The iPhone will have a challenge with the imminent launch of the Motorola Droid. Verizon Wireless is running a commercial that points out all the shortcomings of the iPhone with quotes like “iDon’t Have a Real Keyboard” and “iDon’t Run Simultaneous Apps”. It also gets a hardware keyboard and a replaceable battery.

The Droid features a 5-megapixel camera (with a flash), runs Google Android 2.0, supports multi-tasking, includes both a tactile keyboard and touch screen. Google’s next-generation release is expected to bring deep integration of Facebook, double-tap gestures, speech recognition and text-to-speech for features such as turn-by-turn GPS, and a YouTube widget for playing web video directly from the home screen. EVDO-based 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi should be part of the design, which like the G1 slides the screen away to reveal the keyboard. It’s exactly the opposite approach, with Apple leading the carriers with iPhone.

The website DroidDoes.com has a countdown running with numbers replaced by unique carriers. For now, head to the site and register for information and try to contain yourself. An official unveiling for the Droid is now confirmed as due on October 30th, though the new spot has the phone available in November