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The time is here! The much anticipated Motorola DROID is now available at Verizon Wireless and Best Buy Stores.

The Motorola DROID is the first device powered by Android 2.0. Not only does it give you high-speed web browsing, voice-activated search, it is one of the thinnest full-QWERTY slider phones available. DROID also features a customizable large touch screen, with access to thousands of apps and hundreds of widgets from Android Market. Oh, and it being available through Verizon, it is on the largest 3G mobile network in the country.

Verizon Wireless will host demonstrations at select locations today, November 6th, (check with your local store) to help customers get the most from their new DROID. Are you in New York City? Today Verizon is hosting an interactive experience called, "DROID Does Times Square." This experience will let callers control two of Times Square's largest digital billboards – the NASDAQ and Reuters signs – using only voice commands. Pretty cool, huh?

Get more information on Motorola's DROID on Motorola's website or visit www.verizonwireless.com.

The T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ is now available and to help celebrate, T-Mobile has launched the Motorola CLIQ Challenge, a contest to build the largest college fan club on Facebook.

The way the contest works is this: T-Mobile wants college students, alumni, teachers and fans to build the largest Facebook fan club. Visit www.facebook.com/tmobile to vote for the four-year college or university of your choice to win a free concert by the rock band Weezer, who's new album Raditude is out today. T-Mobile will also give the winning school $1 for every vote up to $25,000 for collegiate enrichment.to win the grand prize. The school with the highest number of votes by November 30, 2009 will be the winner!

Pretty cool! So, what are you waiting for? Go to www.facebook.com/tmobile to vote for your favorite college or university. What do you have to lose?

Find out more information on the CLIQ by visiting www.T-Mobile.com/CLIQ.

Best Buy Mobile announced on Thursday that they are now offering the Verizon Motorola DROID smartphone for presale. The DROID is the first Verizon device running on the Android operating system. The phone will be available in stores on November 6th.

Best Buy is giving customers an incentive to purchase the phone through them by applying the rebate instantly, rather than deal with the hassle of mail-in rebates. The DROID is available at Best Buy for $199.99 with two-year activation.

"We're excited to feature this new device for our consumers, as it represents the latest and greatest in mobile technology," said Best Buy Mobile President Shawn Score. "Bringing the DROID to Best Buy Mobile expands our already unmatched assortment of smartphones allowing customers to compare high-end devices like the iPhone 3GS, HTC Hero and DROID all under one roof. The fact that customers can purchase the phone first at Best Buy through the pre-sell is an added bonus."

Available today from Sprint, the Motorola Debut i856 is the first vertical slider phone with Nextel Direct Connect push-to-talk service. It is also the first device to offer the upgraded ability to switch from an active push-to-talk call to a voice call by simply touching a button.

The Debut i856 includes a built-in MP3 player with external music controls, 1.3 MP camera with video capture and up to 4x digital zoom, Stereo Bluetooth and GPS. A GPS Tagging feature lets you tag a picture with the GPS information from the picture's location using the GPS receiver built into the handset. You can also send and receive messages, calendar events, pictures, location information and more, without interrupting a Direct Connect call, as well as play music while you text or talk.

The Motorola Debut i856 is now available from Sprint for $99.99 with a two-year service agreement and $50 mail-in rebate (excluding taxes). For more information visit www.sprint.com.

The hot handset this holiday season seems to be the Android powered device. And T-Mobile seems to have something for everyone, even if Android isn't your thing. Here is a listing of T-Mobile's holiday handset line-up:

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition

The newest in the T-Mobile myTouch franchise, the myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition has a guitar-inspired wood-grain finish and has access to the Android Market. It also features a 3.5mm headset jack, pre-installed 16GB microSD card, and exclusive pre-loaded video and audio clips by iconic musicians. It will be available later this year. Pricing has not been announced, and unfortunately, a photo is not available yet either.Read more

T-Mobile just announced that the Motorola CLIQ Android device will be available for pre-sale for existing T-Mobile customers starting Oct. 19 at www.t-mobile.com/CLIQ.

Also, if you purchase the CLIQ during the pre-sale (Oct. 19–Nov. 1), the company will include a complimentary car charger. The CLIQ will be available exclusively to eligible T-Mobile customers for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement.

Visit www.t-mobile.com/CLIQ to register for CLIQ updates and learn more about the phone. There actually is an incentive to this. If you register to receive the updates, you are entered into a grand prize sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip with five friends to one of four destinations. Also, if you register before Oct. 19, you will have a chance to instantly win a new CLIQ.

CLIQ will be available in stores and online beginning Nov. 2 for $199.99 to eligible customers with a two-year agreement.

Verizon Wireless and Motorola today announced the availability of the Motorola Entice W766 flip phone. Features include one-touch access to the music player, camera and speakerphone, 2.0 megapixel camera and camcorder, support for up to 8 GB of optional removable memory, Bluetooth, and the phone supports a wired USB 2.0 connection.

The Entice also supports VZ Navigator, Family Locator, Mobile Email, Mobile IM and Dashboard. Verizon's Backup Assistant keeps a copy of the phone's address book on a secure Web site, and the phone has IM-style texting for a view of text trails by contacts.

Motorola Entice W766 is available online today at www.verizonwireless.com for $39.99 after a $50 rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. It will be in Verizon Wireless Stores later this month for the same price after a $50 mail-in rebate.

Motorola on Thursday unveiled its first Android phone, the Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR. This "phone with social skills" syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and more—from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail, and LastFM—and automatically delivers it to widgets on the phone's home screen.

Customize the widgets on the home screen to see live streams of your favorite content, such as:

• Happenings: View all your social site updates in one spot with the live Happenings application. Every friend feed, status update, wall post, bulletin and photo upload is automatically delivered
• Messages: Quickly scroll through the Messages application for a snapshot of current work or personal e-mails, social site messages, and texts, with the ability to respond to any message however you want no matter how it was sent: text, email, IM and more.
• Social Status: Blast your status right from the home screen and even save time by updating your status to one or all your social networks at once.
• News Feeds: Keep track of your favorite news feeds, sports scores or even celebrity gossip without leaving the home screen.
• Calendar: Integrate your work calendar with Google Calendar into one Calendar widget

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The Motorola Endeavor HX1 that we told you about back in June is now available in the United States. This bluetooth headset features CrystalTalk noise cancellation and a new stealth mode, which, when activated, true bone conduction technology lets the caller hear only your voice and blocks out all outside noise.

The Endeavor HX1 was created with the same bone conduction technology that special military forces use. To activate stealth mode, simply touch a button and stealth mode triggers bone conduction technology which uses an ear sensor to seal off outside noise. When you talk, the sensor taps your vocal vibrations and converts them to speech so only your voice is heard.

Motorola Endeavor HX1 is available only at Sprint starting today for $129.99.