The Motorola Droid won’t make anyone forget about the iPhone, but the new device generally has received high marks after its first weekend on sale.
Motorola Inc. (MOT) launched the Droid on Friday in an exclusive deal with Verizon Wireless, which is heavily promoting the device for the holiday shopping season. Although long lines did not form at Verizon stores, analysts say the Droid appeared to be selling well.
New York-based Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), the No. 1 mobile operator in terms of customers, hopes the Droid will help it better compete …

Verizon’s Motorola DROID, launched November 6, 2009, wasted no time taking it to Apple’s iPhone 3GS, starting with a pre-emptive iDon’t TV commercial that mixed unflattering fact and fiction to appeal to geeks and general consumers alike. Many have now hailed it as the best competition to the iPhone to date, and the first flagship device to match it. Are they right?
If you’re interested in either an iPhone 3GS or DROID, here are some points to consider:
Network: AT&T vs. Verizon
Many would say pick your network before you pick your device, …

iPhone, consider yourself marked.
In an aggressive new ad campaign teasing a mystery phone with the potential to slay Apple’s leading smartphone, Verizon Wireless appears to have thrown down the gauntlet.
Its Web and TV ad lists the iPhone’s most notorious flaws, such as the lack of a physical keyboard, the inability to run several applications simultaneously and a camera that can’t take shots at night, and then ends with the tag line: “Everything iDon’t, Droid Does.”
Verizon has not said anything about the phone outside of its ads, but some say the …

There is no piece of technological wizardry that I want so much as a Droid. Yet, I have decided to hold onto my iPhone. Why? Because the iPhone is the PC of smartphones.
I mean that in the good sense of what a PC represents, namely compatibility. Yes, Google’s Android operating system may someday–probably will–become the standard for comparison among smartphones.
That time, however, is not here and may not arrive for several years. In the meantime, if I want just one smartphone, it will be an iPhone. The iPhone today represents …

The Droid lands in stores Friday, and on Thursday the heavyweight reviewers — which is to say the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and the New York Times’ David Pogue — weighed in.
Given that Motorola (MOT) and Verizon (VZ) pitched the Droid in its first TV ad as everything Apple’s (AAPL) and AT&T’s (T) iPhone was not, it was perhaps inevitable that every reviewer so far, including these two, treated its arrival as a grudge match.
Mossberg’s review is positive but tepid — especially the video version. He plods through the …