Interesting phone,, I would love t a lot more if it came with a Keyboard,, but from what I been
reading, it will overall be a better phone in comparison to the iPhone..
iphone sucks you have to send pic messages to an email. and cant send video messages
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anonymous @ May 08th 2008 07:58 pm
The iphone does not suck its the best phone ever!!! and the iphone is on the best wireless network that gets you bars in more places unlike verizon and sprint!!!
hahaha ummm yea. more bars in more places....please. someone got brainwashed
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anonymous @ May 09th 2008 09:18 am
Have you ever looked at the small print on the ATT commercials? "more coverage in more places".... based on global coverage in tiny print..... In the USA ATT doesnt have the "most bars" It is agrueable but i would say based on the coverage maps, especially in the western states, Verizon has the best coverage. That being said when it comes to heavly populated areas it isnt that drastic of a difference between any carrier.
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anonymous @ May 09th 2008 10:18 am
i dont know how it is in your city, but here in jacksonville fl (1million++ peeps), verizon is the only one with blanket coverage. sprint and att both have major dead zones within city limits witch is unacceptable.
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anonymous @ May 09th 2008 01:26 pm
well even the Instinc ad for wireless music downloads showed ATT getting more bars than it...
Hopefully when the iPhone with 3G comes out this summer, it comes with real 3G and MMS capabilities
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anonymous @ May 09th 2008 04:51 pm
Where I lived in Detroit 2 years ago was a dead zone for Verizon (not all of detroit just where I lived). On top of that I had a really rude and inept customer service person argue with me after I decided to go back to att after two days. Anyway, the moral of the story is detroit ssucks... also that every provider has their gaps and weaknesses...
Yea but who gives a crap about Jacksonvill Fl, that place is a dump
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anonymous @ May 09th 2008 11:30 pm
Actually Verizon and AT&T have the same coverage in Jacksonville Fl if you look at AT&T and verizons coverage’s maps.
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anonymous @ May 10th 2008 11:00 am
Well first off with the bar arguement. GSM companies like AT&T require more bars to make a call Where as CDMA companies like SPRINT can make a clear call on just one bar. SO the more bars arguement is null in void. Second off 3g network still isnt even close to comparison of Sprints Rev.a Rev.1 1xEV DO network. So even at 3g speed the iPhone will still only connect at slightly faster than dial up speed where as the Instinct Will connect at close to cable speeds. And the only reason there are gaps in networks is because only certain air space is up for auction every year so what is true now could be alot different in about 2 years.
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anonymous @ May 10th 2008 02:39 pm
i had sprint and verizon and i could not make a clear call on just one or two bars.
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anonymous @ May 10th 2008 04:45 pm
I'd say you had a bad handset. That happens with all carriers. Comment 28 is correct. A CDMA phone can make a perfectly clear call on even zero bars. If Sprint and VZ phones don't have a strong enough signal to make a call they won't lock onto to their own network and will lock onto another network to roam, which if it's a GSM or analog network will be noticeably inferior quality. Most Sprint plans include roaming so network dead spots are not a worry.
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radcloser @ May 11th 2008 11:29 pm
I don't know what everybody is trippng about when it comes to the Sprint network. I have been a small business owner since 2000 and have had business accounts with Verizon, T-Mobile, Cingular (AT&T), Nextel and now Sprint. In my area, Portland Oregon, Sprint has better coverage than any of the above. The only carrier that gives similiar reception is AT&T. But when it was Cingular, their customer service was the absolute worst I have ever had. I am completely happy with Sprint's coverage and customer service. They have had a few bumps with the Nextel acquisition in terms of customer service but all seems to be fine now. I hope Sprint can pull it together and get rid of the dead weight with Nextel pulling them down.
I honestly only drop about one call every 6 months or so. Their coverage rocks. I have a Blackberry 8830 with them and it's awesome. I just ordered an 8330 Curve from them. Who else offers an "Unlimited all you can use" calling plan for $99.99 per month even with Blackberry service? I know that different markets have different coverage issues depending on the area, but where I am it's great.
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anonymous @ May 13th 2008 03:59 pm
CORRECT! in different areas different coverage providers will pick up differently, I work for AT&T(cingular) and have been with the company selling phones across the southeast for about 4 years, It is all a trade off between providers, if you live up northwest US then prolly att or sprint will be best, along the the east coast it is gonna be att or verizon, i dont like tmobile but i know it works very well down in florida and out on the west coast from what i understand, but all in all you have to take the provider as a whole with what you can and cant do, example, with att you can change your rate plan at anypoint anytime and its no penalty except some prorated charges and also you dont pay for roaming or long distance, verizon has to sign a new contract to change your plan and you pay for roaming but not long distance but they also have more roaming agreements with other providers to use their towers so in some, and i do only mean a few when i say some, Verizon will pick up better than other carriers but it comes at a hefty price, but all in all like i said it really depends on where you live and what your needs are in your phone, if you are gonna be traveling nationally then you would want att or verizon but if not then you want to get service that is gonna be the best where you live, every wireless provider has their strenghts and their weaknesses it is up to you, the customer, to research them and find the provider that is meets your needs the best.
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Now this is a really cool phone. Too bad it's on Sprint's network, but then again .... I wonder.
Will this work on their Extended network just as well as it would work on their PCS network?
Cool phone, but it is ugly and on Sprint. And the iPhone is its own unique phone. It is awsome to use. I hink it is hard to cmpare these phones to the iPhone...its in its own league.
to small of screen.....wrong service....bad ui....this is not the iphone competition....the onyl competition the iphone will ever have is if windows redoes its mobile intersurface completely and do it like vista....and then take a model like the diamond and up the screen size
the iphone is looks thats it. its got beautiful designs everywhere but once you get past looks and get into features its falls very short.there are plenty of phones that arent smartphones that have the same and more features than the iphone. The iphone is doing so well because of apple fanboys. nobody else has fanboys as fanatical as apple.
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anonymous @ May 09th 2008 01:28 pm
Having fanboys for a company does show that the company is doing something right...
doesnt matter what anyone else decides to do at this point when making their phones... they will always base it off the iphone, it was the first of its kind and everyone wants to make a phone like it. Doesn't matter what it lacks, apple will still sell the most. when they come out with the new one people will be like, "instinct? what?" apple lovers will flock to the iphone NO MATTER the provider they have. I worked at at&t on the day the iphone launched, more people from sprint & verizon than existing at&t customers.
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Sprint's voice network is as good as or better than AT&T and Vz plus Sprint has the best data network, no question. Don't you iPhone panderers want to use it for Data? Oh yeah, I forgot, you'd have to shell out another $40 per month on the AT&T ntwk. BTW have you heard? AT&T is planning to launch 3G. Wow, only 5 years behind Sprint and VZ.
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anonymous @ May 12th 2008 07:28 pm
ok, at&t is not launching 3g they've had it for years... they're just releasing a 3g iphone... do ur research before you comment lol
#21 At&ts network is way better than stupid sprint. at&t had there 3g for awhile now you must be talking about tmobile which sucks! sprint does not even have moblie tv.
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anonymous @ May 18th 2008 08:17 pm
this is so wrong if it doesn't have mobile tv than wtf do you call the sprint tv service!?!?!?!?!? which by the way is way better and will always be way better than cingular video.
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anonymous @ May 19th 2008 06:32 pm
At&t video and mobile tv is way better than sprints tv service!!!!!
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