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Verizon testing 4G LTE iPhone for 2010 release?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 No Comments

verizon 4g iphone Salt cellars at the ready, folks. Despite an aggressive anti-iPhone campaign kicked off over the weekend and an incoming Android device that’s said to have had the biggest Google involvement in hardware to-date, Verizon is tipped to have been testing a 4G LTE iPhone on their fledgling next-gen network. According to fonefrenzy’s unnamed sources, Verizon and Apple have been testing the CDMA iPhone over the past few months, with carrier CEO Lowell McAdam double-dipping on his trips to Mountain View, California, by stopping by both Google and Apple’s headquarters.

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Verizon Motorola Droid live: “the Android device to beat”

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 19th 2009 1 Comment

With Verizon’s ad campaign for the Motorola Droid kicking off in earnest over the weekend, and a launch date of October 30th tipped, it comes as little surprise to see a pre-production handset arrive over at the BGR. They’re mightily impressed, too, calling the Droid “the fastest Android device we’ve ever used” courtesy of its TI OMAP3430 chipset, branding its capacitive display “awesome” and “huge”, and concluding that it’s “the Android device to beat”.

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Verizon Motorola Droid promo sets iPhone firmly in its sights

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Oct 18th 2009 4 Comments

Verizon have launched an offensive against the iPhone, with a new campaign called DroidDoes.com for their upcoming Motorola Droid Android smartphone. The handset, previously known by its codenames of Tao and Sholes, is being promoted as offering everything the iPhone eschews: an open development platform, the ability to run background processes, a flexible, open App Store and replaceable batteries, among other things. Verizon have also set up a countdown timer which suggests that the Motorola Droid will arrive on October 30th 2009.

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Verizon Motorola Droid (aka Sholes) outed in new leaked photos

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 9 Comments

If there’s one thing we like, it’s leaky phone companies and their prematurely-exposed wares. The Boy Genius Report seem to have had their fair share of Motorola Sholes images lately, and there’s another three new images – including the crisp shot you see here – to tempt us. According to the phone’s “About” screen, the handset will have official name Motorola Droid.

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Verizon’s 3rd Android device to be Open Development underdog?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 No Comments

huawei android mwc09 02 sg 480x415 Verizon and Google’s Android announcement earlier this week came as no great surprise, given the rumors circulating for months before hand about the devices Motorola are believed to have developed for the carrier. However, a third handset might shake up the segment; according to Unstrung, the first Android device certified through Verizon’s Open Development program is expected to land in early 2010, complete with MiFi-style wireless sharing.

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Verizon Wireless and Google to work together on Android phone development

By Shane McGlaun on Tuesday, Oct 6th 2009 No Comments

Verizon Wireless and search giant Google announced a new agreement today that will have the two firms working jointly to develop new Android-powered mobile devices for the Verizon Wireless network. The two firms have agreed to devote substantial resources to accelerate innovation and put handsets into the hands of customers faster.

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Verizon HTC Imagio Windows Phone review

By Vincent Nguyen on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

A thoughtful person might look at the Verizon Imagio and decide that it’s almost HTC delivering the Touch HD (Review part 1 & part 2) that their US audience never officially had. A comparatively large touchscreen, slender casing and 5-megapixel camera certainly tally with what the Touch HD offered; still, it’s been almost a year since we reviewed the GSM phone, so does the Imagio deliver the goods with Windows Mobile 6.5? Click to Read Windows Mobile 6.5 Review

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 40 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Saturday, Oct 3rd 2009 No Comments

It’s hard to believe it is October already and the leaves are already falling off the trees. Another week come and gone and today I am back with another week in review for your perusal. We found out early this week that the Palm Pre is still headed to Verizon according to an insider. The alleged insider didn’t give any word on when exactly this may happen.

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Verizon one day sale going on $25 off any phone

By Shane McGlaun on Friday, Oct 2nd 2009 No Comments

If you have been anxiously waiting for a decent sale at Verizon to grab up your new mobile phone, today may be that day. Verizon is currently running a special that will give users $25 off any phone that the company offers. That is a fresh change from mail-in rebates that I always for get to redeem.