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Get your Droid Pro before November 18
Verizon has officially announced the pre-sale of the new Droid Pro. While it was leaked last week that the Droid Pro would be having a pre-sale, Verizon has confirmed it. For only tomorrow, customers will be able to buy the device at the pre-sale. Though they won’t get it right away, customers who purchase the device while it is on pre-sale, will have the device shipped to them earlier than the official launch date (November 18), so there’s a high chance they’ll be getting the phone before it is officially in stores. For those of you who can’t wait to get your hands on a Droid Pro, this is your chance if not you’ll have to purchase it when it launches. Head down to your nearest Verizon store tomorrow to purchase the device while it is on pre-sale. The Droid Pro will be Motorola’s foray into the enterprise market with an Android device. Featuring a QWERTY keyboard in the style of BlackBerry phones, a 3.1″ touchscreen, Android 2.2, Enhanced Motoblur, Motorola’s Profiles, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and more. It will set you back $180 with a 2 year commitment and after a $100 rebate, or $480 if you want to purchase it without a contract. How many of you will be buying the Droid Pro on pre-sale tomorrow?
The Fairphone 2 was first unveiled in June earlier this year, where this particular handset carried a modular design while featuring majority of its components that have been sourced from conflict-free mines. It seems that this particular handset that you can purchase with a clear conscience has begun to ship to those who happen to live across Europe.
Fairphone announced in a blog post, “It’s been almost two years in the making, and some of the earliest buyers have been patiently waiting since July to receive their new phones. As community manager, I want to personally welcome the new batch of Fairphone owners to our community.” The initial 1,000 units are tipped to ship this month, before the other pre-orders follow in January 2016.
In terms of hardware specifications, the Fairphone 2 will run on a Snapdragon 801 chipset, has a 5″ 1080p screen with Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP camera, with Android 5.1 Lollipop in tow. It will be a dual SIM capable handset with a microSD memory card slot and plays nice with 4G LTE networks, retailing for approximately €525 a pop.
It looks like the upcoming flagship model from Xiaomi will feature NFC support, at least based on a document that was released by China UnionPay. Just in case you are scratching your head and wondering who China UnionPay is, they happen to be the only domestic payment gateway supplier and card organization, and hence, to see them offer detailed support concerning the newly released NFC-based payment system points to the very real possibility of the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 5 featuring NFC capability.
After all, the Xiaomi Mi 3 was also mentioned on the list, which so happens to feature NFC, and there is no mention of the Xiaomi Mi 4 which does not come with NFC. Still, such a new payment system would be the ideal tool to see the reintroduction of NFC to the flagship model.
OnePlus did make an announcement in the previous month that the Ceramic variant of the OnePlus X will be released on November 24. True to their word, they did exactly that – although only a pitiful number of units were made available, and not only that, this was through a charity auction. Thankfully for the rest of the masses who are on the lookout for this device, it has gone on sale officially already.
Needless to say, this particular variant is available only by an invitation, although do bear in mind that standard OnePlus X invites are not good here – you will still need to snag yourself a specific Ceramic variant invite before you make a purchase. OnePlus is also on the lookout to offer additional methods of picking up this smartphone, although no further details were revealed.
The OnePlus X Ceramic will be available only in select markets, where among them include Europe, India, and Hong Kong. To date, we do know that OnePlus had made only 10,000 units of the handset available. A case of the early bird getting the proverbial worm here?