September 4, 2010

Google Takes A Bite Out Of Apple Marketshare With The Motorola Droid X

A beatdown is about to go down in Silicon Valley, and Apple is just about to get crushed.

Steve Jobs' reign of terror and selling people their own socks is just about to come to a screeching halt. The last two iterations of the iPhone have been utterly disappointing, with Apple adding slightly more battery life, faster processors, better cameras, and a higher resolution screen. That's it. Nothing I would consider magical, but just enough to get Apple fanboys off the computer and into a long line only to find out the mobile phone they required to survive was totally under produced. The main features of the iPhone 4 — multitasking and adding backgrounds, things Google had integrated into Android from day one. So, if you are searching for something truly magical this cell phone season, you better take the Droid X for a test drive. The price is also just right for the Droid X, coming in at $199, which leaves enough room to purchase Droid X accessories.

Droid X, the innovation of Google, verizon, adobe and motorola is what the iPhone 4 should have been And, thanks to Steve Jobs' unwillingness to play nicely with other businesses (eg, barring Adobe Flash, and refusing to build a Verizon-compatible iPhone), the Motorola Droid X is possibly just the ticket Google have been searching for to munch into Apple's healthy share of the smartphone market. In a report published by market research firm comScore in April, Google went from owning 3.8% of the smartphone market in November 2009 to owning a cool 9% of the mobile phone market in February 2010. Apple, however, controlled a little higher than 25% of the cell phone market in that same time frame. Here is where the Droid X comes in.

The Droid X features an 8-megapixel camera, Adobe Flash compatibility (a VERY big deal), a Wi-Fi hotspot that powers up to 5 devices, Swype compatibility (a clever keyboard program that will make poking a digital keyboard a less stressful experience), and an HDMI output. Also, the Droid X will feature a ginormous 4.3in LCD screen, which you will probably want to protect it with a Droid X screen protector. Undoubtedly an absolute iPhone killer, and if Google can tack on nearly 5% more marketshare within 3 months without a product leading the charge, We have to imagine that the Droid X can boost Google's ownership of the handset market to a practical fifteen-percent by the end of 2010, possibly swiping some marketshare away from Apple.

And one of the biggest selling points as we go into the next era of wireless phones — the price. Thanks to Verizon, the Droid X has a $30 unrestricted data plan, unlike AT&T, which recently announced it will start slapping some serious price penalties on new smartphone users who use more 2 gigabytes of data per month. For those of you with an iPhone, that's not projected to be a whole lot of Netflix films when you leave the friendly confines of your Wi-Fi.

So, before blindly throwing any more money at Apple, check out the more geek-friendly and genuinely revolutionary The Motorola Droid X.

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