Sprint is earning major customer service points from me...
Don't worry, they'll spend those points soon enough, and then some...
Not as quickly as Verizon burned every bridge in bridge town with me.
Verizon are jackasses
I have had bad luck with verizon customer service and their habit of stacking on contract terms without notifying you. They've done me wrong in the past and i'd have a hard time going back to them.
I've had pretty good luck with Sprint, actually, though i hate their phones. I loathe my palm centro. I probably would have upgraded to the palm pre if my contract had gone up last year. But it didn't and the Evo is the size of a goddamned dinner plate.
So i'm sucking it up and going back to AT&T because the i4 is sex.
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Sprint is earning major customer service points from me...
Don't worry, they'll spend those points soon enough, and then some...
Not as quickly as Verizon burned every bridge in bridge town with me.
Verizon are jackasses
I have had bad luck with verizon customer service and their habit of stacking on contract terms without notifying you. They've done me wrong in the past and i'd have a hard time going back to them.
I've had pretty good luck with Sprint, actually, though i hate their phones. I loathe my palm centro. I probably would have upgraded to the palm pre if my contract had gone up last year. But it didn't and the Evo is the size of a goddamned dinner plate.
So i'm sucking it up and going back to AT&T because the i4 is sex.
Yeah well if you haven't seen my story that was a couple pages ago..
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
There are 'unconfirmed rumors' of a verizon iphone every 3 months
They are never true
Of course the data plan would be required, Verizon's explicit policy requires every smartphone to be paired with a data plan (much to the detriment to phones like the Kin)
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
There are 'unconfirmed rumors' of a verizon iphone every 3 months
They are never true
Of course the data plan would be required, Verizon's explicit policy requires every smartphone to be paired with a data plan (much to the detriment to phones like the Kin)
Yeah, that verizon iphone shit needs to stop. It, in all probability, will never happen.
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
There are 'unconfirmed rumors' of a verizon iphone every 3 months
They are never true
Of course the data plan would be required, Verizon's explicit policy requires every smartphone to be paired with a data plan (much to the detriment to phones like the Kin)
Yeah, that verizon iphone shit needs to stop. It, in all probability, will never happen.
Let's be honest. It will happen, but not before every cell company is on the LTE network together using the same frequencies. There's no reason for Apple to make a CDMA/EVDO version of the iPhone, because there are very few companies worldwide that use it.
I'm sure Verizon will end up with an iPhone someday (could be soon, could be years down the line), but the constant rumors are really just attention grabbing headlines that aren't really worth any consideration.
They're always attributed to some anonymous source that supposedly "totally know what's going on at VZW", and they never really actually mean anything. Maybe one day one of the rumors will actually be accurate, but it'd be impossible to tell until Verizon issued an official press release, because the rumor would look just like every other totally false one.
I don't want to cross-post, but does anyone have any experience with opening a new line on a family plan with Verizon, just to get a discounted phone?
If you're opening it just to get a discount on a phone you have to realize that secondary line is going to run you ~$250 if you leave it alone with no extra features for two years, after taxes/surcharges, considering the full length of the contract. So you're saving that much less from full retail. Even the super high end phones like the Incredible run somewhere around $530 or $560 IIRC and with a subsidized price of $200 you only end up saving around $80-110. You would probably get a better deal in the long run grabbing something off of craigslist.
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
Handcuff the OS? You mean like require every app to be screened before allowing it in the market, or preventing apps from running on it that "duplicate functionality"? :-P
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I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
Handcuff the OS? You mean like require every app to be screened before allowing it in the market, or preventing apps from running on it that "duplicate functionality"? :-P
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
Handcuff the OS? You mean like require every app to be screened before allowing it in the market, or preventing apps from running on it that "duplicate functionality"? :-P
man screening apps would be the worst
like a dystopia or something
it's worth it if it means I can't accidentally download a porn app
because I just download things at random without looking at what they are AND I offend easily
What if my kids got my phone and downloaded a porn app? That would be disastrous! Sure the browser's loaded by default, but what child would ever think of visiting nudepornforfreedotcom?
