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ackoolness
10/06/09

In reply to HTC Imagio Review: HTC Is Microsoft's Best Critic
"V CAST TV is technologically interesting, but it's expensive and I'm not really sure how people will use it"

uh, try watching EPL games while at the Bed Bath & Beyond with the lady. Try watching Ohio vs. USC while on the way to the bar. Try watching ESPN while taking that morning breather on the toilet. ETC.!!!

dont down the service because YOU find no use for it. and just because YOU dont doesnt mean others can. Maybe someones trash can be someones treasure, and in my case I do treasure it and has become a lifesaver when it comes to games, and entertainment/news updater when it comes to espn and msnbc. check yo' self.
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SQLGuru
10/06/09

@ackoolness: Smartphones have changed the way I poo.....and wait for my girls.

[fashionablygeek.com]
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Sockatume
10/06/09

In reply to HTC Imagio Review: HTC Is Microsoft's Best Critic
"That, right there, is a better review of Windows Mobile 6.5 than anyone could ever write."

Ho-HO! That sounds like a throw-down to me.
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Anonymoose
10/06/09

In reply to HTC Imagio Review: HTC Is Microsoft's Best Critic
screw you, john herrman, with your inexplicable and tragic love of the letter "r". just "pretty good"? PRETTY GOOD? taco bell owns your face, loser eyeball man.

the gadget:
taco, chalupa, grilled stuft burrito, nacho, awesomeness, etc.

the price:
as cheap as discarded/diseased meat

the hardware:
crunchy tacos and nachos are freaking delicious

the software:
burritos and soft tacos and napkins are freaking delicious

the verdict:
taco bell and babies are freaking delicious

+freaking delicious
+cheap
+freaking delicious
+patriotic (eating taco bell can creat some pretty amazing fireworks)
+freaking delicious
-there is not a taco bell in my kitchen
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Kaiser-Machead
10/06/09

@Anonymoose: You realize that John wants you to focus on that superfluous second 'r', yes? Your pointing it out only brings him the kind of particular glee that is enjoyed by people who love to screw with the minds of the OCD, like messing the tassels on a rug, or making irregular folds in the corners of paper. I do believe anyone that finds Taco Bell particularly "delicious" probably has some kind of terminal illness that alters the chemistry in your tastebuds, that may even have a positive effect on the taste of that black fungus-ridden oxidized jelly that drips from the rusted corner of a forgotten, trash-filled dumpster behind a low-rent Chinese restaurant.

I can't verify the flavor of babies, but I'm told that a mixture of hard boiled eggs and veal is the closest you'll ever find.
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Anonymoose
10/06/09

@Kaiser-Machead: screw you kaiser-machead and your love of hyphens. may an uncouth wildebeest steal your hyphen and your heart and never text you again after your torrid one-night stand of which you updated your facebook status to "kaiser-machead is totally in love with a caring and nurturing and sensitive and giving lover of a wildebeest, p.s. hannah montant concert last night totally rocked my liver"

taco bell is better than you and all of your follicles combined into a tasty bechamel sauce with fish eyes.

and actually, the thing that most resembles the taste of baby is not hard boiled eggs and veal (a myth perpetuated by the serbs, i believe). no, in fact it is a toddler. todddlers and babies taste strikingly similar.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/06/09

@Anonymoose: I was aware that they could text, but I could never really wrap my mind around how it is they do that exactly.
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Anonymoose
10/06/09

@Kaiser-Machead: i know right? how could they text when text messaging rates are so high? just dial the number and call since you have the minutes included in your plan. those stupid, stupid, sexy wildebeest. i'm with you there, kaiser. they're just morally bankrupt.
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Hiphopopotamus
07/28/09

In reply to Verizon Expected to Launch Vcast Application Store Before End of 2009
Verizon - you have been my wireless carrier pretty much since you started selling wireless phones - 1997 at least (I don't know what year you actually started).

I have always been satisfied with call quality, customer service, and rates.

