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    Verizon's HTC and Motorola Android Phones Caught Red Handed

    Verizon Outed With Yet Another Android Phone, This Time From HTC

    Captain Obvious of Verizon Says Verizon iPhone is Apple's Decision, Android Phone May Be Coming
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/06/09

    In reply to Verizon's HTC and Motorola Android Phones Caught Red Handed
    What an awful name for a phone - Sholes?!?! seriously?

    We gonna see ads for this thing with "Sweet Home Alabama" playing? (I know, that's 'Shoals')
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    Image of Paul Beardfacé Paul Beardfacé
    10/06/09

    @Lizard_King: Sholes just sounds like its short for Shit Holes
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/06/09

    @Paul Beardfacé: or S-Holes sounds like assholes, as someone pointed out a while back.

    Seems Verizon is thinking the name might be the Tao or the Droid. Much better.
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    Image of Antestor Antestor
    10/06/09

    In reply to Verizon's HTC and Motorola Android Phones Caught Red Handed
    November for the HTC Hero? Hmm, that's a little too long for me. My contract with Alltel, I think I've been switched to Verizon now, is up October 27th. Too bad, if it had been out sooner, maybe they'd get us to stay on. But, alas, Sprint's calling.

    Plus, as far as I know, Sprint isn't full of lying bastards who nickel and dime you at EVERY turn and try to punish you for not being an equal asshole to them.
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    10/07/09

    @Antestor: Unless you consider Sprint's $0.20 per minute call forwarding "nickle and diming".

    I do.
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    Image of sharkync sharkync
    10/06/09

    In reply to Verizon's HTC and Motorola Android Phones Caught Red Handed
    Hope the phones aren't as casual as the dress code.
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    10/06/09

    @sharkync: totally. i remember this one time my phone burped and put its hands down its pants at a funeral. so darn casual.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/06/09

    @Anonymoose: One time I brought my phone along to dinner with my girlfriend's parents. It kept chewing with its mouth wide open. When I asked it to stop, it spit meatloaf down my girlfriend's mother's blouse.

    From behind. It was actually a pretty good shot.

    We broke up.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    10/06/09

    @sharkync: mine rocks a mullett (sp)
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    10/06/09

    @OCEntertainment: forealzies? sorry to hear about that dude. so, uhh...does that mean your phone is fair game? i'm not saying i would do anything with it, but...you know
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    10/06/09

    @OCEntertainment: That is impressive! My phone used to be a pretty standard, well-mannered device.... until it found the reefer.

    Now it just spends it's days idling around, not responding to any of my simple queries and just laying on the couch, spilling cheetos crumbs all over the cushions.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/01/09

    In reply to Verizon Outed With Yet Another Android Phone, This Time From HTC
    Gosh, I hope it's not the Click. Click is a perfect sounding name for a budget smartphone. Desire is a fitting name for a fancy-pantsy, supar-awexome, phone-and-a-half!

    I do look forward to seeing what this is. *please be a 4G-enabled, qwerty-slider, with a UI untouched by Verizon....but maybe by HTC.....pleeeasse*
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    Image of itchytooth itchytooth
    06/24/09

    In reply to Captain Obvious of Verizon Says Verizon iPhone is Apple's Decision, Android Phone May Be Coming
    I don't see how this is an obvious statement. I would think that the two companies' ability to come to agreement on the terms would be deciding factor, not type of radio in the phone. It sounds like he's denying the whole Verizon Turned Down Apple rumor.
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    06/24/09

    In reply to Captain Obvious of Verizon Says Verizon iPhone is Apple's Decision, Android Phone May Be Coming
    Verizon would some how manage to gimp the Bluetooth back to pre OS 3.0 days...
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @thechansen: Can we start calling it Mobile OSX?: They do have a habit of disabling Blue Tooth tethering and data transferring on their phones now that you menton it.
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    06/24/09

    In reply to Captain Obvious of Verizon Says Verizon iPhone is Apple's Decision, Android Phone May Be Coming
    Uhm, Apple gave Verizon first dibs on the iPhone at release. Verizon said no. What else is there to say about it other than they shot themselves in the foot.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite: Thats not true.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @tande04: To quote Jim Gerac of Verizon:


    "We said no. We have nothing bad to say about the Apple iPhone. We just couldn't reach a deal that was mutually beneficial."


    What do you mean, "That's not true?"


    @jcrockerman: The stick point was never whether or not the phone was GSM or CDMA based, it was over Verizon feeling they wouldn't get enough money out of the deal.

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    Image of Hammers-On Hammers-On
    06/24/09

    Do you think that AT&T is making money with the iPhone?

    Verizon and At&T are in business to make a profit. Verizon is doing just that, At&T.....not so much.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @Hammers-On: I'm pretty sure they're making money with the iPhone. If they weren't, they wouldn't have moved to subsidizing the phone's cost.


    It has brought them millions of new subscribers.

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    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite: Well my post above sums it up, but the more recent quote is Seidenberg saying that a CDMA iPhone was never seriously considered.


    Maybe "not true" isn't the best way to put it. The reality is that there are a lot of factors that were never public. There was just the initial report that VZW "passed" on the iPhone. As more came out it looked more like a negotiation that was never meant to go through in the first place.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/25/09

    @tande04: Actually, you don't know if that was the case or not. For all we know that's the CEO's latest excuse for why they didn't pick up the iPhone and cash in on what has become a growth point in the smartphone market.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    06/24/09

    In reply to Captain Obvious of Verizon Says Verizon iPhone is Apple's Decision, Android Phone May Be Coming
    I really like Verizon's service. In our area it really can't be beat. I look forward to seing what they might come up with.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @Software_Goddess: You mean other than a new way to bill you for something the phone already supports for free from the factory?
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite: Yah, other than that.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @Software_Goddess: After 13 years of Verizon's inability to carry a phone that isn't either A) An utter piece of shit or B) So crippled and handicapped by Verizon that it is now a piece of shit, I changed. Their network coverage is great, their customer service has been great, their phones just suck and I grew tired of waiting.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite: Yes VZW is a master at the waiting game. I've often wondered how many leaks they're behind just so that they can keep people around a bit longer.


    I'm giving them three more chances (which is what I've been saying forever). The storm2, the whitestone, and of all things the glyde 2.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/25/09

    @tande04: I dumped them. I have an iPhone. My coverage so far is fine, I haven't dropped any calls, my phone bill is actually about the same, and I have a phone that I actually enjoy using that doubles as an iPod, portable PC, and GPS unit (that I don't pay an extra monthly fee for just to see where the hell I am at...)
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