Motorola Launches Droid Attack

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Motorola, which partnered with Apple for its Rokr phone two years before Apple launched the iPhone, is taking aim at its old rival with a new ad that denigrates the iPhone’s functionality.

The ad, via mcgarrybowen, is a series of statements about what the iPhone doesn’t do, such as “iDon’t have a real keyboard” and “iDon’t run simultaneous apps” that appear against a blue screen as a jaunty rock song plays. It concludes “everything iDon’t, Droid does” and points viewers to droiddoes.com.

Droid, which goes on sale on Nov.

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