Venger;3756863 said:
Fixed. How did that work out?
Proprietary solutions always get marginalized in the market. iPhone will stay around as a boutique solution, but is about to get pummeled. Not as bad as Blackberry though...
Very good point in reference to the PC. My Polymers professor had his phone go off in the middle of class one day and apologized because he and his wife had just switched from iPhone's to Evo's. His biggest complaint was that the new iPhone couldn't get reception worth a crap inside the chemistry building.
He gave me crap for carrying around a BlackBerry Brick. I told him I would buy a new one, but had to drop $400 for the books for his class.
Dallas;3756490 said:
You do know you can buy unlocked Dell Streaks now, right? You don't have to go w/ ATT. The will work on other carriers. You can use them on T-Mobile and Rogers im told.
:starspin :starspin :starspin :starspin
Well, the operative word in all of that is "buy". I'm up for a new free anything with Verizon. If something comparable comes up in the next 3 months, or there is word of something comparable, I'll wait.
kapolani;3756144 said:
It has leveled off a bit.
When the iPhone goes to Verizon all bets are off though.
I haven't found one Droid phone yet that would tempt me to switch.
As more and more Android devices come out from different companies and carriers, fragmentation and bloatware increases.
I'm not sure that going to Verizon is going to help iPhone sales tremendously as much as it's going to kill AT&T's carrier subscribers. Had Verizon picked it up at the outset, I think they would have killed the competition.
I'm particularly curious to see if Apple puts out sales numbers for the iPad with comparisons to subscribers signing up with Verizon over AT&T. A friend's husband quit AT&T back in November. He said the writing is on the wall in flashing neon. The upgrades AT&T are trying to put together are a full generation behind Verizon and they'll be out a few months prior to Verizon's. So they'll run the PR campaign of announcing the new version of their service which is going to still be behind Verizon's LTE network, and then Verizon is going to kill them with their new upgrades.