Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Eris Could Be the Droids You're Looking For

Reported by eWeek on Thursday, 19 November 2009 (on November 19, 2009)

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris present a lot for the typical smartphone user to like, including crisp call quality and excellent battery life. A few kinks aside, the Google Android operating system seems versatile and able to handle most minute-to-minute needs in the productivity, communication and entertainment qualities. Despite a few form-factor issues that could make the smartphones off-putting to some users, both Droids come closest to being the long-predicted iPhone killer. - Theres an interesting bit of legalese on the side of the box
containing the Motorola Droid from Verizon Wireless: quot;DROID is a trademark of
Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies. quot;

In the quot;Star Wars quot; movies, droids were bumbling robots such
as R2D2, inserted into the narr...

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