» Loic Le Meur has announced a Seesmic product launch (Seesmic Look, "designed it to help Twitter go mainstream, a new experience that can be used by anyone") and a mini-conference. The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, New York, NY 10018, Thursday, January 21st, 9am—12 noon EST. More here. (0)
Tagged / launch
Motorola Droid Announced on Verizon, Engadget has a Hands-On
28 Oct 09 / by Mark Bao / Mobile, Technology / / Comments
Verizon (VZ) announced the Motorola Droid (MOT) operating on its network today, a very powerful and elegant Android-powered mobile cellphone. As rumored, it arrives on November 6. With a viral marketing campaign executed earlier this month at DroidDoes.com, directly targeted at the Apple (AAPL) iPhone and exposing its shortcomings, the mobile industry prepared for the launch of the already-leaked phone.
The leaked specs presented it as probably the best consumer Android device available, with the same processor as the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre, a large and extremely pixel-dense screen (at about 840px wide), and the Android 2.0 Eclair operating system.
Engadget has shots of the really slick hardware and software on the Droid.
The Mark Bao Journal reported on the effects of the Motorola Droid and Android 2.0 on the state of the Android platform itself. I speculate that Android will beat out Palm (PALM) Pre, Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry, and Nokia (NOK) Symbian as the #2 smartphone platform under the iPhone.
Verizon Communications stock went up 2.57% to 29.95 today.
