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LG, Verizon Transitioning Away from 'Get It Now'

Apr 3, 2008, 12:26 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Beginning with the LG enV2, LG has introduced a new media icon in its phones for Verizon Wireless. Rather than use the Get It Now icon, which encompassed everything from music and photos to wallpaper and ringtones, LG has replaced it with the more understandable Media Center. LG said that this change will be spreading to all Verizon Wireless phones in the future. LG is also going to be offering two different versions of homescreen menus. One will be focused on messaging, and the other will be focused on media.

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elgee02

Apr 4, 2008, 1:31 AM

How about transitioning away from BREW all together?

I love the service VZW but my God, it's time to kick Qualcomm's BREW software to the curb and go with some JAVA... please!

BROWN27

Yup just another reason I choose Sprint, JAVA is great! 😁 and PTT 😁 and the soon to be released Motorola V950 🤤 sucks to be with verizon! 🤣

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psycho dramatic7

Apr 5, 2008, 12:13 PM

Re: Get-It-Now aka Pay-Us-Now Software also needs to go

The U.I sucks like a Hoover. I've gone through 18 of vzw's cheap handsets in 3 months. most of them would have screens that would flash black and come back over and over and they reboot while you text message. 18!! no this isn't an exaggeration it's the truth. I'm not talking out of my *ss, I'm talking from experience. That stupid software is designed to cripple the phones so that the user is unable to alter anything on the phone and make it as difficult as possible to add his/her own ring tones. Hence why I call it "pay us now" software. Yea I love the proprietary software of Motorola's and LG and Blackberry etc etc. So obviously it's clear that you're backing up the wrong horse my friends. Open handsets with uncrippled U.I's is the wave of...
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BROWN27

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psycho dramatic7

Apr 3, 2008, 4:16 PM

Get-It-Now aka Pay-Us-Now Software also needs to go

Now if they could just get rid of the ugly and buggy user interface that cripples the phones and makes them FUBAR 🤣

kevinski

The user interface isn't what "cripples" the phones. Also, VZW's "buggy" user interface has never caused me any issues, and I really don't see how you can consider it to be "ugly" or anything. It's a nice, simplistic interface, designed to make the tr...
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