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

[bigshotproducer]

DC is about a 5 hour drive for me from Raleigh, NC. I would love to be there but I just don't know if I could chance it. I'm planning to get one next week anyway.

FancyPants, congrats. I hope you are enjoying the X

rlw889, so close.

I'm right abut 3.5-4 hours away -- not sure if it's worth my while -- and if the wife will let me/go with me...so torn!

 

[bogman2121]

Come on Ohio X, please be in Columbus and let us have been horribly wrong

 

[mxsjw]

woo! I just turned 18 3 weeks ago

Oh, much much too young for a phone this powerful...you are not ready yet padawan...you should leave it for me.

 

[Gamble]

Any DC hunters for Sunday? I'm considering driving up for it....anyone here going?

I thought about it man... Not sure if I want to make the 4 hour drive for a slight chance to find the phone or a $20 gift certificate.

 

[bigshotproducer]

I thought about it man... Not sure if I want to make the 4 hour drive for a slight chance to find the phone or a $20 gift certificate.

Yeah, that's kinda the way I figure -- but I just don't know -- I mean it could be a nice day trip to DC if nothing else....

 

[potterdood]

Anyone from here find an X yet? I gave up when Philly and DC were announced. Good luck to everyone.

 

[woop]

Anyone else kinda feel bad for the guys in the video with the map? Looks like they had put some thought/effort into it before the "rules" were made public too.

Looked like somebody that might have been on this board with the type of analysis he did lol.

woo! I just turned 18 3 weeks ago

Man, they should have made the age limit 21

 

[bbuck002]

I need someone help...just downloaded twitter for my blackberry cuz hopefully its faster sad more reliable then the texts...can someone send me a message to @bbuck002 so I can see the time difference. Also since I'm not at home on computer can u post on here what time u sent. Thanks that would be awesome guys...
Also we never settled on a team name. I kinda liked desperados.

 

[damstr]

Anyone from here find an X yet? I gave up when Philly and DC were announced. Good luck to everyone.

You were expecting it to be somewhere else on the east coast?

 

[EDG131]

let me encourage everybody to come to DC. I along with 9 other friends will be searching for this phone. We are equipped with gps, aircards w/laptops and smartphones. Hate me but we're doing it all for one guys bday. We will be stationed all throughout DC and we WILL find it. don't waste your time driving..... for a gift certificate

 

[mxsjw]

Huh, quarter to 5 on the left coast...I spose we're done for the day.

BEER TIME!!!

 

[EDG131]

also, for those of you hitting the streets for the DC droid x shoot me a message, we can all catch a beer afterwards!

 

[NFLWiDEOUT86]

let me encourage everybody to come to DC. I along with 9 other friends will be searching for this phone. We are equipped with gps, aircards w/laptops and smartphones. Hate me but we're doing it all for one guys bday. We will be stationed all throughout DC and we WILL find it. don't waste your time driving..... for a gift certificate

Wow that's dedicated lol. Good thing you're not my competition..


All I'm carrying is my laptop, Droid 1, and my lucky charm of a brother...He always finds everything accidentally...lets hope he can find the Droid

 

[damstr]

also, for those of you hitting the streets for the DC droid x shoot me a message, we can all catch a beer afterwards!

I may hold you up on that!

I have a couple key points in mind that I plan to hang around so that when the clues come in I'll hopefully be close by.

Eh Im still undecided if Im actually going to do it or not. Its pretty much confirmed for Sunday correct?

 

[bigshotproducer]

let me encourage everybody to come to DC. I along with 9 other friends will be searching for this phone. We are equipped with gps, aircards w/laptops and smartphones. Hate me but we're doing it all for one guys bday. We will be stationed all throughout DC and we WILL find it. don't waste your time driving..... for a gift certificate

Wow. I think you just made my decision for me. GOOD LUCK!!

 

[EDG131]

It looks set for Sunday but you never know with these things.. I work in the heart of DC so Monday could also work. GL! we could hit adams morgan afterwards or grab some drinks by the waterfront.

 

[bigshotproducer]

It looks set for Sunday but you never know with these things.. I work in the heart of DC so Monday could also work. GL! we could hit adams morgan afterwards or grab some drinks by the waterfront.

With a 1Ghz processor Droid X designate #21 is a center of power.

FROM WIKI --

A power centre is an unenclosed shopping centre with 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) to 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2) of gross leasable area[2] that usually contains three or more big box retailers and various smaller retailers (usually located in strip malls) with a common parking area shared among the retailers........Other examples are Seven Corners Shopping Center in suburban Washington, D.C.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_centre#cite_note-4

 

[F150FAN]

It looks set for Sunday but you never know with these things.. I work in the heart of DC so Monday could also work. GL! we could hit adams morgan afterwards or grab some drinks by the waterfront.

I may have missed something, really hard to keep up with this thread. How do you know when they are going to give out the main clues and the phone? Did I miss something? Thanks in advance!

 

[HumanOwnerwonnabe]

Why is #17 in Detroit. First modern traffic light invented in 1912 in salt lake and Detroit does not have largest cement plant.

 

[EDG131]

......Major shopping spot in DC is Georgetown

 

[bbuck002]

ok nevermind on the twitter help. got it updating every 5 minutes. seems to work ok if im not at a computer

 

[Pavilion]

Why is #17 in Detroit. First modern traffic light invented in 1912 in salt lake and Detroit does not have largest cement plant.

Read the whole thing from Wikipedia...
As early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah, policeman Lester Wire invented the first red-green electric traffic lights. On 5 August 1914, the American Traffic Signal Company installed a traffic signal system on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. It had two colors, red and green, and a buzzer, based on the design of James Hoge, to provide a warning for color changes. The design by James Hoge allowed police and fire stations to control the signals in case of emergency.
The first four-way, three-color traffic light was created by police officerWilliam Potts in Detroit, Michigan in 1920.

 

[AJ_EVO]

let me encourage everybody to come to DC. I along with 9 other friends will be searching for this phone. We are equipped with gps, aircards w/laptops and smartphones. Hate me but we're doing it all for one guys bday. We will be stationed all throughout DC and we WILL find it. don't waste your time driving..... for a gift certificate

You and your friends must do well with the ladies.

 

[rbh5081]

If # 11 is for Oklahoma I wonder if they will move it. We have been getting hammered with rain and there has been a lot of flooding and 3 or more deaths from said flooding. I mean I will still go and search but hell if it does not stop raining it might throw off my plans to go the day before.

 

[rbh5081]

Also I wonder if that is why they have not posted anything about it.
And another question that I have is there a program for a tilt2 to get the twitter post? I am on ATT, I am cheap also so something free to do this would be nice.