Verizon's Droid is a series, not just a phone; Droid Eris coming from HTC
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Oct 23rd 2009 7:41PM
posted Oct 23rd 2009 7:41PM
- Droid is the brand name being applied to Verizon's Android devices. It isn't a single phone.
- The Sholes -- the phone we've been calling the Droid so far -- may simply be known as the Droid.
- HTC's Desire will be coming to market as the "Droid Eris." (Allow us to save you the Wikipedia lookup -- Eris is the Greek goddess of strife.) Interestingly, it's already up on gdgt as such.
- Droid Eris will be released -- not announced, actually released -- on November 6. In all likelihood, it will not be announced or shown at Verizon's October 28 event -- that will probably just be for the Sholes.
Looking forward to them!
Mmmm Sense UI and Multitasking...AND you can make a call to top it all off!! iphone who? 70,000 apps wha?
all my years of using a razr are finally going to pay off ... i've got every rebate possible for this phone.
@d889
I'm sorry you waited so long for nothing. Verizon just cut their rebate/credit program in half earlier this year. My 2 year phone credit dropped from 100 to 50.
Nope, if you had the 100.00 NE2 discount and never used it, you still have it. After you use it, you will get 50.00 the next time you upgrade. :)
droids...
c3p0 - gold and message-centric
r2d2 - small and quirky
among countless others from the EU that would be too nerdy to put into this thread.
this must be the new voyager, or verizons 5th iphone killer
i actually just heard from a buddy who works at a verizon store that the phone will come without any software, and you have to download applications for voicemail (probably visual) and the browser separate.... idk what this means but there might be a catch to this phone somewhere down the line....
regardless of if this is true or not i am looking forward to the release to see just what verizon has up their sleeve.
Your buddy is full of crap.
Yeah! Finally a sexy looking android phone!
I reeeally want to try this out.
Whoa...
Gack!
Goddess of strife...is that a good thing?
Haha, that's exactly what I wondered... and clearly the answer would be NO! :)
Looks like Verizon is finally getting it's shit together with their smart phone lineup.
cant disagree........
upranked.
If you can sell me a Droid or a Sholes or a Tao or whatever the fuck you wanna call it for $200 up front (no rebates) on a two year contract, you can consider me officially sticking with the Verizon family. Though then again, if you can show me a Calgary that's $150 and more to my casual, college bound liking, I might just by that instead, lol.
If you purchase the phone online you get an instant rebate and free overnight shipping.
who the heck are you?
and if they don't meet your demands,what? you walk away?
go ahead, leave. trust me, verizon will not miss you!
Luckily I migrated to the Eris-free network.
Thats exactly why I own a thinkpad. Just cant give up the red titty of doom.
HTC Eris...
For those of you who prefer your DROID with a little less (read: no) keyboard. ;-)
Go DROID!
@ oversight68 Rammstein?
No. "Eris" is the last four letters of "Desire" backwards. *rolls eyes*
So what happened to Ed?
@Why should I have all the fun?
The bitch kicked him out.
They wouldn't want J.K. Rowling to sue. (Mirror of Erised in the Harry Potter books - so, so very old)
If they call their line-up Droid and also have a singular phone named Droid, there's going to be mass confusion... in fact...
Gonads and striiiiiife!
I agree. Makes no sense.
Eris > Pluto
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR VERIZON DROID OVERLORDS...
HVGA? No thanks. WVGA, please. And 24-bit.
one way or another, the android juggernaut isn't slowing, it's rise is unrivalled. iphone OS is so 2007, been there, done that, move on and just die already and embrace Android/Maemo.
