One important feature that Verizon forgot to include in their Droid Does commercial is that the Droid phone does support Flash while the iPhone doesn’t! Earlier this year, Adobe announced that they will be releasing a mobile version of their Flash Player for Android, Windows Mobile, and the Palm webOS. The iPhone OS was not included in this list.
The Droid will be running Android 2.0 operating system. Flashplayer is expected to be released for the Android OS and other mobile operating systems some time in early 2010. With multi-tasking, Flash, and the most popular carrier, the Droid does stand a pretty good chance at competing with the iPhone. Will it be an iPhone killer? We’ll find out soon enough! The launch date is expected to be some time in early November.
Flash is coming to mobile operating systems!
Droid release date
Droid Does: Pictures, specs, and release date for Verizon Motorola Droid
Verizon Motorola Droid phone with Android 2.0 is coming on November 6
Droid looks to be much better than the iPhone. If only it had iTunes support lol. Droid looks to be my next phone on verizon
I agree, I have a 3Gs and I think android will be my next phone. As apple locks things down more and more and keeps out good stuff like Mozilla Fenic and Adobe Flash. I just don’t see apple being able to stay on the cutting edge. Thank goodness for some solid competition!
Got it on Friday. Its pretty cool. Super faSt only slow when connected to my imac.I
There is a pay app available in the Droid Market for iTunes…Wish Granted!
Droid runs itunes fine. Download DoubleTwist (a free app) to your PC and it will sync itunes to the Droid.
I’m not surprised but atleast one phone can actually be the iphone killer. As much as I love my 3GS, hands down, Droid owns. I wouldn’t mind getting the Droid. I just want to see what Apple will come out next.
Lol, tho u gotta understand, apple is actually not even supporting flash on macs, which just like FireWire(apple stop supporting it) it will become non-existant…so why upgrade…or in other words downgrade(to verizon) for the next best device…I won’t be going to verizon anytime soon, they lack in so much for service…oh well AT&T ftw
Yep droid does
Ok this is going to be either an iPhone KILLER or a wake up call to get off their @SSES and start adding those missing FEATURES
You have to admit apple has been pretty slow to implement features requested by its users. Stereo bluetooth took like 2 iphone updates before it was implemented. Copy and paste we didnt get till the recent update. In the cell phone industry the changes are moving at lightspeed and while apple is a great company i dont think they have been up to par with feature demands. The droid looks very good and i will opt for it as well over the iphone 3g but you gotta love which toys well get in the future.
The Droid may ended up being good competition for the iPhone but Im skeptical. I bought the G1 when it came out for T-Mobile and I was unimpressed by the technology. Maybe it was just a crappy setup by Google, but I sold the phone and cancelled the contract with T-Mobile after three months and switched to the iPhone. There are two things that bother about the iPhone. 1st, I can’t input custom SMS tones. 2nd, No Flash support. I dot mind the lack of flash support so much but I’d like to input SMS tones of my own. Overall, I will likely keep the iPhone until it dies out on me.
Flash might not be supported through safari, but Iphone devs will still be able to make flash based apps that will run natively on the Iphone. It sucks that it still can’t run flash over the internet, but making flash apps that work on the iphone will be fitting for itunes.
I’ve had an iPhone since they were released. It’s nice, but the AT&T coverage is terrible with lots of dropped calls and no reception in some cases (in my area). That combined with Apple’s continued decision to not support Flash on the iPhone will have me switching to the Droid phone with Verizon if it supports Flash (as mentioned above in your article) and looks like a good phone. In my opinion the iPhone has become exactly what it was against when it was first released.
Thanks Free Marketplace for continuing to support competition and innovations from companies who want to add features and options over companies who try to lock them out.
Many more of the sites i browse are using flash based viewers ( about 80% of the sites I use now only support flash).
I have also had issues with AT&T with dropped calls and calls not coming in at all, then later some calls showing up as missed calls.
This makes my iphone as good as a brick. Looks like i’m going to cancel my iphone and switch to Droid.
What will Apple do next?
They’re going to sell your 3gs for 100 dollars. They’re going to sell the same phone for cheaper, not improve much or do anything special. Just do what they always do, alienate their die hard followers who purchased the phone right at launch and then turn around giving them nothing new and the middle finger.
What’s the point of having a neat phone if it doesn’t really do its most base function? Being a phone. On the At&t network, it has a very hard time doing that.
