Will Droid Really Hold Up?
Last night during the excellent Yankees/Angels game, Verizon rolled out a commercial that simultaneously attacked the iPhone and teased their new phone, “Droid”. Seeing as how I don’t pay much attention to commercials, and the Yankees game was really good, I just brushed the commercial off. I figured it was something all ready unleashed and discussed.
But then Johnathan Gruber threw up a post discussing the commercial. After trying to look at the site on the ipod, which was made impossible by it being solely flashed based, I hauled my lazy butt off the couch to the computer. Now I see Michael Arrington acting bullish about the potential of the phone. That’s not surprising given Arrington dumped his iPhone as a sign of protest.
While I would love nothing more than to see a truly competitive phone for the iPhone on Verizon, I have a hard time believing it. The Blackberry storm was suppose to be Verizon’s answer and it’s terrible, the Palm Pre hasn’t been nearly the challenge to the iPhone as palm hoped, and the other Android phones haven’t put up too much competition either. The last two namely because of the networks they’re on, but nevertheless the iPhone hasn’t had serious competition.
Arrington says that the phone is both good hardware (surprising for Verizon) and good software, but as Marco Arment says, will Verizon be able to let go of it? Given their record, it’s doubtful we’ll be about to escape the terrible vCast junk hanging around their phones. I really really hope Verizon lets go and Droid turns out to be a serious competitor to the iPhone, not only because I have Verizon, but because competition is always a good thing, but I’m not going to get giddy right away.
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