What if my kids got my phone and downloaded a porn app? That would be disastrous! Sure the browser's loaded by default, but what child would ever think of visiting nudepornforfreedotcom?
I can still remember the porn from early 90's website ads, the images clearly burned into my memory. I'm quite sure porn was the number one advertisement on the internet back then. This of course piqued my interest and I believe after a couple of weeks I pumped "naked lady" into Ask Jeeves or whatever search engine was popular back then.
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
Handcuff the OS? You mean like require every app to be screened before allowing it in the market, or preventing apps from running on it that "duplicate functionality"? :-P
Crap like the whole OS is painted Red and you have to use a Verizon-specific app store. And specific phone features are either degraded or outright locked (I don't have an example). I would not be surprised if any of these occurred if/when/ever they get iPhone.
Sprint OVERNIGHTED me a new Evo for free. Before the return kit for the first one even got here.
Re-downloading apps took about 5 minutes, and I just swapped the SD card from the old one to the new one.
So now I'm gonna spend some time with the new one for a couple days, looking for dead pixels, but so far, so good. And so awesome of Sprint.
I did notice when I took the old one out of the case - BOTH of the Evo's have some very subtile "Light leakage" under the home and search buttons - which Ive read is the beginning of the "screen peeling" issues. But they both have it (and they're from 2 seperate production runs), so I'm almost wondering if it's semi-intentional or something. Its exactly the same width, and in the same exact spot, and kind of symmetrical.
Either way, I have the phone insurance, and according to someone on the Sprint forums (which isnt the best source, but hey...) screen peeling is a manufacturer's defect, and would be totally covered (without a deductable) if it got worse.
I absolutely love this phone.
Dropbox + RockPlayer = the GREATEST THING EVER.
I drop an .avi or .mkv from my collection into dropbox on my desktop.
I fire up dropbox on the Evo, click the video. Set the phone down and go do some stuff for 5 minutes.
Then the video is on my Evo and JUST PLAYS. No conversion. No anything. Just WORKS.
Again - I have all Apple computers, and an iPhone, so it's not like I hate Apple rabidly - but for all the talk Apple does of "it just works", it's astonishing to me how everyone (myself included) buys into that. "It just works", after you take the 40 steps to convert it all to something that Apple can see or use. You can't drag and drop video that's not .mp4 (and nothing I download or rip is .mp4 - legally). It's so nice to just drag and drop -- AND to just do it wireless, and not have to even plug my phone into the computers.
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I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
Handcuff the OS? You mean like require every app to be screened before allowing it in the market, or preventing apps from running on it that "duplicate functionality"? :-P
Crap like the whole OS is painted Red and you have to use a Verizon-specific app store. And specific phone features are either degraded or outright locked (I don't have an example). I would not be surprised if any of these occurred if/when/ever they get iPhone.
I know that most cell carriers used to do this, and Verizon may still do it with dumb phones, but they do not touch smart phones at all. Other than splash screens when loading Verizon leaves them as the manufacturer ships them.
As for the data plan, yes, anything that can use data requires a data plan. My theory, after working customer service for cell phones, is that it's to save reps a headache when people call in screaming about 500$ bills saying "how were they supposed to know a browser used internet." Remember, just because you are internet savvy, it does not follow that everyone is. And people DO get smart phones just for status even though they have no clue what to do with them. My friends mom got a Droid when it came out because "it's the most expensive so it must be the best."
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Sprint is earning major customer service points from me...
Don't worry, they'll spend those points soon enough, and then some...
Not as quickly as Verizon burned every bridge in bridge town with me.
Verizon are jackasses
I have had bad luck with verizon customer service and their habit of stacking on contract terms without notifying you. They've done me wrong in the past and i'd have a hard time going back to them.
