You might want to check out the specs on the Droid 2, Droid X, Droid Incredible and the Samsung Fascinate.

You'll be pleasantly surprized to find that Verizon does have what you're looking for.

Verizon has phones that work as hotspots.

And after a few short months, they'll have more areas covered by LTE than sprint/clear had in well over a year.

Clear launched with Wimax well before any phones took advantage of it.

As OrionsVantage and Menno stated, they've had hotspot on a handful of phones for some time now. My Incredible does it.

Since you guys are clearly way ahead of me on this subject which of the Droid phones are your favorite. I'm coming from a BB Storm (the first one). Thx again.

Yeah, you're about two years behind the curve with a Blackberry. It's sad, since Blackberry was on the cutting edge a while back. They make awesome devices. Google and it's hardware partners drove right past Blackberry at about 200 MPH, November of last year.

epik said:
Yeah, you're about two years behind the curve with a Blackberry. It's sad, since Blackberry was on the cutting edge a while back. They make awesome devices. Google and it's hardware partners drove right past Blackberry at about 200 MPH, November of last year.

That just depends on what features your referring to. There are things the Blackberry still excels at that its competitors are way behind on. I think most people just look at the surface of what the phone offers, which is why they say the Android and iPhone are way ahead. Those phones have better touch screen technology, more apps (though most are useless), better web browsers, faster processors (less battery life), higher res screens (l...
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But even on those they are falling behind.

They used to be a paragon for reliability.. but when I had my tour, BIS went out so much it wasn't even funny.

Their email offerings are nice, but nothing that is totally irreplacable. the same goes for their calanders.

Yes, they have amazing battery life, but they get it by basically refusing to implement anything (no matter how useful/desired) to improve that battery life. A blackberry still can't hold a candle to a fliphone when it comes to battery, so if that's your thing, then flip phones are better. With my tour I had to charge it every other day, my droid is every night. not a huge difference.

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Is the Torch two years behind as well?

512MB internal memory (and a 4GB card thrown in)
624 MHz processor
Blackberry OS 6.0

Maybe a year behind, now.

I went from a BB Storm 1 to the Samsung Fascinate. I'm extremely pleased. My only regret is that the calendaring system on Android is significantly less robust ☹️

In every other conceivable way, I'm a happy convert.

Just wondering, from what you use, what's the difference between the two calendars?

epik said:
Just wondering, from what you use, what's the difference between the two calendars?

I used my calendar on my BB as an alarm clock, because I had complete control of my ring tones.

On my Blackberry, I had the calendar alarm set to vibrate 10 times on "long" then sound a ridiculously loud and annoying alarm at the end of the 30 seconds of vibration.

If the phone was in my pocket or nearby, I would hear/feel the vibration with plenty of time to catch and silence the notification before the "alarm" went off (raising the dead) following the 30 seconds of vibration. If I was asleep or otherwise occupied, I would heard the alert go off and wake me up or summon me from the other room.

On the And...
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I'm going to respond to these out of order. Sorry.

Also, when I create a recurring appointment on my calendar, I can't set custom alert notifications. If I have a meeting every Monday at 3:00 and I want a 60 minute advance notification on it, I get this when I try to set the 1 hour alert:
For repeating events please select the alarm as None or On Time

I'm not sure why it's forcing you to change the event reminder on a reoccurring appointment. I tried this on my Incredible as well as my Droid and they both worked fine. I set up a test appointment for every Monday at 3PM with an hour notification, no issue at all. Both models use the stock Android calendar, but with a different view on the HTC version (as is...
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It took me a few days to find something resembling Blackberry's auto-correct, but I finally found it. The app creator can't say something like "as it works on Blackberry" because of patent infringement.

I want that app. What is it?

Still not sure why your calendar is different than the one on my two Android phones.

I'm betting it's a failure in the TouchWiz UI. That's the only explanation for the phone reading properly when the events are keyed through the web but failing to generate new events properly.

I've got a old friend from high school who has been writing code for Uncle Sam for many, many years and wants to try his hand at smartphone apps. I'm gonna...
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FireKeys Auto Text.

The free version gives you ten words you can set up to auto-replace, which has worked fine for me. The pay one, of course, gives you more. It's technically a keyboard more than an app, but the app side of it lets you define the words you want auto-corrected.

I'm sure Samsung got their grubby little hands into the calendar. Calendar apps are primarily windows into the stock Android calendar - I wonder if one of them would give you the same options that I have on the Droid and Incredible.

If you convince your friend to write some apps, I'd be more than happy to help alpha or beta test anything.

epik said:
FireKeys Auto Text.

http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app ... »

The requested item could not be found

😢 😢 😢 😢 😢

Now that is truly weird. Your link took me right to the app in the market through barcode scanner. I found it as a search, too.

What is it about your phone?

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What is it about your phone?

App must not be approved/compatible with the Fascinate yet is all I can think of.

I haven't heard anything from the few people I know who have that phone.

The app I can figure, as I see my apps updating all the time for new models that have come out. But the calendar issue? Now, that's just dumb.

the Fascinate comes with android 2.1 and the Incredible and Droid could be running 2.2. that would be the only issue that I could think as far as issues go.

Sounds like the Fascinate is a phone to be avoided. Thanks for the info. I want to wait for Verizon's Evo but if I get antsy it will have to be the Incredible. *Sigh* I wish those *Bleeps* at Verizon had approved the Vphone.

Azeron said:
Sounds like the Fascinate is a phone to be avoided. Thanks for the info. I want to wait for Verizon's Evo but if I get antsy it will have to be the Incredible.

In the long run, I think you are precisely wrong about avoiding the Fascinate. The Galaxy S line is going to be huge and will have masses of developers designing apps optimized for AMOLED battery consumption and the other quirks of the environment within the very near future.

Just look at all the apps available now that ONLY work on Motorola Androids. I'd love to have DroidLight on my Fascinate, but I can't. The only reason that is happening is because Motorola was first out of the gate with a high-end Android and the...
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Yeah with a measly 2gigs, which is essentially nothing.

I don't disagree with you. If you're using it once in a while, it works fine. I've used PDANet on my Incredible when I'm out on weekend getaways with the wife (no WiFi at the B&B we go to), and never used 2GB. But if you're using this connection as your main or only source for Internet, you really should have something else (unless you're the type that checks their email once a week and nothing else).

Yeah, my Droid is my only internet I don't have home internet, or cable tv.

Jayshmay said:
Yeah, my Droid is my only internet I don't have home internet, or cable tv.

You're the one they're going after. 😁

Now you've done it! (Probably intentionally, too). Criticizing Verizon is sure to get this thread popping. Nice job!