Bloomberg is reporting that the Motorola Droid didn’t do too badly during its launching weekend. The “iPhone killer” with Android 2.0 OS and real GPS and turn-by-turn voice navigation may have sold as many as 100,000 units. That’s only a tenth of the iPhone sales two years ago when the first-gen Apple phone came out, but, hey, the economy is still bad and people are saving up for Christmas. Verizon, though, doesn’t expect a million customers as it only has 200,000 Motorola Droids on the ready.

Though the Droid will probably save Moto, it’s not going to be an iPhone killer, says Citigroup’s Jim Suva. “It wasn’t as good as the iPhone, but anybody that was expecting that had their expectations too high,” he said and tells anyone who’s in the market to buy Motorola shares. Moto shares did rise a few cents after Droid’s launching.

Forecasts: the Droid may sell up to 1.3 million units in Q4 and about 9 million in 2010. Apple is expected to sell 8 million iPhone in Q4 and 28.5 million in 2010. MKM Partners are even more skeptical at the appeal of Motorola Droid among the ordinary buying public. An analyst there says the Android lacks appeal for the “average consumer.”

[source: bloomberg] photo: blogs.dallasobserver