Disney converting Droid Eris into GPS tour guide (update: video!)
If you shed a tear when Verizon put the Droid Eris out to pasture , it's time to dry your eyes; it seems the handset's found greener fields in Florida, at Epcot Center to be precise. That's right, Walt Disney World is reportedly testing out Verizon's HTC Hero as a GPS navigator and tour guide for the entire park, complete with shopping discounts, special bonuses and up-to-the-minute wait times for rides. How or when you'll get your hands on one is presently up in the air, though the man who snapped these shots told Mickey Updates the phones may be an inexpensive addition to your vacation -- perhaps like the $10 BREW-based Mobile Magic application Verizon and Disney introduced last year
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: droid, droid-eris, eris, navigator, shebang, stock, times, tour guide, verizon-wireless
Apple posts iPhone 4 press conference video, ‘smartphone antenna performance’ page
Well, that was quick. Not only has Apple already posted the complete video of today's iPhone 4 presser (minus the Q&A), but it's also put up a special "smartphone antenna performance" page that offers pictures and videos aplenty of the antenna comparisons shown during the press conference. And you didn't think today could get any weirder.
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: antenna, apple, berry-bold, complete, droid-eris, embedded-videos, htc, iphone, press conferece, pressconferece, shown-during
Verizon’s Droid Eris goes on permanent vacation
You might have figured that the recent update to Android 2.1 would've given Verizon's Droid Eris a few months of additional shelf life, but alas, it was not to be; the phone is no longer available from Verizon's online store, and we'd assume that any remaining inventory in the field will dwindle to nothingness in the coming weeks. If anything, it seems like the device -- basically a tweaked Hero -- would be able to effectively soldier on indefinitely for $50 or so on contract, but maybe the carrier's intent on keeping Android a higher-end affair for the time being
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: device, discontinued, droid, droid-eris, htc, online, phone, recent-update, result, shelf, store, time, verizonwireless
MOTO touchscreen comparison recruits robotic implements for heightened precision (video)
So you saw that the first MOTO smartphone touchscreen comparison was done with a fleshy humanoid controlling the testing finger and discounted it as scientifically flawed? Well, MOTO's back and this time the arm of judgment is operated by a coldly mechanical and ruthlessly precise robot -- a machine in itself, we'll assume the robot is intrinsically immune to developing fanboy tendencies.
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: algorithms, black, drawing, droid, droid-eris, htc-droid-eris, htcdroideris, humanoid, judgment, moto labs, nexus, tendencies, touchscreens, video
Android 2.1 for Droid Eris leaks out
We've already seen a broken build of Android 2.1 for the Droid Eris slip out accidentally , but now the full package is available for installation courtesy of the fine folks at xda-developers. We haven't tried it ourselves, but we're told it's working fine, and that snazzy new version of Sense is apparently quite snazzy and new
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: data, droid, droid-eris, folks-at-xda, htc-sense, leak, leaks, official-update, prudent, result, sense, sprint, xda
Verizon launches FiOS Mobile Remote app for Droid and Imagio
Controlling your TV from your phone isn't a new concept , but Verizon just made it a bit sexier.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, droid-eris, entry, htc, imagio, mobile remote, photos, remote, video, wifi
Motorola Droid’s next update to be Android 2.1, includes multitouch browser
We've just gotten the inside line on the next Droid update that's making the rounds through Verizon's testing department from one of our trusted sources, and overall, it looks like this should take users 95 percent of the way to curing pangs of Nexus One envy. Here's what we've got: It's based on Android 2.1 . The build currently being circulated is identified as 2.1 version 1, mirroring the update just pushed to the Nexus One last week
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: active, droid-eris, droideris, entry, flash, goggles, goodness, google-goggles, google-maps, minimum, source, weather-widgets, word-on-timing
HTC Droid Eris gets an ultra-minor update
What you want for your Droid Eris : Android 2.1 . What you're actually getting: the tiniest of updates designed to fix just one bug. ROM version 1.17.605.1 is starting to make its way into the world via the phone's over-the-air update mechanism, fixing an intermittent bad signal indicator when bringing it out of standby
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bad, droid-eris, droideris, engadget, phone, quarter-as-big, rom, signal, tiniest, update, verizon-wireless, wings
Swype on Android | Redmond Pie
Swype keyboard, which is currently officially available only on Windows Mobile based Samsung Omnia II has been leaked for Android devices. This leaked preview version of Skype is optimized for high resolution Android devices such as the ...
Categories: Android, htc Tags: delicious, droid-eris, facebook, iphone, mobile, motorola, phone, root-droid, taimur-asad
HTC Expresso for HTC Hero Android 2.1 Leaked
HTC Expresso is the next update to the HTC's Sense UI which will make its way to HTC phones like Hero and Droid Eris somewhere around the first half of 2010. A system dump of HTC Expresso for HTC Hero with Android 2.1 has been leaked ...