1 Nov 2009

Odds are no one and thats the problem.

None of sony's flagship phones have been carried by a US carrier for a long time. You get little throw away releases here and there but Xperia, Idou (or whatever they ended up calling it), and likely this phone have all been direct full retail phones (at the price of 1 arm, 1 leg).

9 Oct 2009

Well the game is the fact that they're increasing their coverage. No worries about complicated switching when t-mobile is going to get the coverage on their own.

Regardless, the real game change is the part that phone arena hasn't updated on yet. $50 unlimited with these handsets, increased coverage, and increased speed is bound to convert more than a few people. You arnet going to win with tech stuff you can't put in a fancy add. Zeta-jones telling people they don't have to pay over $50 anymore is putting them to #3.

28 Sep 2009

Topaz was the supposed diamond 2. Thats a whole 'nother phone yet to come out.

28 Sep 2009

Well VZW's exclusive "game changer" was supposed to be the Storm. It was just a failure.

Its a whole bottom up approach that VZW takes with their phones. Its something that I think they need to address from the top down before they get any phones that people get really excited about. VZW identifies what they think their market needs and has a partner produce a phone for that market. They just seem to miss more then they hit. Then they end up playing catch up and rushing out a lot of crap. Its ironic. They're always talking about delays due to their "stringent testing" but most of it comes out like crap. Remember the original voyager (their rushed answer to the iPhone 1G?). Same story as the storm really. They missed the market and they're trying to back peddle in now and they're rushing phones to get there and it just hurts them more.

Thats why I don't think you'll ever see anything truly innovative from VZW. Its just not the way they do business. Its not necessarily a bad thing. It serves them well really. They've just shown time and time again they're not willing to take a risk on something new. They'll wait til they know they've got a gap, then search for a filler.

I hoping they prove me wrong. I really hope that the MS/VZW rumored connection with the "pink" phones comes to pass and MS doesn't just market them to everyone. I really think that could be a game changer and I look forward to it. Everything else MikeG77 mentioned just isn't. This is a nice phone but not that different that any other WM device, same with every "sequel" phone he mentioned.

28 Sep 2009

Don't know. Looks small though. Look at the 3.5 jack in the second picture. May not accurately represent the actual product but it seems reasonably thin.

28 Sep 2009

I'm 99% sure that "whitestone" was always intended for VZW.

Every HTC device has like 50 different names. Whitestone was just HTC's internal name for the phone. It was never going to be called whitestone regardless of where it went. It wouldn't even have been called whitestone if it got released direct from HTC.

Just look at the Touch Pro2 or the MyTouch or even the G1. Four different names from each one.

28 Sep 2009

That is the whitestone.

21 Sep 2009

Ugh...
Much like wide screen movies people continue to confuse "skinny" with wide.

The phone is no "skinnier" width wise than most current phones. The difference is marginal. .1 in "skinnier" than the G1.
What the phone is (again like movies) is wider which give you more room.

LG put out a great and truly innovative phone with the BL40 then VZW users get shit on with this POS because some "focus group" thinks it looks better.

19 Sep 2009

Don't think you'd need navigation keys on full touch.

19 Sep 2009

VZW has had effectively the same phone for years.

There is just something about them that takes out anything even remotely resembling aesthetics.