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Feb

6

2012

Have Your Heart Set On A New Phone? Win A Droid RAZR With Verizon’s Twitter Contest

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by Josh O'Donnell
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Verizon is kicking off the Valentine’s “season” with a lovely (pun intended) Twitter contest! Tweet off a poem, a romantic(ally hilarious) moment, or tweet a picture with a Valentine’s Day confession. Close it off with a #tweetheart (nice one, Verizon) and you’re on your way to quite possibly owning a nice piece of Android hardware, [...]

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Jan

10

2012

RAZR MAXX to have 3300 mAh Battery, Heavy Users Breathe Sigh of Relief

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by Jack Holt
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Motorola had big news yesterday at CES with the addition of both a purple RAZR and the RAZR MAXX. The MAXX boasted a 21 hours of talktime which is unheard of on a 4G LTE device. Sadly it added a little bit more thickness and heft but not much as the phone is still just [...]

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Dec

28

2011

Gingerbread 2.3.5 Fastboot 6.11.744 Files Released for the Verizon DROID RAZR

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by Jack Holt
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Yesterday we brought you the story about how the folks at Droidrzr.com brought us the bootstrap that allowed for booting into ClockWorkMod Recovery on the DROID RAZR. While this is completely awesome in itself, we didn’t have any fastboot files should we mess up a ROM or MOD. That is, until today; daywalker04 over at [...]

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Dec

21

2011

Mysterious DROID Bionic Update v5.9.901 Change Log Brought to Light

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by Jack Holt
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Photo Courtesy of Droid Life Folks who own a Bionic are reporting that they are receiving a mysterious update bringing their system to version 5.9.901. They were a little miffed at what this update entailed and people were especially confused considering the major update that was already being pushed as of last week. Well it [...]

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Dec

12

2011

Motorola Has New Project For Droid RAZR

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by Jack Holt
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Well it appears that there is a new project coming out from Motorola for Droid RAZR owners. I just received this email, just a few minutes ago actually, and while I am not sure what it entails, it appears that this project is moving quickly. Given the timeline Motorola gave for updating their phones to [...]

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Dec

9

2011

DROID XYBoard Tablets for Sale on Verizon Website, Confirms December 12th In-Store Availability

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by Stacy Bruce
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Yesterday we saw DROID XYBoard shipments start to arrive in Verizon stores, now today you can officially purchase the tablets online. Also we finally got confirmation and they will in fact be available in-store on Monday, Dec. 12th. The 8.2-inch version starts at $429 for 16GB of storage and goes up to $529 for 32GB. The 10.1-inch [...]

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Dec

8

2011

Verizon Starts to Receive DROID XYBoard Demo Units, Launch Date Still Unconfirmed

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by Stacy Bruce
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With all the hubbub surrounding the Galaxy Nexus it can be easy to forget about the other great devices getting ready to drop. Take the Motorola DROID XYBoards for example. Although officially announced by Verizon, they are unofficially rumored to launch this Monday, Dec. 12, and haven’t received as much hype as they would have had [...]

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Dec

4

2011

Droid Bionic Gets Alpha Build Ice Cream Sandwich ROM

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by Jack Holt
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  Good news for those with rooted Bionics. A somewhat functional, alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich has been released for the Bionic thanks to dhacker29 of the Th3ORY ROM team.   Not everything works as of right now, so using this as a daily driver is probably not a good idea. Here is what works: – [...]

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Dec

3

2011

XYBoard Tablet Accessories Already Showing up in Verizon Stores

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by Stacy Bruce
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With their recent FCC approval, all signs are starting to point to the rumored December 12th launch of the new Motorola XYBoard tablets. Now it appears that accessories have already started to show up in Verizon retail stores and the dudes over at Droid Life got a hold of some pictures to confirm it. I guess [...]

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