I’ve had my Droid since February. It is not a phone. It is not a smart phone. Its a companion of sorts. “Lets ask Droid” has become a common phrase in my home – or when we are out and want to know something. I’m connected – to everything. Work and personal email accounts along with contacts and calendars. Facebook. Twitter. All in the palm of my hand. Being the techno-geek I am, I love it.
Today, Verizon, along with Google and Adobe*; will be announcing the next generation of Droid phones. From what I can see on the geek-sites as well as the word on the street: this is getting a lot more buzz than the new iPhone that is supposed to launch tomorrow. I really think Google/Verizon is on to something – and Apple needs to step up their game if they are going to remain viable (it’ll never happen unless Jobs dies and the next in line comes up with the greatest “Apple Innovation” of all time: open source.)
I myself will be staying with the original Droid for now, for a few reasons:
1. I just got it. No upgrade discount available to me.
2. With my recent installation of a custom rom and kernal, my Droid is running at 1.1Ghz and has an awesome custom interface. The new Droid does not offer much more than what I’ve already got/gained by the recent tweaking.
3. By the time my upgrade does come around – there will be something even mightier (hints of a 2Ghz Droid!?)
Now, for more on the new Droids to be released:
Check out the CNN article about today’s festivities.
Engadget has some good stuff here, here and covers today’s event (1PM Eastern) here.
Also for more Droid goodness, some of the members over at droidforums.net turned this commercial into a custom boot-up animation:
Bootup:
*I am speculating that at today’s event we will find out exactly what is going to be going on with Flash support. I have been running flash on my Droid since I installed the custom rom which uses a leaked version of Android 2.2 (Froyo). I find it works really well.
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