Just to get everybody up to speed with the latest Verizon Droid happenings (and there’s a lot):
- A print Droid advertisement (in the San Diego Union Tribune) shows the date 11.06.09 along with the usual slew of “iDon’t/Droid Does”-isms. We’re going to assume that’s the release date which makes a lot of sense considering the Verizon Droid Event is scheduled for October 28th and that’ll leave Big Red ample time to prepare for the launch of the Droid. The November 6th date also falls in line with previous reports. [phandroid]
- The Motorola Droid has popped up on eBay (looks like there is 3 available) for anyone willing to spend thousands of dollars on what might possibly be the best Android phone available. Would we recommend buying them? No, especially if the Droid is launching in early November and also no because we don’t want you guys to drive up the price for us! We kid. kind of.
- A GSM/HSPA version of the Droid (with AT&T 3G-friendly bands) has cleared the FCC and that has a lot of people whispering it could see light as the first Android device on the Death Star network. We’re thinking this is too good to be true considering Verizon has created a whole ad campaign for the Droid and to see it on a competing carrier would be disastrous–put it this way, could you ever see Verizon paying for the marketing of a phone on AT&T? Plus, AT&T has yet to officially acknowledge Android’s existence. We’re thinking the Droid is heading to Rogers in Canada (same 3G-bands as AT&T) and will remain exclusive to Verizon in the US. [mobilecrunch]
- BGR says that the DroidDoes.com website shown in all the Droid advertisements hit 2.5 million pageviews and 170,000 opt-in e-mail addresses in about three days. Yeah, we think this Droid is going to be a success.
That’s all the Droid news over the weekend, we hope you’re all caught up! Still, we’re sure there will be more details coming out before the official Verizon Droid Event on October 28th starts so stay tuned!