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    Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi?

    Sprint's Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly

    Samsung Moment Review: The ED-209 of Android Phones

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    Image of spannu spannu
    07:12 PM

    In reply to Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi?
    In what way is Gizmodo "all over" the Pixi? Just search the site itself:

    Palm Pixi = 7 posts
    Droid Eris = 7 posts
    Droid = 20+ posts

    Besides, the biggest audience of consumers (i.e., people who just want a cheap new phone) don't care what the Internet thinks anyway; they'll just buy whatever's on sale at Best Buy or Walmart. #data
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    Image of Jacubious Jacubious
    07:04 PM

    In reply to Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi?
    It isn't eye candy.

    If you take a look at the Droid, Hero, Pre, HD2, they are all very sexy phones. While the Eris is pretty bland, you have more screen to jazz the phone up. With the Pixi, it just looks like a Pre that hit a midlife crisis and started to get bigger in all the wrong places.

    I would definitely blame the Eris search popularity on the Droid bit though.
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    06:38 PM

    In reply to Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi?
    ZZZzzzzzz.... what? #data
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06:38 PM

    In reply to Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi?
    Palm coulda been a contenda, but it didn't make quite an impact the first go, made your girly hands recoil in pain with its ginsu-knife edge, the iPhone continued to be more popular, Android started to matter more, and the on/off again crazy-stalker-boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with iTunes made it a little bit of a joke. It doesn't really do anything particularly special, it looks like Farnsworth's pressure pill, and its mama dresses it funny. The Pixi is like the last American Idol winner. What's his/her name again? Who gives a rat's gonads.
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    06:37 PM

    In reply to Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi?
    Wow, using the trend charts to determine which tech is more popular reminds me of the blu-ray vs. hd-dvd days. Only difference is that you actually acknowledge that some people can't spell (or spell correctly causing "blue-ray" to not show up on the charts) #data
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    06:34 PM

    In reply to Why Aren't More People Talking About the Palm Pixi?
    Because the internet is well aware of the truth: Palm, and every device they make from here on out, is doomed.

    They could make a phone with an embedded fleshlight wide enough around to take me without a problem and I still wouldn't give a flying fuck. #data
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    Image of Kris Aubuchon Kris Aubuchon
    06:58 PM

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I don't know, I'd be pretty interested if Palm made the world's most narrow phone. #data
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    Image of Thee Sea Thee Sea
    07:29 PM

    @Kris Aubuchon: OHHHHHH SNAP #data
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07:36 PM

    @Kris Aubuchon: HHAHAHAHAHAHAH. And you're supposed to be a guy? "Kris". Yea. A gay guy then. Got ya. Hey, I'm okay with that! No hate!

    You've obviously never had a black guy ram you up the pie hole Kris. Your day will come. Say goodbye to your bowel movement problems! #data
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    Image of Kris Aubuchon Kris Aubuchon
    08:34 PM

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Hey, I'm secure enough to take a joke without resorting to passing off some people's sexuality as an insult. ;) #data
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08:43 PM

    @Kris Aubuchon: Thats..........good? Golf clap? #data
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    10/29/09

    In reply to Sprint's Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly
    Hey sprint - get me out of my ETF and I will cheat on at&t and kick the iphone to the curb #earnings
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/29/09

    In reply to Sprint's Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly
    Well they still have time to roll to stabilize. They aren't dead until they bleed out to -10. #earnings
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Sprint's Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly
    it's amazing they have any blood left. after picking up nextel (stupidest acquisition ever?) i thought they had basically bitten the proverbial bullet. in the spirit of competition, here's to sprint leaving that cyanide capsule in the vault and continuing to battle *raises glass for a toast* #earnings
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    10/29/09

    @back_at_it: Nextel wasn't a bad acquisition--Nextel had the highest ARPU in the industry. Sprint just let the Nextel assets go to hell and never made any effort to integrate the Nascar-crowd into its mainstream offerings. #earnings
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    Image of €hЯ!§ €hЯ!§
    10/29/09

    In reply to Sprint's Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly
    I don't get it. All these reports on Sprint I've seen lately put it 2nd (behind Verizon) with AT&T and T-Mobile neck and neck for last place, yet Sprint is hurting badly and AT&T just activated over 4 million new phones. Granted 3/4 of those were for the iPhone, but even without it, AT&T still wouldn't be hurting as bad as Sprint, who's getting better marks than AT&T. Just doesn't make sense to me.

