First of the Ad that is called idon't
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How many of you use iphone currently and this ad makes you think
One thing I thought was just the use of comparative advertising, it seems underhanded.But then again they are capitalizing on the flaws of iphone and using it to strengthen their position.
I have heard from someone who has seen the Droid(which sounds like an Alien Ship will land...sooo like Motorola or Google geeks naming it..)
Ok Question.What do you all think, will it be as big as they claim, or will it be another phone like Blackberry Storm?
Another is Do you think Droid can save Motorola, if successful?
Verizon's big ad push for Android targets iPhone
Associated Press
New York -- An aggressive TV ad campaign from Verizon Wireless is adding to the support building for a software package from Google Inc. that is shaping up to be the most formidable challenge yet to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
The commercials for the "Droid" phone, being made by Motorola Inc., list features that the iPhone lacks, such as a physical keyboard and the ability to run applications simultaneously. It ends with the tag line "Everything iDon't. Droid does."
It's not the first ad from a wireless carrier to take aim at the iPhone's weaknesses. Notably, Sprint Nextel Corp.'s ads for the Samsung Instinct and the Palm Pre have compared these devices to the iPhone. But the Verizon ads come at a sensitive time for the iPhone, as user frustration with the network of the sole U.S. iPhone carrier, AT&T Inc., is growing.
Verizon Wireless gets high marks for its network quality, but it has lacked a "smart" phone that can match the iPhone's ease of use and breadth of third-party applications. The touch-screen BlackBerry Storm, which launched last year, is the closest Verizon has come, but the first Storm got lukewarm reviews and was plagued by software problems.
The Droid will run Google's Android software, which is gathering momentum as a platform for a range of manufacturers, in contrast to the Apple-only model of the iPhone.
T-Mobile USA and Sprint already have Android phones. With Verizon, the largest U.S. carrier, now on board, the free software package becomes more attractive to software developers who want to reach the widest possible audience for their applications. A wealth of applications, in turn, helps attract customers to a phone.
The ads don't show the phone or reveal a price or a launch date more specific than "November." But the home page for the ad campaign, www.droiddoes.com, sends viewers to another site that has "Motorola" in the address. And two weeks ago Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam posed for an Associated Press photographer with an Android phone carrying the Motorola and Verizon brands.
(At the same event, the photographer captured what appeared to be a version of HTC Corp.'s Hero phone. It is expected to be the second Android phone Verizon Wireless releases. It's already available from Sprint and T-Mobile, and is more like the iPhone, lacking the slide-out keyboard of the Motorola model.)
McAdam said at the event that Verizon Wireless was putting "substantial resources" into developing and selling Android phones -- an unusual initiative for a carrier that has previously relied mainly on manufacturers to supply it with competitive devices. It's not clear how much Verizon is spending on the Droid ad campaign, however.
The campaign is an important endorsement for Motorola, which started using the Android software as part of a turnaround effort. The cell phone maker is struggling to recover from a multiyear drop in sales. Motorola started selling its first Android phone, the Cliq, on Monday through T-Mobile USA. Motorola has previously made smart phones using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile software, but these haven't been big sellers.
All the things iDon't is already being done by the Blackberries, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones out there, nothing extraordinary there. And I believe Sony already has 5 mpx camera in some of their phones.
As for shape, I don't think Droid is going to even going to come close to be in the same neighborhood (not even the same country) as the iPhone, much less compete!
i.e. the above is a flop campaign
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man!
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention "Droid DONT't let you change phones" and you're stuck to Verizon and that same phone (unless you "loose" the phone) for TWO WHOLE FREAKING YEARS.
I change phones multiple times a day, work, gym, night out etc. Diff occasions, diff phones.
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