Verizon BOGO Deal on Droid/Eris
Image courtesy of Phandroid Verizon has begun its newest wave of Buy One Get One Free promotions today with the Motorola Droid and HTC Eris. Specifically, if you buy the Motorola Droid with new agreement, you get the Eris for free or buy an Eris and get another on for free under the same terms. […]
Motorola Droid Autofocus Bug Discovered and Addressed
Amongst all of the uproar over a “silent update” that “fixed” the recently released Motorola Droid’s camera autofocus issues this morning, Android developer Dan Morrill has given an even simpler explanation for the seemingly rectified nature of the issue: “There’s a rounding-error bug in the camera driver’s autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes […]
Motorola DROID Experiencing Main Speaker Issues
The Motorola Support forums have been busy with reports of the recently released Motorola DROID having intermittent main speaker issues whereby the device’s speaker will not function spontaneously, with notifications as well as ringtones only being heard through the earpiece, causing inconvenience for some using the device as an alarm clock or using the device […]
Verizon Launches HTC DROID Eris
Following up the launch of the Motorola DROID, Verizon has also launched the HTC DROID Eris. As previously reported, the DROID Eris is functionally identical to the Sprint Hero with pricing set at $469.99 Retail/Month-to-Month, $269.99 after a new 1 year agreement and $199.99 after a 2 year, with the $100 mail-in rebate bringing the […]
Verizon Launches Motorola DROID Online Ahead of Early Opening
Verizon has launched the long-awaited Motorola DROID Android smart device after weeks of anticipation. The complete featureset consists of the 3.7 inch WVGA resolution capacitive touch display, QWERTY keyboard, 550 MHz application processor, microSDHC expansion slot with included 16GB card, 5.0 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, autofocus and DVD resolution video recorder. Secondary specifications […]
Verizon Confirms Motorola DROID Tethering Add-On for Additional $30 in 2010 (Updated)
Verizon has confirmed that it will allow tethering on the forthcoming Motorola DROID for an additional $15 on top of the required $30 data plan for the device, pricing both device data and modem access at $45 per month. Verizon will begin to offer the service in 2010. Update: Verizon has clarified to PhoneNews.com that […]
Verizon HTC DROID Eris for $99.99 After Rebate on November 6th
Image courtesy of Engadget Mobile On the same day as the launch of the Motorola DROID, HTC will be launching its DROID series device in the HTC Eris for Verizon, which will also mark the debut of the DROID branding as a series of devices on Verizon Wireless. The HTC Eris is functionally identical to […]
Review: Motorola Droid (Verizon Wireless)
Motorola, and Google, have done something that no other phone has done before. They have built a phone better than any iPhone. Now it gets interesting. First, we’ll get the obligatory iPhone boilerplate out of the way. Yes, contrary some fist shaking, iPhone (3GS) was the phone to beat, until today. Be it in the […]
Verizon Announces Motorola DROID for November 6th at $199.99
Verizon has officially announced the forthcoming launch of the Motorola DROID Android smart device after months of rumor and speculation. The Droid will be the first device to feature Android 2.0 and Google’s new Google Maps Navigation service which lets Google Maps act as a turn-by-turn navigation application that uses the onboard GPS transceiver and […]