'T do...just dense, i guess
Posted by McKinney, Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:10 pm Who cares? This is NOT news, it's free advertising by The Week. We want NEWS, not ads.
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