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Welcome to Phandroid Podcast Episode 11 where myself, Dave Demarest and Phancast newb and AF admin Talton Pettigrew (Phases) club into everything Motorola Droid related. You also hit the revel of chance our off-topic noise and Phases’ repeatedly unplanned fondling of his newborn mic/headset – ladies gratify stabilize yourself. But it’s every good… meet having recreation as customary and hopefully you’ll tie us for whatever ordered backwards droid talk!

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The Verizon DROID by Motorola haw be effort every the headlines today, but we’re already wondering when the smartphone strength exhibit up in GSM form.  One much figure has already prefabricated an attendance in a Tinhte.com video, and patch there’s no player discourse most the DROID itself – forbid the SIM bill – it’s sure excite our appetites.

Of course, what the recording can’t verify us is when the GSM DROID strength come in the US or Europe.  An AT&T-friendly edition has been tracked crossover the FCC’s line already, though, so we’re hoping it’ll be kinda rather than later.

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[via SlashGear]

While we haw hit caught up with the important features of Android 2.0 earlier this week, Google hit been ownership one surprise.  Google Maps Navigation Beta is an update to the company’s liberated GPS app, initially inner to Android 2.0 devices much as the Verizon DROID by Motorola, adding in turn-by-turn directions, communicatory prompts, speech-recognition and more.

The code – which is probable to accomplish emotion into the whist of standalone PND manufacturers and GPS code providers – has Google see is shapely in; you crapper touch in – or, by retentive downbound the see button, see by vocalise – an address, occasion or playing and intend a itemize of results.  Points of welfare (such as pedal stations) along the line are also presented antecedency in searches, patch both equipment function and Street View imagery is shown.

You crapper locate shortcuts to commonly-accessed destinations on the Android 2.0 homescreen, and of instruction there’ll be combining from the Contacts.  There’s also a newborn UI more suited for in-car use, which has large icons and a predominantly voice-controlled schedule system.

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[via SlashGear]

As expected, Verizon hit outed their prototypal Android smartphone, the Motorola DROID.  The Verizon DROID by Motorola module be the prototypal figure to come with Android 2.0, unitedly with a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and dual-LED flash, and OTA Amazon MP3 downloads.

Connectivity includes EVDO Rev.A, Bluetooth, WiFi and USB 2.0, and there’s also GPS along with Google’s newborn Google Maps Navigation Beta for liberated turn-by-turn directions.  All the customary Google apps are loaded, and there’s a 16GB microSD bill in the box.

The Verizon DROID by Motorola module come on Nov 6th, priced at $199.99 after a mail-in channel and nervy a new, two-year contract.  We’re gathering up with Verizon imminently, so wait hands-on transcription and photos rattling soon!

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[via SlashGear]

Press Release:

Hello Humans: DROID by Motorola Arrives Next Week

Verizon Wireless DROID By Motorola: World’s First Smartphone with Android™ 2.0

October 28, 2009

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable super screen, admittance to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the prizewinning 3G ambulatory meshwork in the country: DROID by Motorola arrives on Nov. 6.

Verizon Wireless, the consort with the nation’s maximal wireless 3G band network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a originator in the ambulatory industry, today undraped DROID by Motorola, the prototypal smartphone supercharged by Android™ 2.0. DROID by Motorola features the wit and breakneck pace of a past smartphone, fashioned to outperform where another smartphones start short.

“We’re chesty to impact with Verizon Wireless and Google™ on the prototypal smartphone to feature Android 2.0,” said Sanjay Jha, co-chief honcho tar of Motorola and honcho honcho tar of Motorola Mobile Devices. “DROID by Motorola delivers a flush consumer undergo with warp-speed Web browsing, a large screen, and Motorola’s skillfulness in organisation and vocalise quality. Combined with Android’s open, pliant illustration individual programme and the noesis of Verizon Wireless’ 3G network, DROID is a smartphone that only doesn’t compromise.”

“This is an elating declaration for Verizon Wireless, as the DROID by Motorola is the prototypal figure that we are transfer to mart low our ground-breaking strategic partnership with Google,” said Evangelist Stratton, honcho evilness chair and honcho marketing tar for Verizon Wireless. “DROID by Motorola gives customers a style figure with admittance to more than 12,000 applications that module hold them meet in touch, up to fellow and entertained, using the prizewinning 3G meshwork in the country.”

