It was only a matter of time before someone else jumped into the ring to face off against the iPhone. Up until now, Blackberry and the iPhone have been getting along fairly well in the battle for phone supremacy. Both cater to different markets and seem to be quite happy with where they are in the cell phone niche. It is almost as though there is an unwritten law between these two not to cross the imaginary line.

That is now changing as Verizon has gone directly after the iPhone with its “Terminator” style advertising. The new Droid phone is set to hit the market later this month and it will be interesting to see if it lives up to the claims that it makes. Nobody ever said the iPhone was perfect, but it is pretty close. There is no other phone that has the amount of applications, nor the flexibility that the iPhone boasts. Now the Droid shows up and lays down a full-fledged challenge.

The funny thing is that both phones are basically sitting with the same engines inside. That being the case, the outside shell may look different, but what makes both of these phones tick inside is very similar. Motorola is launching a battle against a like minded tank and this will probably spell disaster for them. iPhone has already proven how flexible it can be and when they don’t have an application for it, they simply make a new one up to satisfy their customer’s needs.

For use of a better quote, “all we did here was wake up a sleeping lion.” Motorola has managed to pretty much stay out of the fire lanes when it comes to the iPhone and Blackberry battle, but this move will significantly change things. For every new application that they have come up with, you can expect that the iPhone team is already burning the midnight oil in order to get their new applications up and running.

When this happens, Blackberry will get a small break because the new target in iPhone’s sites is going to be Motorola. If you thought the presidential election was bad, you have not even started to see mudslinging. Expect iPhone to go for the throat on this one. While they are in competition with Blackberry, they are in essence two separate markets. Motorola is going after their direct market and that will simply not fly.