Motorola Droid sales doing well
The Motorola Droid was one of the most anticipated smartphones of 2009. Recently, when the phone was officially launched, be so one of the highest traffic on this site.
Motorola Droid photo
People are already interested in rumors about the Motorola Droid; and interest peaked just before the launch of the phone. It was the first Android 2.0 mobile phone to hit the market and expectations there sky high. Click the link to read a comparison of the Droid and iPhone.
A couple of days after the launch of the Motorola Droid, initial reports of sales there not very enthusiastic. There the reports of queues outside Verizon stores, but most news reports mentioned that they were not very long ones.
A week after the launch of the Droid, a different picture has emerged. Now, the consensus is that the Motorola Droid would be the runaway hit of the holiday season of 2009. That is the great news for both Motorola and Verizon. It is possible that as more people came to know about the Motorola Droid through television, newspapers and websites, sales started doing better. After all, pre release publicity and expectations for the phone their hardly on the level of the Apple iPhone. That one had months of rumors, leaked spy photographs prior to the launch.
Droid sales, on the other hand, seems to have started slow but picking up momentum. One explanation for not seeing any very long queues outside Verizon stores seems to be that unlike Apple, the network had enough units in stock, thereby removing the need for people to queue up outside. Straightforward logic – wonder why nobody thought about that.
At this point, we have no information on actual sales figures for the Motorola Droid. But that information should be made available by Verizon soon enough.
Android 2.0, with the Motorola Motoblur user interface on top, and the larger screen, high processing power and the slide-out keyboard together seemed to have convinced the market that this is a phone to go for. And of course, all the bad publicity about the dropped calls and bad quality on AT&T’s network.