I've had pretty good luck with Sprint, actually, though i hate their phones. I loathe my palm centro. I probably would have upgraded to the palm pre if my contract had gone up last year. But it didn't and the Evo is the size of a goddamned dinner plate.
So i'm sucking it up and going back to AT&T because the i4 is sex.
Sprint had the first smart phones too..
Look at the Samsung Epic 4g.. 4inch screen with keypboard
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Sprint is earning major customer service points from me...
Don't worry, they'll spend those points soon enough, and then some...
Not as quickly as Verizon burned every bridge in bridge town with me.
Verizon are jackasses
I have had bad luck with verizon customer service and their habit of stacking on contract terms without notifying you. They've done me wrong in the past and i'd have a hard time going back to them.
I've had pretty good luck with Sprint, actually, though i hate their phones. I loathe my palm centro. I probably would have upgraded to the palm pre if my contract had gone up last year. But it didn't and the Evo is the size of a goddamned dinner plate.
So i'm sucking it up and going back to AT&T because the i4 is sex.
Sprint had the first smart phones too..
Look at the Samsung Epic 4g.. 4inch screen with keypboard
man i already have an ipad. i don't need a 4 inch diagonal cellphone
edit: i guess that's a little smaller than the evo. i dunno. i think i've decided against android for this purchase.
Seems Android has been ported, to a point, to the HD2. I think I'm the only person in here who uses one, but it's pretty rad anyway. These dudes also apparently have Ubuntu running on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqR_BJc4qKc&feature=related
Fun question. My blackberry died via water damage, all resolved. Got my new phone, a Motorola Devour. Got the SD card from my blackberry. Any way to get my contacts off the BB's SD card and onto the phone? It doesn't seem to be doing it automatically.
Edit: Apparently the contacts were saving to the device itself, not the SD card?
Fun question. My blackberry died via water damage, all resolved. Got my new phone, a Motorola Devour. Got the SD card from my blackberry. Any way to get my contacts off the BB's SD card and onto the phone? It doesn't seem to be doing it automatically.
Edit: Apparently the contacts were saving to the device itself, not the SD card?
pretty much. Unless you were connected to a BES or used Blackberry desktop to save your contacts to Outlook or something, they were on the device.
I've been looking to get a smart phone with AT&T or Verizon for a while now but I keep skipping out on buying them when they come out. Is Droid Incredible still any good or is there some other phone coming out this year I should wait for? I would've went for the iphone but the new data limits turned me away.
Droid Incredible is still Incredible. :P But the Droid X and Droid 2 are coming out soon. So if you want the incredible with a few more tech options and a bit faster and a huge (4.3") screen, then the Droid X is due out in a week or two. The Droid 2 is basically the Droid with a different style keyboard and Droid X internals.
Looks like I may get the Droid X. It is pretty massive though ;D
Wow, my S-E C905 which is about 18 months old is really starting to fall to pieces. I think I shall be avoiding that brand in the upgrade due about now.
1. Microphone died in March, requiring all calls to be taken via headset
2. The headset plug/charger is broken, which makes charging, talking or listening to audio rather hard as the plug must be held down firmly in order to work, requiring one hand to be used at all times. The audio bit has been a problem for about 3 months, the charging for a week.
3. The keys have started to stop working as of today.
Looks like I may get the Droid X. It is pretty massive though ;D
The Droid X is baller as fuck. Motorola really stepped it up with the widgets, all of theirs are resizable. The "ninja blur" you've heard about is excellent, they've effectively ditched the garbage blur they tried on the Devour and it's much more like Sense's tweaks than anything else in terms of social networking integration.
The only issue was that hump on the back. I've read reviews that say that the hump wasn't a big deal, and it's not.. while you're holding it. But in the pocket it's definitely noticeable and obnoxious.
Edit: Especially in dress pants (and I would assume proper fitting jeans as well) where they normally sit flat. Your pocket just gets this awkward bulge to it.
