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Verizon Droid almost enough to give up iPhone


Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:00
By ANDY IHNATKO ai@andyi.com


A Motorola Droid mobile device is shown in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009.
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Verizon couldn’t have been more explicit about their hopes for the new Droid phone. Their commercials for the Droid say nothing about what the phone can do and everything about what they think the iPhone can’t.

Even the Verizon ads that focus on the Verizon network instead of any specific hardware are clearly aimed at potential iPhone buyers. When they spend all thirty seconds boasting of the superior 3G coverage of Verizon’s network versus AT&T’s, they’re really boasting about the 3G availability of the Droid versus the AT&T-exclusive iPhone.

Over the past two years, many phones have positioned themselves as “iPhone-killers.” But within an hour after uncrating one of these phones, it’s usually clear to me that they weren’t really serious. “It’s an iPhone-killer” is just an efficient way to communicate to the media and to consumers that it’s a media-studly smartphone with a big screen, a touch-based OS, and a library of third-party apps.

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