The Motorola Droid has just received the Gadget of the Year award from both the readers and editors over at Engadget. The Droid went on to earn the smart phone of the year award from the readers as well. This doesn’t come as a surprise as Verizon has been heavily marketing the Droid the past few months with ads everywhere from online to signs at airports and magazine two page spreads and more. The Droid is Verizon’s flagship Android phone, comes with a physical QWERTY keyboard and was the first Android with 2.0+ OS on board.
The Motorola Droid was also the first Android with a high resolution screen available to purchase and features a number of improvements over the Android devices available when it was released. It includes a 550Mz OMAP Cortex A8 processor that zips the Droid along, a 16GB microSD card included and of course that nice large keyboard many users enjoy. If you read my Android fragmentation article you should see that the Droid accounts for over 50% of the Android users visiting this site, which is quite a feat considering the Droid only became available late last year. This makes Motorola happy I’m sure. The Droid is due for an Android 2.1 update very soon now, which should only make it even more desirable. Congrats Motorola, Google and Verizon.
