User: IrishCarBomb
These are the most recent forum messages posted by IrishCarBomb:
Re: If I Call To Cancel
I have people on Boost, Metro PCS, Straight Talk, yada yada yada come in every day and switch over to my company (a small statewide carrier that has a really good PIA option). Why? Because even though what we offer sucks (outside of our 2G coverage being pretty darn good) it is still better than the refill card pre-paid guys, and way cheaper than AT&T and Verizon's pre-paid options.
Also, a $30 pre-paid is a $30 phone... not ...
Re: If I Call To Cancel
Firstly, you don't get full access to the network with any of those prepaid options. No prepaid service gives you full access to the same network a contract customer gets. You miss out on roaming agreement areas, you have throttled data, and you have (especially with CDMA) limited phone options that tend to be way worse or very expensive.
Re: Greed
How so? Google is paying more than the stock price has been in the last year... heck, last 3 years!
Re: Just bought my first app
:lol:
My first two puchased apps; SetCPU and FancyWidgetsDonate... ROM manager was my 3rd when it finally came out as a paid version.
Re: You sure it was him
You're Jesus of Chicago? Every town has its own Jesus, right? :?
Re: Can they all just stop?
I know, so messed up. They are ill-equiped to handle these 'IP' electronic patents.
Can they all just stop?
Seriously, this would be like Ford suing Chevy for making cars and trucks.
Re: Android Return Numbers
And techcrunch isn't citing anything specific, only 1 unnamed "source" and they don't make any claim as to who/what they are a source of overall... however, BGR points out their sources are referring to industry wide.
Plus, these companies are publicly traded and report these figures to stock holders and the FCC. Clearly, there is a huge chasm between what is being reported (BGR figures and others) and what 1 online publication, that is possibly going to ...
Re: Android Return Numbers
http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/28/40-of-android-p hones-are-returned-absolutely-ridiculous/
I bet they have better sources than you. And yes, I get to see company wide return rates. I am on the phone selection committee for my company, and am the vice chair of it.
And maybe you are not paying attention to reality, because, as the article says:
"To think that 40% of many Android handsets are returned across the board, however, is crazy." (BGR)
Re: I can't wait
He stole my virginity!
Re: Android Return Numbers
And this was debunked and proven false. You don't have connections with the industry more so than any of us (some of us actually are privy to return rates inside our company, BTW, and those numbers are way out of line).
Also, if return rates were that high for Android devices, nobody would be making them nor would they be turning out record profits. They would be bankrupt for return rates at those levels.
Also, every manufacturer would be ...
Re: If I Call To Cancel
More like anyone that has been in the industry long enough and is sick and tired of people thinking if they whine and through a big enough temper tantrum they will get whatever they want.
We come to work, try our best to help the customers make the right decision, and what we get in return is being pissed on, called every name in the book, and threatened with physical harm.
You sound like the average person jealous they can't play ...
Trolling is not your strong suit
1. Motorola's Droid line up on Verizon has been very strong, to say the least. As well, the Xoom was the first Honeycomb tablet... a little ground breaking, there, no?
2. Nobody can figure out what the heck they are even talking about, BTW, since it is 100% open source. What they might be talking about is that Honeycomb hasn't been fully released yet to the public, but will be in due time. Every manufacturer ...
It will not effect the current Android ecosystem
It will still be free and open source with the same terms and agreements for licensing it. This is mostly a move, IMHO, to strengthen Android against lawsuits, as well it is an area Google can make even more money.
But they have said the two companies, Motorola and Google/Android will be separate from one another.
I suspected Google would buy somebody
to strengthen the Android patent portfolio and defense. I did not see Motorola coming by a long shot. I suspected they would go after smaller companies, likely hardware component manufacturers and designers, but not an entire mobile phone company like Motorola.
Heck, if I had been forced to bet on which company I thought they would buy, from the mobile phone producers, it would have been Sony Ericsson or HTC, not Motorola.
As for future implications; I think this ...
Re: If I Call To Cancel
Troll much? I highly recommend picking a better tact than the obvious, especially when you are trying to troll someone (me) that is neither a Verizon employee or customer.
Re: SIM cards
What you talking 'bout? I have a sim card in my Sprint phone, I had it in my T-Mobile phone and then the sales dude put it in my Sprint phone and told me I got to keep my porn.
(This was a joke brought to you by ICB Industry; not to be confused with or affiliated with ICB Holdings Group or ICB LLC).
Re: well well well
Jesus? Where? :cry: He did things to me growing up.
Re: If I Call To Cancel
Nope. Have fun with Virgin.
