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Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:45 AM

Published 11/06/2009 by Industry Standard


Happy Droid Day

After weeks of speculation, followed by a real announcement , followed by more waiting, Motorola and Verizon have finally released the Droid, the supposed iPhone-killer which is the first device using version 2.0 of Google’s Android operating system.

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