Today

Stores should of already got there live model of the phone. I played with it today and it's slow and sluggish... But man does the outside and the screen look amazing on this phone. But just being pretty is not enough these days, I already have an IPhone on my work demo line that does nothing but be pretty.

Typing is sluggish, but the cool move your finger without lifting and drag to each letter and it types thing is kinda cool. Other than that.... ehhh.

Oh and for those that think the cube will move by moving the phone using the motion sensor... wrong. Somehow this did not make it, you must spin the cube yourself. No matter how lightly or vigorously you try to spin the cube it spins a ton before landing on the right thing and it spins a little too much. It's kinda ridiculous, you guys will see what I mean.

2 days ago

With LTE you can make phone calls and do data transmission with any network. LTE runs completely independent of HSPA/+ and CDMA, so both carriers will be able to do voice and data at the same time. The sim card is for activation purpose's and swap out sim's with mutiple numbers/phones. So I don't understand where that arguement is. GSM 3G networks can do voice and data atm, internet and voice quality severly diminishes though as you are using the network for both services now. Majority of people will not do this as the call is more important than anything else. But when LTE releases what advantage will GSM providers in the states have? None.

17 Nov 2009

Verizon is part of the Vodafone brand, with there partnership, they have a total of 412 Million, (323 Million Vodafone), China Mobile is 514 Million, So technically they are second. I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon rebrands to Vodafone name or vice versa once LTE in the states is hot and heavy. Theoretical speeds on HSPA+ networks are far inferior when it comes to actual speeds thus why LTE will be a lot faster. I test chipsets on these networks and a 21+mb service of Tmobile will be lucky to average 4-6mb once there is network load with average subscriber usage. Example is when LTE arrives eventually for Tmobile /Verizon and AT&T... we tested LTE for verizon in washington and with heavy heavy network loads we were able to to achieve almost 2x the speed of HSPA+21mb service. Thing is AT&T is not even building out 21+, they are working on 7.2mb. That's all they had... we tested it recently in the San Francisco Bay area and it was like staring and watching an egg boil.

13 Nov 2009

Am I the only person that noticed the picture above has a picture of neither IPhone screen size. It shows and 2.8" on right and a 3.2" on left. Not 3.49" which is what the current Iphone is. So will there be two models?

11 Nov 2009

You mean Dogiefresh like when Cingular bought ATT, which was way more than what Verizon bought from the Alltel purchase. Cingular bought over twice as many ATT customers than Verizon did with Alltel. How is that guy being a Fanboy?

7 Nov 2009

They didn't cheat numbers by buying Alltel, the same can be said when Cingular bought ATT and gained almost 40% of there customer base. Over 25 Million subscribers, VZ only received 11-12 million after the merger cause they have to devise some to ATT in certain markets.

You should do some research for posting. How are you going to make things happen when you don't even have your own facts straight.

4 Nov 2009

I said this a long time ago. I think cell phone carriers should prorate the ETF's evenly amongst what the total price of the handset costs.

Example:

Customer buys Motorola flip phone of some sort for $19.99, but Full retail is $219.99

The contract should be $199.99 ETF after the first month, prorated by how many months you complete.

Customer finishes 12 months, then the term me would be what's left = $99.99, cause they are halfway through.

If it's a higher prices phone like a Storm2, (Let's say) the retail is $549.99, that means if they cancelled after a year, but paid $179.99 originally for the phone. Means the term fee for this person would be $184.99 after one year.

Take whatever the total cost of the retail price is , Minus what they paid, equals ETF divided by however long of contract they sign.

Makes sense to me at least.

28 Oct 2009

Yes the on screen keyboard disappears as soon as you open the keyboard. You also have too turn on the orientation sensor, as it is not on out of the box. I have an early software version on my desk at work right now. So far the orientation (accelerometer) sensor is only available on one side. Which is the side with the keyboard regardless if the keyboard is open or not it will only rotate the menu/apps programs to that side. So we'll see once an official one is released.

26 Oct 2009

It's not, but ATT does say what carrier settings to apply to the phone to unlock those features. Tethering and MMS regardless was ATT's bad no matter how it's looked at. If anyone saw Apple's Keynote, you would how they addressed saying that ATT has not allowed it to be opened yet. Apple was not very happy and was almost blantingly bashing the only US carrier that is selling they're phone.

26 Oct 2009

Uh... What are you talking about? It's only $19.99 difference. Your $35.00 solution does not give you the US/CAN TomTom app as well.

So if you bought seperately you paid $99.95 for the app and another $35 on your cradle situation. Your cost $135.

Tom Tom app with Iphone cradle system $120