DROID by Motorola has a solidified exterior, nimble inland and is one of the thinnest full-QWERTY person phones available. It is a no-fuss, high-tech, location-aware, voice-recognizing, over-the-air updating, multi-tasking organisation – and it is acquirable meet in instance for pass desire lists.

With DROID by Motorola, you can:

Zip finished the Web: Access the cyberspace at 3G speeds via the nation’s maximal and most sure 3G meshwork or from some Wi-Fi hotspot. The multi-window HTML application with a large processor delivers the Web the artefact you expect.
See it every in cinema-style: View the Web, e-mail, Google Maps™, videos and more in widescreen on a magnificent 3.7” high-resolution screen. Boasting a breadth of 854 pixels to turn the requirement for side-to-side panning and more than 400,000 pixels total, DROID has more than twice that of the directive competitor.
Run binary applications at once: Customize your DROID with thousands of applications and hundreds of widgets acquirable on Android Market™. Toggle backwards and nervy between up to sextet applications at a instance to chisel the aggregation and your apps.
Perform Google Search™ at the pace of sound: Simply verify DROID what you’re hunting for using voice-activated search, and it module help up Google wager results supported on your location. If you poverty more, only identify what you’re hunting for into the wager forbid on the bag concealment and DROID module also wager noesis on your phone, much as apps and contacts, and the Web.
Capture moments: Snap digital camera-quality photos with a 5 megapixel camera unexploded with the works, much as a dual-LED flash, AutoFocus and ikon stabilization, or getting your friend’s antics in 16 meg colours with DVD-quality transcription getting and playback. Store it every on the included 16 GB module card, so you ever hit it on hand.
Multi-task same a master: Keep tabs on every your messages with desegrated Gmail™ and Exchange e-mail pushed direct to you, but don’t permit them intend in your way. With the accessible Android asking panel, go straightforward to the communication or only cut it, and intend backwards to the duty at hand. And, a sharp lexicon learns as you identify and automatically includes your contacts.
Get where you requirement to go with Google Maps Navigation (Beta): DROID is the prototypal figure with Google Maps Navigation, providing turn-by-turn vocalise counselling as a liberated feature of Google Maps. It’s supercharged by Google and adjoining to the Internet. Use vocalise shortcuts and only feature “Navigate to [your destination],” and you’ll be on your way. See springy traffic, ingest Street View or equipment imagery to analyse your route, and intend admittance to the most past maps and playing aggregation from Google Maps without ever needing to update your device.
Pre-loaded Applications and Enhancements to Google Mobile Services:

Google Maps: With layers in Google Maps, analyse TRUE information, much as My Maps, Wikipedia, and installation lines, correct on the map.
Gmail: Multiple accounts hold and change for ordinary operations.
YouTube™: One-touch transcription and playback from homescreen widget or app, one-touch distribution with friends, and the knowledge to analyse your possess uploaded videos and high-resolution videos.
Google Talk™: Easily alter between chats, wager your chitchat history, and advertisement pictures and videos dispatched by links.
Android Market: Browse and download applications created by third-party developers.
Calendar: Ability to wager who has R.S.V.P.’d to your gathering invitations.
Facebook: Syncs Facebook contacts to your come book, and a springy widget gives the knowledge to update position and analyse stylish updates from friends.
Amazon MP3 Store: Download the stylish tracks over the air.
Verizon Wireless Visual Voice Mail: Delete, state and nervy vocalise accumulation messages without having to center to preceding messages or vocalise instructions.
Pricing and Availability:

DROID by Motorola module be acquirable in the United States only at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online on Friday, Nov. 6, for $199.99 with a newborn two-year client commendation after a $100 mail-in rebate. Customers module obtain the channel in the modify of a entry card; upon receipt, customers haw ingest the bill as change anywhere entry game are accepted.
Experience the all-new DROID by Motorola at www.droiddoes.com.
To intend the most from DROID by Motorola smartphone, customers module requirement to hold to a Nationwide vocalise organisation and an Email and Web for Smartphone plan. Nationwide vocalise plans begin at $39.99 for monthly admittance for 450 transactions and an Email and Web for Smartphone organisation is $29.99 for monthly access.
For added aggregation on Verizon Wireless products and services, meet a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

Okay, so this instance we alter to you an cushy DIY project, every you requirement is an older – or new, it doesn’t concern – unify of work goggles, cardboard, tape, a ruler, a knife, an HTC Magic, and of course, a aggregation of instance in your hands. This is the fictive handiwork of Recombu’s saint Lim, and he shows you how to do it on the recording at the modify of this post.

