Tag: DROID

In honor of Valentine's Day, T-Mobile will be giving out all its phones (and smartphones) for free this weekend. Beginning Friday morning, customers will be able to grab any phone from T-Mobile's lineup, including comparatively more expensive models, like the myTouch 4G, HTC HD7, G2 and Samsung Vibrant. The catch, of course, is that you'll have to sign up for a two-year contract, but that's ...

Share Your fancy iPod case, your Palm Pre, even your fantastic GPS-enabled directional unit: it all originated here. This is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where every tech company worth its salt comes to show off its wares, and where tech writers, for the most part, question the validity of their jobs. In the past, we at Switched have been pretty right on: we still think 3-D TV is a ...

Cedar Hill, Texas resident Aron Embry claims that his brand-new Droid 2 exploded. Usually, when cell phones explode (and yes, they do explode from time to time), they're in a pocket where heat is easily trapped. Embry claims he was talking on his phone when it popped, leaving him with a wound on his ear that required four stitches. Although he claims he didn't feel any pain, when he realized he ...

Florida's tight gubernatorial race between Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Rick Scott turned controversial Monday night, thanks to one foolhardy aide and a Droid smartphone. Prior to Monday's CNN-sponsored debate, both candidates had agreed not to use notes in their volleys back and forth. During a commercial break from the action, however, Sink's makeup artist showed her a brief message ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Combine Collective's gorgeous (and questionably useful) new wooden tray has openings for your Apple remote, keyboard and Magic Trackpad. [From: Combine Collective] Nerd out with us for a moment. Grab the nearest Mac computer, boot up the Terminal app, type in say -v "Cellos" ...

The announcement of the Droid 2 hardly feel like news at this point. We knew it was coming. We've seen the spy shots, read the manual, and even gotten a detailed spec list -- all long before today's announcement. We almost feel like we could review the device already, as we already knew that the Droid 2 keeps the original's sliding QWERTY form factor and 3.7-inch screen. As for the insides, ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Foursquare (whose relative anonymity may soon end) is reportedly engaged in discussions with Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft about implementing a real-time, Twitter-esque service that would generate trending "venues" in search results. [From: The Telegraph] Microsoft is silently and unceremoniously dispatching its enormous Kin ...

If you happened to buy a new Droid X yesterday, you may have noticed a couple of apps from Blockbuster and Electronic Arts pre-installed on your device. No, you didn't ask for them, but Motorola and its T-Mobile Verizon carrier thought you might like them. The Blockbuster app provides a map of local retailers and allows users to download films from the company's catalog. Good luck trying to ...

If you're a clothing retailer struggling to come to terms with your own intrinsic lameness, you might want to take a page from American Eagle's marketing playbook. According to the AP, the retailer will soon be offering a free smartphone to anyone who tries on a pair of its trademark jeans. That's right. All you have to do is try on a pair of jeans, and you'll be able to choose between a new ...

Well, it looks like the gloves are officially off. In a full-page ad that ran in the New York Times on June 30th, Motorola not only managed to laud the Droid X's sparkling new features, but also to take a cheap shot at the iPhone's well documented reception issues. As Engadget reports, Motorola threw down the gauntlet in just two sentences, which read: "It comes with a double antenna design. The ...

Well AT&T has the iPhone 4, Sprint has the Evo 4G and T-Mobile... well T-Mobile is really nice. Now, Verizon can play the super phone game too with the official announcement of the Droid X. The specs are exactly what were expected: a 4.3-inch screen, 1Ghz processor, 8-megapixel camera with flash and HD video capabilities, HDMI out and the usual assortment of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS. On the ...

Update after the break Well spy shots have been circulating around the Web for some time, and leaked information let us know it was coming to Verizon, but now it's official, the Droid X from Motorola is "coming soon." The Droid X is essentially Verizon and Motorola's answer to the Evo 4G, minus that all-important 4G part. It packs a 4.3-inch screen, a 1Ghz processor and Android 2.1 as well as ...

At one time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a die-hard BlackBerry devotee. But when his little piggies started hurting from pounding the crap out of the device, he decided to switch to the iPhone. And he's still not happy. In a post made on his Facebook page yesterday (now removed), Zuckerberg complained that, just one week after making the switch, he'd already been forced to buy four ...

We can't ask George Washington Carver if he prefers crunchy or smooth peanut butter. We can't seek the consultation of the Wright Brothers on how to go about saving the airline industry. We can, though, pick the brain of the very much alive Marty Cooper, the man who invented the cell phone -- which is exactly what C-Span recently did. Over the course of a half hour interview, Cooper revealed that ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Mogreet mobile video firm focuses on MMS, particularly the development of text messaging and the incorporation of phone-to-phone video sharing. The company has now drafted Hollywood icon David Lynch to help share its new technology, as it has introduced a texting program through which subscribers can receive exclusive David ...