<p class="quote"><span style="color: #272727; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">Over the last few weeks there has been an increasing amount of buzz about an unannounced Motorola smartphone due to come out some time between late October and early December. Rumored&#160;<a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/10/01/verizon-to-announce-moto-tao-next-week-phone-to-drop-dec-1/">specs<img class="snap_preview_icon" src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.12/t.gif" border="0" /></a>&#160;include a powerful OMAP3430 processor, 5 megapixel camera, slideout QWERTY keyboard and touch screen, all housed in a super-compact package and running Android 2.0. A handful of potential names have swirled around, included the Sholes and the Tao, but tonight Verizon has made it perfectly clear what the upcoming phone will be called:&#160;<em>Droid</em>. And Verizon is positioning it to be a direct threat to the iPhone in a new advertising campaign it launched at the site&#160;<a href="http://www.DroidDoes.com/">DroidDoes.com<img class="snap_preview_icon" src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.12/t.gif" border="0" /></a>.</span></p> Jason Kincaid | TechCrunch iphone, motorola droid, geek phones, verizon ad the-feed 0 2009-10-20T16:29:32-04:00 <p>Presenting Verizon's Motorola Droid.</p> 6 6210 watch-your-back-iphone 2009-10-20T16:32:41-04:00 true false false false false Watch your back iPhone 2009-10-20T16:32:41-04:00 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/17/verizon-launches-direct-attack-against-the-iphone-with-ads-for-the-motorola-droid/ 84 0