Officially, the Friday launch of the Droid and the Droid Eris went swimmingly, backed up by anecdotal reports from the stores themselves.
While it may take a day or two to truly assess how the launch went, a small poll of stores in Northern California, a tech haven, proved that Verizon had a hit on its hands.
“It’s going great,” Heidi Flato, a Verizon spokeswoman representing Northern California, reported. “It’s going really great. Everyone’s very happy.”
“We do have lots of inventory,” she added. “My understanding is that we were prepared for the launch.” Flato declined to say how many phones had been allocated to each store, or if supplies were running low at by midday Pacific time.
However, store employees seemed to indicate the best of all possible worlds: a happy customer base, lines, but enough phones for everyone. One employee in a Sacramento Verizon store reported that they had been given 100 phones per store, at least in his region. Another manager, in the East Bay, said that figure “sounded about right”. Two stores in the San Jose region referred questions to Verizon public relations representatives.
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