Verizon Wireless and AT&T, the top wireless carriers in the country, are about to engage in a fierce legal battle after AT&T sued claiming that Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” TV ads are misleading.

The ad in question, viewable above, compares the two carriers’ 3G U.S. coverage maps. 3G is the fastest kind of cellular data network currently in use in this country, and it’s no lie that Verizon has more 3G coverage than AT&T. Verizon’s whole network is 3G, whereas AT&T has only deployed the technology in major metropolitan areas. AT&T’s grounds for the lawsuit is that the ads make people believe they offer no cellular data service in the “white” areas, when in fact they do offer the slower 2G service in those areas.
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A new contender has emerged in the smartphone wars: The Motorola Droid. Does it threaten the iPhone's supremacy?

The buzzword in the cell phone industry since 2007 has been “iPhone Killer.” Since mere days after the release of the iPhone the other players in the industry were talking about how they were going to compete with the amazing piece of technology. Many have been up to bat since then: LG Prada, T-Mobile G1, Palm Pre,  Nokia N90, the list seems to go on and on. The one thing they all have in common? They failed miserably at replicating the great experience that Apple offers with the iPhone. They just weren’t the same.

Enter the holy trifecta of Motorola, Google, and Verizon Wireless. Motorola is looking for a bump in business after they have failed to see success with any device since their RAZR, Google is looking for a way to push their Android OS to new levels of popularity, and Verizon Wireless is just looking to carry a smartphone that people actually want to buy. The three have teamed up to create the Droid, the kickoff phone for version 2.0 of Android as well as a new Verizon campaign to bring Android devices to the carrier. Is this the perfect storm needed to knock the iPhone off its pedestal? We’re going to compare the Droid and the iPhone in a category-by-category, side-by-side battle to the…death? Let’s begin after the jump.

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