I would bet my bottom dollar on Motorola, or better yet, the dynamic
duo of Motorola and Verizon.
Despite the unending--and well deserved--hoopla surrounding the iPad,
there's always plenty of room for a decent alternative, as the Droid
proves. And, surprisingly, no decent iPad alternative exists (i.e.,
slapping Android on a sloppy clone of the iPad is not a viable
strategy against the iPad).
Motorola's Droid was one of the first high-end smartphones to emerge
as a bona fide rival to the iPhone. Then came the Droid X, another
capable competitor. And most recently, the Droid 2. And I would submit
that the Droid X is a dry run for a tablet, with its galactic (by
smartphone standards) 4.3-inch diagonal screen. HTC, of course, is a
major force too. But any Google-HTC marketing model along the lines of
the now-defunct Google Nexus One won't, by itself, rival the iPad.
(The Dell Streak isn't much bigger than the Droid X and, so, isn't a
tablet by iPad standards.)
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