Motorola Droid offers serious challenge to iPhone 3GS

There have been many smartphones come and go, they talk a good fight but are unable to deliver on its promise of knocking the iPhone 3GS of its perch. There is a new phone coming at the end of the month that could offer a serious challenge to the Apple iPhone 3GS, and that is the Motorola Droid, the first Android phone to be offered on the Verizon network.

Network World has been looking more closely at the new Droid handset, and although they say that it will not become the top consumer smartphone, it will be the one to offer the best challenge. If the recent Droid Does Commercial is anything to go by, then Verizon have lost interest in getting the iPhone.

If this is the case, then we can see Verizon putting all its weight behind a wave of new Google Android handsets. This certainly looks to be a good moved on Verizon’s part, as it is thought that Android will overtake the iPhone by 2012, oh no, that is when the world is meant to end.

Verizon have been late to the Android party, but with over 86 million wireless subscribers, Google Android is set to get a huge shot in the arm. If Apple is not worried about the Motorola Droid, then they have to worry about what future Verizon Android handsets will do to iPhone sales.

For the Smartphone smackdown between Motorola Droid and the iPhone 3GS, visit Network World