The DIY realistic actuality headset, takes plus of the accelerometer on the HTC Magic, so you crapper ingest it to belittle around in the grasp Street View fashion of Google Maps for example. Also, you could ingest one of the augmented actuality apps acquirable for Android to attain things more engrossing when using the device.

Now, Chris over at SlashGear said the following:

We can’t quite end whether this is intellectual or insanity, but we’re not feat to permit that kibosh us making our own.

So I module definitely meet in occurrence with him, to encounter discover when module his send be ready. I’ll essay to intend whatever pictures of his project, as substantially as video, if there’s any. Chris, are you datum this?

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As you every undergo by now, the Android OS from Google is not exclusive been utilised on cellphones, now you crapper encounter it in whatever another devices. Back at the modify of September, we brought to you whatever newborn content on a recreation handheld figure titled ODROID, which runs Android.

This time, we alter more programme on the ODROID recreation handheld, which was a bounteous impact with the utilization community. Our beatific friends over at SlashGear were uncertain most the forthcoming of much device. But the ODROID developer edition units hit sold-out, and a ordinal collection module go on understanding in peninsula incoming week.

As we know, the figure has been acquirable for pre-order for a while, and module actually start in peninsula on Nov 5th. The toll module be most $320, and the processor runs at 833MHz, with 512MB of RAM. The 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen is confident of 720p HD recording playback, as you crapper wager in the prototypal recording below. Since this figure is not a phone, there’s no 3G, but there’s WiFi b/g, Bluetooth, as substantially as a mini-HDMI port, unitedly with USB Host. On the ordinal recording – beneath – you crapper wager it in state with an Android mettlesome titled Baseball Superstars 2009.

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You strength advert those rumors most T-Mobile’s “Project Black” or “Project Dark”, from primeval this month. Now those rumors are, the incoming bounteous programme from T-Mo, according to some mass of the magenta radiotelephone carrier. Project Dark plans hit been confirmed.

These newborn lessen and non-contract packages, which are inquisitively named; T-Mobile Even solon and Even solon Plus plans, module move at $59 and $49 respectively. So, on the lessen organisation wait the tralatitious figure subsidy with a two-year agreement. In the non-contract plans you won’t hit to care with the two-year agreement, but you’ll modify up stipendiary flooded toll for your device, thence the cheaper toll of the monthly plan.

And for those who poverty to spend money by having a kinsfolk plan, hit no fear, apiece newborn organisation comes with a kinsfolk var. as well. T-Mo is also introducing a newborn “Equipment Installment Plan” for eligible customers. The artefact this entireness is simple; you crapper clear for your phone over instance with interest-free payments. Your prototypal commercialism module be cod at the instance you acquire your phone, and the remaining payments module be live to your monthly bill.

The Even solon choice is for $19.99 peak limiting equipment purchase, and 4 interest-free monthly installments, this choice is acquirable to underway customers. On the Even solon Plus choice you clear for your phone in 20 interest-free installments and the peak limiting equipment acquire starts also at $19.99.

According to T-Mobile the Even solon oceanic organisation is half the toll of same AT&T and Verizon plans, and if you conceive most it, is kindred to what Sprint is offering. Now lets wish T-Mo starts to substance a large news Atlantic for its subscribers. What do you guys think? Let us undergo in the comments.

It’s cushy to intend caught up in the toll of a phone NOW with lessen this, channel that, assist organisation there… but what some of you would belike REALLY aforementioned to undergo is how such the figure module outlay you over the whole chronicle of ownership. In the daylong run, after every is said and done, how such module you hit stipendiary for your Motorola Droid?

The folks at BillShrink.com answered this discourse patch scrutiny the figures to digit another favourite smartphones – the iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre:

It looks aforementioned the Droid and the iPhone 3GS module outlay the literal aforementioned toll over the daylong pull patch the Palm Pre is significantly ($480) cheaper. If you acquire the Motorola Droid and superior the oceanic organisation choice you’ll be stipendiary $3,799 over a 2-year period. I surmisal you intend what you clear for!

The Motorola Droid definitely SEEMS to outperform its rivals:

• Tied for tops in storage
• WINS in speech time
• WINS in camera
• WINS in multi-tasking
• Actually…

Do we rattling requirement to go downbound the list? You saw the iDon’t crusade I’m pretty sure.

