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We hadn’t heard that the Storm2’s unique piezo-actuated touchscreen was acting up in any statistically significant way, but apparently, there’d been enough with dodgy lower left corners to prompt RIM to do something about it. BerryScoop and BlackBerry Leaks are reporting that Verizon stores have been ordered to return their existing stock in favor of new Storm2s with “silicone actuators” added to “to improve touchpad performance and tactile response,” and don’t worry, current customers — it seems you’re more than welcome to exchange your old unit for an upgraded one provided you’re “experiencing touchpad performance issues” (wink, wink). Unfixed handsets need to be out of stores by March 11, so it looks like you can definitely find the new ones hanging around this week — let us know if you can tell the difference. RIM tweaking Storm2’s SurePress underpinnings, Verizon units getting swapped out originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
It feels like the Brigade’s been in the public conscience for forever and a day (and let’s be honest, November is forever and a day ago by phone standards), but amazingly, Casio’s latest rugged G’zOne for Verizon still isn’t being offered — at least, not in any official capacity. It seems some HowardForums posters have managed to order and receive their Brigades by calling the carrier’s telesales directly, and a few uploaded shots of the boxed QWERTY clamshell is enough to have us believing it’s the real deal. For what it’s worth, this tends to happen pretty frequently with Verizon — they’ll start selling and shipping new devices over the phone a couple weeks before announcing availability or offering them via the web — so it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that we’re going down the same road again here, and a few brick and mortar locations have apparently started to take delivery, too. Expect to pay $249 after $50 rebate — in other words, enough cash so that you’d better really need a messaging-centric dumbphone with a tough shell. Verizon selling Casio Brigade on the downlow? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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As the clock ticks down on Verizon’s opening salvo of commercial LTE availability, PR noise is growing into a dull roar — not to say we necessarily mind, considering how desperately we’re looking forward to more 4G footprint in the States. Today, the company is reporting that engineers have managed to coax up to 40-50Mbps down and 20-25Mbps up out of its test networks currently deployed in Boston and Seattle — not what we can expect in a real-world environment where you’re on a train surrounded by obstacles and other people trying to use the network, but a pretty nice, round set of numbers nonetheless. In actual usage, they’re reporting more down-to-Earth figures of 5-12Mbps down (count on 5) and 2-5Mbps up (count on 2), which still bests EV-DO Rev. A by a healthy margin. Of course, this is just the beginning — LTE will get better over time — so this sounds like a nice start. Verizon plays the obvious card: its 4G trials are faster than 3G originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’re missing that crazy contoured back this time around, but otherwise, HTC’s so-called Incredible for Verizon is looking as real and ready for action as it ever has in these latest shots leaked over at Phandroid . It’s hard to say whether these crimson bits are going to make it to production — they seem a little too spectacular for a high-end device that Verizon will want to appeal to the masses, but then again, red is Verizon’s color, so who knows? We’ve seen from countless prototypes in the past (Moto’s Morrison comes immediately to mind) that they’re often given special colors, presumably to identify bandits trying to expose them as anonymously as possible — and we’re tentatively going to say we dig it here. AT&T’s gone wacky on us in the past , but is Verizon hip enough to ship a phone this edgy? Release rumors span from March to May at this point, so we’ll know within the next couple months what’s what. Verizon’s HTC Incredible spotted again, looking as red-accented as ever originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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By and large, Verizon hasn’t flinched once in its march to LTE — the proof is obviously going to be in the pudding, but leading up to the first commercial launches, they’re talking as confidently as they ever have. Take last weeks Network World interview with the company’s CTO Tony Melone, for example, where he’s once again reiterated the carrier’s intention to bring 25-30 markets live commercially this year and achieve roughly a complete overlay of its 3G network in 2013 . That’s nothing new or particularly interesting, but Melone’s choice of language is encouraging, saying that they’re “ahead of where [they] thought [they'd] be as far as site readiness goes,” going on to report that the 25-30 market goal for 2010 is “looking better each day, not worse each day.” That’s bold, but he got a little less bold when talking about LTE voice: “The question for us will be whether our footprint will be sufficient at that point to provide customers with a good experience for voice over LTE, or whether we’ll be better off offering 3G coverage