A beatdown is about to go down in Silicon Valley, and Apple is about to get crushed.

Steve Jobs’ reign of terror and selling customers their own socks is just about to come to a screeching halt. The previous two iterations of the iPhone have been utterly disappointing, with Apple adding slightly more battery life, faster processors, better cameras, and a higher resolution screen. That’s it. Nothing I would consider magical, but just enough to get Apple fanboys off the couch and into a long line only to find out the phone they needed to survive was totally under produced. The main features of the iPhone 4 — multitasking and adding backgrounds, things Google had built-in into Android from day one. So, if you are searching for something genuinely magical this cell phone season, you better take the Droid X for a test drive. The price is also just right for the Droid X, coming in at $199, which leaves enough room to purchase Motorola Droid X accessories.

Droid X, the innovation of Google, Motorola, Verizon and Adobe is what the iPhone 4 could have been And, thanks to Steve Jobs’ reluctance to cooperate nicely with other companies (eg, barring Adobe Flash, and refusing to build a Verizon-compatible iPhone), the Droid X is probably just the ticket Google has been seeking for to eat into Apple’s healthy share of the smartphone market. In a report available by market research firm comScore in April, Google went from owning 3.8% of the smartphone market in November 2009 to owning a cool 9% of the pda phone market in February 2010. Apple, on the other hand, controlled a little higher than 25 percent of the mobile phone market in that same time frame. Here’s where the Droid X comes in.

The Motorola Droid X features an 8-megapixel camera, Adobe Flash compatibility (a VERY big deal), a Wi-Fi hotspot that powers up to 5 devices, Swype compatibility (a nifty keyboard program that will make poking a digital keyboard a less stressful experience), and an HDMI output. Also, the Droid X will feature a large 4.3in LCD screen, which you’ll probably want to protect it with a Droid X screen protector. Undoubtedly an absolute iPhone killer, and if Google can improve on nearly 5% more marketshare in the next 3 months without a product leading the charge, I have to imagine that the Droid X can elevate Google’s ownership of the smartphone market to a realistic fifteen-percent by the end of 2010, possibly swiping some marketshare away from Apple.

And one of the biggest selling points as we enter the next era of mobile phones — the price. Thanks to Verizon, the Droid X will have a $30 infinite data plan, unlike AT&T, which recently announced it will start slapping some serious price penalties on new smartphone users who use more 2 gigabytes of data per month. For those of you with an iPhone, that’s not projected to be a whole lot of Netflix shows when you leave the friendly confines of your Wi-Fi.

So, before blindly throwing any more money at Apple, check out the more geek-friendly and genuinely revolutionary The Motorola Droid X