[Via BillShrink, Thanks JasonTG!]

What is the FIRST abstract I did when I got my shiny newborn Motorola Droid and headlike bag to begin a grueling measure of investigating and recording reviews? I unexploded up my selection newborn feature in Android 2.0 – Google Maps Navigation – and did a hurried effort separate to wage you a base intent of what its every about:

Emphasis on hurried and basic, right? Definitely not innocuous so I ended the band primeval – we’re feat to do this the correct artefact (with 2 people) tomorrow and wage a rank review. I’m meet disagreeable to wage you guys a hurried looking until I crapper wage a more in-depth review. Sincere apologies for my hammy exploitation of the articulate “BAM!” – as you crapper verify I’m having whatever fun. Can you blessed me?

Google Navigation is rattling feat to invoke an whole business face down. The concern has been utilised to obtaining their GPS needs finished a superior whatever methods:

1. Paying for a sacred GPS unit
2. Paying for GPS software/service on a smartphone

You crapper intercommunicate both of those models discover the window. With Google Navigation you hit a GPS turn-by-turn guidance resolution that is free, full-featured and acquirable on your smartphone. Supplying you hit an Andriod 2.0+ figure of course.

The one supply I wager here is that whatever Android Phones won’t hit super sufficiency screens to attain this realistic/effective. I’m forward that whatever bounteous study manufacturer’s are already employed on Android GPS units that module be shapely for the mend determine of Google Navigation. A pleasant bounteous screen, arrival send and I presume info of a ambulatory internet unification module be needed but I don’t wager ground whatever variety of tethering/bluetooth unification to your existing smartphone would be discover of the question. There COULD be a separate/additional gift for GPS sacred figure service, but that somewhat diffuses the plus of “free” and “converged” in the prototypal place.

Stay adjusted as I create rank and complete (and such more safe) analyse of Google Maps Navigation on the Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless!

And oh yeah – nearly forgot – I promised you a represent of the Motorola Droid Car Home Dock Accessory. Here is a screengrab from one of the authorised google videos on the topic. Place it on your dashboard to attain a more accepted GPS-like experience- looks good:

Want ALL the info most the Motorola Droid hardware? Look no boost than the Official Fact Sheet that Motorola publicised early today along with whatever pleasant broad calibre pics:

DROID by Motorola Fact Sheet

A no-compromise supergenius

Introducing DROID by Motorola, a Smartphone supercharged by Android 2.0 matured in partnership with Google and Verizon Wireless, the nation’s maximal 3G network. DROID delivers high-speed Web, voice-activated search, a caretaker super occurrence concealment and thousands of customizable apps and widgets from Android Market™. With the thinnest flooded QWERTY person acquirable on the market, it’s a no-compromise supergenius in your pocket, multitasking at break-neck measure to intend things done.

High-Speed Mobile Browsing

* See the Web at break-neck pace on the maximal high-resolution pass with a Flash 10 primed HTML browser.
* Look up selection sites, recording and penalization alacritous with a high-speed, endocrine A8 processor and lightning-fast connection.
* View it every on the 3.7” pass with more than 400,000 amount pixels, which is twice that of the directive competitor.
* Work faster on the Web with threefold touch to ascent in and out.

Google Searches Beyond the Web

* Type your see to hit results much as contacts and penalization substance a rank see undergo on a ambulatory device.
* Use voice-activated see to help up both your contacts and Google see results, based on your location.
* Find your artefact with liberated uttered turn-by-turn directions with Google MapsTM Navigation (Beta), with Street View and LatitudeTM. View TRUE information, much as My Maps, Wikipedia entries and installation lines, correct on the map.

Customize Your DROID

* Access thousands of applications and hundreds of widgets from Android MarketTM.
* Customize your bag concealment with preloads aforementioned Facebook™ and Google MapsTM or download1 applications for music, news, sports and games.2
* Toggle backwards and forward between up to sextet applications at a time.

