Droid does
Verizon recently aired a Droid Does commercial during the Yankees-Angels game on Saturday. This commercial does a good job of making the iPhone look bad. I really liked this commercial, and I hope that the Droid Does commercial pushes Apple to improve their iPhone and make it more open! Obviously Verizon hasn’t heard of jailbroken iPhones, because if they did then they would know that we can already get most of the features by jailbreaking. You can watch the Droid Does commercial here.
I am kind of disappointed about this commercial because it means that the iPhone will not be coming to Verizon any time soon. I do look forward to seeing what Verizon comes out with. Anyone else excited about the Verizon Droid? It really does have the potential to be an iPhone killer, especially since it’s being launched on one of America’s most reliable network.
Verizon Droid Features
Here is a list of some features of the Droid that Verizon has listed on their website.
- Video
- Tunes
- 10,000+ Apps
- The Network
- Multitasking
- High speed
- Hi-Res
- 5 megapixels
- Android 2.0
- Speech Recognition
- Notification Panel
- Directions
You can sign up to be notified once Verizon launches the Droid. No release date has been announced, the DroidDoes.com website just says “Coming Soon”.
Tags: Android, Apple, Droid, Droid Does, iPhone, Verizon-
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I applaud motorola for taking apple’s marketing head on. Rather than trying to say that android is ‘as good as iphone’ (i.e. G1, Pre)
too bad this site greys out replies it doesnt like. This is my only post here and I bet it becomes greyed out too. Oh well I wont be back to check cause I CAN NOT READ THE HIDDEN REPLIES WHEN THEY ARE GREYED OUT
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If people don’t like certain posts, they’ll vote comments down. We don’t choose which comments are greyed out, the visitors/commentors on this site do. :D
wonderful, But wouldn’t it be better to leave the text color readable after a viewer chooses to click the “click here to see” option?
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I might consider doing this during the redesign of this site.
All you iPhone haters LOL. Everyone is trying to put out an iPhone Killa, Instinct, Palm Pre…LMAO. Face it if Verizon is so savvy why did they turn down the iPhone in the first place. I have had AT&T since 2004 with no problems. My coworkers in Washington DC can’t even get 3G in our office, what a joke! They have BB Storms! iPhone is here to stay get use to it.
how did you figure the release date i went to the site and couldent figure it out lol??
it’s a timer and you can figure out which digit is which from the change in the one second and ten second column. The 0 symbol will appear before the ten second column changes. From there you’ll know which symbols correspond to which starting from 9 down to 0.
The only real reason why iPhone isn’t on Verizon is b/c verizon wanted to put their crappy interface on it like they do on all of their phones. Not to mention all if their phones have the same operating system, yet they have the best coverage. One other thing too; you may want to take a piss at apple over always jailbreaking your device, not offering flash etc but think about it this way. Apple’s devices operate and work within the realms of what you actually need. Do you really need to run more than three apps at a time? What if you forget you had one running and keep opening up apps. Next thing you know you phone is sluggish & slowand possibly a few glitches problems relayed to the massive drain on memory (this is just a representation). Apple makes their products so that they are user friendly and especially polished, so you don’t see all that ugly code and very rough edges you would on a PC. Heading back to the topic; whatever phone verizon is planning on dropping won’t beat the iPhone. Plus, this phone doesn’t actually do anything new, based on the info I saw above and various sites I researched this phone the iPhone does everything and lots more plus it only offers 10,000 apps compared to Apple’s massive 75,000 apps and growing.
I think i don’t need an app to find my car in a parking lot. Although the apps are cool, they are really unnecessary like you stated. What is necessary is a battery to use your device and that is why i am sticking with my bb bold. I have to charge it once every three days and i am never scrambling to find juice. Good point about the multiple apps running unnoticed especially with the battery life of the iphone.
yeah those polished edges sure are nice… i love it when a company creates a device that the user has absolutely no control over and is given no idea what exactly is going on behind the scenes. Gee Apple, thats why macs are so great, they give you all the programs you ever need. they know, without a doubt, what you need and want, why bother deciding for yourself. that is way to much hassle. i would prefer to have polished edges and no control over my devices any day.
WOW! you really set the record straight. The only thing apple can’t do is MAKE A PHONE CALL!! IT’S A PHONE AND IT FAILS AT IT’S INTENDED REASON!!
I dont see Wi-Fi capability listed. If it doesn’t support 802.11 wifi then i will not be buying one. I can’t stand how you are forced to use verizons data plan for all of their other smart phones.
It comes out November 8. Its fairly easy to decipher the countdown.
I have had every iPhone. EDGE, 3G, 3GS. All amazing. I have never looked at another phone. An iPhone is the greatest phone on the market. Apple will always be on top. Everyone that’s hates on the iPhone is either mad because AT&T tried to stiff them on a 1,000 dollor phone bill or whatever. Sh!t happens. That’s all computers that have counted your mobile web minutes up, and then people that worked for AT&T had to sort that crap out, don’t blame them. I live in the city so 3G is always working great. I do drive alot. (that’s my job) even when I’m in the middle of nowhere I still have 3G. If I do slip down to EDGE it’s always reliable. You can’t beat the REAL touch screen that works off of the electricity in your body.
What I’m saying is, Apple set the bar so high they might never be topped. No one has been able to do it for years! And apple has been growing while others fail. I’ve had cracked screens, 20 foot drops and water damage to my old 3G and still works like new.
