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iCan't stand by and watch Droid ad smear iPhone
iCan't stand by and watch Droid ad smear iPhone
Verizon's ubiquitous “iDon't” commercial has been peppering TV for weeks now. It makes two conventional mistakes in advertising. It's not clear that it's an ad for the Verizon Droid phone , a remarkable new handset made by Motorola and the first phone to ship with Version 2.0 of the Google ...
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Verizon Droid vs. iPhone 3GS Side-by-Side Camera Showdown
The iPhone Blog — ... about the Droid’s dubious introduction commercial, though he writes it out ever so much better. About the camera specifically, he says: ...

Review roundup: Motorola Droid, Verizon's first Android handset
AppleInsider — ... . And for a rebuttal of the Droid "iDon't" commercials, read the latest column from Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times .

Andy Ihnatko on Verizon Droid "iDon't" ads: baloney (mostly)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... was apparently as fed up with the ads as most of us here at TUAW, so he took Verizon to task in a Wednesday column. In the column, he takes on Verizon's claims and for the most part finds them lacking or at least overblown.In describing the faults of the ad campaign, Ihnatko says "Its claims about the limitations of the iPhone are baloney (Mostly.)" ...

Droid vs iPhone 3GS — a Camera Shootout
jkOnTheRun — ... Sure the Motorola Droid has a 5 megapixel camera over the 3 megapixel sensor used by the iPhone 3GS. But as most all of us know, size doesn’t matter. Put another way: more megapixels doesn’t necessarily mean a better still picture. Andy Ihnatko took aim at the Droid with his review and comparison at the Sun Times, but he also has ...

In the news
iPhone J.D. — ... York Times, and his review is also mostly a comparison to the iPhone.  Pogue's conclusion:  "Droid wins on phone network [Verizon], customizability, GPS navigation, speaker, physical keyboard, removable battery and openness (free operating system, mostly uncensored app store). The iPhone wins on simplicity, refinement, thinness, design, Web browsing, music/video synching with your computer, accessory ecosystem and quality/quantity of the app store." Third, Andy Ihnatko analyzes the "iDon't" ad for the Droid and explains why it is mostly wrong.  Ihnatko also ...

Chicago Sun-Times’ Ihnatko: Motorola Droid’s ‘iDon’t’ ad’s claims about iPhone are baloney
MacDailyNews — ... third party app simultaneously on an iPhone. When I’m navigating with my third-party GPS app, the iPod app is playing music and the Mail app is fetching mail in the background. • iDon’t allow open development: Droid shouldn’t try to fight the iPhone toe-to-toe on apps. It’s absolutely no contest: the iPhone has the largest, broadest, and highest-quality library of mobile apps anywhere. Verizon is aiming a peashooter against the USS Nimitz. Ihnatko continues in the full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Motorola Droid: "iDon't have a chance in hell at dethroning Apple's ...

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