Don’t get me wrong, the IPhone really blew the smart phone scene up. It made a smart phone usable to the general populace. Simplicity brought it to the masses, where as before, smart phones were just nifty gadgets that few owned, and even fewer could use. But, it has some handicaps that are catching up with it. Network is crap, apple loves the smell of it’s on excrement, and the rest of the competition isn’t sitting around with their thumbs inserted all the wile grinning toothily. I like the Droid, I like the I-phone, I hate apple and AT&T. I like Google, Verizon, and Motorola.
The droid does not support flash. But a jailbroken iphone does! If it’s true that Verizon will get the iphone next year it will be well worth the wait. Unless it is like they say it will be and have a much smaller screen….hmm. What to do?
As an iPhone 3Gs owner, I am very glad that the Droid is such a great phone. We need competition, and Apple better pay attention. I can see that HTC, Motorola, Nokia will easily overtake iPhone very soon. No flash support on the iPhone after 3 years? This is bad. Most websites depend on Flash, and Apple better get it together. I like the idea that most phones coming out allow you to customize, while Apple prohibits it. While I generally like my iPhone, I’m getting tired of Apple, and may opt out of a 4th generation iPhone unless there are some major improvements. Also, my 3GS is not as reliable as my older 2G iphone.
I just bought the DROID and it just destroys the I- phone. Allow me to ellaborate why. First off, it has a thin slide out keyboard. Secondly, This device has an expandable micro sd card. Multitasking annyone? No more having to shut down the music to go anywhere else with the phone. The last thing , although there are many more, is that this phone is running android software which allows so much more since it is open source code.
the droid will not kill the iphone per say, the iphone is a monstrous institution already established and android is just emerging. However, you gotta say that compared to the iphones launch at first the droid definitely kills it, even the 3gs… the hardware is either equal or better in some areas. Phone DOES clock at 600mhs, with openGL support graphics, dedicated graphics processor, way better resolution and bigger screen. the keyboard has gotten bad reviews but you cant complain for the phone being closely as thin as the iphone (thinnest slide out qwerty phone on the market). It DOES support multitouch but apple did not give software rights to use that in the US, however, elsewhere it will and there are third party apps that will take advantage of this. Plus its open source! dvd quality video capture and 5mp cam… real multitask, (no need for unreliable jailbait). Overall hardware is awesome and software has POTENTIAL yet unexploited to kill the mac os on the iphone. bad thing is everyones mind is set on one thing and are not open to change…
Just went to the adobe website on my droid and it verified that they are working on a flash player for it and said to be available 2010
A HUGE thing you all are forgetting is that Droid DOES NOT allow you to browse on the internet or do web based activities and talk on the phone at the same time.
GUESS WHAT ?? that means if you are looking at a web page, your calls will go to voice mail.
Um… i think ANYONE with half a brain can see how that absolutely sucks. For that reason alone, I would not consider the Droid. Otherwise, I think it’s a great device– though, I played with one and the scrolling was nowhere near as smooths as my iPhone 3gs— and that was surprising since it had no apps installed on it.. brand new off the shelf.. anyway.. another thing I *don’t* like about the droid is the pull out keyboard.. it’s just not a good keyboard, the keys are too flat, it’s almost like typing on a flat surface, so why not just save the space, have a thinner, lighter phone, and use a virtual keyboard??
where Droid definitely has an edge is in the openness of the Android platform—- however—- a lot of people think that Apple has an edge because they can control their platform better— I’ve heard Android developers claim it’s hard to write software that will work on all the Android phones because they all have different hardware.. think about it.. that may make it much harder for smaller app developers to write apps that will work across all Android phones and across all versions of Android.
Personally, I wish iPhone ran flash, but then again, I wouldn’t use it often because of how it KILLS device battery… you’ll see.. no matter how much they optimize flash for mobile, it is either going to DRAIN your battery VERY VERY fast or it’s not going to run complex flash sites. hopefully for users, they dumb it down so it just shows flash videos and don’t go to crazy with trying to make it support complex sites.. but knowing Adobe, it will be bloated, and drain your batteries to the point that you will wonder why you wanted Flash so badly on your phone after all.
Lol, I find the post about not being able to receive calls while surfing the web entertaining considering I was reading this page on my Droid Eris when I received a call from my boyfriend, and then was able to look something up for him on Google while having him on speaker… The multitasking ability of the Droid kicks arse. :3