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Article: Google touches add value to Droid
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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I love it when big, rich technology companies start smacking each
other around like robots in a Transformers movie, because you'll
generally find some pretty cool gadgets poking out of the wreckage.
Here's one of them now: the Droid, Motorola's first phone to use
the Android operating system developed by Internet search titan
Google Inc. It's also the first Android phone to be offered by the
nation's largest cellular carrier, Verizon Wireless. The Droid goes
on sale tomorrow for $199 after a $100 rebate, and with a two-year
Verizon service contract.
No doubt you've heard of the Droid from one of its ever-present
TV commercials. Most smartphone vendors have tiptoed past direct
comparisons ...