User: ExploderBlade
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Re: Iphone 4 or HTC EVO 4G make your vote
My EVO is coming to me in the mail tommorrow :)
I like the iPhone, I think it is a good device with tins of capabilities. But you have to jail-break it to get the same features that come stock on Android. The new iPhone is dazzling, of this I am positive. But, yet again, it is stuck on AT&T's network, which my wife had for several months before she left and I convinced her to get a Palm Pre ...
Re: HTC
Alright, you have been showing an obvious Apple bias in all of your posts for a long time, but to insult HTC, the creators of the first toch screen smartphone, is just stupid. Apple wouldn't have a leg to stand on if HTC hadn't blazed the trail. Heck, I bet overall HTC is more popular worldwide than Apple's device, not to say it is bad.
Why is it that if it doesn't pertain to praising Apple you post the ...
Re: Its only a matter of time...
And I don't know where you got those numbers, but the numbers from scorpio can from a PCWorld magazine.
Re: WiMax's track record
The HSPA network is supposed to be out and about, but I see very little of it chanig people's mind to switch sides. It's just tooo unreliable.
Re: You sir, fail
BlueCoyote,
I have no idea why you tout that the iPhone is the best invention since literally the cell phone. Don't get me wrong, the iPhone is a beautiful device, well crafted and powerful, but you act as if it is flawless. Ha! I reply to such a thing! If it's so flawless, then why:
1. is Apple getting scared and demanding that the Nexus One not be shipped to American shores (such a laghable afront to capitalism as I have ...
Re: A Verizon customer bows with you!!!!!!
Actually, I am in the region where 27 new cities will be getting WiMax, so in answer to your question, not yet, but soon.
Bow down before it's beauty
Look at the phone, look at the provider, now proceed to bow to the awesome.
Re: !!3!! ALL touch phones from HTC...enough already!!!
Bit**, Bit**, Bit**!!!
Touchscreen phones (the ones with capacitive screens) sell. They sell quite well, are efficient, and the market won't change for the minority over the majority.
Welcome to the World.
Re: Well to be fair...
Now don't get me wrong, I love having Office on my Touch Pro, but to even get 6.5 on my device I basically have to hack it because Microsoft won't support an upgrade for it. And truth be told, it has taken Microsoft way to long to really bring something new and worth more of my money to the table. I actually am of the market that likes a usefull app or widget to make mobile life easier, and ...
Re: No advertising?
If T-Mobile and Google want to subsidize the device to attract new techie customers, that's just business. But, you still have the option to buy it unlocked. The heavy etf is obviously just so the idiots out there don't buy it and sell it on eBay for profit. I see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Re: No advertising?
Only Google's online store is selling the phone right now. I wouldn't call it under the radar, I mean the phone is geared towards the techie nerd/geek crowd and unsurprisingly, they are the only ones buying the thing. Point is, if you don't know about this device, you probably shouldn't buy it anyway. It's not like Google is hard up for cash or anything.
Re: Well to be fair...
That is just a very stacked comment. You do know that WinMo (though I own and use an HTC Touch Pro myself) is a rapidly failing market. Something you need to accept is that Android is a rapidly expanding market and for every one new WinMo phone it feels like two new Andriod devices are released.
Re: It was a criminal fee to begin with...
Don't like their policy, don't buy their phone. simple as that.
Re: FCC needs to stay out of business
I totally agree with you. So much so I say T-Mobile needs to start following suit before they eat a large chunk of the ETF screw pie.
Re: Fortunatly this is america
It's a selling tool, yes, but then so is Verizon having the countries most expensive plans. This doesn't seem to have hurt their customer base, them being the largest wireless provider in the country. So having a higher ETF for NEW SMARTPHONES ONLY is not really a huge selling point for competitors. That and did you people forget what ETF stands for? Eaarly Termination Fee. That measn cancelling your contract early to go to another competitor, thus voiding your ...
Re: FCC needs to stay out of business
The consumer doesn't need protecting if they are SMART enough to make their own decisions. Does your mother still pickj out your clothes too, since you like the government trying to pick out how your cell phone plan works.
Listen, grow up and realize that the government doesn't need to regulate everything, because everything doesn't need regulated. You don't like the way Verizon is handling things, be a big boy and go to someone else. That's how a true ...
Re: FCC needs to stay out of business
You, sir, are an idiot and a communist, to want to love regulation that gets outta control on freakin cell phones.
Re: No they are operating a utility using spectrum WE own
You realize the FCC can't and won't tell Verizon to change their policy. All they can do is ask quesitons. Simple. And that's all they have done so far.
Re: FCC needs to stay out of business
Mcuhdrama...what is with you...are you so daft about thisa whole thing? Do you have Verizon even? That's a serious question?
Re: FCC needs to stay out of business
I think we can now officially agree that muchdrama has no idea how economics nd business works.
As mentioned repeatedly before, this is really a consumer/customer issue. If a companmy wants to instill a policy for their new customers that their smartphone devices now have a larger ETF, so be it. They have a month to see if they like it, in which case they can cancel if they don't. Plus, everyone knows VZW is the most expensive of the ...
Re: Eliminate Subsidies, Prepay for your service
So lemme get this straight Sir.Whines-A-Lot,
You want an absolutely rockin' phone, with a rockin' plan, with no contract (thus the company has no faith you will stay with them for very long) and minimal cost (cause if it was too high or as high as it should be, you would complain about that too, wouldn't you?) and you want this done immediately? Let me explain how it really works: You sign a contract, get a phone for a ...
