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Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

And again, you can say the same thing about the iPhone. The marketing campaign over the last 3 years for the iPhone blows the Droid's out of the water.

We can make a reasonable assumption that HTC abandonded keyboards because of the iPhone. Why? Because pretty much all of their devices had keyboards until recently- when they lost their keyboards and also started looking a lot like the iPhone. Way back in the day the PPC-6600 had a keyboard though.

So if HTC is only trying to copy success, then the Droid beat them handily, in a head to head battle, on the same carrier. And if we're going to talk about marketing campaigns, then we also have to mention the iPhone's marketing campaign being the reason HTC got rid of keyboards in the first place.

Speaking of marketing campaigns, the Touch Pro 2 was sold out on Verizon for like a month or 2 when it first released. And that is with no marketing whatsoever, most stores not even carrying the device, and most store reps not even being trained on it. I'm pretty sure the Imagio didn't blow it out of the water in sales- even though the Imagio actually is stocked at all the stores, had a bunch of commercials, and reps were trained on it.

First of all there weren't too many TP2 in stock all together..second of all the droid eris did not have a head to head battle..the Motorola Droid had a lot more advertising for it..so much they even lit up the droid all over Times Square...for it to be even it has to be released side by side like the TP and Diamond and have equal exposure.