3 years and still no iphone killer.
justmarried said:
Your point is?
I think what he is trying to say is the IPhone 3G is the best phone on the market right now in the US, and that Verizon was dumb to turn down the IPhone in the first place.
flip69 said:
Yes like I have $15 vcast plan with unlimited internet but the Verizon plans for "smartphones" require the $30 or $40 plans but neither the HTC, Storm on Omni are not even close to the iphone in performance and quality. It is dissapointing.
I think that this is your opinion... The storm cannot be beat when it comes to email/messaging...
maverick96 said:
I think that this is your opinion... The storm cannot be beat when it comes to email/messaging...
And that is your opinion. You think it's worth more?? 🙄
The Storm can be beat on email and messaging by any other single blackberry with a physical keyboard and a stable OS. As far as everything else, music, video, APPS, etc., it is easily POUNCED by the iPhone... Even the Zune is a better music and video player and IT has Wifi...
HAHAHAHA
Functionality beats Flashiness hands down. Just look at the numbers. The storm hit it's 1 million mark in the US faster than Apple hit it's 1 million mark with the iPhone, and for good reason. It's much more functional!
flip69 said:
Sure my Dare is OK but the browser sucks, The Omnia and Storm require data plans.
Are you trying to suggest the iPhone 3G data plan is cheaper than the data plan for the Storm or Omnia?
The iphone cannot do the following:
-video capture
-type in lanscape
-no cut in paste
-run more than one app a time
-the earpiece is horrible
-iphone overloaded ATTs horrible 3G network
-no camera flash
-safari looks great, but crashes A LOT
-email is not as fast as blackberry
-no way to do a trial run of a paid app
-Verizon MADE MONEY this quarter, ATT lost money. The iphone is obviously not helping their profits very much.
Yeah, im sure blackberry and/or verizon is reeeaaaaaallly scared. The iphone is a good phone, but lacks basic functionality of other smart devices.
Chris
cwcanty said:
The iphone has killed itself. I would take a curve, bold, or storm over the overrated iphone.
The iphone cannot do the following:
-video capture
-type in lanscape
-no cut in paste
-run more than one app a time
-the earpiece is horrible
-iphone overloaded ATTs horrible 3G network
-no camera flash
-safari looks great, but crashes A LOT
-email is not as fast as blackberry
-no way to do a trial run of a paid app
-Verizon MADE MONEY this quarter, ATT lost money. The iphone is obviously not helping their profits very much.
Yeah, im sure blackberry and/or verizon is reeeaaaaaallly scared. The iphone is a good phone, but lacks basic functionality of other smart devices.
Chris
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cwcanty said:
The iphone has killed itself. I would take a curve, bold, or storm over the overrated iphone.
The iphone cannot do the following:
-video capture
-type in lanscape
-no cut in paste
-run more than one app a time
-the earpiece is horrible
-iphone overloaded ATTs horrible 3G network
-no camera flash
-safari looks great, but crashes A LOT
-email is not as fast as blackberry
-no way to do a trial run of a paid app
-Verizon MADE MONEY this quarter, ATT lost money. The iphone is obviously not helping their profits very much.
Yeah, im sure blackberry and/or verizon is reeeaaaaaallly scared. The iphone is a good phone, but lacks basic functionality of other smart devices.
Chris
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http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/01/28/att-claims ... »
First things first: 1.9 million activations is nothing to scoff at. It’s a huge number, and represents AT&T and Apple’s unquestionable success in the smartphone arena. Including the 4th Quarter results, the company can claim 4.3 million total iPhone activations since the introduction of the iPhone 3G, an impressive number by anyone’s standards and a certain earmark of Apple and AT&T’s continuing dominance in the consumer market. The company also revealed, somewhat cryptically, that iPhone users generate “higher revenueâ€...
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So everything is working well now, they don't need to bring out an Iphone killer.
Its not about an iphone killer, its about data intensive phones.
A few things I want to be added to the Storm;
Bigger hard drive, more memory, perhaps lighter, enhancements when it comes to the SurePress technology, and most importantly WIFI!!!
Verizon as a company still doesn't need it to compensate for their network, but enough customers want it anyway (and are willing to pay for it) that Verizon will start requesting it on devices.
As for a wifi storm... prolly not until the storm2, or whatever they call it.
Apple wanted something that no other phone manuf. in the world was currently getting, on the first phone they've ever produced. They also wanted it so there could be NO discount applied to the phone or the service (including business line discounts)
Would Verizon have sold a lot of them if they accepted the iphone deal? Yes. More than likely more than what ATT has sold.
Would it have been worth it for them in the long run making that many exceptions for a phone manufactuer? Who knows. What is to prevent LG from demanding a portion of subscriptions for when people sign up for their phones no...
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100% of Verizons EVDO network is Rev A.
Been like this sense last year.
So the storm and the Omnia are the competitors to the iphone, not the dare (as great as that phone is), or the versa (as awesome as that is, and it supports flash)
iPhone 3G: rated 8 out of 10-
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Apple-iPhone-3G-Revi ... »
LG Versa: rated 9 out of 10-
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/LG-Versa-Review-revi ... »
For regular folks like me that don't need to view email attachments and aren't interested in iFart Apps and other 3rd party hoopla- the only thing missing from Versa is a multi-touch capacitative screen. I'll be getting a Versa, thank you very much!
Though, they won't be able to toute those as unique anymore. All the smartphone makers are launching application store fronts...
And, even dumbphones have as good as, if not better, web browsers now...
Apple will always have it's mac fanbase though, so they'll always be more prone to get an iPhone.
But, I do agree with most here; Blackberry phones are more functional for everyday life than the i-phone.
J
http://www.nokia.com/A4852062 »
1) Part of iPhone's impressiveness is in its simplicity.
2) By the time a device like this were to come into existence, we could very likely have moved past the traditional phone design anyway. The iPhone as we know it would have been killed a long time ago simply by being an old design and/or the same generic device as everything else.
Remember how revolutionary the RAZR was? Who hasn't surpassed and improved on that design by now? RAZR is almost synonymous with basic phone design now. Some day, the iPhone as we understand it will be in the same category.