100,000 Motorola Droid Smartphones Sold in First Weekend [Motorola to Sell 1 Million Android Handsets in Q4 2009?]

It’s not officially official yet but it looks like Motorola and Verizon Wireless sold about100,000 Droid phones in their opening weekend. The number is certainly impressive and it looks like all that marketing effort paid off. People hurried to Verizon stores to grab the hottest Android available to date.

Verizon Wireless had 200,000 Droid units on hand and reports are saying that most stores have sold half their stock in the first three days. The launch of the Droid is definitely a success although it’s not comparable to the iPhone 3GS’ performance. AT&T sold around 1 million iPhones in the first weekend earlier this year. But the iPhone 3GS is the third iPhone version Apple has launched and Cupertino had already established itself as a dependable cell phone maker in the years before.

Motorola on the other hand has been slowly drowning and Android was exactly what the company needed in order to reclaim its spot in the mobile business. Motorola put some serious effort into marketing the Droid and together with Verizion Wireless managed to build up expectation. The public has been more and more interested in the Droid and we’re probably going to see more and more customers purchasing the Droid in the following weeks.

Analysts predict that Motorola will sell 1 million Android phones by the end of the year and around 10 million Android handsets in 2010. Most of the phones sold in Q4 2009 are probably going to be Droids or Milestones, although Motorola has also launched the Cliq in October. On comparison Apple will sell around 8 million iPhones this quarter while next year Cupertino will sell around 28.5 phones.

The numbers are impressive and the future looks good for Motorola. Sure the Droid will never sell in as many units as the iPhone did already. Not because it’s not as good, or even better than the iPhone, but because Motorola will launch other Android phones next year. I personally hope that those phones will surpass the Droid in features and specs and I imagine that Verizon will continue its Android series with a Droid 2 from Motorola at some point in 2010.

What do you have to say so far about your Droid experience?