eWeek logo eWeek 1 week ago

Verizon Launches Low-Key Droid Event in Times Square, With Big Hopes

Verizon tried a Times Square promotion for its Droid smartphone on Nov. 6, the same day as the devices release. Full Article at eWeek

Related Articles

  1. Verizon Wireless will open many of its 2,000 retail stores early on Friday for first day sales of the Droid smartphone, adding to the marketing hype already begun for the Android 2.0 device from Motorola Inc. Full Article at PC World

  2. BASKING RIDGE, N.J.(CRWENEWSWIRE) Nov 3,2009-- Many of Verizon Wireless' more than 2,000 Communications Stores will open early Friday (Nov. 6) to give customers the earliest opportunity to purchase the DROID by Motorola on its first day of sale. Full Article at TransWorldNews

Related Quotes

Related Photos

  1. OREM, UT -  NOVEMBER 5: A manager holds an Apple iPhone (L) and Motorola's new Droid smart phone (R) sold through Verizon at the Verizon store November 5, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Google powered Droid is being released by Verizon November 6, 2009.
  2. BERLIN - NOVEMBER 02:  A converted Dodge minivan is steered remotely with an iPhone by a student of the department for aritificial intelligence at the Freie Universitaet Berlin during a demonstration at Tempelhof Airport on November 2, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
  3. EGLING, GERMANY - JULY 27:  Uschi Glas holds an i-phone during the Bavarian Film Cup 2009 on July 30, 2009 in Egling, Germany.
  4. A member of staff, center, gestures to one of their customers waiting to buy new the new 3GS iPhone at an Apple store in London, Friday, June 19, 2009, as Apple launch the sale of the new iPhone in Britain.
  5. SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 19:  An Apple Store customers purchase the new iPhone 3Gs June 19, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
  6. SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 08:  Apple Senior Vice President of OSX Software Bertrand Serlet delivers a keynote address on the new OSX Snow Leopard operating system at the Apple World Wide Developers conference June 8, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
  7. WASHINGTON - MAY 12:  Richard Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, passes an iPhone to an assistant prior to testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee May 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. Holbrooke testified on the topic of  'U.S. Strategy Toward Pakistan.'
  8. PASADENA, CA - MAY 04:  A Blackberry Curve 8310 is seen in a photo illustration on May 4, 2009 in Pasadena, California. With help from an aggressive promotional campaign, the BlackBerry Curve passed the top-selling iPhone in the first quarter of 2009 in sales.
  9. NEW YORK - APRIL 15:  A general view of the iPhone application for NHL tweetup website named Tweetie during the NHL Playoff Kickoff Party on April 15, 2009 at NHL Powered by Reebok Store in Manhattan. New York.

Cast of Characters