
Motorola’s Droid Is Memorable, But Won’t Make You Forget the iPhone
October 28th, 2009 admin

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. An embarrassment of riches shouldn’t be a negative, and it really isn’t overall on the Droid, which goes on sale Nov. 6 to Verizon customers only. …
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