Just in time to rain on Apple's 2009 earnings report, a prime-time TV ad and a series of well-timed leaks have put the spotlight on Motorola's Droid — a yet-unreleased smartphone that is being described by sources who have played with a prototype as the iPhone's first serious competitor. The ad, which premiered Saturday during the Yankees-Angels pennant game, is pasted below the fold. The challenge to Apple couldn't be less subtle; it's a series of "iDon't" screens listing key features the iPhone doesn't have — from a physical keyboard to interchangeable batteries — that the Droid does. The leaks are being funneled primarily through the Boy Genius Report, a blog with unusually good sources in the telecommunications industry. On Friday the site published an illustrated walk-through of Google's Android 2.0 — the new and... [read full story]
