So if you haven’t heard about it, there is a new Google Android smartphone out on the Verizon network, and its called the ‘Droid’. Its cool for a number of reasons. One, its the version 2.0 of the Google Android Mobile OS, so its improved over the first version that was launched on HTC phones. Second, the phone hardware was done by Motorola (yes, remember them?), and this could be their first hit since the Razr back in the early 2000s.

The reviews so far has been good. Here are some links to two:

Engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/motorola-droid-review/

BusinessWeek:
http://www.businessweek.com

So, why am I talking about the Droid? Well we got involved ourselves with the launch. Working with one of our Clients, we help developed this cool mobile marketing app that is now in selected Verizon Wireless stores. Regular folks can come to a special laptop with our app, use the webcam to do a face-capture, and then the app will make them into a ‘droid’. You can then use this new image to send to your own phone or a family/friend’s phone number.

We’ll show how the app works in a later post, but here are some of Plus Factory’s members as newly captured ‘droids’.