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Verizon VZ Navigator VX Currently Offered for DROID

Verizon VZ Navigator VX Currently Offered for DROIDThe VZ Navigator VX navigation service has become accessible on chooses DROID Smartphones, Verizon Wireless announced these days. The service, powered by technologies from TeleCommunication Systems, may be downloaded for quite a few phones including the DROID X by Motorola, DROID Incredible by HTC as well as the Samsung.

The service, which will compete with the Google Maps application, provides buyers 3D navigation views using real-life images of highway and exit signs in addition to enhanced 3D city models. The town models are presently accessible for Chicago, Detroit, New York, La, Kansas City and Washington, D.C., with a lot more cities slated for addition this year. The city and road views give a third dimension to the turn-by-turn directions the VZ Navigator provides.

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Verizon Locks Wi-Fi on the Motorola Xoom till one month of data is buying

Verizon Locks Wi-Fi on the Motorola Xoom till one month of data is buyingIn a blatant instance of how Android's openness advantages businesses far more than customers, it seems that Verizon Wireless is catching the Wi-Fi performance to the tablet Motorola Xoom until the purchaser buys a minimum of one month of data usage.

The fantastic print within the leaked Very best Get flyer for the Xoom reads, "To activate Wi-Fi functionality about this unit, a minimum of one month data subscription is required."

Information of the income mongering system appears Super Bowl Sunday on Engadget. That should be a different unknown "feature" too delicate for that Motorola Xoom Super Bowl ad?

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Verizon in plans for 4G internet calling service

Verizon in plans for 4G internet calling serviceVerizon wireless carrier is readying a new mobile calling service that provides greater sound high quality than its current network and is also able to performing video clip chat.

The new voice and video protocol will route calls more than the fourth-generation wireless information network that Verizon begins rolling out in December.

The goal is perfect for this service to ultimately change the communications that cell phones have relied on for further than a decade, states Brian Higgins, executive director for ecosystem improvement at Verizon wireless carrier.

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