Comments on: Verizon: Inner Android Conflict

By: Rocco Tricarico

Rocco Tricarico — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:46:33 +0000

As TIM said on Sept. 23rd … Is there a phone company out there that doesn’t limit capabilities of the phone and has a good service area? Who should I switch to?

Rocco

By: tim

tim — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:46:22 +0000

I currently am an AT&T customer. I also use a Blackberry Curve. I hate AT&T’s network. I never have a good signal. The data service is very slow, if it works at all. My phone is constantly dropping calls, even in Manhattan. The Blackberry app selection is also very skimpy. It’s the opposite end of the spectrum from the iPhone.

I was planning to switch to Verizon whenever they come out with their Android phone. But now, after reading all this about Verizon, I don’t know if that is a good idea. Is there a phone company out there that doesn’t limit capabilities of the phone and has a good service area? Who should I switch to?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:41:16 +0000

Verizon sucks. I hope the screw up their android phones just like all the other $#itty phones they offer. Taking out the Real GPS for a cellular assisted one so you have to use their VZW Navigator….They Suck ass and will continue to suck ass until they stop thinking they should own your phone. Hell, if they could, they would come to your house and make you all get VZW tattooed on your forehead. And make you wear red and black. BTW that VZW Android device will be crapped in red and black all over the place. Im sure theyll expect Google to make the Android Character Red and Black, as well as the App Store.
Facist SOB’s Eat S#it and Die Verizon!!!!!

By: Cliff Perona

Cliff Perona — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:49:02 +0000

Verizon needs to not only jump on the Android band wagon they need to own it. VZW has a chance to score big, if they stop thinking like an old TelCo and start thinking like application providers who own customers because of their great service and network coverage and application availability.
To lock-down their system will be death to them…I’ll take my $300 plus monthly bill and pay it to some other carrier if Verizon locks-down the Android.

By: TKane

TKane — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:48:19 +0000

I echo these sympathies. I welcome another source for applications when I get a Verizon Android phone later this year, but don’t disappoint me. If you lock down my phone like you have with all my other Verizon phones, if you cut off access to the Android Marketplace or just downloading apps myself, I won’t accept that, and I will leave for another network, even if it is more expensive.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:40:36 +0000

I’ll be pissed if Google folds to Verizon.
I’m TOTALLY down with a Verizon \ T-Mobile merger!
Let Verizon have their own App Store and branding. They deserve it. They actually make make good software. Most users won’t know or take the time to change it. If Verizon locks down Android (e.g. I can’t use a different App Store) I’m LEAVING Verizon despite their network. I’m sick of Verizon controlling the device I, repeat I, paid for!!!! As a consumer I deserve the right to take my phone to a different mobile phone service. That goes double for the cell phone makers. I’ve leaved with Verizon’s “lock down the phone” FAR too long and will not stand for it any longer. I’ll have my unlocked Android phone this Spring one way or another.

By: DavidR

DavidR — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:45:45 +0000

Darnell, I sincerely hope not!

By: Navarre

Navarre — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:51:07 +0000

Rhomobile already allows you to write one program to be crossplatform across most major smartphone OSes. I wish that people would stop trying to make their own solutions to problems that have already been solved. This leads to a lack of standardization which is bad for the consumer and developer.

By: zombie pastry

zombie pastry — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:39:48 +0000

epic fail for those of us in the midwest where alltel still has the best service. i’m still pissed they sold out to verizon but, honestly, a gimped android phone is still an android phone. now i just have to wait for the calgary or morrison to drop :(

By: Derreck

Derreck — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:41:45 +0000

SmartPhones potentially turn carriers into dumb pipes. Carriers want to resist that. Resistance is futile. With the Wimax+Voip combo their precious air waves won’t be so precious after all !

By: Darnell

Darnell — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:37:52 +0000

Is it true that tmobile is going to merge with Verizon?

By: CE

CE — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:14:06 +0000

The Tmobile logo is clearly visible in the Motorola Morrison picture in the “Phones” section of this website. Why are you spreading obviously false information?

By: Ural

Ural — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:02:16 +0000

We won’t waste our time with Verizon. Android Market works. App store if u are a bully.

Sorry Verizon. Come main stream or loose customers.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:28:07 +0000

I’m a Verizon user and I like the network but they are being stubborn. I would love to see the HTC Hero on Verizon with Wifi and the works….But I’m sure VZ will kink it somehow….

By: PhineasJW

PhineasJW — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:31:52 +0000

Verizon is like a headless ogre, barreling down the path of self destruction.
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Until now, with their marketing budget and coverage and plethora of flip phones, they’ve been enjoying tremendous success.
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Heading into the smartphone revolution still mired in their fascist ways, they’re driving over the cliff.
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The cell phone market is about to experience near-100% turnover, but the big-4 are still too stupid to realize it.
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10 years from now, do you think these idiots will still get away with charging extra money for transmitting 500 byte messages?
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Of course not. So, you either lead the way and win, or follow and fail.
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If I’m the CEO of T-Mobile (currently the least evil of the four), I’d launch every Android phone that left a factory, cut over to FREE TEXT MESSAGING, and absolutely blitz the airwaves. Someone will do it eventually, might as well be the first while the rest of the idiots are still figuring out how they can charge for RINGTONES.