{"id":12899,"date":"2011-07-07T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/07\/07\/verizon-announces-the-droid-3\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:04:00","slug":"verizon-announces-the-droid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12899","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Announces the Droid 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/droid3_qwerty.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 4px 10px 5px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Motorola Droid 3 with QWERTY Keyboard\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Motorola Droid 3 with QWERTY Keyboard\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/droid3_qwerty_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve still got an original <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/smartphone\/android\/verizon\/motorola_droid.htm\">2009 Droid<\/a> in your pocket \u2018cause you love its form factor and haven\u2019t had a real reason to upgrade, now\u2019s the time; or, well\u2026 it\u2019ll be time in a week or so.&#160; Verizon Wireless just took the wraps off the Motorola Droid 3, the second successor to the one that started it all.<\/p>\n<p>The Droid 3 has a dual-core 1GHz TI ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 16GB of onboard storage plus a microSDHC card slot for up to 32GB of additional storage, 1GB of RAM, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 4-inch 960&#215;540 touchscreen with 227ppi, 3G EV-DO, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.&#160; The Droid 3 also runs Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread.<\/p>\n<p>When it goes on sale July 14th (or shortly thereafter) the Droid 3 will sell for $199 with a two-year contract.&#160; But if you\u2019re a new customer, you\u2019ll need to select a new limited data plan as Big Red is no longer offering unlimited data.&#160; New plans start at $30\/month for 2GB of data (which used to get you all-you-could-eat wireless data on a smartphone); non-smartphone users also have the option of $10\/month for 75MB under Verizon\u2019s new data plan structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve still got an original 2009 Droid in your pocket \u2018cause you love its form factor and haven\u2019t had a real reason to upgrade, now\u2019s the time; or, well\u2026 it\u2019ll be time in a week or so.&#160; Verizon Wireless just took the wraps off the Motorola Droid 3, the second successor to the one [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}