Droid Day

It's official. The Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless is debuting in stores next Friday Nov. 6th for $199, according to the Wall Street Journal. I'm almost 80% sure I'm going to upgrade to this phone. Especially after learning that Verizon's other Droid phone, the HTC Eris, will be running Android 1.5 (why???).

So what's the Moto Droid gonna offer? How about a 3.7" 480x854 screen, Android 2.0 (first phone with 2.0), EVDO Rev. A, GPS, Wi-Fi (wow, Verizon, you didn't cripple Wi-Fi!), Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, a 600MHz Cortex A8 processor, 5MP camera with dual LED flash and autofocus, DVD quality (720x480) video capture, and a nice 16GB microSD card. Another interesting feature is that it'll come preloaded with Google Maps Navigation application which'll provide free turn-by-turn navigation using Google Street View. (Shove it, Navigon!)

On the flip side, Boy Genius Report (which is usually spot on with leaks) is reporting that the BlackBerry Curve2 is coming to Verizon in November. And here's where my other 20% comes in. The current BlackBerry Curve has an awesome QWERTY keyboard that I've used and like. The Droid's slide out keyboard, well, it worries me. We'll see what happens come next Friday.