Archive for April, 2009

Verizon Hub App Store Coming This Year!

by verizon voyager on April 20th, 2009

The Verizon Hub is the New Age deskphone, a product filling a gaping hole in the home market that could, if further developed, revolutionize the way we communicate inside our homes. While the Verizon Hub currently has widgets and access to great information such as weather and traffic, an important development is in the works [...]

Swiveling Nokia Coming Soon?

by verizon voyager on April 15th, 2009

This doesn’t look like your average Verizon Wireless phone and if it sees the light of day it will be anything but average. A BGR ninja has karate chopped a Nokia “swiveling E71-type handset” into the light of day and provided a mock-up the device based on first-hand impressions:

Look for it to launch in July/August [...]

Verizon Wireless HopeLine Donations Increase By 44%!

by verizon voyager on April 13th, 2009

If you’re not aware of Verizon Wireless’ HopeLine program you should be – while the news is riddled with violence, war and hate there are positive things happening that DON’T get the coverage they deserve. One of the many positive initiatives you’ve probably never heard of, the Verizon Wireless’ HopeLine program allows customers to recycle [...]

HTC Touch Diamond On April 10th

by verizon voyager on April 7th, 2009

Don’t go wandering into your local Verizon Wireless retail store just yet. In fact, don’t even go on April 10th, the day the title suggests the HTC Touch Diamond will be available on VZW. That’s because according to the rumor published by BGR it will only be for sale through B2B, web and telesale channels.

The [...]

BlackBerry Storm With WiFi, Coming September

by verizon voyager on April 7th, 2009

The BlackBerry Storm launched on Verizon to a TON of interest but most think it has fallen short as RIM’s iPhone competitor. With slow to release firmware updates, overall laginess and no WiFi some would say the Storm has fallen short of expectations. But the BlackBerry Storm 2, rumored to be launching this September, aims [...]

LG Voyager 2 Picture Leaked!

by verizon voyager on April 6th, 2009

There is good reason to celebrate, VerizonVoyager.organites – the LG Voyager 2 has been leaked in a picture sitting next to the enV3 for Verizon Wireless!
See that sexy clamshell on the right with the widescreen internal display and huge, comfy QWERTY keyboard? That is the LG Voyager 2 my friends! And on the left is [...]

Verizon Might Sell E-Reader, College Textbooks

by verizon voyager on April 2nd, 2009

Amazon has made a huge splash with the Kindle and Kindle 2 and while there are worthy alternatives like the Sony’s Digital Reader and iRex iLiad, none have really gained much traction. That might change if Verizon Wireless potential plans to launch an E-Reader of some sort materialize, as Verizon’s Head of Non-Phone Devices Tony [...]

Samsung Glyde Refresh

by verizon voyager on April 1st, 2009

You remember the Samsung Glyde, don’t you? Perhaps you even have one of those nice little buggers. The device launched to quite a bit of fanfare but that excitement turned to irritation for many who were faced with a very buggy touchscreen and overall software/hardware repsonse problems. They even pulled the phone off the shelves [...]