Why are people buying the Motorola Droid?Verizon's Motorola Droid (robotics) droid - (From "android") The robots of the Star Wars universe. While androids look somewhat human-like, Star Wars' droids are typically fashioned in the likeness of their creators or in a utilitarian design that stresses function over appearance. - the rumored" iPhone Killer" - goes on sale across the country today, with thousands of customers ready to get their hands on the new Google Android An open platform for cellphones from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Based on Linux, Android includes a library of Java classes for building mobile applications. Android and GPhone handset. Verizon's flagship store in <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091106/verizon-launches-motorola-droid-early-nyc-htc-droid-eris.htm" target="_blank">New York</a> was the first to open its doors at midnight for early sales. Over 100 people turned out for the event. "I love the fact that its the first real good touch screen smart phone on Verizon. I was going to chose the iPhone but then I saw the specs (SPECificationS) The details of the components built into a device. See specification. on the Motorola Droid and saw that it was far superior. The 5 mega pixel camera is what sold me because I want crisp pictures and to directly upload to YouTube is cool and I love the GPS," said Joliz Cedeno from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , one of the first to buy the handset. Verizon loyalty appeared to be a common reason among early bird customers. "I was very tempted to go with iPhone. I'm a Mac person but Verizon kept me here. I was hoping that the iPhone would come to Verizon, but they didn't and it doesn't look like they will anytime soon so I'm here," said Chad Griffith from New York," said Chad Griffith from New York. "It's the next new thing. I had the Razor a couple of years ago and I heard the curve was coming out so I got that but now its outdated so I need to get the next new thing which is the Droid. I'm a Verizon man and I love their service so I'm sticking with them," said Trevor Smith For other persons named Trevor Smith, see Trevor Smith (disambiguation). Trevor Smith (born April 15, 1949) is a retired field hockey player from Australia, who was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. from New Jersey. <strong>Motorola Droid Specs are also quite impressive:</strong> • Verizon's Motorola Droid is 4.56 by 2.36 inches and weighs under 6 ounces. • The phone has a 3.7-inch, 854-by-480 pixel touchscreen display. • It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard The standard English language typewriter keyboard. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letters on the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the typewriter, the keyboard layout was organized to prevent people from typing too fast and jamming the keys. and a 5-megapixel camera with DVD-quality video recording. • The Droid utilizes an Arm Cortex 550mHz A8 processor with 256MB of built-in memory. It has a 16GB microSD card and can be expanded to 32GB. • With the Android 2.0 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , users can multi-task and it features unique options such as integrated turn-by-turn GPS navigation See GPS. . • The Droid connects to Google's Android Market, which features roughly 10,000 downloadable apps. <strong>Read more on Motorola Droid:</strong> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091105/verizon-htc-droid-eris-vs-motorola-droid-which-is-better.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Verizon HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing Droid Eris VS Motorola Droid: Which is better?</strong></a> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091102/motorola-droid-motorola-milestone-motorola-droid-release-date-motorola-droid-germany-verizon-iphone-.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Motorola Droid going global as Motorola Milestone in 3 countries</strong></a> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091028/google-droid-phones-google-navigation-app-motorola-droid-verizon-droid-release.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Motorola Droid: First Android Phone with Google's Navigation App</strong></a> |
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