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Verizon may be waiting until tomorrow, Aug. 12th to officially launch the Motorola Droid 2, but the successor to the original Droid from Motorola has already hit the streets in yet another hands-on video. Verizon has already been showing off the new D2 in various videos, but they’ve all been official videos with some serious…
As promised, today is the first day that Verizon will begin taking orders for the Motorola Droid 2 – the follow-up the well-received original Motorola Droid. You can log onto the Verizon web-store to put in your pre-order for the new Droid 2, which will run you $199.99 when purchased with a 2-year service contract…
It’s only a few short hours from hitting Verizon stores, but Motorola has just put out a slick new video introducing you to the Droid 2. Right off the bat, the video touts that the Motorola Droid 2 on Verizon will launch with Android 2.2 and this will mean a full Adobe Flash experience. This…
If you thought the Motorola Droid X and its eFuse system protection technology was going to stop Android developers from finding a way to root and eventually flash custom Android ROMs to the Verizon superphone, consider your preconceptions put on notice. Thanks to the work of developer/hacker Birdman, the Droid X has just gotten its…
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega had some kind words for rival Verizon’s joint proposal with Google regarding net neutrality. According to the Wall Street Journal: “It’s a positive sign that shows that those two companies can agree on something as different as net neutrality,” de la Vega, head of AT&T’s consumer and mobile…
Good news Verizon DROID owners! The highly anticipated Android 2.2 update is now hitting handsets en masse. After a brief rollout that stalled and was delayed for a week by Verizon, the update is reportedly back on again and handsets are receiving some official Froyo love. The update is delivered OTA and a notification should…
Good news for DROID Incredible owners as HTC has released the 2.6.32 source code for the latest Android 2.2. update. The source code is available form download from HTC’s developer website. For the non-developer, this large list of files may appear to be gibberish but in the hands of a developer or savvy hacker, the…
We were pretty sure Verizon was thankful for the success of the Motorola Droid X, but we didn’t know they would go this far to show their gratitude. Some Droid X owners are reporting that they have received a “thank you” package from Big Red themselves. Within this package you’ll apparently find a t-shirt, a…
Chetan Sharma looked at state of the wireless industry in Q2 2010 and calculated that overall US subscription penetration has reached 95%. This figure surpasses 100%, if you remove those customers that are five years old and younger from this equation. Overall, the wireless industry is booming; growing 6% in Q2 2010 alone and 22%…
The LG Ally for Verizon is a good Android phone, but it could use some work on the software side. Thankfully, that may all soon change, as the Ally now has its own custom recovery image of its own. With the custom recovery image in tow, it’s only a matter of time before we see…