DROID Does Competition: Apps To Help Verizon Wireless Customers Show Their Inner Champions
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., April 8 /PRNewswire/ — As college basketball and hockey championships come to an end and baseball season starts up, Verizon Wireless has DROID by Motorola customers covered when the competitive spirit strikes. With applications from Android Market™ running on the largest and most reliable 3G network in the United States, customers have a champion’s advantage when they challenge themselves and their opponents.
This week’s highlighted apps get customers in the game, give them a competitive edge, and help them share the thrill of victory.
Skype mobile™ – A victory is much sweeter when shared with friends and family. Whether boasting a new record or swapping stories of great games, customers can reach loved ones around the globe using Skype mobile. The free app lets customers remain always connected to instantly flaunt achievements.
Buddy Runner – Buddy Runner is the ultimate personal trainer. Customers can use this free app to track workouts and record routes, distances, times and pace. Automatic postings to Facebook® and Twitter allow customers to share personal bests with friends and family, and audio feedback of workout progress makes it easy to improve training.
Nintaii – Nintaii is a Japanese term for “patience, perseverance, or endurance.” The 100-level game increases these strengths through brain-twisting puzzles. For $2.99, customers can train their minds with award-winning fun.
What the Doodle!? – For $1.50, this draw-guess game pits customer against customer in a real-time doodle duel. Fast-draw action and social gaming features make this app challenging, fun and a way to make new friends or rivals.
WoW Droid Armory – Some competitors want to conquer the world. WoW Droid Armory is a free app that gives customers a strong advantage in World of Warcraft play. Customers can search the database for characters and add character widgets to their home screens to keep a vigilant eye over their champions.
Customers can get these apps and more on DROID by Motorola, available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $199.99. For more information on DROID by Motorola, visit www.droiddoes.com.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 91 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
SOURCE Verizon Wireless
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Verizon’s One-on-One Droid Training
Verizon has taken a page from Apple offering free 30-minute one-on-one training for the Droid phones it sells (the Motorola Droid and the HTC Eris Droid.) and Business Week has a review of the service. Here are some of the highlights:
Making the appointment for the training was frustrating. None of the automated phone prompts at Verizon mention the training, so you’re left guessing which number to press. These free sessions are offered at Verizon’s corporate stores, but not at their retail stores.
Upon arrival at the College Park store, I informed the greeter I was there to receive a one-on-one training. A few moments later the manager of the store told me I’d be receiving my training from one of their trainers, Jennifer, after she was finished with her current customer. That’s a good sign when the manager of a store is involved so directly with customer interactions.
I first asked how I could better manage battery life on my phone. My out-of-the box experience with my Motorola Droid (which I love) was very poor. The phone was not able to make it through a single day on a battery charge. One evening soon after I bought the phone, the battery was dead when I needed to make an important call.
It turns out that there are several very useful ways to extend battery life on the Droid. Jennifer showed me how to download a program (or app) from the Android Market that identifies what programs are currently running on your Droid. By quitting programs that are running in the background, you can extend your phone’s battery life. (In addition, before the training, I independently discovered a very useful widget called Power Control that has dramatically extended the battery life of my Droid. (See http://www.idg.com/www/rd.nsf/rd?readform&u=http://www.ehow.com/how_5596884_extend-battery-life-motorola-droid.html) I leave Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and synching turned off most of the time — and also make my screen a bit dimmer — so my Droid now lasts two full days (or more) before needing to be recharged.
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As a final question, I asked Jennifer if she could recommend a Twitter client for the Droid. She told me she uses Facebook more than Twitter. Fair enough — we all choose the social networking tools that work best for us. Still, it would be good if Verizon trainers were aware of the most popular Twitter client for Android — Twidroid. I find Twidroid very helpful for following my Twitter stream when I’m on the go.
Seeing how busy this Verizon store is on a weekend, I began to understand why Verizon doesn’t want to schedule training sessions during this time. That being the case, Verizon needs to do better in scheduling trainings outside of Verizon stores. One possible location? Public libraries. I work as a public geek at a public library. All day long I answer people’s computer questions. Could I also be answering their Droid phone questions? I sure could. Would it be better if I were Verizon Android Certified? Yes, and even though such a certification does not yet exist, maybe it ought to.
