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"Missing Droid X Real-World Give-Away" Contest (1st Post:Updated)

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Okay as a women I have to take her side but you can play her game and win. Oh no I am going to tell you a women's secret... she can't resist shopping ESPECIALLY if her husband offers to take her. Can you ask her if she wants to go shopping for your anniversary? Tell her you want to make her feel special and buy her something new. Then you get to hunt....
 
is anyone following any of the other forums on the topic, like android central and what not? i've seen some of android centrals, but there aren't as many posts
 
bigshotproducer said:
For folks in Chicago -- found this story online --


A giant eyeball sculpture was unveiled in a local park Wednesday (7/7).

This eye is 30 feet tall and was the vision of Chicago contemporary artist Tony Tasset.

Tasset designed a similar, but much smaller, piece for St. Louis.

The sculpture is made of steel-reinforced fiberglass and is blue, like the artist
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Wow, lots of action today. All of the clues are straightforward, except there's still no #7 clue... I'm starting to get pissed at the clue poster.

The only one that got me thinking is this one:
less than smart clue poster said:
Droid experts say some Droid X phones may still be moving. What they don’t know is who will find them. about 7 hours ago via HootSuite
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This points back to the phones being carried/used/driven around by somebody that we need to find. Hmmmmmm.......
 
I don't remember if this has been mentioned before, but @droidlanding is using Hootesuite, which allows for scheduled tweeting - meaning that all of these tweets were probably pre-set a while ago and have already been laid out. (just clarifying this, since it does seem to be a little willy-nilly.)
 
Droid X designate #18 is near the Mall of America. Possibly visiting the Verizon Wireless store there

notice it says near the mall of america. not in the mall of america...

and i think this week there will be some found. if we are getting this many clues today, including a very specific one, then imagine how many clues we'll get tomorrow and into the weekend.

also, this might be a clue telling us that they are actually found in verizon stores...
 
bbuck002 said:
is anyone following any of the other forums on the topic, like android central and what not? i've seen some of android centrals, but there aren't as many posts
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I was following the one on Android Central and Howard Forums but they are both pretty dead compared to here. Not really anybody actively participating in the search there...
 
Tabe said:
I was following the one on Android Central and Howard Forums but they are both pretty dead compared to here. Not really anybody actively participating in the search there...
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How about other non droid hunt related posts? .. I pretty much got sucked into this site since I started droidX researching & have not left! :D
 
READ THIS, POSSIBLE DROID LOCATION

has anyone noticed that if you go to google maps and search "verizon wireless" around the mall of america a verizon logo shows up at the intersection of 24th ave and I494. Just down the street from the mall of america. there is no store there its just an overpass. It says sponsored link too, why would verizon pay to put a link in an intersection where there is no store????????????????

if thats something else normal then i apologize for wasting everyones time. I've just never seen a verizon logo on google maps before
 
woop said:
Funny you guys mention that location as me and my cousin were thinking of checking it out to see if we could find anything. I actually mentioned it like 10 pages back in passing but no one seemed to jump on it, but I figured its worth a try. Lombard runs right into the Presidio and the Lucasfilms HQ campus is one of the first areas you will see once entering the Presidio thru Lombard. This area in general is higher than the Coit Tower area (other end of Lombard), so it'd make sense with that altitude clue.
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I searched around some on the Presidio, as I said in my original post I searched Lombard from end to end and several of the streets directly off of it. I parked at what is now the leasing office for the Presidio and walked around a bit where Lombard dead ends into Presidio Blvd.. I just don't see it being there as they do still have security out there that won't take to kindly to folks "hunting" for something...
 
