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04-27-10, 10:45 PM #32
Re: No good phones are for your carrier
Originally Posted by WileECyte
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04-28-10, 09:26 AM #34
Re: No good phones are for your carrier
Originally Posted by CivilWars
I'm with spring. Played with the HTC touchpro2....too big, too heavy...but so damn hot. Instead, I got the Samsung Moment. Droid (the HTC was windows6). Like it....BUT
I don't like ANYTHING that mandates I get some bullshit "gmail" account just to be able to use it. Can't download "apps" or do a lot of the perks without a gmail associated with it. And that's fucking ridiculous.
Same bullshit as apple....same lame ass business model....making your customers slaves to the machine and institutionalized so they can't migrate off of the sauce.
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04-28-10, 10:03 AM #35
Re: No good phones are for your carrier
Originally Posted by ...bigdog...
http://www.htc.com/www/product/touch...ification.html
Says 480x800 resolution. No idea why they would name it HD (but hey, it's the trend today to name everything HD). And honestly... it would be laughable to cram so so many pixels on such a small device. To use the same number of pixels on a 4" screen, that most people use on a 20"+ computer display?
Originally Posted by ...bigdog...
I guess I agree with you in principle about the Google account-centric stuff being kind of lame. But I was in the boat that I just so happened to already have google accounts, so I was able to go along with it easily. And honestly, the contacts syncing is really awesome. Especially now that I can use Google nav in 2.1, I can add addresses to my contacts, and then from the contacts page I can click one button to navigate to them. GPS was pretty much 95% of the reason I finally switched from dumb to smartphone (though I am using the web more than I thought I would). Sprint navigation works well, but I want my saved addresses synced somewhere external, and not tied to Sprint since I might not stay with them forever. Of course, I might not stay with Google forever either, so there is that problem. But honestly... unless you host your own server with which to sync (with your own data format, and write your own mobile apps to sync with that data system)... then you pretty much have to pick one devil or the other. And right now I prefer google over apple.
It's really no different than writing and saving documents in Microsoft word, for example. Maybe one day in the future you don't want to use MS Office software anymore, and now you are stuck with all these .doc files. What to do? Hopefully, convert them to another usable format somehow.
So, say someday in the future google take a wrong turn and I don't want to ride that ship anymore. What to do? Hopefully, get all my google contacts, emails, etc, and convert them to another format. Easy enough with emails, since gmail is usable through IMAP. Contacts... unless somebody writes some kind of script/app to help, it may be difficult to change contact systems. But still, compared to my old way of getting contact info from old phone to new phone (either via SIM card or by manually re-entering hundreds of #'s)... google syncing rocks.
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04-28-10, 10:06 AM #36
Re: No good phones are for your carrier
Originally Posted by ...bigdog...
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04-28-10, 10:29 AM #37Re: No good phones are for your carrier
Originally Posted by Veovisenf-Jesus its been like 12 minutes and you're already worried about stats?! :-P
Bigdog-Sweet home Alabama you are an idiot.
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04-28-10, 10:33 AM #38Re: No good phones are for your carrier
Originally Posted by Veovis
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04-28-10, 02:02 PM #39
Re: No good phones are for your carrier
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