Verizon Teases With Droid Ad

The latest challenger to the iPhone is the Verizon Droid, and if you believe the new teaser commercial aired over the weekend, it’s even better than the jesus phone.

The Verizon Droid is a Motorola handset developed in conjunction with Google. Running Google’s Android 2.0 operating system, the Droid does a range of things that iPhone doesn’t according to the ad, including offering a physical keyboard, multitasking, a five-megapixel camera, widgets, “open development,” a removable battery and more.

Android 2.0 is the first major upgrade for Google’s mobile operating system, and from leaked shots appearing online it finally gets some decent built in visuals. It’s not clear from the ad as to whether Verizon is going to offer its own customization version of Android, where as other manufactures, including HTC and notably Motorola have previously offered customized Android installs.

Also benefiting from the phone is George Lucas, with the ad noting that the name Droid is licensed from Lucasfilm.

The Verizon Droid ad as follows, and the Verizon Droid teaser website (which offers the ad and not much else) here.

See also: Verizon Droid pictures.