In the battle of Motorola and Verizon's Droid versus Apple and AT&T's iPhone, the clear loser is Palm, who despite gains with Pre and the forthcoming Pixi, hasn't drummed up the type of excitement Motorola has for Droid. Read the full article at Channelweb via http://www.crn.com/mobile/221500011.
Interestingly, I don't think the Droid will deliver anything spectacular compared to the Palm Pre. In fact, the Droid will likely run much sluggish and slower than the Palm Pre.
Why? Because both the Palm Pre and Droid use the same OMAP3430 Processor which run at 600 MHz with a GPU running at 480 MHz.
Now if you take into account that the Droid has been underclocked to just 550 MHz, with the same GPU having to refresh 2.3 times more thousands of pixels, you're going to be in for a disappointment on the Droid.
The Palm Pre and iPhone share the same pixel resolution of 480 x 320. The Droid has more pixels to manage at 854 x 480. So while the Palm Pre and iPhone can render videos and images more than twice as fast, the Droid would have just completed one video/image. While underclocking the processor from 600 down to 550 doesn't help either.
Droid may actually be the loser when the actual benchmark tests are released.
What mainstream excitement for the Droid? I've yet to hear anyone say they are going out to buy one. And while the Droid has impressive hardware specs, from what most reviewers are saying the keyboard is close to useless and the Android operating system--even in it's 2.0 version, looks ugly and unpolished which is why everyone tries to make a front face for it. It looks lightyears behind the PalmOS at 1.21 or Apple.