Verizon pastes iPhone map screen on Droid X ad

Posted in Verizon by Conner Flynn on November 30th, 2010

It’s a little embarrassing to be Verizon today after they have inadvertently embarrassed Motorola themselves through a holiday promo. An ad to promote the Droid X’s voice-guided Google Maps is using a digitally inserted screen cap of the Maps app from the iPhone instead, which not only runs on a rival platform to Android but was written by Apple itself. Oops.

It might not be such a big deal, but this puts Apple on a device that Motorola has repeatedly used in successful anti-iPhone ads. Accidents do happen, but this one should have been caught.

[electronista]

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6 Comments to “Verizon pastes iPhone map screen on Droid X ad”
  1. Ray Says:

    Instead of Motorola worrying about the froyo fix they are worried about a messed up ad! Come on guys get your droid fixed! Im tired of hearing how they launched phones everywhere and they are coming out with new phone. Hey!! Get the ones out fixed first!!!

  2. Karan Says:

    The LauncherPro app in android lets you to have any “look n feel”, including windows phone and iPhone look and feel. It is just like you are having MAC look n feel on any LINUX.

    How would you know! Droid does the things that you don’t even know.
    You have to be free and open to customize your phone desktop.

  3. Ray Says:

    Im running launcher pro! Im not new to the droid x I’ve had it for a while. Its the fact when I google something it force closes and when I run you tube it tells me it can’t play it or when I listen to mp3 music it say it doesn’t support the file. That’s the b.s im talking about this is my 2nd droid x to try and fix the prob. And the bad part is Verizon knows and acknowledges the problem but are taking their time fixing it. All the while still shipping phones out.

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