Can Motorola’s Droid Really Compete with iPhone?
27th October, 2009 by adina
Tags: Droid, iPhone, Mobiles, Motorola
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Verizon appears to have given up any hope of ever getting an iPhone contract from Apple. Its latest campaign for the new Motorola Droid is full of attacks on Apple and its flagship smartphone. Verizon is hardly fighting to promote Motorola’s Droid and to defeat iPhone’s popularity. This surprising campaign might seem a desperate tentative to beat the unbeaten Apple handset. Whatever it is, the results are to be seen in a few months, but maybe Apple has something more to say on this matter.
Much has been said about the sharp competition between Motorola’s Droid and iPhone. Verizon made a great move by planning to launch this new Android-based phone, but will it be enough to menace the solid position of iPhone on the market?
Some people would say “yes”, taking into consideration that the Droid is the best Android device to date, relying on a high-quality, fast processor, providing PowerVR graphics and excellent call quality, not to mention the battery that can run for a whole day long. The Droid’s unique dock determines the smartphone to start into alarm clock mode when put in, displaying large icons which allow switching to current weather or music playback with oversized controls. The Droid’s design is smart enough to automatically enter the GPS-oriented Car Mode.
Other people would say “no”, simply by intuition, even if rumors of Verizon supporting the Droid even by sacrificing the Storm 2, due to the quality of the first one, are very intense. They are so trusty when saying that iPhone could be only challenged by a new iPhone that they even think the Droid will impact on Blackberry, or Windows Mobile, or even Palm Pre sales but not iPhone’s.
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I don’t think we’ll really know how many of the people who would have bought the iphone but refused to switch to at&t will now buy the Droid. Is that hurting iphone sales? Only the ones that would have happened if the iphone were offered on a different network.