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DROID Smartphone Apps Give Verizon Customers the Edge!

June 4th, 2010

Do you ever need to tackle more than one thing at a time? DROID does. All of the devices in Verizon Wireless’ family of Android smartphones – with the constantly evolving Android platform – can run multiple applications simultaneously, making multitasking simple for customers.

The number of Android smartphones from Verizon Wireless continues to grow, with five currently available – DROID by Motorola, DROID ERIS™ by HTC, Motorola DEVOUR™, DROID Incredible by HTC, and LG Ally™. The ever-expanding Android Market™ is also constantly growing, now with more than 38,000 cool apps that customers can use every day or once in a while. This week’s highlighted apps include:

  • Qik Video Camera allows customers to record and share video with friends and family via their favorite social networks, including Facebook®, Twitter and YouTube.
  • Mediafly Video + Audio Podcasts offers high-quality video streams of popular channels, including NBC and ESPN, and gives customers a way to organize and discover their podcasts and audio, video and radio streams.
  • TuneWiki Social Media Player shows subtitled lyrics as customers listen to music, watch music videos or stream songs.
  • Twitter, the official Android app, allows customers to tweet; send direct messages; share photos, videos and links; search; and more.
  • Dropbox allows customers to create a Dropbox folder on their Android devices, which they can sync to their computers to browse and share files.
  • Mint.com Personal Finance is the top financial management app. Customers can view all of their accounts in one place, set budgets, track their spending and find personalized savings.

The HTC DROID Incredible is available at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

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Verizon Accidentally Ships HTC Droid Incredibles

April 21st, 2010

Usually when a company messes up it’s the customers that lose out, but in this case its the customers that come out ahead with news that Verizon Wireless accidentally shipped some of the HTC Droid Incredible pre-orders 10 days in advance.

“A few members over at AndroidForums have received the Droid Incredible in advance of the April 29th street date thanks to a glitch in Verizon’s pre-order system,” says Phandroid. “It appears that as Verizon has the Incredible already in stock, a few orders were flagged as OK to ship and managed to leave the warehouse on a journey that eventually found at least one in the hands of forum member SoSmarmy.”

Nobody knows for sure just how many pre-orders were filled, but if you placed one on the 19th you just may be one of the lucky ones to receive it in the mail today or tomorrow. The bad news for everyone else is that Verizon has corrected the issue, and confirmed that no more Droid Incredibles will be delivered until the 29th as originally scheduled.

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Verizon Wireless DROID Apps Give Customers “Competitive Edge”

April 9th, 2010

With college basketball and hockey championships coming to an end and with baseball season just beginning, Verizon Wireless has Motorola DROID customers covered when the competitive spirit strikes. With applications from Android Market 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.

  • 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 the Motorola DROID, available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at for $199.99.

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Verizon’s DROID adds Music Apps

February 19th, 2010

Verizon Wireless customers can now use their increasingly sought after Motorola DROID phones to check out the latest music apps on the Verizon Channel in the Android Market.

Some of this week’s highlighted apps include:

  • iheartradio – Listen to over 400 of America’s favorite radio stations and some of the best talk stations in the United States for free with Clear Channel Radio Digital’s iheartradio. Bookmark your favorite radio stations, view lyrics and enjoy on-demand content including exclusive performances, songs and intimate vignettes from today’s hottest music stars.
  • TuneWiki Social Media Player – TuneWiki is a free social media player that shows subtitled lyrics as you listen to your music, watch music videos, or stream songs through the SHOUTcast™ radio feature. Search for lyrics to over 2.5 million songs and get translations in over 40 languages. Other fantastic features include the Playback Widget and Facebook® and Twitter integration.
  • Slacker Radio – Get free personalized radio on your mobile phone with Slacker Radio, the best way to discover new artists and hear favorite songs. Create your own custom station or choose from over 100 expert-programmed radio stations from every genre.

The Motorola DROID phone is available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online for about $199.99.

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Verizon FiOS Now Lets Customers Use Droid Phones as TV remotes

February 18th, 2010

FiOS TV customers are getting an innovative new way to control the functions on their TV sets – and enjoy some enhanced features as well. All they have to do is reach for their Verizon Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio mobile phone.

