The Motorola DROID is undoubtedly one of Verizon’s hottest (if not the hottest) handsets as of late. However, it’s $200 price tag may put it just out of reach for some consumers.

Luckily, Sears has stepped in to give us the phone for $149.99 on a 2-year contract as opposed to Verizon’s price.

So, if you want the DROID, you may as well head over to your local Sears instead of your local Verizon store, right?

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Droid, Google, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Motorola, Motorola, retail, sears, Verizon, Verizon

Those who have been waiting to purchase Motorola’s DROID for Verizon can wait no longer as it has just been put up for sale. The Android 2.0, 5mp camera touting DROID will set you back $299.99 with a 2-year contract.

Additionally, those looking to spend a bit less can pick up the HTC developed DROID Eris for $99.99 with a 2-year contract.

Will this duo of devices stack up against AT&T/Apple’s iPhone? Let’s wait and find out.

You can purchase the DROID here, and the DROID Eris here.

Tags: Android 2.0, Cell Phones, Droid, Droid Eris, Google, HTC, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Motorola, Verizon, Verizon

AT&T has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless after Big Red launched that “There’s a map of that” campaign. AT&T alleges that Verizon is misleading customers into thinking that AT&T doesn’t offer coverage in various areas of the U.S. The Trial has been filed in the Federal District Court in Atlanta and while we’ll be waiting for a ruling in favor of either AT&T or Verizon, AT&T has instructed its employees on how to respond to any questions regarding the trial.

Below you’ll find the memo with all the precise instructions:

Channels: COR, DMDR, LD, and NR Internal
Roles: Reps & Above
Markets: All
Contact: Your Manager

AT&T filed a lawsuit on November 4, 2009 against Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” advertising campaign. Independent research shows that the maps in the advertisements mislead consumers into believing that we do not offer any wireless service in the vast majority of the country. In fact, AT&T’s 2.5G EDGE network covers 1.75 million square miles of the United States, reaching some 296 million people, roughly the same number reached by Verizon’s network. This network supports popular services like e-mail, surfing the Web, texting, and voice calling, including the activities shown in the Verizon TV advertisements. In addition, our 3G service, the nation’s fastest, is available in more than 9,400 cities and towns.

We filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court in Atlanta and asked that Verizon be prohibited from misleading consumers regarding the scope of our wireless network.

How should I respond to customers who ask about the lawsuit?

While we cannot speculate on the complaint filed, it is a great opportunity to remind customers of AT&T’s many advantages that over 81 million customers enjoy, including:

* Best Network
* The best coverage worldwide (More Bars in More PlacesTM).
* The nation’s fastest 3G network and the only national 3G carrier providing simultaneous voice and data usage.
* The most devices that work in the most places including Japan and South Korea (3G 2100 MHz device required).
* The nation’s largest wireless and wireline broadband provider.
* The nation’s largest company-owned and operated WiFi network with more than 20,000 hotspots, including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Barnes and Noble, as well as access to over 120,000 hotspots around the world.
* The leading provider of local and long distance voice services.

Greatest Value – The fairest value with Rollover® allowing customers to keep their unused minutes month to month.
Best Products - The most innovative exclusive devices such as the iPhoneTM 3GS.
Most Convenient Services
* The most customer friendly free self-service tools with *Services for checking usage, paying bills, and adding features.
* The most convenient and cost-effective way for customers to manage their accounts with Combined Billing for wireless and wireline products.
* Industry leading 30-day satisfaction guarantee.

As always, if you have an inquiry from the media, please refer them to your local media relations team member.

So what do you have to say? Do you have any questions for AT&T? Who would you like to see winning?

via mobilecrunch

Tags: At&T, Uncategorized, Verizon

As if the BlackBerry Curve 8530 and Convoy were not enough, Verizon also has some chocolate topping for their mobile sundae: The LG Chocolate Touch.

This new iteration of the Chocolate has integration with Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. It also has Dolby Mobile sound and a Join the Band feature that allows uers to play along with their music with a virtual drum kit and 88 key scrolling keyboard. It also has one-touch uploading as well as a 3.2 Megapixel camera.

You should be able to purchase it today for $80 after a $50 mail-in rebate.

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Verizon is releasing another member of the BlackBerry family with the BlackBerry Curve 8530. This one has Wi-Fi capacity that was not part of the previous version of the Curve.

