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After so many lousy motorola phones, I'm as likely to buy this as I am a GM vehicle.
I might consider an HTC driod eris though.

#1, are you the old guy with his wife on the commercial who just bought a "two new Toyota's" this past weekend?

I hate Motorolla as well and have had a few of their horrible phones. The Droid is an exception and is a very good phone. I had it and returned it becauase

- Verizon forces you to have an unlimited text and data plan for $30 and charges even more to tether.

- the Droid will not voice dial through blue tooth

If Verizon did not have the best coverage while I travel the US I would switch to another plan tomorrow. Since I live in a State that mandates hands free phone use in the car and use the phone for business, the lack of voice dialing through blue tooth was a big deal for me.

Other than that it was a GREAT phone Seamless integration with email both from the MS Exchange server at work as well as POP3 accounts, ability to use Skype so I could make international calls without paying outrageous cellular fees, a GPS through Google that was as good as Magellean or TomTom for free with no extra fees like Verizion usually charges, ability to use wifi connection to surf and run multiple apps while making calls ( has to be wifi to do both or you are limited either just calling or just surfing), great video and great camera, and the list goes on and on.


The Google Android OS was critical to the success of the phone and Motorola did the hardware right for once.

A Verizon version of Google's Nexus One is coming out soon (probably next week). Could that be the reason for the price drop?

#2:
While not being the "old guy" you are referring to, I admit I would happily buy a Toyota, taking advantage of their much-publicized problems by negotiating a good discount, because I still believe they produce products of a decent quality (on average).
[Then again, I will probably continue to drive my 12 year old Ford pickup truck and not buy any vehicle as I don't need one right now]

GM and motorola both have horrendous histories of bad products IMHO.

Most companies that produce sufficiently complex products have occasional issues. Good companies don't produce "broken as designed" products repeatedly.

#1 & 5

This was contracted out to HTC, so Motorola didn't really make it.

Sorry #6, I have to call you out on that one. Motorola doesn't contract out their phone design. They actually engineered this one. You are thinking that Google had HTC build the Nexus 1.

FWIW, I have this phone and it rocks. Mostly, the Android OS rocks. I'm really scoping out for an Android tablet. Forget the iPad, Android is going to crush the iPhone and iPad.

http://phandroid.com/2010/02/27/male-android-cheapskates-to-dominate-mobile-market/

Android - platform of choice for young geeks.
Altho it uses java, on a phone.... not sure if that qualifies for geekdom.

Nexus one coming out March 25th. Iphone for Verizon.

No voice activation in B/T? that's a big one.

I like motorola and will stand by their products.

#2: only reason you can't voice dial or tether is called you're running stock. Try running cyanogenmod, and poof. problems go away.

meanwhile, I hate motorola, but the droid is well done. battery sucks as to be expected.