Effective immediately, FiOS TV customers who have an HD set-top box and a can use the phones as a television remote control. The mobile remote has virtually the same functionality as the standard FiOS remote, plus additional features including instantly transferring photos from the handset to the TV screen. Verizon will expand this service, Verizon FiOS Mobile Remote, to additional mobile phones in the coming months.

“With FiOS Mobile Remote we’re leveraging the in-home FiOS network to marry the cell phone to the TV for simpler, more convenient navigation, along with entirely new phone-to-TV experiences that cable can’t match,” said Shawn Strickland, vice president of FiOS product management for Verizon. “This kind of feature underscores for customers how powerful the FiOS in-home network is — and the potential it has for constant innovation.”

FiOS TV customers, including small-business customers, access the new feature through the applications store on their mobile phone handset and then pair the device with their in-home FiOS network by opening up the Mobile Remote Widget on FiOS TV and selecting either the Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio icon. Customers will be asked to register their wireless telephone number, using the widget. Customers can register their handsets on any FiOS TV, at home or away.

Once set up, FiOS Mobile Remote offers these features for Motorola Droid and HTC Imagio customers:

  • My Remote — Controls a FiOS TV set-top box from the mobile device, with features including changing channels, adjusting volume, managing parental controls and using DVR functionality such as pause, rewind, fast forward or record live programming. Customers can also use the handset to control the FiOS TV onscreen full QWERTY keyboard, or use their handset’s keyboard to search for TV programming and video-on-demand titles or manage the Facebook and Twitter widget applications.
  • My Photos — Photos stored on the handset can be instantly transferred from the phone to the TV, with two options. With the touch of a finger, subscribers can flick one picture at a time and see it appear on the TV screen. Subscribers can also display an entire slide show of stored pictures.
  • My Favorites — Users can import to the mobile device favorite-channels lists currently stored on the TV set. The mobile device can then be used to flip through and select channels from the lists.
  • Tele- TV Mute — Automatically mutes the TV when a call is answered with the handset and resumes the previous TV-volume level after the call is ended.

Mobile Remote is easy to set up. You simply access the feature through the application store on the mobile handset and then pair the device with the in-home Wi-Fi network by opening up the Mobile Remote Widget on the TV and selecting either the Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio icon. You will then be asked to register your telephone number using the Widget, and you’re all set to go.

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Verizon Channel on Motorola’s DROID

January 29th, 2010

Showcases weekly apps available in the Android Market.

Verizon Wireless’ DROID phone by Motorola gives users access to literally thousands of applications via the Android Market. These cool apps help you stay in touch, up to date, entertained, and all while running on of he largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G data networks in the country.

To make things easier for Verizon Wireless customer’s sporting the new DROID phone, they’ve added the Verizon Channel in the Android Market so each week people can find some of the most helpful, coolest and popular apps around.

This week, customers can find:

  • Weatherbug – With the WeatherBug Mobile app, customers can access live, local weather information and images for thousands of locations; customized maps; daily videos; severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service and much more, all free of charge.
  • Platinum Sudoku® – Leave the messy pen and newspaper behind and play 640,000 unique Sudoku grids anywhere. For $2.99, customers can take Sudoku to the next level, tackling five difficulty levels.
  • Slacker Radio – Listen to free personalized radio on your mobile phone with Slacker Radio, the best way to discover new artists and hear favorite songs. Customers can choose from more than 100 expert-programmed radio stations from every genre or can create their own custom stations.
  • Fast Food Calorie Counter Pro – For just $1.99, customers can keep their diets on track when on the run. The application offers 72 restaurants with 8,858 menu items – each item has nutritional information, including calories, fats, carbs, fiber and protein.
  • dxTop: Home Alternative – Customers can make their Android phones more usable and feature-rich with Access Lane’s dxTop (pronounced dex-top). dxTop provides four different screens for applications, widgets, etc. and full theme support, including custom icons and fonts, ringtones, lock screen and dxTop specific themed widgets. dxTop also supports two types of quick access to the phone’s core functions. The app costs $2.99.
  • NBA Mini-Bobble LeBron James – Now customers can have LeBron James right in the palms of their hands with the NBA Mini-Bobble LeBron James edition. When customers purchase the application for $1.00, they also get a “limited time only” offer for 15 percent off of their favorite LeBron James merchandise at NBAStore.com.

Motorola’s DROID is currently selling for for $199.99.

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