I doubt any single Android device is going to outsell iPhone, but the things is they all collectively run the same OS. The same one that's available on Sprint, T-Mobile, and now Verizon. AT&T is also rumored to get Android phones soon. Verizon alone is 300% bigger than T-Mobile, and Sprint is 50% bigger than T-Mobile. Not to mention all the worldwide carriers getting more Android phones. I find it hard to believe that Android phones collectively won't top iPhone sales. There's already 12,000+ apps one year into Android while there was only one phone available running it and it was on the smallest by far of the Big 3 networks in the US (T-Mobile). I'm with AT&T right now and have an iPhone 3G; the reason i din't upgrade to the 3GS is because I didn't want to look my self out of a new Android phone on AT&T. I just can't take Apple deciding to reject apps because they think it might confuse me (Google Latitude), and because they duplicate functionality (Wouldn't that be like MS blocking alternative browsers because they duplicate functionality; I can't even imagine that happening, but Apple does it in their App store). I need things that iPhone does't provide. I 'd like the ability to listen to Pandora while doing something else. I want apps that get approved in minutes and hours not days and weeks. I wan't my UStream app to be able to stream while I'm not connected to Wi-Fi. I want to be able to download directly from the web when I need to. I'd like the option to change up my homescreen a bit, change the wallpaper, the layout, add widgets. I want to be able to visit flash sites, and view flash videos on my phone. I might consider moving to Verizon, but AT&T has always had great coverage in Houston (Probably because they're based here in Texas).
Nice phones. About time Verizon got some nice ones. I still don't buy all the iPhone-killer hype. I switched from Verizon to AT&T and honestly I haven't looked back. And... surprise: I even get great service from AT&T.
It's not like Verizon ever uses the words "iPhone killer". In fact, that hype always comes from the blogosphere. If they would just review phones for what they are instead of hyping them to the max and being disappointed it doesn't include X feature, the world would be a much better place.
You must have missed those commercials...
The iPhone killer claims another victim. That story, news and weather at 10:00.
Will the Verizon Eris/Hero be running Sense or stock Android? I'm guessing Sense but just want to make sure. One more question, will this ship with 1.5 or 1.6?
I think that's actually a good question. Remember all that stuff about how Verizon wanted to have all their phones have their own Verizon-branded store on them? Which might be an issue in the future if the Pre or iPhone ever comes to Verizon? I'd be a little worried that Verizon is going to tweak these in their usual way and make them kind of *not* Android, but Droid phones. Which all run the apps from the Verizon Droid store. But don't have the Android store on them at all, and might or might not run Android apps. There might not even be Google branding on the things.
Not a given of course, but with this stuff about sub-branding you might want to worry about it a little. Personally I think it would be better for everybody/competition too if all the Android devices were largely compatible with each other and not all carrier branded like some other OS's I can think of...
As opposed to taking the word PHONE and throwing a cliched i in front of it?
If it had been called the ePhone would you feel differently?
Does anyone know what phone is actually pictured in this article? It isn't the Hero/Desire/Eris or the Moto Droid. So, which one is it? Because I want that one.
that's the Eris
LETS GO BIG RED!!!! I mean VZW and IU's supercomputer if you were wondering...
@TheGM
Have you tried accessing AT&T's network at the Dryden/TMC station on the Metro Light Rail? It completely goes to s*** there. In fact, AT&T in the entire Texas Medical Center completely goes to s***.
I'm so sick of T-Mo taking a back seat to everyone. I mean, seriously, why am I waiting a full YEAR to get a decent phone?
And the "year" I'm referring to is the time period that commenced when I started looking to buy
Don't like the myTouch? The few times I've used one I've really enjoyed it.
MyTouch sucks donkey balls. the OS is OK, but the hardware is cheap as hell. The whole thing is so Fisher Price, plasticy feeling. The screen doesnt respond well either cause they used cheap plastic on it too. All the best phones have glass screens. The Hero has it, iPhone has it, etc.
T-Mobile needs to stop settling for these cheap ass phones & get some premiere stuff. And their data network is a joke.
-A 4 year T-Mobile customer who switched to Sprint & then kicked his own ass for not doing it sooner.
When I saw the commercial for the Droid, I really thought that Verizon had a real iPhone killer. I guess not.
Is it just me or does it look like the top half of an HTC Touch Pro 2 and the bottom half of an HTC Dream. It looks like some phone unicorn.