    I know I'll never get Sprint because their signal doesn't penetrate the walls of my work, while I get a signal with AT&T everywhere. #earnings
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    10/29/09

    @€hЯ!§: According to Chetan Sharma, Q2 data for 2009 puts Sprint at #3 with 18% of US subs. Verizon leads with 32% followed closely by AT&T at 29%. T-Mobile is #4 with 12% and the remaining 9% is divided among a boatload of carriers including US Cellular, MetroPCS, LEAP and others. #earnings
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    Image of dcdttu dcdttu
    10/29/09

    In reply to Sprint's Still Bleeding, But Not As Badly
    I am very impressed with their lineup of phones. They went from Verizon to Orange Telecom in a matter of a year. We have the latest and greatest, including BB's and Android. Well done, Sprint. Now, if I know you have WiMax, but... Could I show you this little thing called LTE??? #earnings
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/29/09

    @dcdttu: Not yet, you can't. #earnings
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    10/29/09

    @Alfisted: I just want the freaking phones to stay mainstream. WiMax will force every Sprint phone to be different from every other phone on the planet just to work in 4G. STUPID. Course, this may not be true, LTE and WiMax being so closely related that a Sprint 4G phone might be able to use a LTE signal... Dunno, just a thought. #earnings
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Samsung Moment Review: The ED-209 of Android Phones
    Why does Samsung insist on making left handed sliders? LG slides with a thumb press and mine winds up upside down when I flip the keyboard open... It's not that big of a deal, but their lead engineer must be a lefty. #samsungmoment
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    Image of met2art met2art
    10/27/09

    In reply to Samsung Moment Review: The ED-209 of Android Phones
    Matt, I'm concerned about this constant hanging you speak of. I don't experience that on my G1, whether in Google Talk, or any other app. Beware of apps that are polling constantly, or have "slick" UIs that aren't strictly necessary. I deleted Twidroid for this reason. It may be one of the better Twitter apps for Android, but it's still extremely buggy. It seems to cause a lot of slowdown, and independant of settings, seems to suck a lot of battery life. I recommend Advanced Task Manager to weed out such bloated and piggy apps, and apps that may be loaded that you aren't using. #samsungmoment
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    Image of matt buchanan matt buchanan
    10/27/09

    @met2art: It's in part a kernel issue--the cyanogen mods run crazyfast on the G1. #samsungmoment
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    Image of matt buchanan matt buchanan
    10/27/09

    @met2art: I've seen this on every Android phone I've ever used. It's not constant, but it definitely happens throughout the day. #samsungmoment
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Samsung Moment Review: The ED-209 of Android Phones
    I'll stick with my Hero. HTC actually invests a lot into tweaking and optimizing Android for their phones, whereas Samsung seems to have just slapped it into this phone. Case in point the Hero w/ Sense UI seems to run just as well as stock Android on this phone despite the faster processor... #samsungmoment
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    10/27/09

    @cc82: HTC is also pretty good about getting updates out to their customers even on models that have been out awhile. I was seriously considering this phone but that kind of lag would make me throw it through a window. I'm not a patient person. The fact that the wait for 1.6 will be so long is a red flag regarding their software engineering support.

    I'd go with the Hero but I have a thing for the hardware QWERTYs.
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    Image of jedi4life jedi4life
    10/27/09

    In reply to Samsung Moment Review: The ED-209 of Android Phones
    why do phone companies insist on inserting the spacebar on the Z row? STOP DOING THAT. #samsungmoment
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    OCEntertainment promoted this comment jedi4life was starred jedi4life was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/27/09

    @jedi4life: I'm sure there's some engineer who has some vaguely justifiable reason for wanting to put that spacebar in this spot.

    Nevertheless: this. So. Much. This. I cannot stand that retarded trend. It screws with keyboard mojo. No! Bad engineer! #samsungmoment
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