Verizon Wireless Apps for DROID Help Customers Stay Organized While Away From Home

Verizon Wireless Apps for DROID Help Customers Stay Organized While Away From Home

LAS VEGAS, and BASKING RIDGE, N.J., March 25 -- From CTIA WIRELESS 2010®, Verizon Wireless offers its customers some home-grown apps to help manage their lives while traveling.  Running on the largest and most reliable wireless voice and 3G data network, applications in the Android Market(TM) give customers the freedom to do almost anything while on the go.

This week's highlighted apps in the Verizon Channel in the Android Market include:

  --  My Verizon - Customers can use this free app to access their Verizon
      Wireless accounts to get balances, usage numbers and payment
      information and to update features, services and Family SharePlan®
      lines.
  --  Visual Voice Mail - Instead of dialing in to voice mail, customers can
      use Visual Voice Mail ($2.99 monthly subscription) to access and
      manage voice mail messages by scrolling through their inboxes to pick
      the messages they need to listen to, delete or reply to.  Customers
      can choose to respond to their voice mails immediately via text
      message or callback.
  --  V CAST Media Manager - This free app allows customers to move and
      organize pictures, videos and music between their computers and DROID
      by Motorola smartphones.  Customers can edit photos, create photo
      albums to e-mail to their friends, import song playlists, and rip and
      burn CDs.
  --  Verizon FiOS Mobile - With Verizon FiOS Mobile, customers will never
      worry about missing their favorite TV programming.  This free app
      allows customers to remotely program their Verizon FiOS DVRs with
      their DROID by Motorola smartphones.  They can also browse and search
      TV program listings and view lists of recorded programs wherever they
      are.
  --  FiOS Mobile Remote - FiOS Mobile Remote lets customers control their
      FiOS TVs from their phones.  With FiOS Mobile Remote, customers can
      view photos stored on their DROID by Motorola smartphones on their TV
      screens for easy viewing.  This free app also allows customers to mute
      their TVs when they receive phone calls.
  --  VZW Tones 4.0 - This free app allows customers to preview, purchase
      and manage all of the latest and greatest ringtones and ringback
      tones, all from their DROID by Motorola smartphones.
  --  ScanLife Barcode Reader - Together with ScanBuy, Verizon Wireless is
      helping customers use the cameras on their DROID by Motorola
      smartphones.  Customers can scan a barcode to view product price
      comparisons without sending, typing or searching.  This free app turns
      DROID into a 2D barcode scanner that recognizes all major barcodes.

DROID by Motorola is available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at http://www.verizonwireless.com for $199.99.  For more information on DROID by Motorola, visit http://www.droiddoes.com.

About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 91 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ)(NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD). For more information, visit http://www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at http://www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

Source: Verizon Wireless
   

CONTACT:  Debra Lewis , Verizon Wireless, mobile , +1-917-848-0035,
Debra.Lewis@verizonwireless.com

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