Your OS sucks. Your applications suck. Your insistence on charging monthly subscriptions to EVERYTHING sucks. You won't win a single new subscriber from your app store. Focus on your strengths, stop copying your competitors. If you want to become a duplicate of another carrier... steal Sprints price plans.
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JasonBarone
07/29/09

@Hiphopopotamus: You missed one-- Your Phones suck too.
Other than that, I love Verizon.
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Hiphopopotamus
07/29/09

@jasonbarone: I picked up an Envy Touch over any smartphone on the market. No bells and whistles, but I have always been happy with their phones. Wish they had sim cards, but kinda hard to switch from CDMA at this point.
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Michael Scrip
07/28/09

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Will you only be able to browse apps for your particular phone model?

I'm sure an app written for a touch-screen smart phone won't work the same on a flip-phone.

It will be interesting to see what happens if the iPhone comes to Verizon. iPhone apps won't work on an LG or Samsung phone... and Verizon Java/BREW apps won't work on the iPhone.
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RemembertheAmiga
07/28/09

@Michael Scrip: No, Verizon's Brew apps won't work on an iphone, and iphone apps won't run on Brew phones - that's pretty obvious.

That's the whole point of the Verizon App store - to lure developers to make brew versions of some of their popular apps, whether they are currently written for BB or iphone or android.
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Michael Scrip
07/28/09

@RemembertheAmiga: "No, Verizon's Brew apps won't work on an iphone, and iphone apps won't run on Brew phones - that's pretty obvious."

I know it's obvious.. that's why I said "iPhone apps won't work on an LG or Samsung phone... and Verizon Java/BREW apps won't work on the iPhone."

Anyway... will Verizon allow free apps? That's what gets iPhone developers excited. Or, they make an app for $1 and sell hundreds of thousands of copies. And the developers make money.

Or will Verizon stick to $5 a month apps like they have always done?

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CSX321
07/29/09

@Michael Scrip: I'm not sure I see how this is different from the VAppZone they already have. Maybe it's a "You say 'Vista,' I say 'Mojave.'" thing?
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Michael Scrip
07/29/09

@CSX321:

I'm asking if Verizon will have free apps like the iPhone has... or apps that you actually BUY for only 1 dollar.

iPhone developers are happy to make free apps... there are tens of thousands of free apps... and then sell upgrades or create other apps that cost only a few dollars. Apple keeps 30% and the developers make 70%. An iPhone developer can make some serious money.

Why are there 60,000 apps for the iPhone? Because half of them are free... and people download them without even thinking about it. And there are many apps are $1... so even that's not a lot to swallow.

True... there are tons of crappy iPhone apps... but the more apps there are... the more good apps come out.

And iPhone apps only run on one platform... iPhone/iPod Touch. There's no guesswork in how the app will run on the devices.

Verizon's apps will have to run on many different devices... some touchscreen... some flip phones. How on earth would a small developer accomodate that?

And Verizon's current "apps" have monthly fees. Some apps from Verizon costs $5 a month... that's $120 over my 2 year contract. What mobile app is worth $120? And how much of that goes to the developers?

Verizon has always had apps for their phones... in the form of Get-It-Now. But I know ZERO people who have purchased apps for their Verizon phones. And I don't think it will start now.

I'm a Verizon Blackberry users... so I've always had the ability to buy apps for my phone... without relying on Verizon.
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CSX321
07/30/09

@Michael Scrip: A lot of the current Get It Now apps have an option to buy them once, instead of a monthly subscription. I bought two or three on my old Verizon BREW phone. They were around $5-10, a reasonable amount for a one-time payment. I have a Samsung Omnia (Windows Mobile) now, so there is lots of free stuff available. And being a programmer, I can write my own pretty easily. I've done a couple of small apps so far.
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ArmTheHarmless
07/28/09

In reply to Verizon Expected to Launch Vcast Application Store Before End of 2009
Rosa are you moonlighting over at Giz or is this going to be a permanent switch?
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Rosa Golijan
07/28/09

@bjf201: Actually, I'm quietly plotting a coup d'etat.
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