I’ll have my iPhone till it they stop making them and it dies on me after decades of use. Or until I die. Which ever comes first.
iPhone forever!!!
totally agree wit u man the iphone cant be topped.. and my old 2g has 5 massive cracks.. not scratches, CRACKS,, 2 parts have fallen out and i pushed them back in and put a screen protector to hold the pieces in place and evry single part of the touch screen works perfect.. ive dropped it in the shower, my nephews dropped it in the toilet 3 times already and ive dropped it from my friends third floor apartment and it works 100% fine.. i got the new 3gs around 2 weeks ago and i love it.. now stupid verizon phone can top it,, oh and btw ive had 8 touch screen phones between my 2g iphone and my 3gs and no touch screen is better,, ive had a blackberry storm on att and the touch screen is garbage,, i had a mytouch on my tmobile account and dats just a joke,, its close to being good but not quiete there yet,, like it has sorta multi touch but just releases the touch… nothing will ever top the iphone,, all the iphone needs is flash but if you jailbreak it u can hack a safari plug in that plays flash,, not games in flash tho but atleast video!!
No matter how much of a fan you are of the iPhone, the AT&T network is a joke. LMFAO at an advertised 3G iPhone! The AT&T data speeds are freaking PATHETIC. Anyone who cares at all about up/down speed, which is the only thing that matters on a data network, would NEVER choose to be an AT&T customer! If you are an AT&T customer then I feel bad for your mobile internet speeds! Yes, all new smartphones should include wifi, but the iPhone HAS to have it cause of the rediculously SLOW 3G(1.75G???) on GAYT&T’s network! Both Verizon and Sprint have OWNED, when it comes to data speeds, with Sprint on top. With Sprint’s WiMax(4G) already in some markets and coming soon to all others, it’s GAME OVER for awhile from a data speed aspect! Google Vidoe “sprint 4G speed” and see how impresive it is! 6.5down/2.5up in the middle of the street! That’s SICK! You could Game on that wireless card/connection!!!!
Bottom Line, the iPhone is BA, but its on AT&T only, FAIL!!! The Blackberry Bold has been a pretty terrible release from a tech support problem view!!!!
I will take my Tour on the Sprint Network over anything out there right now, and can’t wait to get 4G in Indy, with a 4G Blackberry!!!!!!
It’s good to see a company use advertising to make their electronic device seem like it does more than it does, like Apple does.
release date is october 27th at midnight or the morning of the 28th.. its fairly easy.. i got the code 07044728 on october 20th at 7:13 central time so if u count 7 days 4 hours 47 minutes 28 seconds it takes u to midnight of the night of the 27th eastern time
Verizon is just hating on at&t granted so is every other phone company apple always exaggerates what it can do so deal with it also sprint is totaly not even marketing their android phone seems to me like the only people that know is the people who have sprint and as usal verizon is taking what other phone carriers have and relising it faster oh well right?
Verizon has never heard of jailbreaking? I hope you’re being sarcastic! Not that it matters anyway, 99.9% of iPhone users don’t jailbreak their phone, so that’s a weak point. Also, for the dumbnuts who said they don’t want more than one app running… what are you thinking? Do you run one app at a time on your computer? I hate having to close an app just to view a text message, it really sucks and is one of the biggest complaints of iPhone users!
The phone looks like crap. Motorola might be using the newest mobile osm, but it could of wrapped in in a nicer package. What is this i hear that it supports Flash??? There is no mobile Flash at the moment so how can this be?
It will support flash since it’s using the Android 2.0 operating system. Adobe has stated that the webOS, Android OS, and Windows Mobile operating systems will be getting Flash. No date has been announced, but it’s expected to be out early next year.
Cool, thanks Hans. I did not know that. Did they say anything about other os’s getting Flash, or are they just moving forward with the new os’s?
IPhone is amazing and nothing will beat apple. Apple has changed everything we know about music stores. Apple has CDs by the collar beating it into submission. And if your not on board apple then your in the dark ages. That worthless advertising sat around and bashed apple and people bash AT&T. Yea my iPhone doesn’t walk my dog and wipe my ass, but at the end of the day it is a phone dominating every smart phone on the market like mac is domination that worthless thing you know as a pc. Hands down the iPhone reins supreme but bring that droid out. And bash all you want, but like everything else that has fought the iPhone expect a failure in hardware and software over hype and talentless advertising. I’ll pass on the starwars stunt double
this may be an iphone killer but apple already (probably) has another phone up their sleeves to publish right after the iphone killer comes out. Its just that apple is always one step ahead of the gang. Sorry verizon nice try…
it’s funny how people get so worked up over a cell phone. no wonder our society is going to shit.
it’s funny if you look verizonwireless webite it says droid 11/06/09?
I’m reading this BS about how great the ipaperweight is on my Droid ha ha guess what Droid does!!!
I’m with you, Droid. Droid Does!
I’m getting a kick out of all the iPhone lovers bashing on the Droid BEFORE it even came out! Slightly unfair, if you ask me, just like their commercials.
I may be a hardcore Droid lover now, but I’m still an intelligent person, so if something better comes along I’ll recognize it.
Also, JL, the phone is incredibly sleek. It’s a DROID, so looking mechanical makes a ton of sense. I’ve got a rubber cover on mine, and it’s thicker, tighter, and sturdier than my friend’s rubber iPhone cover.
I’m not even sure that the battle is just the Droid and the iPhone anymore, though. The Samsung Moment (Sprint network & Android OS) is now said to have the best processor available…the battle will never end, therefore no one will ever win.