DROID causes Midnight-Madness in Manhattan Verizon Wireless store

DROID causes Midnight-Madness in Manhattan Verizon Wireless store

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Published on: 06 November, 2009 by PhoneArena Team

DROID causes Midnight-Madness in Manhattan Verizon Wireless store

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November 6th 2009 is "D-day"...for "Droid" that is. A few hours before the Manhattan store opened at Midnight, a crowd started to gather outside. Once Midnight got closer, there is said to have been well over 100 people in line, waiting to break the doors asunder at the stroke of 12. Finally the wait was over, and Verizon allowed 25 people to enter at a time for purchasing of the Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris. There were 13 sales reps and 4-5 Droid Specialists on-site to make sure everything with smoothly during the 2-hour pre-dawn event. Verizon Wireless spokesman David Samberg commented that the 34th Street store alone had at least 500 Motorola Droids as well as some HTC Android Eris phones. It is no suprise that there was such a turn out, as Verizon has been on a non-stop media-blitz over the past few weeks, with a dedicated web site, TV commercials, and Newpaper ads. For the rest of us, the Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris can be purchased via the Verizon Wireless web site, or by visiting your local Verizon Wireless or BestBuy store.

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Got my Droid for $99 at midnight online from VerizonWireless.com.
Can't wait to have it delivered !
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Can anyone on here give a quick honest review of the Droid? Something more than just about the keyboard and that the Droid is awesome. Thanks!
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How did you only get it for $99.99...maybe it was a typo but I can only get it for $199.99 and my upgrade was due in July.
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It might be possible that he had the New Every Two $100 credit.
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I hate reading all these post and im mad that people are STILL complaining even this time Verizon had plenty of inventory, they finally have a SOLID phone to compete with the iPhon, they finally have an open sourced based phone thats fully customizable...They've given you people everything you wanted and in 2 seperate phones at launch NOT 1 like the iPhone 2 (options people) so QUIT BITCHIN!
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Reply to ChineseMuscle Hide 4 replies to this comment
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I also understand that a lot of people had difficulty ordering their Droid online.
I hope the problem gets rectified so everyone can get their Droid.
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My first comments on my Droid
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This phone is amazing I love everthing about it even "the flat keyboard"
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Hey vzwman, hope no hard feelings from a reply to you a few days ago about the whole phonearena posting late news and stuff. Anyways, glad to see you're happy w/the DROID. Question, I'm sure you may have notice the Eris...is it nice at all?? I can't afford the Droid right now but I so badly want an Android I'm willing to get lesser hyped up phone at this time. Your thoughts...
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The eris is nice too but you can clearly see wich is the better phone I was able to play with both man this droid is awsome if I were you I would wait till I can aford the droid I promis you won't regret it
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I woke up at 6am to stand outside my local vzw store and it was worth it damn I love this phone
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well, i didn't go to the store but i got up and went online, and i got free overnight shipping, so i should have it by monday.
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Cancel your online order and go pick it up man
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that's okay bud, i can wait.
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vzwman - Post a review thoughts on the forum!!! Looking to hear from a customer, rather the reviewer.

How is the batt life, is the home screen delay that big of an issue?

How is the built in contact/gmail/facebook integration... if known as good as SENSE?
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I'm still charging it so I won't know about the battery life right now. about the homescreen issue I notice no lagg what so ever this phone is fast for everything you ask it to do. Oh and about the key board it is small but it works really well. I'm posting this reply on my droid. From a scale of 1-10 its a 15 in my book!!! Everyone should have a motodroid.
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I can't believe the young couple there brought their baby along for the MIDNIGHT release of this phone....those crazy yankees...
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Lol. +1.
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Did anyone else notice that no one in Manhattan smokes?
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You must have never been to Manhattan.
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Hmm...100 people out of 8 million? I still don't buy the pre-fabricated hype.
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um hello bro, that's one store out of like 30 in the greater nyc area.
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Well it said "well over" 100 people as midnight approached and says nothing of how many people came in and bought the devices over the 2 hour event.
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I'm glad I didn't have to fight a mad crowd of ppl to get my droid. I have to say I'm liken this keyboard everyone was talkin crap about
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You've posted about liking the keyboard about 4 times already. Calm down.
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Yay, they actually have stock!!!
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