Comments on: Verizon Android Phones Are Officially Coming

By: your mom

your mom — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:38:18 +0000

I love BB’s comment, you all are a bunch of techno nerds!

By: meman

meman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:43:00 +0000

I like my tour just fine, droid will be a hype.

By: VTE

VTE — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:15:57 +0000

@Charms: Who is that idiot who wants to switch services from Verizon Wireless? There are no better carrier than VZ. AT&T and T-Mob are terrible with coverage and drop calls.

One suggestion to VZ: you need to be faster with phones like this one. Android and iPhone OS phones are the future, and faster you deploye them, the more customers you get.

By: Charms

Charms — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:17:22 +0000

Thats hilarious. Yu guys seriously are wayyy 2 intune with your cell phones if you came on here to sign up. I came to see what the damn thing looks like.. and it looks like a Side Kick from Tmobile. Does everything the flippn I phone DOES and DOESNT do… Im a hard core Verizon fan….. but i swear…. Verizon Bites big chunks of everyones stuff. So why even bother changing phones when you have flipn Tmob && AT-tat with the same shii. Just Switch Services. U GUYS JUST LIKE TO WASTE TIME

By: rofl

rofl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:26:35 +0000

^he mad

By: BB

BB — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:08:42 +0000

90% of the people don’t even use the dam phones for anything but texts, instant messaging, facebook, and listening to music. Everyone needs to get over themselves already and remember your life won’t be any better, you probably won’t make any more money or go further in your career because you are on a 4G this or that or have a Droid this or an I-that. But hey at least you will be able to post tweet yourself to your hearts content…techno nerds!

By: Tian

Tian — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:09:40 +0000

Will the GPS be crippled?

By: Cgibbons

Cgibbons — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:34:53 +0000

-Judge

I would agree, nokia used to make those clamshell phones that were half palmtop half phone. The had a heavy clunky feel to them that said “I mean business”. If they made phones with modern features in that style i would gladly shell out whatever they asked. I want a phone that can handle real life. Not some peace of crap that cant handle a 3 foot drop from my desk to the floor. That’s why i loved the first gen iphone, that heavy metal case made it tough as nails. I dropped it down the stairs dropped it on concrete. I stepped on it. I even accidentally dripped hot solder on it. You just try that with these plastic pieces of scrap. Besides the weight is reassuring, it feels right.

PS it was not hardware changes that killed such marvels as the Jordana 728, it was the shift from Windows CT to Windows mobile. If they resurrected and modernized the old CT then the iphone and android phones and all other ’smartphones’ would be obsolete within a year.

By: Cgibbons

Cgibbons — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:13:11 +0000

Bear in mind that the android page on verizon says that the phone will have android v2.0. Were only up to v1.6 so you can expect it it be quite a wile before the release.

By: LG

LG — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:39:42 +0000

I have been a Verizon landline and wireless customer from the start. I am a Verizon employee and plan to stay on that route. I must admit I was very disappointed when Verizon did not want any parts of the Iphone and have settled with other phones. They said the Storm was the Iphone killer and that failed. I hope this new product (The Android) is the closest thing or better because I am loosing my patience with all this hype Verizon is trying to sell us. Let’s face it, the Iphone is the best, most of us want the Iphone for Verizon, but I hope the Android is the answere.

Can you hear me now Verizon!

By: DMVZW

DMVZW — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:45:09 +0000

Lets make a few things very clear, I’m a District Manager for Verizon Wireless and just had a meeting all about Android this morning. Open Platform/Open Source means its completely open and google will actually be giving you the coding to make apps if you know how to. I don’t get upset about people bashing Verizon Wireless here. Anyone that has had other services knows this. Also LTE is already on the way and is launching in approximatly 32 markets initially withing the next 9 months or so. AT&T will be going there also but about 2 years later and only in a handful of markets. Like the iPhone, yes its a great device but on the wrong network. apple rejected a VoIP app, verizon approved.

-JIM, open development cannot be diced, IT will be completely open. Also, if your friends don’t have trouble with Terrible (T)Mobile service have them try something else and they will understand.

-Jonno, 1G,2G,3G,4G If Verizon wanted to have 8G they could, It only means 4th Generation. Sprint will still have spotty 4G coverage and will still be inferior. The sad thing is that Sprint has the next largest 3G network. But they are close to bankrupt. The understanding is that spring will not be around for much longer. Voice calling is not making any money anymore. DATA is and they give it away. BAD MOVES FOR SPRING Direct connect is already on its way out.

-Judge, I agree, get a laptop. It’s like keeping your old honda civic and hoping they put heated seats and All wheel drive in it someday.

By: BlkPnthro

BlkPnthro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:53:05 +0000

Ok! OK Settle down! I have been with Verizon for over 10 years and then in April 09 switched over to the IPhone. Now I understand the functionality but I only went because I didn’t feel Verizon was stepping up to compete. Verizon personnel checking this out. I have 15 accounts with you right now. Make wise decisions and I will bring the other 30 accounts back over. I love the android move. Do it and the next day we will return home to Verizon.

This has been a NY exclusive of real men making real decisions that impact the world. To other gents here let’s change the world…

BlkPnthro

By: icesick06

icesick06 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:26:06 +0000

Well with the upcoming launch next year of a commercially available LTE network from verizon, it would be nice to see the phone support CDMA/GSM/LTE capabilities, although I do not think the LTE part will be included(to soon to integrate). As far as what we would consider “dumb” phones (i.e. EnV3, Rival, Rogue) or those with the Verizon UI in them, they’ve loosened up a lot but there are still many restrictions on the phones. Smartphones on the other hand, lately have gone pretty much untouched, with the exception of VZNav, but was later loosened up as well on those higher end devices(storm being an example). I think this phone will go pretty much untouched if you ask me. I work for verizon and I use a lot of free apps on my phone (blackberry curve). I really dont have any restrictions that I can think of. Hopefully SMS messaging on this phone will not be limited like a blackberry to 160 characters lol. And with it supposedly coming with 16gb internal space with expandable memory, this should be a hot seller(on gizmondo). Hopefully it does come out soon.

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:34:04 +0000

I cant wait for website to catch up to the cell phones. I noticed that alot of websites are not completely web ready. Alot of their forms dont work because of the issues with Javascript on cell phones.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:22:35 +0000

Google for President!

Oh wait, hrm.

@Whatever – Android is an open-source Operating System for mobile phones.

Considering that Android is open-source and Linux is open-source I don’t think Verizon will be crippling anything. As far as I know or have learned in college/books/internet if someone wants to change the kernel source for Linux they must get approval from Linus Torvalds before it is changed, usually Mr. Torvalds makes changes himself also.

So if Google owns the Android API, there will have to be a lot of legal and financial hoops that Verizon will have to jump through just to cripple the device, which may not be cost effective.

Verizon knows that consumers are unhappy with the current platform, I’ve been a Verizon Wireless customer since they were Air Touch in the NW. Tried T-Mobile for my business and they were a joke, so now I’ve been an avid Verizon Wireless customer for 8 straight years.

Do I care that they cripple their phones, nope, why, well because their customer service and coverage are amazing. I highly doubt that Verizon will “cripple” an open-source OS, because so many MIT uber geeks out there will have it hacked in a day anyway, so all that manpower to cripple the phone would be a waste of money, and with businesses dropping like flies lately, I don’t think it something they can afford to do on an economic level.

My 2 cents.