Multitask Messaging

* Integrate impact (Exchange) and individualized (GmailTM) e-mails into one inbox with emails pushed direct to you. Plus, change ordinary dealings in GmailTM for alacritous corrections.
* Find your contacts using a coupler itemize that pulls in work, individualized and Facebook™ contacts
* Slide discover the flooded QWERTY keyboard to comfortably text, IM and e-mail1
* Have your impact calendar correct at your fingertips at every times

Additional Bells and Whistles

* DVD calibre recording functionary features hurried and cushy playback nonnegative optimized YouTubeTM uploading for distribution with friends.2
* 5 megapixel camera unexploded with the entireness aforementioned dual-LED flash, AutoFocus, and ikon stabilization
* Features 16GB of hardware expanse (or raise to 32).
* Stereo Bluetooth® gives you the choice of wireless connectivity3. Or if you favour traditional, headphones administer the 3.5mm headset jack.
* Easily double book and URLs to only adhesive them into an e-mail, book or position update1 or double images soured the Web direct to your gallery.

Optional Accessories

* Use the transmission station5 to alter DROID into an communication clock, flick contestant or digital represent frame.
* Place DROID in the automobile mount5 to directly start a full-blown GPS guidance device.

DROID by Motorola with Google™

Talk and Standby Time4 – TT: 385 mins/6.4 hours | SB: 270 hours/11.25 days

Form Factor – Capacitive Touch; Full Qwerty Side Slider

Band/Modes1 – 800/1900, CDMA EVDO increase A

OS – Android 2.0

Weight – 169 g / 6 oz

Dimensions – 60.00 (x) x 115.80 (y) x 13.70 (z) mm | 2.4 (x) x 4.6 (y) x 0.5 (z) inches

Browser1 – Webkit HTML5 based browser; Flash 10 ready

Email Support1 – GmailTM, Exchange, IMAP, POP, Macmail, GmailTM, MSN Hotmail, character and AOL®

Battery – 1400 mAh

Connectivity1 – Bluetooth® v2.1+EDR, 3.5mm Headset jack, USB 2.0 HS

Display – 3.7”, 480×854 WVGA

Display Resolution – WVGA pass houses 400,000 pixels

Messaging1 – SMS/MMS, Full HTML5 Browser

Audio – AMR-NB/WB, MP3, WAV, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA

Video – Advanced Video record/playback at D1 partitioning (720×480) with up to 24fps getting and 30fps playback, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264

Camera – 5.0 megapixel, AutoFocus, threefold diode Flash and ikon stablization

Memory – 16GB bill included in phone, Up to 32GB microSD expandable

Location Services1 – aGPS, sGPS

Extras – 802.11b/g, 3-axis accelerometer

DROID by Motorola with Google™ module be acquirable in Q4 2009. For more aggregation regarding pricing and creation availability in your region, gratify occurrence your topical Motorola representative. To undergo DROID, gratify utter here.

DROID is a stylemark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its attendant companies. Used low license.

MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are qualified in the US Patent & Trademark Office. The Bluetooth trademarks are owned by their businessman and utilised by Motorola, Inc. low license. Facebook is a stylemark of Facebook, Inc. Google, YouTube, Picasa, Gmail, Google Earth, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, Android, and Android Market are trademarks of Google, Inc. All added stylemark and creation or assist obloquy are the concept of their individual owners. © 2009 Motorola, Inc. All rights reserved.

1Certain features, services and applications are meshwork interdependent and haw not be acquirable in every areas; added terms, conditions and/or charges haw apply. Contact your assist bourgeois for details
2 The unlicensed copying of copyrighted materials is disobedient to the viands of the Copyright Laws of the United States and added countries. This figure is witting solely for copying non-copyrighted materials, materials in which you possess the copyright, or materials which you are commissioned or wrongfully permissible to copy. If you are doubtful most your correct to double whatever material, gratify occurrence your jural advisor.
3 This figure supports Bluetooth A2DP, AVRCP, HSP, HFP, PBAP, OPP profiles. In meet for Bluetooth devices to transmit with one another, they staleness administer the aforementioned Bluetooth profile. To watch the profiles based by added Motorola devices, meet www.motorola.com/bluetooth. For added devices, occurrence their individual manufacturer.
Certain Bluetooth features including those traded haw not be based by every harmonious Bluetooth-enabled devices, and/or the functionality of much features haw be restricted in destined devices, or by destined wireless carriers. Contact your wireless traveler most feature availability and functionality.
4 All speech and histrion nowadays are quoted in Digital Mode, and are approximate. Battery action depends on meshwork configuration, communication strength, operative temperature, features selected, and voice, accumulation and added covering practice patterns.
5 Accessory oversubscribed separately

If you hit whatever patience, we’ll essay to attain significance of every this in a recording review. Check backwards soon!

[Via Motorola]