The 8530 also has EV-DO, 256MB worth of flash memory, a 528MHz next generation processor, a 3.5mm headphone jack, music player with media keys, a 2.0 megapixel camera and camcorder as well as GPS support for geotagging pictures. If that isn’t enough, users have access to BlackBerry’s App World and can add up to 16GB of micro SD/SDHC card storage.

You’ll have to wait until November 20th to get the BlackBerry Curve 8530, and it will cost $99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and two-year agreement.

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Verizon has recently unveiled a non-smart phone called the Convoy. If you happen to be in the market for one, then you might appreciate this guy.

The Convoy features messaging, a personal organizer, a speakerphone, Bluetooth, and a two megapixel camera. It also has support for Verizon’s push to talk network, as well as GPS with access to the VZ Navigator.

You’ll have to wait until November 15th to get your hands on this one, and it costs $49.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate.

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Tags: Cell Phones, Convoy, Samsung, Samsung, Samsung Convoy, Verizon, Verizon

Hot news for the two giants of the US that fight for a bigger share on the mobile telecommunications market, and I’m talking about AT&T and Verizon.

In this case it was AT&T that sued Verizon and the reason is pretty simple: a misleading advertising campaign, which is named “There’s a Map for that” and is actually a joke related to an AT&T campaign called “There’s an App for That”.

The misleading information is related to a map made by Verizon, in which shows that AT&T doesn’t have much network coverage. But the only detail they forgot to mention, is that they are only counting the 3G network and not EDGE network, and that’s why the AT&T map is full of blank spaces, which could lead to customers having bad ideas…

Tags: At&T, At&T, Mobile News, Verizon, Verizon

Verizon has plans to itntroduce a new line of Vaio PCs on the market in the real near future, which will be named “P Series LifeStyle PC”.

The Sony Vaio P Series can also be considered a netbook, and it includes a 8-inch UWXGA screen that provides a resolution of 1600×768, more 2GB of memory RAM, and Windows 7 Home Premium Edition as the operative system. The hard-drive can either be HDD or SSD, and the sizes vary from 60GB, 80GB, 128GB (SSD), and 160GB.

At the moment there isn’t an exact release date for the Sony Vaio P Series, but rumours have mentioned the date of November 5th.

Tags: Laptops, p series, Sony, Vaio, Verizon, Verizon

Now that Microsoft has updated their mobile version of Bing, it would appear that Verizon is pushing this version of Bing onto the BlackBerry Storm.

Unfortunately, a recent report complained that this BlackBerry version of Bing was “slow and unresponsive”. This is one of several apps being “pushed” onto the Storm which includes YouTube, VZW Tones, V Cast Video, and a Verizon version of Slacker Radio. Perhaps BlackBerry users can learn to warm up to Bing.

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Tags: Bing, Bing mobile, BlackBerry, Blackberry Storm, Cell Phones, Research In Motion, Verizon, Verizon

The above document has recently leaked that gives us a hint as to when we will be seeing the HTC DROID Eris appear on Verizon. In fact, it tells us that the device will hit the carrier on November 6th for $99 on a 2-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate.

This device will be running Android 1.5 (no 2.0?) with the Sense UI and feature a 3.2 inch touch screen, 528MHz processor, WiFI, 5mp camera, and ship with an 8GB microSD card.

Anyone looking to pick this device up?

via engadget

Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Eris, Google, HTC, htc droid, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Sense UI, Verizon, Verizon, WiFi

Starting today, Best Buy Mobile will be pre-selling the highly anticipated Motorola DROID smartphone. This is the first smartphone from Verizon which runs on the Android platform and will officially be launched in stores by November 6. For the people who will be getting the Motorola DROID via the Best Buy Mobile stores, instant savings will be applied at the point of purchase. The Motorola DROID will retail for $199.99 which includes a 2-year activation contract.

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Tags: best buy, Cell Phones, Droid, Motorola, Motorola, point of purchase, Verizon

The popular and long-waited BlackBerry Storm2 is officially available online, at the Verizon website, for a mere price of $180 after the mail-in rebate of $100 and after signing a 2-year contract.

The Verizon BlackBerry Storm2 9550 only has one problem when comparing it to other BlackBerry devices, which is the exclusion of Wi-Fi… Taking in consideration the early news that 409 million devices feature WiFi, I guess there won’t be many more smart phones on the future that don’t have WiFi.

