HTC’s new slogan may be “quietly brilliant”, but the news we got out of Taoyuan yesterday was anything but quiet. After being inundated in HTC Android news yesterday, a bit of clarification is welcome. Engadget is reporting a leak, from a reliable source (the same ones who gave us accurate, advance details on the HD2, [...]
Droid Eris Getting an Update
Well, I’m not sure where to post this. Really, it’s not surprising and the details are very slim at best. According to BGR: We’ve received word that the HTC DROID Eris on Verizon Wireless will definitely be getting an OS upgrade sometime in Q1. We haven’t been told exactly what OS version it will be [...]
Droid Sales Strong – Not Hercules Strong
Reports are coming in that the Droid sales over the weekend at Verizon wireless were good, but not sellout good. Maybe it was because the stores seemed to have plenty of stock, ranging from 300 Droids (New York and LA stores) to 25 for some of the smaller ones. There was an estimated 200K available [...]
Sears has Droid for $150 Today and Eris for $50
If you are looking to purchase your new Droid today, you might want to do it through Sears. They are selling the Droid for $150 straight up. No waiting for a MiR through Verizon, which still comes to $200. So, spend $300 out of pocket today and wait for your $100 to be mailed to [...]
Droid Eris Official Nov 6 on Verizon
Verizon announced today that beginning Nov 6th, you can purchase an HTC built Droid Eris for $99 on a two year contract. As expected, it comes with the Sense UI made famous by the Heroes. This makes the Verizon offering in that phone category $99 (after $100 MiR) while the Sprint version runs you $180. [...]
Eris Docs Reveal Date and Price
It was rumored, but now we might have some more solid info. Leaked documents that explain the Droid Eris will be available Nov 6th at $99. Again, this Android phone has almost identical specs to that of the Hero for Sprint. It’s got a standard 528Mhz Qualcomm processor, 320×480 screen and like Sprint’s Hero Android [...]
Verizon Training for Droid Eris
Looks like the rumors of a multi-Android holiday season at Verizon Wireless are true. Android Guys got a tip and a screen shot of the training page for Droid Eris by HTC. It looks to be a version of Hero, or something very similar , running Sense UI. Reports are stating it will be out [...]
HTC also gets to play with Android 2.0
Gearlog is reporting that Motorola, Verizon and their Droid campaign aren’t the only party playing with Android 2.0. HTC has confirmed that they are working with 2.0 in their offices as well. HTC is the manufacturer behind the original Android, G1, as well as many others and is currently in the lead for Android powered [...]
Verizon and Android 2.0
Verizon may have yet another Android 2.0 before the end of the year. This time it supposedly comes with a 1Ghz snapdragon and it’ll be called the HTC Passion…though I’m thinking if the reports that Droid is a series of phones and not just one phone, then it’ll be something more like Droid Passion? It’s [...]
Android Thoughts.
Today is the 23rd of October 2009. It’s been a very active Android month and we’re coming toward the end, but still have a few more weeks of excitement ahead of us. Notably, we’ve seen the announcement and release of several Android powered phones and devices. Sprint has officially been letting Android play on it’s [...]
