New iPhone By Summer, Verizon iPhone By Fall
iDONT WANT IT
Now we can see if the poor performance truely is AT&T or if it's the actual phone.
The sad part is... they are finally going to Verizon now that Apple is losing mind-share. I have an iPhone and will get something else when my upgrade is due.
More people with a apple product. I think it will be good move for apple.
They will need to add something to this Iphone that will make it different then the AT&T version. Since the AT&T version can surf the web and be on a phone call at the sametime, the verizon version will have to...
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I know Apple wants more customers. They see what the other phone makers are doing and can't be happy to see Android, Palm, 7, Blackberry, etc...
I got an iPhone last year because it was hands down the best phone out (Android on T-Mobile? Yeah... no thank you...). This year? 5 solid phone OS's to choose from.
Without doing *SOMETHING*, Apple is on a track to become stale and niche. What better way than to *FINALLY* open up to other carriers?
Still... good too see it happen... will be an interesting battlefield.
Or the one without a decent web browser and a ridiculously out of date OS that has virtually no developer support?
Or the one that is SUPPOSED to be updated soon...er...eventually.... sort of... but only for some of the devices that run it and suffers from extensive fragmentation, poor application quality, second-rate hardware, and chronic unreliability?
Or the one that's getting phased out for an all-new OS that is copying from the iPhone's playbook?
And I don't know of a 5th....
Android~ Chronic unrelaiblity? lol. I have one at work and have yet to have issues with it. I've seen ONE issue with a droid I've sold. Fragmentation IS a serious issue. I talk to people all day long both on and off work who love their droid/eric/moment/hero/etc...
7~ Yeah... I'm holding my breath... Alot depends on how Microsoft does it. Someone trying to out Apple Apple might be good or bad... can't know until it's released. Until then its conjecture and empty promises. Still competition tho.
Blackberry~ Meh on that one... still a major player although it's mainly for buisnesses. Sti...
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yeah, i played alittle with the droid and i liked it. but i played with it to see what the evo is gunna be like.
I don't know about you, but slapping on a crappy keyboard isn't exciting. Adding features for the sake of adding features isn't exciting either.
Doubling a device's already class-leading speed is exciting. A copy+paste feature that actually works, can copy formatting, works consistently across applications is rather delightful as well. It's a big deal too- none of the platforms above offer any such solution.
Copy Paste is nice, but not world shattering. I've yet to have problems with it personally on the Droid (granted I don't use it day to day). *AND* Every... single... iPhone fanb, er, user... cried about how unimportant copy/paste was AND that "it's only a patch away". no difference on any of the other platforms. Better copy/paste is only a patch away on android/7/palm/bb...
Doubling the speed of the engine is nothing exciting. It's the same reason why the Wii is winning - speed isn't everything.
Apple refusing exciting applications (Skype, GMobile, Slingbox, etc) isn't exciting, it's crap.
Apple continuing to not be clear and concise on the app approval process i...
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My sentiments about the Droid's keyboard are echoed in Engadget, Gizmodo, and Phone Scoop's reviews... for starters. Safe to say it's crap.
However you seem to think everyone who purchases an iPhone is just a "sheep." Hell, I actually own its biggest competitor, but I know the difference between a real benefit and a BS feature.
My guess is you'll own another iPhone once whatever platform you move to eventually fails.
Skype and Slingbox were approved how long after the initial apps were submitted? What about GVMobile? Other apps that have been denied for little or no reason?
I like the Droid keyboard... and the onscreen keyboard. *AND* for those who don't like it... they have two more options: Eris and Devour. (or Moment, hero, G1, MyTouch, Evo, etc).
Options for iPhone? New. older. oldest. Don't like those options? Too bad... daddy jobs says that's whats trendy. The faster processor and bigger hard drive and the new copy/paste feature are good enough for you.
I believe that most people are sheep....
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Not only that...if the amazing HTC virtual keyboards aren't good enough, then there are plenty of downloadable keyboards for Android devices. 🙂
Engadget:
We're happy to report, however, that after a short adjustment period, typing on the DROID is a reasonable experience. It's not as slick or comfortable as a nice, portrait-oriented Tour or (better yet) Bold layout, though it bests the CLIQ, and holds its own against other landscape contenders like the Moment.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/motorola-droid-re ... »
Phonescoop:
Didn't like the keyboard. 1 outa three isn't terrible I guess.
Gizmodo:
The keyboard is okay. I liked it a lot more on Day 1 than I do today, and that's because I never got any faster. The problem is that the key landscape is too flat and homogenous—a necessary sacrifice for Droid's remarkable skinnines...
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Google's done a pretty good job of making most of its applications available on 1.6 and 2.x, so it's really in the hands of the manufacturers of the devices to not release anything that has 1.5 (or older) running on it. I honestly just wish that certain hardware manufacturers would make it easier to root phones. I'm still waiting for my Eris to be rootable. Not that I won't wait patiently for the official 2.1 release, but it'd be nice to be able to update it on...
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You can also point out that Verizon sill has no Talk+Data (unless they are seriously pushing LTE by the end of the year like they said they would).
Granted... my neck of the woods would be last in line for LTE, and I would also hold out for a jailbreak as a personal requirement...
Otherwise... meh. What's to be excited about with an iPhone? How have they changed in the last 3 years?
But it's also... stale. Without customization (this side of jail-breaking).
*BUT* The competition *HAS* paid attention and everyone has stepped up their game. Everyone is making good stuff. Each with strengths and weaknesses for sure, but it's all fairly good quality.
God bless good competition.
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