Re: Sorry...but those numbers don't add up
Actually, Sprint owns most of the digital towers in the USA, that's why with Verizon phones, you have two bars of service, one pointing out the phone radio and one pointing out the EVDO, which is ussually off of Sprint towers. Sprint built most of their digital network from the ground up and Verizon actually cuts a check to Sprint every month to use their towers. Here is a link to all of Sprint's current digital towers. I tried ...
Re: Hero over Pre?
Have You activated a Palm Pre? Right in the terms of service agreement, when you first turn the hone on, it asks you and makes you agree to not alter the phone in anyway before you continue. So you are telling me that Palm has agreed and given you the go ahead to break their own rules?
Re: People are just ignorant sometimes...
and once again, it's really not a bad idea for a company to force data on smartphone devices. you could buy a different device if you don't want that companies data on your smartphone. you can also get a smartphone outright, use it's wifi, and be glad to have a nice pda device. but for that nationwide accesibility, gotta pay.
Re: IMHO the US wireless industry..
You guys might wanna go to VodaPhones site and check on how mucha Blackberry Storm or a BlackBerry Bold is when you sign a nice contract with vodaphone. It's free. So yeah, they have subsidy.
Re: without being mean
alright, since you have no idea how a business works, check this out. businesses exist to make money. customer service comes second. if att wants to mandate data, then guess what, it's gonna happen for smartphones. verizon has done this for close to a year now. sprint does it on certain devices. and att is finally following suit. for thos of you that don't like it (all 10% of you) then switch or deal. if att said they wanted ...
Re: Yet another thing the government has no business in.
Most of those things are put to a popular vore, making it very democratic, at least it is in Ohio. That way, no one feels cheaped out.
Re: Yet another thing the government has no business in.
I am all for this. You phone number should be a private, not public if you don't want it to be, entity. That, and those companies make it nearly (if not totally) impossible to opt out of recieving those calls. And what's all this talk of "peoples jobs" Read the title, ROBO-CALLS. That means there is a computer dedicated to punching up a number at random and dialing someone to offer them a service or product, and if you ...
Re: Virgin Mobile and Sprint Swap
Nope. It's called cost subsidy.
Re: Re if someone cannot afford the data plan
The get a regular PDA...you know, with out the phone tech in it. Or buy an unlocked WINMo phone and use it as such. OR, get a Sprint WinMo with out data, OR, just ay for the dang data....simple.
Re: People are just ignorant sometimes...
You know what POcket_Girl I found out by clicking on your profile that you work for a cpamy named Pocket Smart Wireles.... NO WONDER you have no idea how a REAL celluar company works. The company you represent sells 2G, underpowered, almost featureless devices....you company is right on par with Cricket. It doesn't even leave a 50 mile covereage radius...at least Cricket is market to market. You have no room to speak of a PDA nor smartphone device cause ...
Re: Re if someone cannot afford the data plan
They actually do....It's at the bottom of your contratc, where it says ATT withholds the right to switch up their network at anytime. Anything you dowload to your device stays there until you remove it. If ATT decides to axe it before you get hold of it, then you gotta deal.
Re: Question?
Nope....just swap SIS. You're old plan gets grandfatherd in.
Re: This is complety bogus!
You realize Verizon has been doing this EXACT SAME THING for a year now...right?
Re: Show your greed guys....
Terrible analogy...food is so little related to a celluar device that these analogies are just nuts....
And tell you what, McDonalds, if they did do that, are ALLOWED. They are a BUSINESS. Don't like it, go somewhere else. If Mikey Dees loses enough sales, they will revert back to their old method. But, if they get increased sales from this, then guess what, they are gonna contiue their new policy. It's called capitalism. Look it up, and find out how ...
Re: Here's the real deal.
Are you serious?
Blah, blah. AT&T wants to raise prices, and chose to leech off smartphone users like myself, instead of doing it accross the board. Probably because smartphones are on the news as the "big cash cow of the recession".
That was your best defense...blah,blah,blah?
You know the retail cost of a LG Neon (a consumer device)? $249.99. And it's a relatively new device. You know the retail of a Blackberry Bold? 649.99, And it's knocking on the door of almost ...
Re: without being mean
A data service is required for myTouch in order to access the phone's rich web functionality and features. When you select the phone, the myTouch Unlimited web + Unlimited Message service will be automatically added to your cart. You also have the option of selecting the Unlimited Web sevice. Taxes and fees are additional.
mytouch Unlimited Web + Unlimited Messages:
Unlimited Web access, unlimited domestic messages, Visual Voicemail :$34.99/month
myTouch Unlimited Web:
Unlimited Web access, Visual Voicemail: $24.99/month
That ...
Re: without being mean
If you work for Tmobile and you activate a G1, MyTouch, or BlackBerry 8900 phone without a data plan, then guess what, you aren't following the guidelines tmobile instilled....so you're braggin about breaking coporate policy?
Aren't you the big man....grow up.
Re: without being mean
IF U DONT WANT DATA OR WANT TO PAY FOR IT, GET A DIFFERENT PHONE OTHER THAN A SMARTPHONE!
I think that was point enough.
Re: without being mean
thinking pocket has made any valid points proves your intellect. you want a smartphone. fine, just don't activate a new or upgrade one with att if you dont wanna pay the data plan rate. like i mentioned numerous times, verizon has been doing this exact :) :) same thing for years withteir smartphones and no one cared then. att is STILL doing it with their iphones. did you forget that? no matter what any of you ...
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