Key features:

* 3.7-inch ultra-brilliant touch screen
o Widescreen WVGA AMOLED (Wide Video Graphics Array Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) responsive touch screen results in one of the brightest and clearest displays on a mobile phone in the United States
* Virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype technology allows customers to input text faster and easier with one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard
* Features Windows Mobile 6.5, which keeps customers connected with corporate and personal e-mail and synchronization of schedules and contacts
* Microsoft Office Mobile® enhances productivity with the ability to manage Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® documents
* Enhanced 3D cube user interface
* Full HTML Web browsing capabilities with Opera 9.5 enhanced browser
* One-touch access to social networking sites via shortcut widgets
* Supports Verizon Wireless services, including V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, VZW Tones, VZ Navigator(SM), Mobile IM and Mobile Email

Additional specifications:

* Full messaging suite, including SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile Email and Corporate Email
* Access to social networking applications, including YouTube™, Facebook® and MySpace, with Samsung’s unique TouchWiz™ 2.0 user interface
* 5.0 megapixel camera with flash and auto-focus and camcorder and decoder with DNSe technology and on-device editing capabilities
* Wi-Fi technology (802.11 b/g)
* Support for Divx and Xvid movie files
* 8 GB internal memory and expandable memory of up to 16 GB with microSD™ memory card (card sold separately)
* Bluetooth® profiles supported: headset (mono and stereo), hands-free (car kits), object push for vCard, basic imaging, phonebook access profiles. Also supports serial port, dial-up networking, object push for vCalendar, file transfer, basic printing and human interface device profiles

Lifestyle features:

• Earth Compass – functions as a standard compass; GPS shows the distance from and directions to over 40 domestic and worldwide locations
• Walking Counter – measures steps, time, distance, speed and energy consumption Thermometer – shows current temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit
• Astro Calendar – provides the moon’s age and days until a full or new moon
• Sunrise Sunset – shows the current time and position of the sun and times for sunrise and sunset for current, past and future dates; allows you to view times for select major cities; shows the ratio of day and night in numbers and graphs
• Tides – shows the tidal graph for the day; shows the time of ebb and flood tides; shows the time of sunrise and sunset; shows past and future sea tide levels; shows tidal graphs for 100 locations made available by Surfline’s webcams, and GPS will show the nearest location; shows the current tide and the best time for fishing

When you sign in to Social Beat, they can easily view friends’ activity, news feeds, status updates and new photos. You can even post new status messages and tweets, send comments and messages, and receive updates from their personalized news section through a single stream on their mobile phone in real time.

Also on Friday, Verizon Wireless will create a first-of-its-kind interactive experience in New York City called, “DROID Does Times Square.” This experience will let callers control two of Times Square’s largest digital billboards – the NASDAQ and Reuters signs - using only voice commands. Beginning Nov. 6, Internet fans worldwide can also view the experience in real-time by visiting www.droiddoes.com/timessquare.

DROID by Motorola will be available for $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate.

Full HTC Droid Eris Specifications [via engadget]:

• Dual Band CDMA2000 1xRTT / 1xEVDO / 1xEVDO Rev.A (800/1900MHz)
• CPU: Qualcomm MSM7600 528MHz
• Android OS 1.5 with HTC Sense UI
• Size: 4.45 x 2.19 x 0.51 inch
• Weight: 4.23 oz
• 512MB ROM / 288MB RAM
• 3.2-inch touch screen, 320 x 480 pixels
• Bluetooth
• 5 megapixel camera with auto focus
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• microSD card slot (8GB bundled, up to 16GB supported)
• WiFi
• Up to 214 mins talk time
• Up to 373 hours standby time

We’ve just finished a sit-down session with Verizon, Motorola and Google to discuss the first Android 2.0 smartphone of the year, the Verizon DROID by Motorola, and this is certainly one very impressive smartphone. It’s far too early for our full review, but check out some live photos and first impressions after the cut.

[via slashgear]

DROID by Motorola will be available in the United States on Friday, Nov. 6, for $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate. Verizon Wireless is also bundling the Droid by Motorola with a 16GB microSD card for your file storage.

Full Droid by Motorola Specifications:

• Talk Time: 385 mins/6.4 hours
• Standby Time: 270 hours/11.25 days
• Capacitive Touch; Full Qwerty Side Slider
• Band/Modes: 800/1900, CDMA EVDO rev A
• Android 2.0
• Weight: 169 g / 6 oz
• Dimensions: 60.00 (x) x 115.80 (y) x 13.70 (z) mm
• Webkit HTML5 based browser; Flash 10 ready
• Battery: 1400 mAh
• Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, 3.5mm Headset jack, USB 2.0 HS
• Display: 3.7”, 480×854 WVGA
• 5.0 megapixel camera, AutoFocus, dual LED Flash and image stablization
• 16GB card included in phone, Up to 32GB microSD expandable
• aGPS, sGPS
• 802.11b/g, 3-axis accelerometer

BlackBerry Storm – MR3 (5.0) Software Release

• Software Version: 5.0.0 Release 508(OS 4.2.0.128 / Applications 5.0.0.328)
• Significant improvements in rotation detection and screen painting have been introduced in this software.
• Device displayed a white bar at the bottom of the screen after a rotation event.
• When setting a custom SMS tone for a single contact, this tone may playback unexpectedly for SMS’ received from other contacts.
• When swiping down the virtual keyboard in an MMS message the send and save draft icons did not appear as expected.
• When viewing an SMS there was no simple way to call the current user. Now the user can select the number from the Callback Number field or from the message body and call that number from the pop up menu.
• The delete prior function has the unwanted side-effect of triggering the compose email screen.
• The user cannot configure their profile settings to increase the number of alerts when being notified of an event such as incoming SMS or email.
• Previous software versions did not allow the user to increase the count of notifications (i.e. Beep 5 times when when I get an email and beep 3 times when I get an sms). In this software, this is now allowed with counts from 1-10.
• When trying to set a home screen background of a certain resolution (more specifically a resolution matching either the width or the height of the native resolution of the LCD) it may have appeared as a black screen.
• When trying to edit/create a folder, the virtual keyboard did not render to allow the user to enter the names of said folders.
• Intermittently, when streaming a video while doing a handover to 2G on a 3G network the video would stop playing.
• If you paused a video recording and then resumed, the icon state may not have reflected the current recording state.
• After recoding a video of a certain size (7M) the saved video may be corrupted and unplayable.
• During manual network selection, the radio buttons associated with the networks did not render as expected.
• When moving out of coverage your device display for no coverage may have been inconsistent.
• During voice calls, your device may have reset on a rare occasion.
• After viewing and accepting the End User Licensing Agreement of the App World application the application doesn’t startup (fixes introduced in the latest version of App World).
• On some rare occasions, the device may reset on its own during a voice call or while idle.
• During an MTP side load of 16GB of music, the device would leak memory and stop the transfer at ~75%.
• During device full boot-up, the progress bar skips from 0% complete to ~66% complete instead of showing a gradual progression (Note: from 66% to 100% it does show a gradual progression).

[via engadgetmobile]

The Droid Eris is not going to be announced together with the Motorola Sholes / Motorola Droid on October 28th. According to the source it will be available from November 6th next month after Motorola Droid.