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Verizon CEO hates on Steve Jobs, doesn't see iPhone as a mass-market handset {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 1st 2008 3:12PM The only thing I have to say is that was an incredibly poor decision to speak of another company that way. Normally AT&T and Verizon Wireless are a bit more reserved when it comes to directly insulting another company or its management.
But it is kind of funny seeing the comments posted here. They are much more stupid and ill advised. If you are leaving vzw for its closed o/s on its phones, why would you jump over to the most closed phone in the cell phone industry. Tell us when Apple allows people to develop third party apps or allows you to get a 3rd party battery for your iphone. That is the most closed system around, as always by apple.
Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 1st 2008 4:22PM he le er is also rade marked as well. You are all idio s for no removing i from your keyboard.
Verizon Hub headlines carrier's 2008 initiatives, devices {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 1st 2008 4:15PM LordObento is right, I was thinking in terms of having all of evdo rev 0 upgraded to rev a at this point. True enough EVDO coverage is not available in all areas. However it is available in a whole lot of areas that are definitely not large cities.
Verizon Hub headlines carrier's 2008 initiatives, devices {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 30th 2008 1:20PM The entire network has been rev a for a few months. Only data cards are capable of utilizing Rev A at this point. If you can mod the XV6800 to allow it to work that would be the first phone. I have been unable to get a clear answer as to whether or not the 5800 is going to be rev a capable.
Forget the "A" -- Motorola's MOTORZR V3s is AWS capable {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 25th 2008 4:17PM The big question though is how does this compete with an IPhone. I mean how did we go 19 replies without an apple/iphone comparisson.
Verizon opens up about "Any Apps, Any Device" {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 21st 2008 5:47PM Verizon's network is not GSM. So either Verizon will contract with a GSM provider to offer GSM service in the US, or else Open Access will still require a CDMA handset to have any coverage in the United States. Not sure what will happen, becuase it would be the best undeniable coverage to have a network that can use CDMA/GSM towers in the US which would leverage Verizon + cdma partners + potentiall GSM (ATT or TMo) networks. That would mean if you can get a cell phone signal with any provider you would get it with vzw. Will that happen? I highly doubt it since no GSM carrier here is touting open access with CDMA devices.
What this will mean though is that if Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Alltel all adapt these policies it will be more profitable for cell phone providers to produce more CDMA handsets. Nokia has very limited CDMA handset availability because it is not as lucrative for them as GSM is. This is a very very good development, and I look to see Sprint/Alltel to follow suit.
LG VX9700 looks to be Verizon's Prada-like touchscreen phone {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 16th 2008 1:47PM Not sure I get the touchscreen mania now. There was a time in the late 90s early 00s when all pdas were touchscreen only. You paid to get an actual keyboard as an addon for those device. And then finally the demand was high enough to include full keyboards on the majority of models. I just find it odd, not a big fan of the touchscreen only device. Same with computers, a mouse/keyboard > touchscreen only. Tablet computers never really caught on. That is the genious of Apple marketing though, kudos to them.
Motorola to unveil a slew of new handsets at CTIA? {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 11th 2008 5:26PM None of them will be as good as the IPhone.
There saved you the trouble...
Alltel's LG Glimmer is real -- LG says so {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 11th 2008 5:24PM I would hope so, its not competing with the venus, it costs almost twice as much. It is competing with the voyager, which has quite a bit more going for it than this phone has depending on what you are looking for in a phone. To each his own, but it is definitely a good looking touchscreen phone from LG.
iPhone SDK's seedy underbelly reveals painful limitations {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 11th 2008 12:32PM Apple is so arrogant in telling the customer base that they don't want multitasking. And you fanboys are eating it up. "you buy a computer to mulitask" ORly? You buy a computer to get on the internet too, by that logic your Iphone should only be able to make/rec calls, send/rec msgs and that is it.
Here is the real kicker though, I can sit on my under powered Q9 all day running IM and various other apps and I dont run out of space, I know how to use taskmanager and my phone never locks up. Apple IPhone cant do it. They can only get their battery life on the device by limiting what you can and cant do it. Fair enough but dont tell the consumer what they want, dont tell the developer how to develope, this is the kind of mindset that kept them with a sub 10% market share for 25 years in the computer world. Its a good thing that the IPod was killer, Steve Jobs was on his way out the door. The Iphone's sales is going to peak out this year or next year and then it will be another also ran device, it is just too subpar due to apple wanting to limit how it can be used.
