Enterprise Mobility: Meet the Motorola Droid, Verizon's First Google Android Smartphone

 
 
By Michelle Maisto  |  Posted 2009-10-29 Email Print this article Print
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Motorola Droid, an iPhone-challenging smartphone running Google's Android operating system, will arrive on the Verizon Wireless network on Nov. 6 for $199 after a rebate and with a two-year contract. Verizon has been hyping the Droid with a television ad that highlights everything the iPhone lacks—but the Droid possesses. These include a keyboard, interchangeable batteries, the ability to run simultaneous applications and the option to customize the device with widgets. Analysts are saying the Droid may be the first smartphone to hold its own against the iPhone. Palm had such hopes for the Pre, but was partly undone by its meager application offerings, as apps have become as important a part of a mobile device's appeal as its hardware or operating system. Google, meanwhile, has been industriously expanding its Android Market store, which now sells over 12,000 applications.
 
 
 
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Meet the Motorola Droid, Verizons First Google Android Smartphone

by Michelle Maisto
Meet the Motorola Droid, Verizons First Google Android Smartphone
 
 
 
 
 
Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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