Motorola Droid & HTC Droid Eris on Verizon

Verizon has done great at marketing in the last few months as the whole blogosphere has covered every little move they’ve made, with the much-awaited Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris getting a LOT of attention. As we previously reported from various sources, Verizon Wireless plans on introducing their Droid lineup today, October 28th, by announcing full specs and prices. But since we already know what’s under the hood, the big question is when are the two mobiles going to be availabili in stores. Well, it looks like the latest coming from Big Red’s stables gave us November 6 as launching date for both the MOTO Droid and the HTC Droid Eris.

Full specs for Motorola Droid include

  • 3.7-inch Touchscreen with Haptic Feedback
  • WVGA resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio
  • Full QWERTY Keyboard, virtual keyboard support
  • Android 2.0 Éclair
  • CDMA 1x 800/1900, EV-DO Rev. A connectivity
  • 5-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, video recording and dual LED flash
  • 1400 mAh Li Ion battery: up to 385 min of continuous usage time; standby 270 hours
  • Stereo Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR
  • Music and video player
  • Speakerphone and voice recognition
  • GPS and aGPS
  • 802.11b/g Wi-Fi connectivity
  • microUSB and USB 2.0 support
  • 3.5mm jack
  • Dedicated Keys: Volume control, Camera, Back, Search, Menu, Home, Lock,
  • 2.4 x 4.6 x 0.5-inch; 169 grams
  • Email, MMS, SMS, IM support
  • Support for Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, Corporate Calendar, Google Calendar,
  • Flash 10 support and WebKit HTML5

And here’s a little something we know about the HTC Droid Eris

  • full touchscreen device
  • 528MHz Qualcomm CPU
  • Runs Android 1.5 Cupcake
  • there’s HTC’s new Sense UI
  • trackball for navigation
  • 3G connectivity

Expect them both in a Verizon store near you, next Friday!

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    Does the Droid/Verizon offer/support tethering? That would be the deciding feature for me.



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