The Motorola Droid is an Android-based smartphone by Motorola distributed by Verizon Wireless in the US. Today, November 6, 2009 the Droid and HTC Droid Eris were launched. The Droid is said to be an “iPhone Killer” just as others like the T-Mobile G1, Palm Pre, Blackberry Storm and many others have tried and failed to do. The Droid features a stunning 5 mega-pixel camera with auto focus flash stills and video recording, an interchangeable battery, a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 touchscreen, full slide out QWERTY keyboard, turn-by-turn Google Maps navigation, and a Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 processor.
Droid vs. iPhone: iPhone Killer Or Not?
As for the specs, the Droid stacks up very nicely to the iPhone 3G S. The Droid runs the new Android 2.0 software and features a selection of apps developed by the Android SDK developers. The app store is still developing and is nothing close to the iTunes App Store. The camera is 5 mega-pixels, which trumps the iPhone’s measly 3 mega-pixel camera. The Droid has still picture taking with auto focus and flash, as well as video recording at 30 FPS. The iPhone has auto focus and flash and video recording at 3o FPS. Both the Droid and iPhone can upload to YouTube. The Android app store, is not anything close to the iTunes App Store, which is a very developed and advanced store. The Android one does have a small variety of games and apps, notably Midomi and Shazam.
Who Wins?
So, overall I think that at this point, the iPhone 3G S is better. It is better for the fact that, it is more developed and advanced. The Droid is very good, but not quite there. It could be battling for number 2 behind the Pal Pre by Sprint.
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