for voice and 4G for data.” The hesitation has us believing that an initial round of dual-mode handsets is basically a forgone conclusion, but at least we’ll have the modems up and running in the meantime. Verizon’s 2010 LTE launch: ‘it’s looking better each day, not worse’ originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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What better way to start your Saturday afternoon than with another Nexus One release rumor. Without further ado, today we’ve got whispers care of Neowin that the recently-FCC’d CDMA device is launching on Verizon’s network March 23rd, perfect timing for the beginning of CTIA . And while that fits pretty neatly into that initial “Spring 2010″ launch window , there’s really no way for us to corroborate at this point other than just taking their word for it. You can wait diligently, can’t ya? Nexus One coming to Verizon March 23rd? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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It’s unclear how the data’s being collected, but a handful of analysts have started backing away from Palm this week on some information that the phone’s webOS debut on Verizon has proven something less than bombastic at the sales counter. Of course, it’s no secret that Verizon has poured less money, time, and energy into its marketing of the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus than Sprint has with the original versions, but Palm and the market analysts following its progress may have been banking on the unspoken “if only this were on Verizon” factor to counteract that a bit. The biggest concern seems to be that Palm’s on the cusp of being washed into irrelevancy by a massive Android push, with a couple stock downgrades and price target cuts making their way into the hearts and minds of the market makers. Again, it’s not clear exactly where the Verizon sales figures are coming from — and we’d be remiss in thinking that analysts always (or even usually) know what they’re talking about — but this could be an early sign that the tide is turning. Come on, Palm: more carriers, more hardware, more features. Analysts turn sour on Palm stock, cite weak sales on Verizon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’re only a few breathless days away from the Devour hitting some retail locations ahead of nationwide US availability in March, so what better way to fill that gap than with an official teaser video? Moto’s Rick Osterloh is our tour guide in a seven minute hands-on demo of the device, which takes us through the major attractions on offer. He firstly calls out the Qualcomm CPU inside and points to the phone’s responsiveness, which is (quite naturally) followed by a couple of instances of perceptible lag between his input and the phone’s reaction. All the same, it does look like a sprightly little machine, and the inclusion of Blur , Google Maps Navigation with turn-by-turn voice instructions, and Moto Phone Portal makes for a compelling software package. Head past the break to see them in action and to catch another eyeful of the hardware as well. [Thanks, Zach A.] Continue reading Motorola Devours seven minutes of your life with a phone demo (video) Motorola Devours seven minutes of your life with a phone demo (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments
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It feels like the Tour isn’t quite aged enough to be replaced — especially when you consider that the downright ancient Pearl 8100 series is still sold on carriers around the world — but it seems that Verizon (and Sprint, naturally) might be champing at the bit to move on to a newer model with WiFi and a complete eradication of the pesky trackball. Verizon’s posted a Java app to its site with the file name “vvmail_9650.jad,” a reference to the Tour2’s model number. Of course, the Tour2 itself has yet to be announced by RIM in any capacity — let alone for a specific carrier — so we’ve got some hurdles to jump before this is on shelves, but if nothing else, we can safely say it’s coming to Big Red sooner or later. [Image via BGR ] BlackBerry Tour2-compatible visual VM on Verizon suggests release is growing near originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments
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 . Google Goggles is now pre-installed (no matter how unhelpful it may be). The browser’s now multitouch enabled, just like Google Maps 3.4 . Huzzah! No Flash, but then again, we weren’t really expecting that. Interestingly, the home screen’s still got the same look as 2.0.1, meaning it doesn’t adopt the Nexus One’s rotating 3D grid of app icons — it’s still got the pull-up drawer tab at the bottom. No active wallpapers. Bummer! The news and weather widgets introduced on the Nexus One are included. Maybe certain capabilities of 2.1 are going to be restricted to devices with minimum performance benchmarks? There’s no word on timing, and for all our source knows, this build could still very well fail testing — goodness knows it’s happened with plenty of pre-production firmwares in Verizon’s past. We’ll keep our ear to the ground and you do the same. Motorola Droid’s next update to be Android 2.1, includes multitouch browser originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments
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