Cell Phones

Thank you. It feels REALLY good.

Since when? :-D
I thought that Apple was an America-only company.. hummm

 

Are you in the US? I got the impression from your wording you were from Europe.

 

Oh yeah Long Island, New York! I have a couple of contacts in UK, but I like in US.

 

I see, for some reason reading your posts I could hear this young mans voice (he became like family) who was from Hungary, haven't heard from him in some time now and am worried. (The mother in me)

 

Best flip phone I've ever had...videos and photos are outstanding...plus it works great with my hearing aid!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/rogval/PhonePic.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/rogval/PhonePic2.jpg

 

Lol...yeah...after I posted I seen your post. I thought I would love the touch screen too, until I had the XV6700!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/rogval/PocketPC.jpg

Aside from the touchscreen having such a ridiculous lag/response time...the Windows Mobile OS (atleast v5.0) sucks BIG TIME!!!!

I have had the opportunity to play with an IPhone and if I could afford it, then I would definitely consider it cause it is just slick all the way around!!!!

 

That's the exact phone my fiance has, that thing is stupid as hell.

 

Whoa steady....not all the time!

 

There is no such thing as an America-only company, unless it's a local mom and pop store. Especially when it comes to computers (which, believe it or not, Apple was originally ).

 

Never, ever. Although they have adopted the Linux for phones, so I would expect to see some new phones coming out with a totally different OS/interface.

 

I dont know that ATT dominates or anything, its just a matter of Verizon likes to lock down their phones and they can't do that with the iPhone. That and I believe the VZW CEO has had some pretty ugly things to say about Apple.

Their loss (Verizon). If ATT wasnt so pitiful network and plan wise, I'd go with em.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/01/verizon-ceo-hates-on-steve-jobs-doesnt-see-iphone-as-a-mass-ma/

 

Well...the new iPhone is not cheaper. Not really. They split the cost up by upping the costs of the plans required for one. In actuality, you pay more for it, by the end of contract.

I don't know that Apple had a say whatsoever in the pricing plan ATT offered, or does now.

Which is ok, IMO. Apple has reported selling ~ 1 million iPhones in the first 3 days this launch.

When I say lock down, I mean VZW cripples bluetooth, drops their own custom garbage UI on the phones, and then ties them all into Get it Now to be able to do much of anything. They don't want to lose one cent, the greedy bastards.

 

we have a person at work that has the original iPhone & was dying to upgrade.....until they found out $35 per mo. (monthly service) more for the new one..
We have 5 iPhone users at work, so far NO ONE is upgrading rolleyes

 

http://www.discountcell.com/cellular/phoneimages/motorolaV260big.jpg

I'm getting a new phone- looking at something similiar to the Iphone- i don't want to spend $250. I want the nice large touch screen. Ideally it would also have a side-slide keyboard.

 

Mine was a present from my wife so cant complain:-D.
Does everything i need it to & has a great camera.

 

I'm curious if anybody has any first hand experience with the touch screens on the new Instinct and the voyager...and I'm curious if the new Windows Mobile 6.0 is better.

When I had my Pocket PC (you're right Wenchie...STUPIDEST piece of junk ever!!) the Windows Mobile 5.0 OS harbored a poltergeist...I thought, anyway. I would pull my phone out and there would be all kinds of stuff open and running, which ofcourse would cause the phone to freeze and would have to do a soft restart. Come to find out...whenever you open an application, then go to "X" out...even though you were done and didn't want the app open...it still kept it in the memeory (what a joke) and you had to manually go into the memory and release whatever you didn't want open anymore. And that is every app on the phone, from messenging to the mobile office apps, media player...EVERYTHING stayed in the memory even though you closed it out.

I mean...come on...these guys in Redmond are supposed to be geniuses...why would they do/miss something like that. I sure can't figure out any reason to intentionally make it that way...even the Verizon technician who explained it to me had quite a laugh when I asked what the purpose of that would be.

Anyway...sorry for the temporary hijack, and I'll get off my soapbox now.

Roger

 

Sorry, mommy

 

This is the one i am using at the moment because my old one the headset speaker quit working leaving the speaker phone speaker and then the cam quit working so i moved to this one and its only one of many people have given me mostly all ATT phones so i just change out the sim cards and keep going. I wish i could buy a new I-phone or something with a cam but can't waste the cash on that just yet.

This is the one i am using its a Samsung SGH-X497
http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/images/samsung/sgh-x497.jpg

This is my old one its a Moto V220
http://www.motorola.com/mot/image/5/5880_MotImage.jpg

 

Still need a new one. :tired too lazy

 

That's cold! I am not the biggest apple person. calm down!

 

Allison-
That's called a slider cell phone. A flif is where it gores up and down.

 

BlackBerry Pearl

http://blizzmax.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/blackberry-pearl.jpg

 

I h8 ur gutz holmes

 

A friend of mine works for Verizon, they were offered the I-Phone first, but turned it down. What a screw-up executive decision!

 

Being that they would need to subsidize the phone by raising rates, as ATT did, I am not entirely convinced that it was a bad decision.

That, and they are bringing in the HTC Touch Diamond to Verizon, which unquestionably stomps the ever living crap out of the iPhone.

 

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k90/crunchgear/September%202007/virgin-super-slice.jpg

but it sucks...for way too many reasons.