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Engadget Cares: save us from Apple's groundbreaking, developer-shackling App Store {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2008 4:37PM @avester:
Here's to saving the best for last, then?
Bell getting Touch Diamond "soon" {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 25th 2008 1:13PM Huh. So for Bell, they sell the Instinct for $129 with a 3-year plan, and the Touch Diamond for $149 with a 3-year plan. For Sprint, they sell the Instinct for $129 with a 2-year plan and the Touch Diamond for $249 with a 2-year plan.
Either there's a huge typo there, or the funny dealings just became blatantly obvious to me.
Samsung launches free Recycling Direct program for consumers {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2008 1:42PM Is that poison ivy or basil? I never know for sure until I taste the pesto.
Screen Grabs: jerkface Verizon FiOS guy brandishes a Kindle {Engadget}
Sep 5th 2008 12:12PM In my area I do have a choice between Comcast and Verizon FIOS, and I chose comcast mostly for the price of what I needed (I don't need a lot of bandwidth... just good enough)... there's was a few bucks less than what I would have to pay verizon.
However, I'm also extremely put off by how cocky Verizon and Verizon Wireless are in their ads, and by the ridiculous amount of trees they must have killed mailing me ads about FIOS. I suppose it's long past time to sign up to reduce the junk mail.
Just to cover all bases... it's not that other companies aren't boastful, it's just that Verizon and Verizon Wireless both consistently give me the impression that they think they could defecate in a dog dish and I would love it like it were the finest beef stroganoff ever on fine china.
Sprint, Bluefish taking names for Touch Diamond, September release confirmed {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 2nd 2008 10:37AM @Rogue_Genius:
Most simple folk like me probably figure that it would definitely take a genius to work AT&T and GSM into a conversation about Sprint phone models and cannibalization amongst Sprint sales. :-)
SSDs save battery power, right? Wrong. {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 5:27PM I'm not sure I can trust someone I can't find.
Lenovo kills off 3000 line, folds Y Series into IdeaPad family, K Series into IdeaCentre {Engadget}
Jun 20th 2008 12:55PM Flounder?
May I have ten thousand marbles, please?
Toshiba remains stubborn, looks to DVD upscaling while brushing Blu-ray off {Engadget}
Jun 17th 2008 3:46PM Sure... they can call those Hi-Res DVDs. No... wait... resolution is confusing to the consumer... maybe they can call them Hi-Def DVDs, or HD-DVDs. Yeah... that's a great idea... 'cause then they can deny HD-DVDs ever happened and repeat the failure. Ingenious.
Verizon's Palm Centro: June 13 for $199.99? {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 6th 2008 9:40PM @elgee02: Not at all. All carriers charge a hefty amount for data outside of a plan, if I'm not mistaken. Well, I knew that both Verizon and Sprint do, since I live in CDMA central... a.k.a outside of Boston, MA... so I didn't even look at AT&T's non-plan data rates. But I wasn't trying to say that other carriers don't do that.
It just struck me as odd that for a smartphone it costs more than twice as much to use data per KB than it does for a featurephone. Maybe all carriers do this... I haven't bothered using data without a data plan, and I haven't bothered being without a smartphone for quite some time now. I just don't get why those charges are unequal.
As far as my rather biased comment regarding Verizon sucking money out of wallets, it's my personal experience and assessment of being a former Verizon customer and current Sprint customer... though I suppose I risk starting one of those stupid debates where we hear about how Sprint is dead, SERO rocks, Verizon's CS beats Sprint's, and a sprinkling of "who cares, they both don't have the iPhone". It was a bit misleading to include that comment side-by-side with the smartphone vs. featurephone data rates comment.
I just felt a need to rant a little. Come to think of it, I feel the need to rant a little more:
I guess I just have a grudge against Verizon because they appear to think that they can do no wrong because of "the network." I'm not saying that their network isn't impressive in my area. It is. However, in my case, I'm lucky to find that Sprint's coverage in my area (probably strongly due to roaming agreements) is nearly as impressive. More importantly, here's what I don't like specifically:
- Smartphones that cost significantly higher when compared feature-for-feature to other carrier's smartphones
- Service plans (voice and/or data) that are consistently (when I've looked) as expensive or more expensive than other carriers' plans
- Advertising that tries too hard to be cool or funny. Very subjective, I know. This is a problem that isn't exclusive to the wireless division.
- Also not exclusive to the wireless division, the amount of paper advertising from Verizon I see. I haven't tracked it, but I swear I receive something on at least a weekly basis. Verizon alone may inspire me to find out about getting my name/address off the mailing lists.
I feel better now.
Verizon's Palm Centro: June 13 for $199.99? {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 6th 2008 2:29PM OK, so $1.99perMB / 1000 = $0.00199 per KB for regular handsets. So, .005/KB for smartphones is in fact 2.5 times worse. Well, assuming that those numbers are correct.
That's just f-tastic. Sure... it's the network. No... not the CDMA thingy that you talk over... the network that sends money to them... yeah, *that's* the network.
