Motorola may have messed with a man from Texas when the company's Droid 2 smartphone allegedly exploded while he was talking on the device, Fox News in Dallas-Fort Worth reports.
"I heard a pop. I didn't feel any pain initially. I pulled the phone down. I felt something dripping," says Aron Embry, who claims he was injured by a Droid 2 device. "I realized that it was probably blood. I went into the house and as I got into the bathroom and once I got to the mirror and saw it, it was only then I kinda looked at my phone and noticed the screen had appeared to burst outward."
Embry's tussle with a Droid 2 ended with both sides sustaining injuries. The Droid 2 left Embry with a bloodied ear that required stitches and a four-hour emergency room visit, while the Droid 2 now has a cracked screen. Both survived the incident.
A local cell phone dealer and repairman is calling shenanigans on the whole ordeal.
"The Droids are fantastic devices. It's all just a matter of how you care for the device," says Daniel Harrison, who says he's been in the cell phone business for a decade. "But it looks to me like it wasn't something that was just a manufacture defect. It looks like it was actually user caused."
Motorola said it will reach out to Embry and investigate the attack. In the meantime, we're again reminded why Old Glory Insurance makes a lot of sense.
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The rich tradition of Droid ads poking fun at the iPhone is alive and well. After a series of DroidX ads mocking the iPhone 4's reception woes, Motorola has turned its attention to the iPhone's lack of Flash support . "Flash websites? There's a phone for that,” reads a new newspaper ad for the Droid 2. This, of course, is a pun on Apple's "there's an app for that" tag line. The popular tag line was also mocked by a Verizon ad last year: “If you wanna know why your 3G coverage works so well on Verizon Wireless – there’s a map for that!”
You can squash any fears that Motorola's Droid 2 smartphone won't ship with Froyo (Android 2.2). And while you're at it, put to rest any suspicions you might have had that the $20/month mobile hotspot add-on and Flash Player 10.1 wouldn't be part of the mix, because it's all getting tossed in with Motorola's latest and greatest.
Courtesy of Verizon, the Droid 2 is finally official. In addition to the above, Droid 2 will ship with a revised QWERTY keyboard, Swype pre-installed, a 3.7-inch multitouch display, 5MP camera, DLNA streaming, 8GB of onboard memory, and an 8GB microSD card thrown in for good measure.
So when you can order one? Tomorrow's the day to mark on your calendar, which is when Verizon will offer up its newest smartphone in pre-order form for $200 with a 2-year contract. As for in-store availability, you'll have to wait one extra day.
Motorola's Droid smartphone will soon be replaced by the Droid 2, the only questions are 'when' and 'how much?' We have a couple of tentative answers to both of those.
As for when, it's looking like Verizon will officially announce a launch date this Tuesday, which Web murmurs have pegged for this Thursday, August 12. The Droid 2 has already been given a full page spread in the Boston Globe, so we know we're getting close.
And as for cost, expect the Droid 2 to run $200 with a 2-year service agreement, or $600 without. That's according to yet another leak, this time from a North Carolina resident who spotted a dummy unit at his local Best Buy accompanied by a price tag.
While final specs have yet to be officially released, the Droid 2 is expected to come configured with a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, 5MB camera, and an improved slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
