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Anyone know how to delete icons on a Droid? The directions I was given do not work. Watch the video and tell me what I am doing wrong.

Sponsor My Droid 2 Hunt And Unboxing!

Droid 2

So Thursday morning I will be at my local Verizon store banging on the door demanding my brand spanking Droid 2. I will be posting videos of the hunt, the unboxing, and the initial playing of this new product. This will be an all day event with between 5 to ten videos being posted within that first 24 hours. I need something to plug! If you know me, you know I have no problem to sucking up to the sponsors of the things I do. So sponsor me already! Anyone who is willing to spread this to a potential sponsor it would be very much appreciated. Don’t worry about asking for permission to give out the email for this auction. It’s all over this website and will be killed off on Friday.

How Do We Bid?
I’m doing this by email simply because the auction sites out there both suck and blow. I will be posting through my Twitter account only what the bids are up to whenever an update is needed. I will monitor this as often as I can over the next 24 hours. The names of who bid what will be kept secret though. How do you bid? Real easy send an email to Droid2@MarkCarras.com Don’t bother sending this email around to spammers or storing it in your lists. It will be killed after the auction. If I don’t get back to you it means that you lost the auction. Watch my Twitter if you want a chance to re-bid. Bid as often as you feel you need to. It takes me one second to hit delete if you’re too low.

Who Can Bid?
It’s pretty open. No porn. Nothing racist. It has to be an actual product of some kind. Website, food, drink, band, cd, dvd, movie, service, etc. So pretty much anything. If you have a website for me to plug you will get more out of it, but that is your choice. I’m here to promote your thing. Email me a bid and let’s do this thing!

How Much Of A Deal Will You Make?
Well I am getting the phone to prepare for my trip to Gnomedex next week. Gnomedex is part of Seattle Geek Week. So once I get it, I will be trying to figure out what I can do with it, how to use the tools it has, figuring out which apps I need, and figuring out how to use those apps. This will be the subject of most of the videos I will be promoting my sponsor…who ever that is.

Again, email your bid to Droid2@MarkCarras.com and watch my Twitter feed for the results.

My Twitter Feed is at http://twitter.com/MarkCarras

R2-D2 Droid: Verizon Why Must You Torture Me!

Droid 2

So more official news is finally coming out about the Droid 2. Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to my social networks is probably sick of me talking about it. I know my wife is. She’s told me as much. So now it is pretty much official that the Droid 2 may be ordered online on Wednesday and may be ordered in store on Thursday of this week. So not only is my waiting over, but I will now be able to have a new phone in time for Gnomedex. So I’m happy right? Oh hell no!

At the same time as they announce that I can get my Droid 2 in time for Gnomedex, they also announce that if I wait just a few weeks more I can get an R2-D2 version of the phone. With me being a major Star Wars nerd from way back before most of you were born, this is pure torture! There is no way I can wait any longer for a new phone, so I am going to get the regular Droid 2. However, I may have to put up with insane amounts of flack from my wife for switching up to the R2D2 version when it comes out just a few weeks later. Would I pay an extra couple hundred dollars to have a Star Wars version of a phone I purchased just weeks prior? Yes, I am THAT pathetic!

Now of course Verizon has a 30 day return policy, but I’m willing to bet they will release the R2D2 Droid 2 just over one month after the regular Droid 2. So either those poor clerks will have to deal with a flood of excited nerds exchanging their phones or they will deal with really pissed off nerds wanting to exchange their phones, but not being able to. Of course one could just wait an extra couple weeks before buying the regular Droid 2, so they fit into that return policy window, but I’m an American and so I’m more impatient than an Apple fanboy waiting for a chance to sniff Steve Jobs boxers.

No worries people. I hear that there will be a Verizon representative at Gnomedex, so I will do my best to get an interview with them. Maybe I can find out a way to get upgraded to the R2D2 phone from the regular Droid 2 without paying a few extra hundred dollars? So to my fellow nerds please keep watching this page for updates next weekend for further updates on this insanity. Before then I should be blogging daily about my adventures trying to get a Droid 2 phone on Thursday morning. Anyone want to go hunting with me?