The Regulatory Charge on your Verizon bill could potentially increase from $0.13 to $0.16 starting July 1, meaning you’ll have an opportunity to get out of your contract without having to pay an ETF (early termination fee).  The change in amount of the fee is minimal of course, but according to Big Red’s Verizon’s customer agreement, these tiny changes are enough reason for you to walk away:

Can Verizon Wireless Change This Agreement or My Service?

We may change prices or any other term of your Service or this agreement at any time,but we’ll provide notice first, including written notice if you have Postpay Service. If you use your Service after the change takes effect, that means you’re accepting the change. If you’re a Postpay customer and a change to your Plan or this agreement has a material adverse effect on you, you can cancel the line of Service that has been affected within 60 days of receiving the notice with no early termination fee.

If Verizon has been making you steamed with all this tiered data nonsense, or you’re just fed up with them in general (everyone has their own horror stories with carriers), according to The Consumerist, just call up VZW, and ask to be transferred to the Retention Dept. You’ll then use this information to tell them that this 3 cent difference is a Material Adverse Change, and you want out of your contract with no fees.

They will tempt you with freebies most likely, or try to tell you otherwise than what you would like to hear, but if given any grief, just take it to their supervisor. If you’ve been trying to escape the Red Army’s clutches, then now could be your chance. Good luck.

*Note - We should point out that by exiting your contract, you would then be subject to tiers.

Via:  The Consumerist

Cheers Jose and everyone else!

The Gingerbread (Android 2.3) build for the DROID Charge that was teased over the weekend is now available for rooted users to download.  We should point out that it does include its fair share of bugs though, like a dead mobile hotspot app and no HDMI functionality, but the biggest might be the fact that it can’t send or receive texts.

It’s definitely unofficial 2.3.3 and these bugs aren’t a surprise, so try to understand if you dive into it, that this is no where near what the final release will feel like.  You can use Netflix afterwards though!

You can find all of the files and instructions at MyDroidWorld.

DROID2 owners, get ready for nightly builds of the CM7 port that JBirdVegas has been working so diligently on.  According to @cvpcs, they are bringing it all over and will merge it into the CM tree to make it an officially supported device.  It’s already showing up on GitHub under CM, so you’ll want to make sure you have ROM Manager premium for easy access to all of the nightly work that will be done.  Pretty big day for D2 owners who have been feeling a little left out after seeing the DROIDX get both official Gingerbread and CM7 long ago.

Anything to say, D2 owners?

Cheers Brian, Gordon and Christian!

The boys at Dead Zebra unveiled their new super hero Android collectibles last night to the world, and will make them available from their booth during Comic-Con (July 20).  Fans that aren’t attending the event will still have a chance to get them though, but it won’t be easy.  The plan is to make a “number of sets” available afterwards through the DZ shop and a variety of outlets in Asia.

Check out the villains after the break.  

The 4G LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that’s headed to Verizon in “4-6 weeks” was originally supposed to be available for pre-order back on June 8, but for whatever reason couldn’t quite make it.  Big Red decided that this month long delay wasn’t worth a mention (we did) and has now made the device available starting at the announced prices of $529 for the 16GB and $629 for the 32GB models on 2-year contract.  Yep, it’s more expensive at 32GB than the Motorola XOOM – it will ship with 4G though!

I will say though, that this could be my favorite tablet when it comes to size and weight.  The device is extremely light, thin, and also comes packed with one heck of a screen.  With it’s dual-core processor (Tegra 2), 1GB of RAM, and dual cameras (although the rear one is garbage), it matches up spec-wise to everyone, but again, the weight and thickness make it easily the top dog right now.  You can check our our hands-on with the I/O version here.

Pre-order.

Cheers Gustafson!

It’s been almost 2 weeks since we first reported that the DROID2 Global‘s Gingerbread (Android 2.3) soak test was about to begin, yet here we sit today without a mass rollout or announcement from Verizon/Moto that the file is available.  Let’s also not forget that the DROID Pro was primed and ready at one point, but has seemingly disappeared from sight.  After the original DROIDX received GB all the way back in May, we were expecting each additional Moto device including the DROID2, DROIDX2, Pro, and Global to start seeing updates right away – except that isn’t happening.

What we’ve been told is that Verizon has now rejected all Gingerbread builds from Moto until they have worked out a number of bugs that came with the DROIDX’s 2.3, a list which seems to be growing by the day.  There is no telling when these will all be ready, but we’re our sources say that Motorola is reassembling teams to get this taken care of.  It could be weeks or months before we start seeing GB on other devices – we really have no idea at this point.

Stay tuned…

Google announced Google+ just a few hours ago as a service that many are considering to be a legitimate Facebook contender.  Invites have begun to roll out to a select group of people, however, the majority of us are forced to wait impatiently to see if this latest Google product will run our social lives.  As someone who has never been a huge fan of Facebook, but is a big time social app machine, I can’t wait to get my Android paws all over this.  What about those of you who can’t seem to get enough Zuckerberg, though?  Is Google+ going to be your next social platform or is Facebook just too damn big and good?

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