Mobile business users that enjoyed the HTC Hero will love the HTC Droid Eris phone, one of the many HTC smartphones built on Google’s Android platform. Light and compact, HTC Eris is a concealable, palm-size mobile office device. The Droid Eris phone boasts one of the easiest onscreen keyboards to use and mobile syncing with email and corporate Exchange accounts. Apps4Rent has several hosted Exchange options, so employees can get the most out of the HTC Droid Eris.

The HTC Droid Eris Phone

HTC Droid Eris is carried exclusively by Verizon Wireless, which offers great data packages to maximize the potential it has to offer. Combined with these data packages and Exchange syncing, the Droid Eris phone allows for ease of integration with corporate email accounts, keeping mobile employees connected to the office no matter where they are. Operating on the reliable and ever-expanding Verizon Wireless network, there are few places the Droid Eris phone doesn’t work.

This Android-based smart phone comes with a trackball and responsive touch screen, making HTC Droid Eris extremely easy to navigate while working remotely. As well, the Droid Eris phone comes with a USB data transfer/sync cable, a microSD memory card expansion slot and is Bluetooth compatible. HTC Droid Eris boasts a Qualcomm® MSM7600™ 528MHz processor, operates on CDMA technology and comes stocked with an 8GB microSD card. The screen, 3.2 inch 320 x 480 pixels, has an HVGA resolution touch screen: one of the clearest in its class.

HTC Droid Eris – Outstanding Features

The Droid Eris phone has many great features, but a few are outstanding for business users:

Android Market access to over 35,000 applications (over 100 for business and/or specific industries)
Email support for Office Outlook Mobile and MS Exchange with Direct Push
Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
WiFi compatible
Internal Antenna
Custom scenes, different phone layouts for work, weekends, downtime, etc
Google Talk
HTC Peep
Received information organized by the sending person

In fact, the one thing that has many corporations waiting to offer HTC Droid Eris is the fact that it runs on Google’s Android 1.5 OS. However, the Droid Eris phone also runs on Android 2.0, with all of the OS upgrades such as sync adapters, account management and improved Exchange support. As well, the HTC Droid Eris 2.1 upgrade became available at the end of May 2010, and rumor points to a 2.2 upgrade coming soon with a huge jump in Exchange support, VPN and more business use.
As of June 2010, Verizon Wireless is the exclusively Droid Eris phone supplier.