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Nokia's X6 to ship next week, maybe sooner if you're lucky {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 5:30PM @ Mobile Phone Diva
I guess each to his own. Even my iPhone does not have any carrier bloatware, and with it being unlocked and jailbroken..there's so much I can do with it. My other phone, the Blackberry Bold...I was able to take off the bloatware by installing a leaked RIM "engineering version" of the Blackberry OS which had none of AT&T's proprietary stuff.
I'm actually done with Nokia and S60. Even the E72 doesn't have the "stuff" to excite a smartphone user. All I'm waiting for is either the N900 on AT&T's 3G band, or an android device with a great camera.
Nokia's X6 to ship next week, maybe sooner if you're lucky {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 12:32PM I was thinking of getting this phone....till I saw it in action.
Usually, seeing the phone will be the home run that'll confirm the buy. As soon as I saw how the OS responds to touch, I was ready to run the other direction.
And this is coming from a former N95 owner for 2 years, who gave the E71 a chance, the 5800 a chance as well as the N97.
None of them were, in my opinion, great.
The camera in E71 was hopeless. Add to that the keys being too small, a 2.5 mm headphone jack (instead of standard 3.5) and the back being all-metal with the phone antenna's at the bottom of the phone...which my hand would cover when answering a call thus making my reception awful.
5800 - 1st up, the UI looked so gosh darn dated. Overall, a decent touchscreen (albeit, resistive which had my smashing the screen with my thumb to get it to register) but a texting nightmare.
N97 - Ohh where do I begin? The underpowered processor? that ghastly keypad layout? The stupid D-pad on the left side? and it may just have been my N97, but my favorite Sony headphones sounded totally like the music was a bunch of cats whining. I dunno if the N97 has a problem with non-Nokia headphones.
Add to that, back in the N95 days there were no App Stores...so even though we had to hunt all over the internet for decent apps, it was still much more awesome to have this multimedia smart phone device thingy which was able to beat the iPhone 2G on so many levels.
2 years later, ...ummm yeah. The Ovi store! That's been a runaway success hasn't it? P.O.S. Not to mention that whole symbian signed fiasco, where yeah....you could upload any file you wanted on to a Nokia s60 smartphone....as long as it's Symbian Signed. And for most of us, THAT was a whole 'nother pandora's box to deal with.
Where did Nokia go from innovating, to just catching up?
Releasing a 5mpx smartphone with a great OS and capacitive touchscreen? Already out - Samsung Galaxy i7500. Heck, the Samsung i890 is a phone with Symbian OS and 8mpx cameraphone. The Sony Erricson Xperia is coming X10 is coming out, Android powered with an 8mpx camera. HTC HD2 with 5mpx, LED flash all the goodies.
Only phone of any worth coming out of Finland is the N900 running on Maemo. That too, it's got T-mob 3G bands so it isolates the at&t users to some extent.
Nokia might just wanna cut down it's loss and stick to India and Sub-saharan africa with low-cost handsets till it can come up with a world beater again.
Sony streaming Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs free to new customers, expensively to existing ones {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 8:39AM Movie sucked anyway!!
Verizon looking to bump early termination fee to $350 on 'advanced' devices {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 3:58PM @ Michael Scrip
I would still like the ability to cancel my contract, within a reasonable price range. To cancel a contract has multiple reasons:
a) Moving back to my home country for an extended period of time and thus, not worth paying the $99/month fee.
b) Switching service providers for interest in a better plan/phone
c) Missing the simultaneous access of voice AND data on my current GSM provider, but (as mentioned) not possible on CDMA.
etc etc...
It's simple to say "Dont cancel a contract" and then give an asinine analogy of speeding tickets. But some of us just tend to think more about how being bound in a contract can be stifling.
Verizon looking to bump early termination fee to $350 on 'advanced' devices {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 10:18AM Same here! iPhone 3GS customer who was gonna jump on the Verizon boat in a couple of months time. Not now for sure!
Verizon looking to bump early termination fee to $350 on 'advanced' devices {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 8:48AM This ALSO pretty much guarantees my move to Big Red is not gonna happen. Their coverage area had my interested, but I would like to have a regular $175 ETF if I need to get outta contract. $350 is insane!!
Blacksn0w unlock available now for iPhone 3G and 3GS {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2009 12:26PM Done and Donated!! This guy is awesomeness personified!
Motorola DROID review {Engadget}
Oct 30th 2009 11:18AM Definitely glad this "Hail Mary" pass by Motorola is an enjoyable, usable device! Hello again Moto ;-)
Motorola Droid unboxing! {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 1:58PM Hmm....a bit disappointing! No headphones? A holster would've been nice.
Google developing free navigation app? {Engadget}
Oct 27th 2009 4:41PM Hmmm...seems to be Bucktown, Chicago! I live in that neighbourhood.
