Sprint Hero and Moment Won't Get Android 2.0 Until 1H 2010
More bad news for Sprint...
Sprint, this is your flagship phone. You've got Android, but with VZW's giant marketing push you're left carying the also-ran Android hansets on an also-ran platform. How the hell is Sprint able to sell ANY smartphones?
Right now the Android platform is the "In phone/ popular" to get. Mainly because of the incredible and ingenious c...
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bluecoyote said:
I own a Pre and shortcomings/sluggishness/Sprint aside, I love it as a second phone. But I had Sprint reps telling me if I purchased it I'd be dealing with everything from speakerphone failure to having my data wiped out and losing all of my contacts. It's like buying from a phone from a (competing platform) fanboy.
That's why it's important to do your own research into potential problems and NOT listen to the baggy jeans salespunks.
bluecoyote said:
I was buying it as a gift and the recipient was with me- even though I know better, it's kind of like "Here's your present- by the way, ignore the thing the guy who sells them for a living says about them...."
That's a nice gift. I did the same for my sister.
bluecoyote said:
I bought (or attempted to buy) a friend a Palm Pre for her birthday and had to deal with 15 minutes of not one but TWO Sprint employees telling me not to get it because they're "really crappy." Ended up not even buying a phone so "I could do additional research" - aka, it's really awkward buying a phone when someone's telling you it's a POS. I went to a Sprint "authorized reseller" later and got the same shtick "Oh everyone who is buying them is returning them."
Sprint, this is your flagship phone. You've got Android, but with VZW's giant marketing push you're left carying the also-ran Android hansets on an also-ran platform. How the hell is Sprint able to sell ANY smartphones?
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