What will Today Bring?! [Updated!]
As I sat down to write this post – after a three-day stretch that has seen me write hundreds of lines of code and six pages’ worth of academic prose (you’ll learn why soon) – there’s a shade over 12 hours left on the DaveRea.com “countdown to Droid” timer. In a few short hours – several of which will be consumed by sleep for those of us in the Western hemisphere – Verizon and Motorola will make a major announcement around the upcoming Droid smartphone.
On the eve of the big announce, I can’t help getting the feeling that Big Red and the folks at Moto and Google have something up their collective corporate sleeves. While the stream of rumors, hype, leaks and advanced marketing around the Droid has been plentiful, I just can’t believe they’d let everything slip. Part of me wants to believe that, in this age of stealth marketing, blog-based viral campaigns and other such underground productspeak buzzwords, nearly everything that’s made it to the wire so far has been planned that way. That same part hopes that tomorrow’s announcement will do more than confirm what anyone with a passing interest and a web browser already knows – that they’ll unveil something revolutionary.
Could it be carrier-independent Turn-by-Turn navigation? Perhaps something related to the new Google Audio service? Maybe the revelation that all the leaks and rumors and specs out so far have been carefully deflated, and the real Droid is made of even more awesome than everyone is anticipating?
Only time will tell…
Update: Here’s what today brought…
- The Droid will indeed launch 6-Nov-09 (I will be camping outside the Verizon store!)
- It’ll feature 16GB of on-board flash, the largest storage space of any Android-based handset on the market
- It’ll have Multi-Touch!
- Also carrier-independent turn-by-turn navigation, with speech-recognition and live traffic, delivered via carrier network
There are plenty of other sites carrying the particulars, and though I wouldn’t qualify the above as the revolutionary revelation I had hoped for last night, everything here is definitely noteworthy and indicative of major advances for the Android platform…
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