New ad bills Verizon Droid as 'stealth' tech
(Read article summary)Days ahead of the official release of the Motorola Droid, Verizon has rolled out a slick new TV advertisement touting the Droid's next-generation capabilities.
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Friday is the official release date of the Droid, a smartphone manufactured by Motorola and powered by Verizon Wireless. And Verizon isn't missing any chances to bombard potential consumers with news of the Droid. Beginning earlier this week, Verizon aired an advertisement billing the Android-equipped Droid as next-generation 'stealth' technology – a device worthy of the weeks of hype.
At the start of the new television advertisement, which was shown repeatedly during Game Six of the World Series, a squadron of stealth bombers scream through a cloudy sky. Each of the planes drops a small black package toward the farmland below. The camera then follows people cautiously approaching the craters left by the bombers. In the final frames, one of the black packages opens to reveal a blinking Droid phone. (See video below.)
So how do the Droid ads stack up? Pretty well. The production value of the ad is high, and the mysterious atmosphere is in line with the entire Droid campaign. As we've noted, Verizon has relied on a whip-'em-into-a-frenzy viral marketing approach, waiting for the very last minute to actually reveal photos of the Droid. (If you were wondering, that's the Droid in the photo at right.)