What is it usually like when these things release? Am I going to have trouble finding one if I don't wait in line for hours or is that just with the iphone?
Droid X is going to have a good amount of stock in each store very much like the MDroid launch. Warehouse is decently stocked also. Should have no problem walking in on release day to pick one up.
What is it usually like when these things release? Am I going to have trouble finding one if I don't wait in line for hours or is that just with the iphone?
Fortunately, no. I mean, I get that the launch phenomena is awesome and good for business, but this shouldn't be so. The Droid X shouldn't be THAT terrible to be had.
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Looks like those of us on Sprint who had the patience and willpower to hang on to your old legacy SERO plans will now be rewarded. Starting October 1st, legacy SERO plans will be able to add a $10 upgrade allowing Android phones to be used with the old plan. 4G phones will still add $10 on top of that. Originally posted here on sprintusers several people have called/chatted with CSR's who have confirmed the information.
I'm sure glad I put off upgrading now. All I have to do is make it to October and I'll be rocking an Epic for $50/month!
Looks like those of us on Sprint who had the patience and willpower to hang on to your old legacy SERO plans will now be rewarded. Starting October 1st, legacy SERO plans will be able to add a $10 upgrade allowing Android phones to be used with the old plan. 4G phones will still add $10 on top of that. Originally posted here on sprintusers several people have called/chatted with CSR's who have confirmed the information.
I'm sure glad I put off upgrading now. All I have to do is make it to October and I'll be rocking an Epic for $50/month!
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I have had bad luck with verizon customer service and their habit of stacking on contract terms without notifying you. They've done me wrong in the past and i'd have a hard time going back to them.
I've had pretty good luck with Sprint, actually, though i hate their phones. I loathe my palm centro. I probably would have upgraded to the palm pre if my contract had gone up last year. But it didn't and the Evo is the size of a goddamned dinner plate.
So i'm sucking it up and going back to AT&T because the i4 is sex.
Yeah well if you haven't seen my story that was a couple pages ago..
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=15489766&postcount=1554
Any ideas for what I could do at this point? I even put a review on BBB.
http://www.trustlink.org/BusinessProfile.aspx?ID=205808233
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-29/verizon-wireless-said-to-get-apple-iphone-in-january.html
Thoughts?
I used to be on Verizon and they have a solid network, but I'm still wary they're going to handcuff the OS on some level. If this is true, I can guarantee they'll tack on the mandatory data plan ala Droid.
I really want to get one that is as slim as possible. I have too much pocket bulge as it is. I don't need any features other than talking and text.
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There are 'unconfirmed rumors' of a verizon iphone every 3 months
They are never true
Of course the data plan would be required, Verizon's explicit policy requires every smartphone to be paired with a data plan (much to the detriment to phones like the Kin)
Yeah, that verizon iphone shit needs to stop. It, in all probability, will never happen.
Let's be honest. It will happen, but not before every cell company is on the LTE network together using the same frequencies. There's no reason for Apple to make a CDMA/EVDO version of the iPhone, because there are very few companies worldwide that use it.
They're always attributed to some anonymous source that supposedly "totally know what's going on at VZW", and they never really actually mean anything. Maybe one day one of the rumors will actually be accurate, but it'd be impossible to tell until Verizon issued an official press release, because the rumor would look just like every other totally false one.
Handcuff the OS? You mean like require every app to be screened before allowing it in the market, or preventing apps from running on it that "duplicate functionality"? :-P
man screening apps would be the worst
like a dystopia or something
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
it's worth it if it means I can't accidentally download a porn app
because I just download things at random without looking at what they are AND I offend easily
I can still remember the porn from early 90's website ads, the images clearly burned into my memory. I'm quite sure porn was the number one advertisement on the internet back then. This of course piqued my interest and I believe after a couple of weeks I pumped "naked lady" into Ask Jeeves or whatever search engine was popular back then.
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Crap like the whole OS is painted Red and you have to use a Verizon-specific app store. And specific phone features are either degraded or outright locked (I don't have an example). I would not be surprised if any of these occurred if/when/ever they get iPhone.
