Liveblog of Verizon's 2013 Droid Event
Jul 23, 2013, 10:30 AM by Rich Brome
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Verizon is holding an event today in NYC to announce the "next generation" of one of its "most popular family of devices." We're expecting new Droid phones. Leaks point to a couple of new models from Motorola, but we won't know for sure until noon Eastern. Follow the news at it happens here.
Jul 23, 2013, 11:07 AM: That's it! Look for hands-on soon.
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Jul 23, 2013, 11:06 AM: Pricing: $99 for the Mini, $199 for the Ultra, and $299 for the Maxx. Pre-orders now, and available starting August 20th.
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Jul 23, 2013, 11:05 AM: The new Droid Command Center is a home screen widget that now includes Miracast.
Jul 23, 2013, 11:04 AM: The new Droid let you control it with voice with zero touch. Voice activation on idle. A display technology that activates just part of the display to check time and notifications. Also, the "fastest camera activation", and "Droid Zap" for sharing photos.
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Jul 23, 2013, 11:02 AM: A new processor has "8 cores", with some extra "cores" to handle voice and low-power active sensors during idle.
Jul 23, 2013, 11:01 AM: All of the new Droids have 24% faster processors, and double the RAM.
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Jul 23, 2013, 11:00 AM: The new Maxx has 48 hours of battery life, up from 32 hours in last year's model.
Jul 23, 2013, 10:59 AM: The Droid Maxx, at 8.5 mm thin, is 9% thinner than last year's 9.3 mm Maxx HD.
Jul 23, 2013, 10:58 AM: The Droid Ultra: at 7.18 mm thin, the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone.
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Jul 23, 2013, 10:58 AM: Now on stage: Rick Osterloh Verizon Senior VP of Products.
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Jul 23, 2013, 10:57 AM: Droid Maxx is all about battery life, and Droid Mini is the smaller one.
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Jul 23, 2013, 10:56 AM: Droid Ultra: all about thin.
Jul 23, 2013, 10:56 AM: Jeff Dietel on stage, VP of Marketing. "Here to talk about Droid and how Verizon and Motorola will bring more of these devices to market."
Jul 23, 2013, 10:55 AM: We're in! Sitting next to a Motorola employee...
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Jul 23, 2013, 10:26 AM: We're on the scene at Lincoln Center waiting for the doors to open.
Comments
That was quick