Despite the fact that the smartphone market leader, Apple iPhone, along with iPod Touch, has reportedly boosted the mobile Web significantly enough to outdo the expansion of the Web on the desktop, there is a most-notable-competitor-ever coming the iPhone's way - the Google Android-based Verizon's Motorola Droid!

To be the first smartphone equipped with Google's Android 2.0 software, the Droid is what the bloggers, optimistically besotted by the smartphone, are claiming to be the first 'bonafide challenger' for the iPhone, more so if it can undertake mobile social networking and location-based services.

The Motorola droid, to be launched in the beginning of November, has quite a handful of noteworthy features, the chief among them being an extraordinarily pixel-dense 3.7-inch, 854x480, screen, and a 5 megapixel camera.

In addition, the open and customizable Droid features Google Maps, Google Calendar, and Google Latitude. It also boasts accessibilty to the Android Market, as well as social media sites like Facebook.

According to a Boy Genius report, the reviewers who have seen the Motorola Droid are already raving about it, and expect it to become a hit with the users. Their unanimous opinion that the forthcoming device will be a successful one, was reportedly summed up thus: "The Motorola Droid will eat in to BlackBerry sales, Windows Mobile sales, and positively murder any lingering Palm Pre sales. It's that good!"