If you are buying your first smartphone, which should it be: Droid or the iPhone? Both are revolutionary devices, but which revolution is for you? It is not (yet) a coin toss.
That is the challenge I was asked to solve, the choice of the perfect smartphone for a woman who had never owned a smartphone before. Until recently, the choice was easy, after tomorrow it becomes much more difficult.
Once the Motorola Droid hits Verizon’s shelves, the equation changes and my old “Gotta get an iPhone” answer becomes obsolete. I knew …

Several devices, from the BlackBerry Storm to the Palm Pre, have hit the market hoping to be an iPhone killer, but none of them have so far succeeded. And while it’s unlikely the new Motorola Droid will knock the iPhone off its perch as the top consumer smartphone in the world, it could be in a position to pose the most serious challenge yet to the iPhone’s unquestioned supremacy.
One reason for optimism is the fact that the Droid is the first Android-based phone being sold exclusively by Verizon. Although Verizon …

The clock is ticking to the release of the Droid, and its smaller brother the Droid Eris, this Friday from Verizon. The media is filled with rhetoric drawing comparisons between the Droid and the iPhone. Those stories miss the point that the real battle isn’t between the Droid and the iPhone, but between Verizon and AT&T.
The media is focused on the iPhone-killer debate, but the real battle is Verizon vs. AT&T. The media is filled almost entirely with hyperbole comparing the Droid to the iPhone and discussing whether or not …