The prior television ad released by Verizon in the smartphone marketplace was a virtual love-in with the iPhone. Their latest, however, shows love for the new Android while dissing the iPhone.

When last seen, Verizon and its CEO were solidly on board with the features of the iPhone in what looked like a national television pitch to score the iPhone for their network. Things could not have seemed cozier between Verizon and Apple. One can only wonder what has happened in the interim, but Verizon’s latest ad, unveiled during the major league baseball playoffs, takes a number of stabs at the iPhone and declares devotion to a new love, the upcoming Android-powered phone from Motorola.

If one can draw conclusions from such things as advertising, one would be forced to think that the much-ballyhooed upcoming partnership between Apple and Verizon has been put on hold, and that the highly regarded wireless service provider is off in hot pursuit of the the bright and sunny fields soon to be occupied by smartphone hardware from Motorola powered by software from Google. Based primarily on this new phone and the impending nuptials between Google and Verizon, some industry wags have unveiled a new prophesy: Android phones will be outselling the iPhone by 2012.

The feature set of the new Android from Motorola is impressive, according to a ZDNet story, and runs something like this:

• Slide-out physical keyboard.
• Faster processor than any other Android
• Multitasks
• GPS receiver
• Uses widgets
• Replaceable battery.
• Android 2.0
• Five megapixel camera
• Speech recognition
• 480×854 resolution WVGA touchscreen
• 256MB RAM.
• 16GB microSD card with support for bigger chips
• Last but not least, Verizon service

That’s a pretty snazzy list of features, but the package has one big advantage and one disadvantage, with most of the fine structure canceling out. On the up side, the new Motorola Android phone will have service from the best carrier in the U.S., hands down. On the downside, it is not an iPhone. Projected final score: the announcements of the death of the iPhone are premature, folks. Let’s come back to this subject in 2012.

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Entry was posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 2:29 pm under Rumor, iPhone.  Print This Post

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