DROID 2 by Motorola Pre-Sale Starting Tomorrow at verizonwireless.com

Starting tomorrow (August 11, 2010) the new Droid 2 by Motorola is available pre-sale  at www.verizonwireless.com and starting 12 August 2010 you can buy it at Verizon Wireless stores for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. The previous version of Droid was Droid X.

The Droid 2 has the following features:

• It runs on a new fresh Android 2.2 (or Froyo)
• 1 GHz TI OMAP 3620 - 1000 Processor
• Sliding QWERTY Keyboard (same as Droid X)
• 3.7-inch display (Same as Droid X)
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1
• 3G Mobile HotSpot and the ability to connect up to five compatible Wi-Fi® devices
• 5-megapixel camera with flash
• Customers can also download favorite apps from Android Market™, which has more than 70,000 applications
• 8GB on-board memory and the 8 GB microSD™ card (can be upgraded to a 32 GB SD card)

About the $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement, customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card. In addition to subscribing to a Nationwide Talk plan or a Nationwide Talk & Text plan, customers will also need to subscribe to an Email and Web for Smartphone plan.  Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 monthly access.  Email and Web for Smartphone plans start at $29.99 for unlimited monthly access.

Customers can add the optional 3G Mobile HotSpot service to their DROID 2 smartphones for $20 per month.  The 3G Mobile HotSpot allows customers to turn their phones into a wireless modem for up to five compatible WiFi devices.  In addition, current Verizon Wireless customers who have contracts ending by December 31, 2010, can upgrade to any smartphone, including DROID 2, without penalty.

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