| All the smartphones coming out this fall in time for the | | | | coming out in time for the holidays. |
| holiday season, and there's only one (besides the | | | | 2. Keyboard. The Droid has a full slide-out QWERTY |
| iPhone of course) that everybody's talking about. It's | | | | keyboard, and a good, tactile, responsive one at that. |
| the Droid, of course (and in case you're wondering, like | | | | The iPhone has none. |
| we were - yes, they did have to pay Lucasfilm's a | | | | 3. Android 2.0. Like iPhone 2.0, this is first major |
| boatload of money for the rights to use the Droid | | | | upgrade to the Google mobile OS, and in this case, as |
| name). Is it the iPhone-killer? Isn't it? Let's find out... | | | | most others, that means major improvments. But |
| This Droid, unlike R2D2, runs on Google. And if there's | | | | Apple did pretty well with their iPhone 2.0 upgrade. |
| one OS that all eyes are on to see if they can take a | | | | 4. 5 megapixel digital camera. That's on par with any |
| bite out of Apple, it's the Google Android OS. Even | | | | decent digital camera that doesn't have a phone |
| RIM's BB OS is no longer being seen as a competitor | | | | attached. The iPhones meager digital camera has |
| for Apple so much as the enterprise camp to Apple's | | | | always been one of its downfalls, and here Moto |
| multimedia jungle. But now here's the Android system, | | | | takes full advantage of that. |
| the internet ring of this 3-ring mobile OS circus...or | | | | 5. The internet. Yes, we know we said that, but it |
| maybe it's the big top itself, since enterprise and | | | | bears repeating because as great as Google's |
| multimedia require internet to function. And that, in a | | | | reputation is for all things web, that's how poorly the |
| nutshell, is why everybody, including Apple, is scared of | | | | iPhone'sweb capabilities have always been rated. |
| Google. Now as the for the Motorola Droid... | | | | Here, again, this time thanks to the zippy Verizon |
| There have already been several other Google | | | | network, the Droid prevails. |
| phones put to market since Android first came out. So | | | | However, as new and shiny as the Google Android |
| what's the big hubbub about the Droid? Why does | | | | OS may be, neither it nor Motorola and Verizon's |
| everyone seem to think this is the smartphone that will | | | | articulation of it in this Droid still pales in intuitiveness and |
| finally outdo the iPhone? | | | | user-friendliness to the "all-powerful" iPhone. Maybe |
| 1. Price. The cheapest Droid is $99; the cheapest | | | | someday, but for now...these are not the Droids you're |
| iPhone $199. But AT&T is rumored to be trying to | | | | looking for. |
| change that with a $99 8GB iPhone supposedly | | | | |