iphone

Venerable wrote:
at&t consultant says iphone responsible for crappy service

Hehe:

"I asked Ron Dicklin, chief technology officer at Root Wireless, how these results, showing AT&T as the clear leader, could be reconciled with the negative appraisal of Consumer Reports? respondents. He explained that his company?s tests of AT&T?s data network were done with handsets other than the iPhone, which does not allow non-Apple programs like his to run in the background."

Maybe that's why there's no app for that….

Darth wrote:
http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/stross_lying_eyes

that reads like a typical "defend Apple at all costs" fanboi column.

yeah but the ny times article sounds like typical apple fanboi backlash

It doesn't matter to me as long as people are starting to realize that neither are all they're cracked up to be.  It only took 3+ years….

according to both of those links its one and not the other though

So my Iphone stopped working after less than a year.   It was refusing to charge.

I took it in to a "Genius," who said that there was corrosion in the sync/charger port.   That, she said, signified moisture, which voids Apple's warranty.   Apple even builds a moisture detector into the port, and also inside the phone itself.  She opened the phone and found that the moisture detector inside had remained dry, and so decided to believe me that I'd never immersed it in water, and treat it as warranty service.    Which is a good thing, because non-warranty service really means that they swap out your phone and charge you $199 for it, and if it came to that I was gonna switch to a different phone.

The bottom line though is that it seems like that port is extremely vulnerable.    The rest of the phone was fine even after months of sleeveless use.   I am wondering if there is a cap you can get that goes in that port when not in use to protect it.

vansmack wrote:
If you only need a hardware provider, MS would be much better served by contracting with HTC to provide a MS branded phone.  It would cost half as much, it's already used to your platform, and they're putting out the most innovative hardware on the market (sorry Apple folks, but the iPhone hasn't changed its appearance in 3 years now, to where HTC has a new phone every 2 months or so).

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HTC is selling better phones for Android than the Google "branded" ones,  and since Google doesn't license the Google Brand on software that has been altered, eventually they're going to need their own hardware for control purposes (unless they take the MS approach - we don't need hardware, we just want OS credit). 

Smackie loves it when he makes a plausible suggestion to Microsoft, that they of course ignore, and Google beats them to the punch with his EXACT idea (for the record, it was July 31 when he had that idea):

Google Nexus One is Official

3.7-inch AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and a multicolored LED under the trackball.

Likely to be a T-Mobile phone…..(EDIT: Available today on T-Mobile, $179 on a two-year deal)

EDIT: Verizon is getting the Nexus One in spring 2010.  WOW!

vansmack wrote:

Google Nexus One is Official

3.7-inch AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and a multicolored LED under the trackball.


EDIT: Verizon is getting the Nexus One in spring 2010.  WOW!

so, are you saying i shouldn't use my $100-new-every-2 discount on a droid? 

Venerable wrote:
so, are you saying i shouldn't use my $100-new-every-2 discount on a droid? 

That depends on if you need a physical keyboard or not.  The Nexus One will have a touch screen keyboard only, but will be BY FAR the most powerful Android phone to date. 

The Motorola DROID has a physical keyboard but will be sluggish compared to the Nexus One, and my guess is that all future upgrades to Android 2.x will be based on Googles snappy handset with apologies for sluggishness on other units.

Nexus One is over hyped…..still can't compare to the iPhone, it doesn't even have multi-touch.

Got wrote:
it doesn't even have multi-touch.

Well, it doesn't have Google supported multitouch, but it's hackable and Google won't block it when the hackers add it.  Apple's patent is the only reason why the Nexus doesn't have multitouch.

most important question: does it dream of electric sheep?

Got wrote:
Nexus One is over hyped…still can't compare to the iPhone

iPhone users should stop comparing every phone that comes out to the physical phone in their pocket and instead focus on the processes Google is talking about here.

The vast majority of conversation yesterday was about the openness of the Google handset, it's development process, and the Open Handset Alliance.  Nor is the phone going to be exclusive to one carrier (it's on multiple bands even!).

iPhone users should hope that competition in this form will lead to a much more open iPhone process.

Google isn't taking on the physical phone in the short term (after all, they didn't design the phone or it's hardware - they just market the phone), they're going after the broken mobile phone process in the long term.

thatguy wrote:
most important question: does it dream of electric sheep?

Funny you should ask….Phil Dick's estate is none to happy about the name.

Venerable wrote:
so, are you saying i shouldn't use my $100-new-every-2 discount on a droid? 

Not to add to your phone selection issues, but the already diverse choice of phones available on Verizon are expected to get the addition of the Palm Pre (and Pixi).  Announcement tomorrow.

vansmack wrote:

Venerable wrote:
so, are you saying i shouldn't use my $100-new-every-2 discount on a droid? 

Not to add to your phone selection issues, but the already diverse choice of phones available on Verizon are expected to get the addition of the Palm Pre (and Pixi).  Announcement tomorrow.

who buys a palm?

Venerable wrote:
who buys a palm?

has the Pre not made it to whatever cave it is that you toil in?

Venerable wrote:
who buys a palm?

People who bought their first smartphone just over a year ago should not cast stones in the direction of Palm.  Afterall, Palm invented the smartphone.

sweetcell wrote:
has the Pre not made it to whatever cave it is that you toil in?

He's seen smackette's since the day it came out. 

He's just trying to solidify his hold on douchebag taint of the week with all of the competition being put forward by Gilbert Arenas, LNS, et al.