As for you "serious" points
If you are going to compare a year old phone to phones less than a couple month's old, and act like it isn't top tier because it doesn't have a dual core processor, you got issues and don't understand what top tier is, or have an insanely high standard that includes nothing.
BTW, when the iPhone 4 came out, it was the fastest CPU/GPU combo in the cell phone world, and held that title until Tegra2 chips hit. And ...
Troll post?
You said the iPhone 4 was a mid-tier phone. That is the definition of a troll post in the cell phone world.
Also, notice that YOU jumped into the conversation I was having with not pickles. So before you go around saying I haven't read anything, why don't you recognize the fact you jumped into the middle of my conversation?
Oh, and I did read what you had said (which by the way was very trollish given not pickles ...
Re: It isn't a lack of other smartphones
johnnyb0810 said:
Lets be honest though, out of the box, the iPhone is a midrange phone. So what att really lacks is any true high end competitive choices. My comment was less of an attack on your statement and more a rebuttal. There are a couple that are not true smartphones that I would whole heartedly agree with your statement though.
8O Wow! That statement is so far off the mark! Out of the box the ...
Re: New plans, coverage, merger???
Deutsche Telecom wants out because T-Mobile USA is losing money big time. The geographical vastness of the US cost a lot of money to build a network across, and to pay for it you need a lot more customers at higher rates than what T-Mobile has and is charging. The business model has failed.
#3
When I ask a multiple choice question, and the response is 'yes' or 'no'... DUDE! Wasn't a yes or no question.
Couple things
1. Every carrier has a strict policy of disconnecting service to any customer that makes threats of this nature.
2. This should be reported to the police.
Whether he was blowing off steam or not, he deserves what he gets for threatening you like that.
For the next several weeks
I am telling these people "it wasn't a yes or no question..." then silence until they respond properly.
Re: A little sales help
Provide great, trustworthy, customer service that has people buzzing that YOU are the man to see. I built a kiosk in a grocery store into the single best selling (per employee) store in the company by being the MAN to go see. So much so, upper management sent their friends and family to see me because they knew I would give them the experience of a life time.
But I will say that 20% increase over last year ...
One year since last post in this thread
so I figured I would bumpity bump bump bump!
One year since last post...
Amarantamin said:
And now I own this thread, and there is nothing you can do about it.
I would have to say your ownership has been a tragic failure.
One year aniversay of the last post in here!
Pours a 40 on the sidewalk and sings a song.
Re: cell phone mah
that is how much total charge the phone holds. It has nothig to do with it is ok for your phone or not.
What matters is if the batter was made for you phone, and has the same voltage, amperage, connector design, firmware, etc.
I don't think they can do that...
As we are not insurance salesmen, they can't not require or encourage us to sell it. I know my company removed all insurance based commissions and quotas a couple years ago because the legal department decided it wasn't legal to do so, since none of us are insurance agents and there are laws that require certain training, certs, etc. type thing.
Re: Blackberry Question
You can change system wide font size... go to setup, personalize, font.
If that doesn't change the size in the search box, then no.
You guys all...
...have problems. Major problems. That is all I have to say after reading this entire thread.
BTW, good job, good job indeed.
Re: It isn't a lack of other smartphones
They do offer several good choices... but only 3, really... The Infuse, the Atrix and the Inspire. But all 3 of those are behind the curve compared to everyone else.
If you read the article that started this, you would see that IS the point. The average rating of AT&T's non-iPhone smartphones is lower than their competitors by half a point. Why? Not for lack of total choices (AT&T has more choices than T-Mobile actually) rather ...
It isn't a lack of other smartphones
it is a lack of quality alternatives. If you look at T-Mo, for example, they have the HTC G2, the LG G2X, and the HTC Sensation; all 3 of those don't have a counter part on AT&T, plus T-Mo has the Nexus S (7 months earlier) the HD7 (8 months earlier) the Captivate (a year old phone now)...
The point is AT&T is slow to release new, exciting Android devices/iPhone competitors, has a limited selection compared to other ...
ICB's Thread!
Yes, this one!
Re: I just want to know....
The other phone company let them do it.
Re: The reason I ask
They are the exact same as anyone else... You sign up for a 2yr contract, when that is done no more ETFs. You never sign another contract after the initial 2yr agreement on a belief plan, but you pay a premium every single month over the old plans... and once every 11 months to 2 years, you qualify for a phone at 2yr pricing, but don't have to resign your contract.
Re: The reason I ask
Ah, in that case, it is just like any other contract or whatever they want to call it. No different than any other carrier, if they are out of contract, there are no ETFs.
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