The Oct. 25 Deal of the Day brings us the Case-Mate Barely There Case for the Motorola Droid 3. Its impact-resistant flexible plastic shell covers the back and corners of the phone while keeping an extremely slim profile, designed to protect the phone while allowing more of it to show through. It’s available today only in black or pink for just $14.95 — that’s 40 percent off! Get yours while supplies last.

The Sept. 19 Deal of the Day brings us the Mobi Products Hard Shell Case for the Motorola Droid 3. It’s got a two-piece, snap-on design that let’s the sliding keyboard do its thing and has cutouts for all of the ports and buttons while still protecting tihe phone from scratches and dings. It’s available in five colors — black, blue, red, puorple and pink — for just $6.95 today only. Get yours while supplies last!

Drooooiiiiidddddd…  It’s a sound plenty of us know and love, and we realize that along with it comes some serious bloatware from the folks at Verizon and Motorola.  The Droid 3 is no exception.  Of course, that’s when the Android Central forums shine — we’ll help you twist and wrangle all the “value added” applications right off your D3, and get it set up to your liking.  Cory, our fearless forums leader and world-famous midnight tinkerer, has worked up quite the masterpiece for doing just that for your D3.  It has all the directions spelled out for easy understanding, and full lists of what you can and can’t get rid of — as well as an explanation of what each one of them are.  Top it off with a complete walkthrough using Root Explorer (no need for a wire or a computer) and it’s a thing of beauty.  Make sure your D3 is charged up, and hit the forums to take care of business.

If you’ve picked up a Motorola Droid 3, and love to tinker with things, listen up — files have surfaced that will allow you to restore your D3 to a “factory-like” state and, more important, recover a unit that won’t boot up.  We have to be clear here — this is not a standard stock .sbf file.  If you use these files, you will no longer be on Motorola’s upgrade path.  This is for emergency use (or for hackers to fiddle with) only.

The Motorola Droid 3 has been rooted, and while we expect root to happen for most Android phones, there are a couple things here that we want to talk about.  To start at the beginning, the goal of any project to exploit or root an Android phone is to get the permissions you want, where you want them.  Once you have administrative permissions on a folder you can also write to, you’re pretty much set.  Security researcher Dan Rosenberg found a fairly easy method to do just that, and we now have a shell root via ADB with no third-party files being used.  This means no worries about sketchy files that have been through numerous hands, doing lord knows what when you run them.

We just got slipped a little internal memo, purportedly from Big Red, catching up on some Verizon supply and end-of-life news. Here’s the breakdown:

• Motorola Droid 3: Seeing some backorders. (Not sure if that means non many were ordered by Verizon in the first place, or if it’s that popular. We’ll hope for the latter.)

It’s been a week or so since we asked you to show us your old and busted phones in hopes of winning our new hotness Motorola Droid 3. Upward of 600 entries later, we found ourselves a winner, plucked at random from the pile of decayed and decrepit phones. And it’s fitting, because Android Central Forums member lorzee just happens to have an original Motorola Droid that’s unlikely to be allowed through airport security.

We talk up the recent Netflix update, more new hardware announcements, and the Droid Bionic brouhaha. Plus, a special guest appearance by Joe from Swiftkey. Listen in!

Thing 1: Netflix on more phones, fewer tablets

It’s been a couple weeks now since we got a very slight peek at what appeared to be a Samsung slider on Verizon. Let’s get a little closer look, shall we? The pic you see above (and a couple more after the break) just hit our inbox. And, sure enough, the as-yet unannounced device looks a whole lot like Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G.

It’s been a couple weeks now since we got a very slight peek at what appeared to be a Samsung slider on Verizon. Let’s get a little closer look, shall we? The pic you see above (and a couple more after the break) just hit our inbox. And, sure enough, the as-yet unannounced device looks a whole lot like Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G.