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10-18-2009, 01:23 AM
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Business: ANOmations Blog Entries: 16 XBOX Leaderboard: 28th       | iDon't Commercial Verizon continues to get very aggressive against the iPhone - here is their new ad for the upcoming Motorola Droid phone:
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10-18-2009, 03:49 AM
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| Meow.       Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tacoma, WA USA
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10-18-2009, 08:32 AM
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| Minister of Greenery 
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10-18-2009, 08:40 AM
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| Monkeh Foo Master       SLU Supporter 
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: June 6th, 2006 Blog Entries: 5  | I thought that was a great marketing ploy. I wonder how it'll work out for them. I know a lot of people are anxiously awaiting a good phone from Verizon. They always end up with the crappy phones (BlackBerry's are an exception to some) but, overall their Smartphones and PDA's kinda suck.
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10-18-2009, 10:22 AM
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| Emergency Mustelid  Join Date: Sep 2009
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| iDont think calling Android "open" is entirely honest. The underlying software is open source, but it's designed to be locked down in the phone, just like the iPhone is. The big advantage Android had over OpenMoko, for the carriers, is that it's totally Tivoizable. None of the new generation of so-called "smart" phones seem to be open in the way the PalmOS and Windows Mobile and Symbian phones are. I has a sad about that. |
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10-18-2009, 02:50 PM
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| Prim hair is for sissies. 
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Blog Entries: 2 | Doesn't look like an ad coming from a carrier that expects to get the iPhone anytime soon, does it? So much for that speculation... I think Verizon is on to something with the "There's a map for that" ad. The real weak spot with the iPhone right now is AT&T...people love the iPhone, hate the network. With that in mind, I don't think your average iPhone user (or potential user) cares about the points this Droid ad brings up, particularly without seeing what the competing phone actually looks like or how it operates. The Palm Pre ads touted several of these advantages, and they didn't help to sway users (of course it also didn't help that the Pre ads were super creepy). Verizon Motorola Droid (aka Sholes) outed in new leaked photos - SlashGear Now, if Verizon/Motorola can actually deliver a sleek Android phone that people like to use, we could finally see a real battle for mindshare in the smart phone space. It's easy to promise an "iPhone killer" but no one has been able to deliver one yet. Is Motorola the company to do it? |
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10-19-2009, 02:07 PM
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| Prim hair is for sissies.
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Blog Entries: 2 | First hands on impression of the Droid I've seen: Motorola Droid hands on! : Boy Genius Report |
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10-19-2009, 10:35 PM
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| The Mask Lady  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Carnivale
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Business: Illusions: Masks and Unique Accessories | I think they named it Droid just so they could say things like: "Hang on, I need to recharge my droid" "I'll program that into my droid" "Grab your droid and lets go" or perhaps the immortal "This is not the droid you're looking for"
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11-28-2009, 05:50 AM
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| Meow. Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tacoma, WA USA
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Business: The Fourth Dimension Blog Entries: 31 | I absolutely LOVE my droid. Just got it today. I LOVE IT! |
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11-28-2009, 10:58 AM
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| Senior Member  | One problem for all these "other" phones is "Apple’s App Store is now serving over 100,000 downloadable iPhone apps". Now truth be told many of those apps are simply duplicates or tiny variations of others but still that is quite a head start to give Apple if you are going to compete. Tess
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11-28-2009, 11:12 AM
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11-28-2009, 11:31 AM
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11-28-2009, 02:35 PM
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| Palm OS... CLASSIC Palm OS, still has more variety in applications than anything. That hasn't let it devour the market. Though it doesn't help that Palm has worse corporate ADHD than Linden Lab, as impossible as that seems. |
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11-28-2009, 05:10 PM
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| Meow. Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tacoma, WA USA
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Business: The Fourth Dimension Blog Entries: 31 | Since Apple unapproved this for their iPhone, I hope something like this comes out on the Droid: Same with M.A.M.E. At least there are some NES emulators already on it though |
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11-28-2009, 11:11 PM
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My Mood: SL Join Date: June 12, 2003 XBOX Leaderboard: 4th | Speaking of the Commodore 64 emulator on the iPhone/iPod Touch it is $2.99 for this weekend only. It's regularly $4.99. |
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11-29-2009, 03:50 AM
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| Meow. Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tacoma, WA USA
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Business: The Fourth Dimension Blog Entries: 31 | That's great that they re-approved it YESS!!!!! (not that I can take advantage of that, but still LOL) |
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12-06-2009, 04:12 AM
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| Meow. Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tacoma, WA USA
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Business: The Fourth Dimension Blog Entries: 31 | Woohoo! Frodo C64 is out now for the Droid, free, yeay! |
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12-07-2009, 02:17 PM
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 get an R4 cartridge and play loads of emulators
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