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DROID mania sweeps the nation, so to speak {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 6th 2009 12:36PM i think the first pic is the only one really about a droid line. in the second one they were waiting to buy some hot chocolate at the dollar tree.
Saygus VPhone V1 hits the FCC, headed for Verizon next? {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 5th 2009 6:48PM r u sure?
this looks more like a droid knockoff than a carrier subsidized phone
maybe this will be one of the "unlocked" cdma phones?
Apple 'Grab & Go' sync patent application features... Engadget {Engadget}
Nov 5th 2009 4:53PM lol ^^^above trifecta FTW
Symbian Foundation dares to call characters in the dialer a 'brainstorm idea' {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 5th 2009 12:42AM really? ONLY the US uses it? r u sure?
i can understand maybe only we use vanity dialing. (why anyone else wouldnt, i dont know. it has obvious marketing advantages and i dont see any disadvantages.) but havent u ever had a need to use it for anything else?
i cant use TellMe (800-555-TELL) easily because u r asked to dial the first three letters of the service u want. for example, dial TRA for traffic. i also cant easily call moviefone (777-FILM) because it asks u to dial the first three letters of the movie u want. i cant easily access my medical plan info on the phone because u need to enter ur alphanumeric file number. i cant easily get travel tickets because i cant dial the city i want to go to. (i say easily because i eventually had to memorize what letters are on what keys).
there are countless examples of uses other than vanity dialing that people seem to forget about and i really dont know how any society lives without it unless they simply dont have such a vast array of automated phone services available to them. i can tell u that this is one of my biggest (yet so easily fixed by nokia) problems with my 5800. it is literally a daily inconvenience for me.
fine, if other people dont need it, spend 10 minutes programming a toggle option to turn it on/off. but to release phones in america that dont have basic locally used features and then wonder why you cant get phones to sell here?! come on nokia! im one of ur biggest fanboys but this is just ridiculously stupid! whether chris or brendan is right doesn't matter. the well taken point is that it should have been there all along.
usually when someone makes a product, another person eventually comes along and thinks of a way to make it even better. who came to america, took a telephone back, and was like "no, we dont need this part; lets just remove it"???
AT&T launching voicemail-to-text service, new Mobile TV stations, Canada plans next week {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 5th 2009 12:09AM oops. NAP*
sorry guess that was just my wishful thinking coming out that nokia wouldve made a NAM n900 with 850/1900 3g.
AT&T launching voicemail-to-text service, new Mobile TV stations, Canada plans next week {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 5th 2009 12:07AM what does ur NAM plan include? id be really surprised if ur not already getting a better deal than this
Apple rejects Macworld iPhone Superguide from App Store... for using the word 'iPhone' {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 6:42PM ROFL!
"Sisyphus @ Nov 3rd 2009 3:55PM
Engadget has become the official App Store Rejection Watchdog Agency."
so true!
But that's only because they couldn't become the official iPhone App Store Rejection Watchdog Agency because it contained the word iPhone.
ill be sure to let Engadget know if any of my apps ever get rejected!
AT&T sues Verizon over 'there's a map for that' ads {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 6:33PM i have to agree with everything Mikey M. said above.
the commercials definitely are misleading. we can all leave high ranking comments about how the ads "obviously say 3g" but we are also obviously all phone enthusiasts or we wouldnt be on this site. just picture the nerdy kid in science class in some movie saying "obviously!" as he pushes his glasses up. to an airplane pilot it might be "obvious" that when you're taking off you flip the big switch, push the blue button, turn the dial on the right, and then go. but i'm no pilot. and the major majority of people are not phone enthusiasts.
that being said, ive been with friends when one of these commercials came on and heard them say "wow at&t doesn't cover a lot of states." and actually just today my friend's mom asked me "what does 3G mean anyway?" when i tried to explain generations and data speeds she said "oh so it's 3 gigabytes or something? wait, what's a gigabyte?" i THINK i finally got her mostly clear on the very basics, but the bottom line is that they don't understand. and as far as im concerned, selling something to someone by playing on their misunderstanding of it is trickery and is wrong.
although they say "3g" they know damn well they are tricking people into thinking there is more overall coverage. and for anyone who wants to argue with me on that, then how come the iphone users have absolutely no signal in the commercials when they're not in the "3g" areas? they should have still had 2g coverage, but instead theyre looking down angrily at their phones. this is inferred by viewers to be a sign that there is no signal.
another way that the maps trick viewers is that CDMA2000 is a hybrid of 2.5g (1xrtt) and 3g (evdo). i am inclined to believe that the verizon "3g coverage map" is based on their entire CDMA2000 footprint. if theyre going to include their tech, which is a hybrid of 2.5g and 3g, then the equivalent att map ("apples to apples," as another commenter said) would be an att map that includes edge, umts, hsdpa, hspa, hspa+ since they are all basically a "hybrid" too when you consider seamless handovers and the fact that edge is faster than verizon's 1xrtt.
T-Mobile USA down all over the place? (update: yes) {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 5:12PM to all the people saying this is just over-hype... i only get twitter updates sent to my phone for about 10 people. the other day 4 of them tweeted that their texts werent working and they had tmobile. i would have to guess that is most if not all of the 10 people who have tmobile. and they are scattered throughout the country.
on a side note, my att phone also hasnt been getting texts since the other day. i can send but cant rcv. idk if its related or not. im in los angeles so im pretty sure im on atts network. ...yup just checked network id and i am. weird.
Apple's App Store breaks 100,000 apps {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 5:00PM i understand the need to hype 100,000 to strengthen their ecosystem. for only a year+ that is a huge number. congrats apple.
but the main problem i have with the apps (fart apps and needle-in-a-haystack searching aside), is that too many of them should just be mobile websites. for example, i downloaded the bofa app and its just the bofa mobi site but in a pretty iphone-styled app. why not just make the mobi site look nicer and all phone users could take advantage of it? another example are the mini-games and movie-hyping apps. those could all be replaced by mobile phone websites if only the iphone supported flash.
bottom line: webclips and flash could eliminate more than half the apps.
