In the Motorola Droid, Verizon finally has a phone capable of going head to head with the iPhone. It’s a gorgeous, full-featured little handset with just as much sex appeal as the iPhone, running Android, a smartphone operating system just as capable (if not more so) than the iPhone OS.

So far, it looks like Verizon has a success on its hands: Motorola has already managed to ship 100K Droid phones in its first weekend alone, which certainly looks like they’ve got a breakway handset on their hands… Motorola’s first major success since the launch of the sexy (if functionally terrible) Razr.

But what is the market penetration of the Droid after its first week? Does it also reflect a successful launch. According to a study done on mobile internet traffic in the United States, very much so.

Data taken on November 11th shows that the Motorola Droid accounts for 1.49% of all mobile internet traffic in the United States. That number does not seem particularly significant, but consider the fact that the Android operating system only accounted for 6.33%. That means the Droid is already accounting for a quarter of all Android mobile internet traffic.

The iPhone is, of course, the biggest slurper of mobile internet: an enormous 52.09% of all traffic comes from just three models of Apple’s iPhone. The Droid may look insignificant compared to that, but consider the fact that the iPhone has two years of momentum behind it, and in a single week, the Droid has managed to impact that. Things are looking rosy for Verizon and Motorola.

[Source: Geek.com]