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Quote: Originally Posted by OldCodger73 I'm a very satisfied Verizon customer and would switch in a minute to an iPhone if one became available through Verizon. No way would I consider going over to AT&T. Until such time as an iPhone comes ou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by samab More than that --- Americans want flip phones --- in both GSM and CDMA world. By not even seriously making an honest attempt to design flip GSM phones for the US market --- no one can ever argue that Nokia mad…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Franck Will it bring copy-paste ? No. Because it's.... just... too... hard. Putting a man on the moon was trivial in comparison. Dontcha know? /end Apple apologist mode ...
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Quote: Originally Posted by samab Verizon has beaten AT&T basically every quarter in retail net adds since the first generation of iphone was launched. It's public record in their SEC filings. No need to read "estimates". You're talking …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning [Nokia] didn't "all but ignore" the CDMA market, Qualcomm had issues with them manufacturing their own CDMA chipset, which led to the lawsuits etc... I know, I know, Nokia and Qualcomm hate each other. But …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross However well Verizon is doing, they would be doing better had they made the deal. That's somewhat debatable. Apple was very likely asking for the sun and the moon in their offer to Verizon. ATT was in a wea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell I guarantee you. Once AT&T contract is up and Verizon is launching its LTE network. Verizon will jockey for the iPhone. They would be stupid not to. Holy God... Teno and I actually sorta kinda agree o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Yes exactly, mobile Safari is the direct interface, and is where the internet is used. The bandwidth is the road that the information travels on. While its always better to have a faster road. The road isn't t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by samab Statistics from the small isolated European countries --- distort the whole picture. You mean like Italy? Wow. No. ....
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 Motorola and Sonyericsson's handset divisions might bite the dust but the companies will carry on with their other more profitable interests. They might offload the handsets to someone else like Siemens did w…
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Btw, to talk about what the article was actually about, would anyone really shed a tear if Motorola or Sony Ericsson bit the dust? My brother used to work in the cellphone division of Moto (before leaving in disgust), and he says that the way th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 I can see that:- http://gizmodo.com/361229/toshiba-so...f-geeky-dreams Pure class... OMG, those ppl are crazy. But in a good way. ...
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell When the iPhone was EDGE only, European carriers reported that data use on the iPhone was far above other phones that were 3G. Market studies that measured world web marketshare found the iPhone marketshare fa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross As far as separate music players go, people don't want to carry too many things around. The same thing was said about integrating PDA's with phones in the beginning. Why would people want one device that isn't…
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Quote: Originally Posted by samab Except that US (with a population of 305 million according to wiki) has a higher 3G penetration rate than the 5 largest European countries combined (UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain with a total population of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox You know, if you're going to insult another poster, you should at least do it to his face, instead of this little chatting with someone who agrees with you and just throwing in a slur as an aside thing, which i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 As an Australian living in Australia, the 3G is the first officially available iPhone sold here. Unlocked and jailbroken iPhones were quite rare here before July 11, the same could be said for many other coun…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox I think what makes the iPhone a special case when it comes to diversifying the product line is that the combination of touch screen and portability are so integral to what the product is. Much smaller and yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by madmaxmedia Thanks for that detailed explanation melgross. Yep, Mel knocked that one outta the park. Too bad nVidia is moron-ing it up so bad over something that seems not too hard to do right. The issues inv…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I'd like to point out that silver is also prohibited in many jurisdictions. Silver is a poison, and very damaging. OMG. Werewolves were right all along! ...