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The successor to the original Motorola Droid, the highly anticipated Motorola DROID 2, will be bringing Android 2.2 Froyo to Verizon on August 12th. Verizon has official announced today that the DROID 2 goes up for pre-sale tomorrow, August 11, with sales kicking off the very next day. Get excited! The Droid 2 is faster…
In its five-year fiscal report for the top wireless carriers in the US, IE Market Research predicted that AT&T will overtake Verizon Wireless as the nation’s largest wireless carrier. The report cites AT&T’s increasing growth rate and Verizon’s falling growth rate for this leadership change which is expected to occur in 2011. Much of this…
FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps responded tersely to the joint net neutrality statement issued earlier today by Google and Verizon. Copps crafted a one paragraph statement that re-asserted FCC authority over telecommunications and emphasized consumer rights over corporate interests. “Some will claim this announcement moves the discussion forward. That’s one of its many problems. It is time to move…
Some Motoroal Droid X owners have reported that their notification ringtones are not as loud as they would like. Some meaning many, as it turns out, and after many complaints of the issue, Motorola is stepping up to the plate and is planning a fix for the issue in an upcoming software update. We’re not…
Google and Verizon held a press conference today to address concerns that it is conspiring to undermine net neutrality. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the companies are committed to an open Internet for wireline broadband and for wireless broadband to have similar openness with a few caveats. The companies issued…
It looks like a good chunk of info surfaced regarding Verizon Wireless’ hardware plans for the end of 2010 and 2011. There are also some plans for 2012, too. Now, we’ve seen a small deal about Verizon’s LTE plans for the next few years, but info on hardware was pretty scant. Now it looks like…
The Verizon Motorola DROID 2 hit the advertisement section of select Sunday newspapers in a Verizon-branded insert that advertised the Android handset as “coming soon”. Verizon is taking an unusual marketing strategy with this upcoming flagship handset and is advertising it in flyers and the summer catalog prior to making the handset official (unless you count…
It’s been an incrementally painful journey for those of you waiting for the Motorola Droid 2, and it’s largely thanks to Best Buy leaks. First, there were the pictured cases online which revealed the fact that the mega-retailer would be carrying the Verizon smartphone. No surprises there. Then cases actually started arriving, which signaled the…
Another rumor strongly suggests that Apple and Verizon Wireless are gearing up to launch a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 in January 2011. According to sources in the overseas manufacturing supply chain, Apple has reportedly ordered millions of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets for a December production run of the highly anticipated Verizon Wireless iPhone 4.…
Verizon is a hot carrier for Android right now, but globetrotters are a little bummed that none of its current Android handsets are world phones. It looks like one might be on the way from HTC, and it features a large touchscreen coupled with a physical QWERTY keyboard. The unnamed handset has all the labeling…