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AT&T loses request for injunction against Verizon's Map for That ads {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 18th 2009 7:14PM Win? The judge came out and said the ads were sneaky. Not exactly the best way to go into a trial.
All VZW won is they dont have to take the ads off TV COMPLETELY. Nothing has been determined yet about modifying them.
Don't shop drunk: Verizon's $350 ETF is now live {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 15th 2009 6:12PM "Yet before if you were in the last month of your contract it would still be $175 to terminate. If you cannot decide to drop a service after a month thats your bad"
BS. This was the WHOLE point of prorated ETF's pushed for by the government on the carriers. It dropped $5 every month and at the end youd be left with about $60 ETF a month early NOT $175
All this policy does is circumvent the whole prorated ETF policy push that the government was investigating carriers for (their ETF practices). Its REDICULOUS that you should get to the end and the ETF is still what other carriers charge after the FIRST month of service (then dropping from there).
People who defend VZW on this policy have no sense what so ever. Yes, people played the system to sell phones, so what? Its been like that for HOW LONG? 10+ years? All of the sudden now they magically want to stop this from the VERY few people who do this? Gimme a break. Its VZW trying to butt rape their customers and guarantee they dont go to another carrier or lose more customers to the iphone.
I hope the government probes VZW now and finds this practice to be against public policy and consumer rights. The fee is astronomical for an ETF and we all know carriers dont let you out except VERY extreme circumstances and even real reasons are a fight. Another poor policy by a carrier that, even though I dont support governemnt controlling business, I hope is challenged and probed into why the fee is so non-proportional.
And to the statement that a phone costs $550 and you get it for $200 and only a $175 ETF, SO WHAT? Thats the carriers incentive to get you to sign up with them and sell an affordable phone. They take a loss up front and, wow, they make it back in monthly fees. your naive if you dont think they recoup that cost in what you pay them monthly. So they should charge $200 for the phone, $350 ETF, and THEN not consider any monthly payments youve made to them leaving them with a huge ETF still? Please.......
AT&T adds Verizon's Island of Misfit Toys holiday ads to lawsuit, demands they be yanked off the air {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 12th 2009 7:35PM by loosing another 750,000-million customers yet again? ;)
AT&T responds to Verizon's 3G ad campaign -- by bragging about EDGE {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 12th 2009 7:29PM All jokes aside there isnt THAT much difference between the newest EDGE revision and 3G (current 3.6) in real world values. The new EDGE is no slouch like 1X on CDMA by any means.
Walmart offering $100 gift card with any BlackBerry purchase (but only next week) {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 11th 2009 1:07PM yeh but all of these minus the Storm 2 are basically just old stock, not the newest BB's out, thats why theyre $100 off.
ATT 9000 replaced by the 9700
same with Tmo
VZW and Sprint have the Tour and VZW has the Storm 2, the only new phone on the list
Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 8th 2009 3:26PM low*
Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 8th 2009 3:26PM its a law blow at the traditional "iphone is a toy" line of reasoning. If it was anything else, like JUST about the 3G, they wouldnt have used an obvious iphone-like device. More mud slinging by VZW just jealous they dont have one device that can sell the numbers the iphone has, so they have to attack it.
Basically debunks any rumor VZW will be getting the iphone. Apple likely wont want to work with VZW after these kinds of shots at its device.
DROID mania sweeps the nation, so to speak {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 11:26AM And that has to do with the Droid how? Trying to bash the iphone since the Droid doesnt look like itll come close to knocking it off from all the hype and bashing VZW put into it?
DROID mania sweeps the nation, so to speak {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 11:24AM Lines look shorter than the one's for the Pre which didnt sell extraordinarily well.
Doesnt look like it met the hype, and maybe rightfully so. The commercials for it were cryptic at best to the general non-tech public who didnt already know what the phone was. They dont show the phone, or that its VZW or even Android really (other than Droid which most people barely know Android exists outside calling it "with Google" like Tmo).
Id be shocked if they sell a few hundred thousand this weekend, and wont come near the iphone sales the first weekend just like the Pre. Not an iphone fanboy, but for a phone taking direct shots at the iphone, it wont sell anywhere near being an "iphone killer" like the rest of the labeled devices in the near past which have failed to sell big.
Dutch hacker seeks out jailbroken iPhones for fame and fortune {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 3rd 2009 10:23PM What threat? nothing was done. What the hell do people expect. When you hack a phone youre leaving some kind of back door open on ANY platform, iphone or other.
What an ignorant iphone-bashing comment
