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Motorola DROID official on Verizon: $199 on contract, coming November 6th (video) {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 29th 2009 8:09AM So, I got to see one of these yesterday. A guy on my train coming back from NY had one that he'd just picked up from VzW. He heard me talking to someone on the phone about skipping the iphone and waiting for something new & cool with android on it, and let me have a peek. It's a neat device - very unusual for a Verizon Wireless device - where devices are usually dumbed down, locked up and have that absolutely awful "red" UI.
Felt very solid. I'm not about to give up my AT&T service that gets direct billed to work in favor of something I'll have to itemize and expense though.
Motorola DROID official on Verizon: $199 on contract, coming November 6th (video) {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 29th 2009 8:07AM I don't get it.
So, if I've got a Mifi, charging or not, why would I want to use it as a USB modem? Why on earth wouldn't I just charge it and use it as a wifi router???
This really sounds like a solution in search of a problem...
Motorola DROID official on Verizon: $199 on contract, coming November 6th (video) {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 29th 2009 8:05AM I don't get it.
So, if I've got a Mifi, charging or not, why would I want to use it as a USB modem? Why on earth wouldn't I just charge it and use it as a wifi router???
This really sounds like a solution in search of a problem...
Verizon's anti-iPhone gets its first commercial: 'Droid Does' (update) {Engadget}
Oct 18th 2009 8:07AM @kev
By GPS locked, I believe he's referring to the situation on many VzW devices, where the GPS is locked so it only works with VZNavigator, a crappy $10/mo service.
He certainly could have worded it better, but I'd happen to agree with his sentiments..
J.D. Power smartphone study ranks iPhone #1 in customer satisfaction {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 10th 2009 12:50PM It's largely dependent on the type of phone users you're around.
If it's business types, the vast majority of what I see are BB, S60 and Win Mobile. iPhone users in the business world are a distant 3rd or 4th. BB and S60 are the kings there. The business iPhone users I know have a big love/hate relationship with their phones. They love the functionality, but HATE being hamstrung by terrible battery life. You shouldn't have to charge your phone during the business day. I could even live with daily charging, but if it can't make it from when I leave home until I'm back in the evening, what good is the thing? My cube neighbor has one and has to plug in by 2pm each day. That's definitely a step forward from when I spent 24 hours as the owner of an iPhone 3G - I got 2 hours of battery life from full charge before I had a third left. I go 2 days between charges on my Nokia E71 - using ActiveSync set to Push between 8a-6p, and every hour outside that window, plus web browsing and the occasional trip into Google Maps.
Besides, your anecdotal experience doesn't change the fact that S60 powers about 40% of all smartphones worldwide.
Over the next 2-3 years, Symbian's dominance will start to fall, as Nokia seems to be moving to Maemo, and there's also the Android army ever on the march forward.
J.D. Power smartphone study ranks iPhone #1 in customer satisfaction {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 10th 2009 7:24AM Are you kidding me? They left out the most popular smartphone OS in the world, and this is supposed to be a valid study? No Nokia/S60 phones included in the results? While
Completely flawed study. Flawed at the most basic level.
New Cradlepoint firmware turns MiFi into -- wait for it -- a 3G WiFi router {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 11th 2009 12:41AM I don't get it.
So, if I've got a Mifi, charging or not, why would I want to use it as a USB modem? Why on earth wouldn't I just charge it and use it as a wifi router???
This really sounds like a solution in search of a problem...
Why weren't you in line this morning? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 20th 2009 10:25AM You forgot the "I wouldn't touch an iPhone with a 39 and a half foot pole" option...
Seriously though - no desire to have this device - it's too limited. I owned a 3G for less than 24 hours before I returned it. I found it to be terribly lacking in functionality with terrible battery life. Typing was an utter nightmare. I have an iPod touch these days, and on the odd occasion that I try to type something, it's an exercise in utter frustration.
At work, I use a nokia e71, and I'll soon be replacing my home phone with an N97. Real keyboards rule.
North American Nokia 5800 XpressMusic available once again, with feeling {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 15th 2009 5:12PM With quality control as bad as the first batch, why would anyone have hung onto theirs? I owned mine for less than 3 hours, having returned it the same day.
It will be an awful long time before I throw down my cash on another 5800. I'm a huge S60 fan, but this sort of release is just inexcusable. I'll continue using my other S60 devices, but I wouldn't touch one of these 5800s with a 39 and a half foot pole.
Just how bad is AT&T? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Feb 13th 2009 9:39AM Don't take this the wrong way, iZealots, but it's really more the other way around. Before the iPhone, I might have experienced 1-2 data outages per year, if that. In the post-iPhone days, it's more like a monthly or more regular experience.
Don't get me wrong, AT&T should be providing an adequate network for the demand they have, but the really nasty problems didn't start happening until the iPhone came along...
Same thing I'm seeing at work. For over a year, I was happily using ActiveSync on a Symbian phone to pickup my work email. Much more stable than the BB users. Then came iPhone 2.0 firmware, and the whole thing has gone down the crapper because of all the iDemand.
