Posts Tagged ‘Verizon’
Google Makes it Official: Google Maps Navigation Available for Android Versions 1.6 and Later
Jealous of those Motorola (An)Droid owners and their Google Maps Navigation app? Ready to hack your older phone with an earlier version of Google’s Android operating system on it? Wait! Don’t touch that code! The Google announced via its Google Mobile blog that the free navigation app is now available for phones running with Android 1.6 (cute codename: Donut) and higher. That means all you T-Mobile myTouch and G1 owners (assuming you live in the United States) can now take advantage of it.
Phriday Phone News: Casio G’zOne Rock Comes to Verizon, and Maybe Samsung Omnia II, Too
The rugged, GPS-enabled Casio G’zOne (pronounced geez won … *sigh*) Rock is perhaps a more annoyingly spelled product name than anything Garmin has ever come up with (even without any umlauts). But it is not without merit; designed for peeps that like to play outside, the handset features six operating modes, including Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, and Sunrise Sunset and Tides. Netflix and the couch more your speed? Verizon is also getting the new gee-whiz Samsung Omnia II, according to the Intertubes.
Verizon, Moto Throw Down the Gauntlet — and the Smack Talkin’ — to the iPhone with the Droid
Well if you watched any television over the weekend — and let’s hope if you were that you weren’t watching the Cincinnati Bengals “game” — you probably saw Verizon Wireless’ iDon’t commercial. The folks that brought you “Can you hear me now?” made it clear: it’s going after Apple’s iPhone with its foray into Android phones. While there’s nothing official about this would-be, ice-cold iPhone killa beyond the slick iDon’t commercial — which has friends asking me what’s going on, because I’m that guy that everyone asks about this kinda stuff — this is the Internet age, so of course everyone already knows about Verizon’s forthcoming Droid phone. And no, neither one of those droids in the photo from Mos Eisley is the Droid I’m talking about.
New GPS Phones from Verizon: Rough-and-Tumble Barrage, 2705 Shade, and the Rather Odd Razzle
Among the latest phones officially announced from Verizon here in the United States is Moto’s military-specced Barrage (otherwise known as the Moto V860), and the less rugged, less fancy (and less expensive) Nokia 2705 Shade — both are clamshell/flip phones. Then there is the rather odd and oddly named Pantech Razzle. All three are GPS-enabled and have the option to run Verizon’s audible turn-by-turn navigation application, VZ Navigator. If I had to pick from among these three, I’d pick the Barrage, but then I’m partial to stuff I’m less likely to bust with my clumsiness.
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