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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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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Motorola Devours Verizon’s Droid Brand With New Motoblur Phone
jk on the run writes about the Devour and the Verizon Droid brand. Here is a highlight:
I’m glad I’m not the only one that doesn’t quite get Verizon’s Droid branding for handsets. There’s nothing wrong with the name, but it’s confusing to have a single handset share the name as a line of handsets. Perhaps that’s why the next Droid in line is simply called the Motorola Devour. Or maybe we’ll see more Droids out of the robot factory — who knows? I do know that the Devour looks a little more modern and polished than the original Droid and that Motorola also included its custom Motoblur interface for fast access to social networking. The Devour is the first Verizon phone with Motoblur.
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Verizon’s Motorola Devour
This is the promotions pack being sent to Verizon stores box for the Motorola Android Devour (aka the Calgary), which we’re going to see on Verizon any time now. MotoBLUR gets top billing here, with “Live life for the Story” the Moto motto.
Still no word on when you’ll be able to pick one up, but it’s got to be soon at this point.
Source: Android Central
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Are you staying with the Motorola Android Droid? The iPhone is coming to Verizon
“We believe there is a good chance,” writes Canaccord Adams’ Peter Misek in a note to clients Wednesday, “that the ‘One more thing…’ part of next week’s presentation may include two iPhone-related announcements: namely, the release of iPhone OS 4.0 and the unveiling of iPhone 4G coming to Verizon in June.”
Will you keep your Droid?
Source: CNN Money
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Motorola to run Droid Super Bowl ad
Motorola is likely to run a Super Bowl commercial for the Droid, a leak indicates today. The phone maker is believed by sources of AdAge to have bought “at least one” ad during the American football game. Although the subject of the ad isn’t directly confirmed, the Droid is currently the company’s flagship phone and its most heavily promoted device, as it has received numerous ads from Verizon attacking the iPhone and pitching the Droid as more open and feature-laden than its rival.
Neither Motorola nor Verizon has commented on the ad, though it’s implied that Verizon won’t be involved in the promo spots.
Read the full story on Electronista
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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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Motorola Devour: DroidRedoes Calgary For Verizon With Android 2.1
We first heard about the Motorola Calgary WAY before any mention of the Sholes, Tao or Droid ever occurred. At one point it was the Calgary – NOT the Droid – that was destined to be the first Android Phone for Verizon. We’re not sure how or why that changed but it did, however it won’t change the fact that the phone will still land on Big Red’s lineup. And the latest rumors are that it will touch down as the Motorola Devour A555.
Here is what we’ve got in terms of rumored specs:
- Touch-sensitive Android keys (Menu/Home/Back
- Optical joystick (performs well)
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- 3 megapixel camera
- 3.5mm headset jack
- GPS
- digital magnetometer
- Wi-Fi
- microSD slot
- spring-assisted slider.
Source: Phanandoid
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Will you keep your Droid when the iPhone comes?
- Image via Wikipedia
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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Motorola Droid Software Update 2.0.1 Is A Winner
Here is a highlight of a review of the new 2.0.1 Motorola Android software version from Information Week:
he update process was extremely quick. Upon booting the device, I received a notification that there was an update available. I accepted the update, which then automatically downloaded, installed, and re-booted the device. The entire experience took perhaps three minutes. Nice.
I noticed immediately that the Droid is faster. Swiping from side-to-side to access the three different home screens was much smoother, with no stuttering. The motions were fluid and looked good. The main menu itself also experienced less stuttering. Swiping up and down to get at all the applications was easy and not herky-jerky as before.
Of course, the main fix is the camera. The camera boots in about 3 seconds now (not bad, but not stellar). Taking pictures has been greatly improved. The camera focuses faster, snaps the picture faster, and processes/saves the image faster. In other words, the camera is actually usable now. Before, it wasn’t. This is a very welcome change indeed.
It is too early for me to comment meaningfully on the supposed battery life improvements, but Verizon says it should perform better.
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