XEscapeTheLiesX said:
READ THIS, POSSIBLE DROID LOCATION

has anyone noticed that if you go to google maps and search "verizon wireless" around the mall of america a verizon logo shows up at the intersection of 24th ave and I494. Just down the street from the mall of america. there is no store there its just an overpass. It says sponsored link too, why would verizon pay to put a link in an intersection where there is no store????????????????

if thats something else normal then i apologize for wasting everyones time. I've just never seen a verizon logo on google maps before
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I did a search in Chicago. Saw the same thing. A verizon logo hanging out on the map. Instead of an "A" or "B" or "C"

"The Verizon Official Site"
With address "209 S Lasalle St, Chicago, IL"
 
Trying to read on my crapberry tour.. But isn't there a "mall of america" in washington dc..... It could be referring to that cuz isn't the I80 around there too?
 
XEscapeTheLiesX said:
READ THIS, POSSIBLE DROID LOCATION

has anyone noticed that if you go to google maps and search "verizon wireless" around the mall of america a verizon logo shows up at the intersection of 24th ave and I494. Just down the street from the mall of america. there is no store there its just an overpass. It says sponsored link too, why would verizon pay to put a link in an intersection where there is no store????????????????

if thats something else normal then i apologize for wasting everyones time. I've just never seen a verizon logo on google maps before
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woah...
 
XEscapeTheLiesX said:
READ THIS, POSSIBLE DROID LOCATION

has anyone noticed that if you go to google maps and search "verizon wireless" around the mall of america a verizon logo shows up at the intersection of 24th ave and I494. Just down the street from the mall of america. there is no store there its just an overpass. It says sponsored link too, why would verizon pay to put a link in an intersection where there is no store????????????????

if thats something else normal then i apologize for wasting everyones time. I've just never seen a verizon logo on google maps before
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WOAH! Did a quick one for San Francisco and there's one there too. You have to zoom out though.
 
XEscapeTheLiesX said:
READ THIS, POSSIBLE DROID LOCATION

has anyone noticed that if you go to google maps and search "verizon wireless" around the mall of america a verizon logo shows up at the intersection of 24th ave and I494. Just down the street from the mall of america. there is no store there its just an overpass. It says sponsored link too, why would verizon pay to put a link in an intersection where there is no store????????????????

if thats something else normal then i apologize for wasting everyones time. I've just never seen a verizon logo on google maps before
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Click on photos...it takes you to an underpass, but the logo shows the address to the Mall of America store. Weird, indeed.
 
zane! said:
This points back to the phones being carried/used/driven around by somebody that we need to find. Hmmmmmm.......
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Another perspective...
They initially said "Surveillance confirms all Droid X have dispersed. Each one is in a separate site" then "How many Droid X units have escaped? Some say more than a dozen..."...so we can assume that a minimum of 12 are/were at their locations, hidden, and stationary.

Then we get this "Droid experts say some Droid X phones may still be moving. What they don
 
krichek said:
I searched around some on the Presidio, as I said in my original post I searched Lombard from end to end and several of the streets directly off of it. I parked at what is now the leasing office for the Presidio and walked around a bit where Lombard dead ends into Presidio Blvd.. I just don't see it being there as they do still have security out there that won't take to kindly to folks "hunting" for something...
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Did you look around the Lucasfilms HQ though?
 
If you go to all the possible cities there is a logo, but they aren't always verizon stores... If this doesnt have anything to do with it, its a hell of a coincidence!
 
XEscapeTheLiesX said:
READ THIS, POSSIBLE DROID LOCATION

has anyone noticed that if you go to google maps and search "verizon wireless" around the mall of america a verizon logo shows up at the intersection of 24th ave and I494. Just down the street from the mall of america. there is no store there its just an overpass. It says sponsored link too, why would verizon pay to put a link in an intersection where there is no store????????????????

if thats something else normal then i apologize for wasting everyones time. I've just never seen a verizon logo on google maps before
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That may be nothing, I just did a search on S. California and found the Verizon logo sign. If you move the map around the logo sign moves to another location. On my is either a Verizon store or nothing at all. I wonder if those are towers :cool:
 
mattdouglaschambers said:
WOAH! Did a quick one for San Francisco and there's one there too. You have to zoom out though.
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Seems like all corporate VZW stores show this icon on Google Maps... See the same thing in the Cleveland area and the only search results that have the logo icon are the corporate stores.
 
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