Cell phone training classes in public libraries are a logical next step as cell phone become an ever more dominant part of our lives. I’m rather surprised public libraries have not begun offering this kind of training yet.
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See Skype In Action On Verizon
Get on this list to be on top of the Skype on Verizon news.
And check out Verizon’s fun little illustrated intro to Skype…
Via: Droid-Life
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iPhone beats Droid in Manhattan speed tests
Note to New Yorkers: Carry your new Droid phone to Wall Street, Grand Central Terminal, Union Square, or Madison Square Park, and you may find AT&T iPhone users — the ones who are always complaining — are actually downloading data at four times the speed of your Verizon phone.
A new report from mid-market investment banking firm Piper Jaffray rebuts the notion that the new Verizon Droid phone gives better service than AT&T’s iPhones. The three analyst authors summarized, “While there were certainly locations where the iPhone was bested by the Droid, two-thirds of the time the iPhone had much better throughput.” They went on to rate AT&T’s stock as overweight, meaning you should buy more of it despite the conventional wisdom that AT&T’s iPhone deal with Apple has brought down the company’s value.
The Droid did better in Times Square, Central Park, and Rockefeller Center, among other locations. The iPhone failed the worst in Times Square, missing its connection on two of five time trials and crawling to an average 39 kbps, versus the Droid’s 703 kbps.
Read the full report on the Venture Beat.
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Verizon puts a bandage on the Motorola Droid’s battery door
Those of you who have a Verizon Droid smartphone are probably aware that the Motorola Droid battery cover simply loves to keep coming off which can be somewhat of a pain, but never fear because Verizon has a fix for that.
The Verizon solution to the problem was to stick a Verizon sticker over it, which was slightly the better option then suggested by the original Verizon rep who wanted to use scotch tape for this extremely high tect solution…
Source: Phones Review.
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HTC Droid Eris Goes BOGO with Verizon for Christmas
If you are still on the lookout for that Christmas Droid deal then you may like to know that Verizon Wireless is again running their famed Buy One Get One Free Promo on the HTC Droid Eris.
Same deal as previous on this one, purchase a Verizon Droid and you’ll get an HTC Droid Eris free gratis, although you will require a 2 year contract on both smartphones.
Source: Phones Review
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Will you keep your Droid when the iPhone comes?
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The column that was the first to report that Verizon will indeed get the Palm Pre in early 2010 despite rumors to the contrary, reports that the same source that gave them this exclusive information more or less confirmed that Verizon will get the iPhone in 2010 – most likely in late June or early July.
Will you keep your Motorola Droid or switch to the iPhone when it finally arrives on Verizon?
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In new ad, AT&T, Luke Wilson say Verizon is slow
The battle between AT&T and Verizon has been peppered by startling doses of objectivity. So to demonstrate the clear, obvious, incontrovertible fact that Verizon’s 3G is but a Wendy’s-stuffing, cake-loving, 15-beers-a-night slob when compared with AT&T’s Usain Bolt, Wilson performs a side-by-side that would put the Pepsi Challenge to shame.
Source: Cnet
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Free Droid?
Verizon is planning to thank their customers by apparently offering a buy- one- get- one-free deal with the Motorola Droid and the HTC Eris.
This is not confirmed, but supposed to start tomorrow if the rumor is credible.
[source: Examiner]
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Motorola Droid really does; becomes fastest selling Android device
Motorola Droid suggest VZW’s $100 million integrated marketing campaign paid off. Flurry said 250,000 Droids were sold in week one, compared to 1.6 million iPhone 3G S last June and 60,000 HTC MyTouch 3Gs on T-Mobile in August.
There are clearly extenuating factors in the phones’ launches. Important to note is that Apple launched in eight countries, while Motorola only had one. Apple also has more than 25 million second-generation iPhones already on the market with six million of those users expected to upgrade to the 3G S. With these facts in mind, Flurry said Motorola and Verizon did exceedingly well for themselves in week one. The Droid was the fastest selling Android device to date, beating the MyTouch 3 by a factor of more than four. There are plans to expand the device to more global markets as well, with Motorola forecasting one million units sold before the year’s end.
Flurry estimates sales by the number of new handsets detected within its system, adjusted for the level of Flurry application penetration by handset.
[Source: Telephony Online]
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