Anyhow, for BlackBerry lovers this latest model will surely please them thanks to the improved processor, memory, and other details.

Tags: 9550, BlackBerry, Research In Motion, Storm 2, Verizon

Early last week we showed you a device that was reportedly an unannounced HTC manufactured Android phone and had virtually no details as to what it was. Today, we have word that this device is to be called the HTC Passion and will hit Verizon towards the end of this year and feature a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

Unfortunately, that’s all we know for now but we’ll be sure to keep you posted.

via theunlockr

Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Google, HTC, htc passion, Mobile News, Mobile Software, SnapDragon, Verizon

The Motorola Droid is the next number one Android phone which is already very well known to consumers. And the fact that the Motorola Droid is coming in the very near future is again, very well known. But Motorola still seems confused about actual arrival dates.

How else could one explain the mysterious appearance of the Droid on Motorola’s website? Everything looks official enough but it’s way too early. Shouldn’t we at least wait for Verizon to make the phone official? It appears not and we can only assume that both Verizon Wireless and Motorola officials will be really annoyed to see the screenshots all over the Internet.

So what do you say, Verizon, aren’t you going to launch the device already? Everyone knows it’s coming! And while you’re at it you could also consider unveiling the Storm 2!

via BGR

Tags: Android, BlackBerry, Droid, leak, Mobile News, Motorola, Motorola, Storm 2, Verizon, Verizon

Rumors of the HTC Desire on Verizon have been circulating since the beginning of this month when the device was found on Verizon computers. Today the above live shot of the device has appeared with it wearing none other than the Verizon branding.

As you can see, this is an Android powered touchscreen device running the HTC developed Sense UI.

We’ll keep you posted as more information is made known.

via bgr

Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Google, HTC, htc desire, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Sense UI, Verizon

The Motorola Droid has been pictured, detailed and rumored but we haven’t had official confirmation from either Verizon or Motorola. Lucky for those of you anxiously awaiting the device Verizon has announced that they will be holding a Droid event on October 28th, presumably to give the phone its official unveiling.

Of course, they don’t actually say that the press event is for the Droid but considering it’s a “must-have device of the year” and manufactured by Motorola, I think it’s safe to say it will be focusing on the handset.

Check back next week and we’ll let you know what went down.

via engadget

Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Droid, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Motorola, Motorola, Press Event, Verizon, Verizon

Earlier this month we told you that BlackBerry Storm 2 dummy units were expected to hit Best Buy retail locations on October 25th. Well, it seems that someone jumped the gun or we had faulty information as it was made known that the dummy units have appeared at both Best Buy and Verizon stores.

Other than the fact that this means the device is almost definitely going to launch soon, you can head to your local store and check out the dummy unit to get a feel for the handset’s physical design. Of course, nothing will work on it so don’t get too excited.

via crackberry

Tags: best buy, BlackBerry, Cell Phones, Dummy Phones, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Research In Motion, Storm 2, Verizon, Verizon

Sure, Verizon may have yet to officially announce the BlackBerry Storm 2 but that hasn’t stopped them from hinting at it, unofficially announcing it and just generally letting us know that they are definitely getting it at some point.

To add further kindle to the fire the device itself has actually appeared on Verizon Wireless’ website today only to be quickly pulled down. Luckily BGR got the above screen shot as proof for you nonbelievers.

Tags: BlackBerry, Cell Phones, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Research In Motion, Storm 2, Verizon, Verizon, wireless

It seems that Verizon is unhappy with the success of the iPhone on AT&T. So unhappy in fact that they have felt the need to start a new marketing campaign completely aimed at the handset.

As you can see from the above promotional material Verizon is asking customers “If the iDoesn’t what does?” and then tells them to tune in this weekend to find out “what does”. This is most likely an attempt by Verizon to show off their new handsets and compare them directly with the iPhone, focusing on the highly sought after device’s faults.

via engadget

Tags: At&T, Cell Phones, iPhone, iPhone, marketing scheme, Mobile News, Verizon, Verizon

Verizon Wireless has just updated their Twitter feed letting us know that the Palm Pre will be hitting the carrier earlier than we expected.

As you can see from the above screen shot, Verizon expects to have the Palm Pre “early next year”. Exactly when early next year remains a mystery but at least those webOS fiends on Verizon now have something to look forward to.

Tags: Cell Phones, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Palm, Palm Pre, release date, twitter, Verizon, Verizon, webOS