Though the major brick-and-mortar retailers are charging $200 (with a service plan) for a Motorola Droid, you can get your own Droid for much less!

Think of what you could do with an extra $50 in your pocket…

There are two sites I recommend you visit:

1) Wirefly.com

I bought my Droid from Wirefly and was very pleased with the experience. I was able to sign up for a new service plan, spend only $150 on the actual Droid hardware, and then got free shipping via Fed-Ex. Again, great option and great price.

2) Amazon.com

Amazon has been selling more than just books for quite a while now.

In fact, Amazon has quietly become one of the Internet’s premier retailers for cell phones.

Amazon released their $150 Droid deal about a day after Wirefly had. Personally, I’m glad I went with Wirefly, but I’ve heard good things about Amazon’s service from others. As always, definitely a great option.

Flurry has released results of its study on the Droid’s first week launch.

By studying the number of unique handsets accessing Android apps through Droid phones, Flurry estimates that there were nearly 250,000 Droids sold during their first week on the market.

The number of Motorola Droids sold is impressive. To put the sales in perspective, compare the Droid’s launch (in the US only) to the the iPhone 3GS, which launched in 8 different countries simultaneously. The Droid sold 250,000 times in one country; the iPhone sold 1.6 million times in 8 countries.

Because of the Droid’s strong launch, the analysts at Flurry foresee the Android making inroads into Apple’s smartphone market share.

To sum it up: “Furthermore, Flurry has monitored a sharp increase in new Android project starts by application developers within its system, a 94% jump in October compared to September. The launch of Droid signals the beginning of a viable platform alternative to the iPhone as Android builds critical mass. As major companies continue to vie for a piece of the exploding Smartphone market, the consumer has never had more choice and innovation in the mobile industry.”

To read the whole story, visit Flurry’s blog.