Its been a while since there was a Motorola phone that I wanted to buy but this new Droid phone is very impressive. Google's Android mobile phone OS is exciting to watch but the reviews of previous phones running it were lack luster. Most did not have the processing power to run Android effectively or lacked creative design.

That seems to have changed with the Motorola Droid. The early reviews sound great and some of the features that Motorola has come up with have really improved on Google's OS. The asking price is only $199 on Verison.

I just finished reading a story by the Times on how the Motorola Droid came to be. It is very interesting to read how CEO Sanjay Jha has streamlined Motorola, cut out phone lines that didn't inspire and quickly promoted the Droid project.

Key Features:

• Slide out keyboard (@ 13.7mm its the thinnest)
• 5MP camera and DVD quality video recorder (720x480)
• Video play back formats: AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, WMA, eAAC+, OGG, AMR WB, AMR NB, AAC+, MIDI
• 16GB internal memory with up to 32GB of microSD support
• 3.7"; WVGA (480 x 854 pixels); 16:9 widescreen is bigger and  more then double the resolution of the iPhone

Here is a list of reivews on the Droid: PC World, Engadet, Boy Genius