Verizon's Droid Launch: Your Complete Guide

All right, so the ads may be a bit exaggerated. Let's face it, though: This phone is stirring up quite the geek-friendly frenzy. Whether you think it'll be a mere blip on the radar or you believe it'll send the iPhone scrambling to a secure bunker, the Droid has definitely become difficult to ignore.

Here's a quick and easy guide to everything you need to know about Verizon's Droid and its November 6 launch.

Verizon's Droid: The Basics

• Verizon's Motorola Droid is 4.56 by 2.36 inches and weighs just under 6 ounces.

• The phone features 3.7-inch, 854-by-480 pixel touchscreen display.

• It has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 5-megapixel camera with DVD-quality video recording.

• The Droid utilizes an Arm Cortex 550mHz A8 processor with 256MB of built-in memory. It has a 16GB microSD card and can be expanded to 32GB.

• Running the Android 2.0 operating system, the Droid is capable of multitasking and features unique options such as integrated turn-by-turn GPS navigation.

• The Droid connects to Google's Android Market, which features roughly 10,000 downloadable apps.