Re-downloading apps took about 5 minutes, and I just swapped the SD card from the old one to the new one.
So now I'm gonna spend some time with the new one for a couple days, looking for dead pixels, but so far, so good. And so awesome of Sprint.
I did notice when I took the old one out of the case - BOTH of the Evo's have some very subtile "Light leakage" under the home and search buttons - which Ive read is the beginning of the "screen peeling" issues. But they both have it (and they're from 2 seperate production runs), so I'm almost wondering if it's semi-intentional or something. Its exactly the same width, and in the same exact spot, and kind of symmetrical.
Either way, I have the phone insurance, and according to someone on the Sprint forums (which isnt the best source, but hey...) screen peeling is a manufacturer's defect, and would be totally covered (without a deductable) if it got worse.
I absolutely love this phone.
Dropbox + RockPlayer = the GREATEST THING EVER.
I drop an .avi or .mkv from my collection into dropbox on my desktop.
I fire up dropbox on the Evo, click the video. Set the phone down and go do some stuff for 5 minutes.
Then the video is on my Evo and JUST PLAYS. No conversion. No anything. Just WORKS.
Again - I have all Apple computers, and an iPhone, so it's not like I hate Apple rabidly - but for all the talk Apple does of "it just works", it's astonishing to me how everyone (myself included) buys into that. "It just works", after you take the 40 steps to convert it all to something that Apple can see or use. You can't drag and drop video that's not .mp4 (and nothing I download or rip is .mp4 - legally). It's so nice to just drag and drop -- AND to just do it wireless, and not have to even plug my phone into the computers.
I know that most cell carriers used to do this, and Verizon may still do it with dumb phones, but they do not touch smart phones at all. Other than splash screens when loading Verizon leaves them as the manufacturer ships them.
As for the data plan, yes, anything that can use data requires a data plan. My theory, after working customer service for cell phones, is that it's to save reps a headache when people call in screaming about 500$ bills saying "how were they supposed to know a browser used internet." Remember, just because you are internet savvy, it does not follow that everyone is. And people DO get smart phones just for status even though they have no clue what to do with them. My friends mom got a Droid when it came out because "it's the most expensive so it must be the best."
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Sprint had the first smart phones too..
Look at the Samsung Epic 4g.. 4inch screen with keypboard
man i already have an ipad. i don't need a 4 inch diagonal cellphone
edit: i guess that's a little smaller than the evo. i dunno. i think i've decided against android for this purchase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqR_BJc4qKc&feature=related
Edit: Apparently the contacts were saving to the device itself, not the SD card?
pretty much. Unless you were connected to a BES or used Blackberry desktop to save your contacts to Outlook or something, they were on the device.
Looks like I may get the Droid X. It is pretty massive though ;D
1. Microphone died in March, requiring all calls to be taken via headset
2. The headset plug/charger is broken, which makes charging, talking or listening to audio rather hard as the plug must be held down firmly in order to work, requiring one hand to be used at all times. The audio bit has been a problem for about 3 months, the charging for a week.
3. The keys have started to stop working as of today.
The only issue was that hump on the back. I've read reviews that say that the hump wasn't a big deal, and it's not.. while you're holding it. But in the pocket it's definitely noticeable and obnoxious.
Edit: Especially in dress pants (and I would assume proper fitting jeans as well) where they normally sit flat. Your pocket just gets this awkward bulge to it.
Fortunately, no. I mean, I get that the launch phenomena is awesome and good for business, but this shouldn't be so. The Droid X shouldn't be THAT terrible to be had.
I'm sure glad I put off upgrading now. All I have to do is make it to October and I'll be rocking an Epic for $50/month!
All the way until October, long long wait. :!:
2.5 months is not a long time.
It is when you're currently using an HTC Touch Pro that occasionally feels like roasting your thigh. God I want this phone to DIAF.