Bellicose advertisements for the device have been out for some time, and plenty of specific information has been leaked already. But the official announcement of the purportedly iPhone-killing Droid finally took place today.

The Droid’s technical details are already known. It boasts a slightly larger screen than the iPhone – the device that it’s built to compete with – along with much higher screen resolution. Experts have, so far, been highly impressed with the Droid’s speedy performance and ease of use. Many reviewers praised the slide-out QWERTY keyboard as being good enough for touch typing, and call quality was said to be generally high.

Giancarlo Fasolo, director of project management at Motorola, told PC World that the Droid’s high performance was due in part to "hardware acceleration," and that the phone was designed for "best-in-class connectivity."

The device will be available for sale on November 6, and will cost about $200 after a mail-in rebate and a two-year contract purchase. Cell phone expenses won’t drop with the Droid, however: Users should expect to pay roughly $70 per month for voice and data service.

This entry was posted by Mobility Management News Desk on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 10:14 pm and is filed under Managing Mobile Expenses News, Understanding Mobility Management News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

Please follow us @Visage_Mobile on Twitter. We also encourage you to join MOM’s Kitchen, a professional business network for Mobility Operations Managers (MOMs). This online community will allow you to explore ideas, debate issues and define best practices and benchmarks for the emerging discipline of enterprise mobility management.