Sprint takes gloves off, aims for Apple's chin
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Attention, iPhone users: We've found a way (via Pre Thinking and Sprint's Facebook page) that you can save up to $1,200 over two years on your service plans! All you have to do is buy a Palm Pre and sign up for service with Sprint.
Sure, you won't have your iPhone anymore, or your AT&T service. But if you're using a first-gen iPhone, you're likely about to be out of a contract. Even if you're not, the $1,200 should offset anything like a contract cancellation fee, right?
This logic all comes from an interesting--and aggressive--ad campaign from Sprint. Aimed squarely at users of the original iPhone, Sprint is pointing out not just that its plans are cheaper overall, but that its first-gen device can do things Apple's can't.
This means we might actually be seeing the first salvos in the superphone wars we've been talking about since the iPhone first showed its shiny face two years ago. And Palm's soldier has a real keyboard.
With more than 15 years experience testing hardware (and being obsessed with it), Crave freelance writer Matt Hickey can tell the good gadgets from the great. He also has a keen eye for future technology trends. Matt has blogged for publications including TechCrunch, CrunchGear, and most recently, Gizmodo. E-mail Matt. 
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My phone picks Nextel/Sprint signal when i'm in basement (B2). that 2 levels down from the surface of the earth.
Congrats, you all live somewhere with a large population. When you live in the other 80% of the United States that isn't densely populated Sprint is a joke.
Oh, ATT users can not get service either.
Most carriers skimp in areas with few customers and concentrate on the 20% of the area with 80% of the users.
No one carrier is best everywhere.
So they sell a premium product that is made of cheap parts and slave labor out of China? I was wondering what makes Apple products so superior. Maybe it's not Apple but their fanboys that are so "superior"...
CNET's not outta touch and dudesmiles probably works for Apple.
One of the biggest hardware advantages of the iPhone is the iPod touch. The sister handheld device drives up the total user base for the platform, providing app developers with a far larger audience. No other smartphone platform has this incredible leverage.
I am perfectly happy spending an average of $3/month on my Motorola dumbphone with T-Mobile's Pay-As-You-Go service and connecting to the Internet via available WiFi with my iPod touch. I can use most of the iPhone apps on my iPod touch.
The applications are the key. That's why the iPod touch just rocks. Before the App Store was launched, it was just a really pretty, really expensive personal media player with e-mail and a web browser.
Funny.
How long have we had to listen to Windows fanboys claiming there's hardly any software available for Apple products?
If i remember correcly Palm has some experience in the handheld market and Apple had none prior to the iPhone. As mush as I hated original Palm devices, everyone else loved them like an iPhone. Now I really see the beenfit of the WebOS and it's only going to get better. I will wait for the 4G Pre2 to be honest. By then it should be totally slick.
If you had your iPhone for two years, and downloaded a multitude of Apps, are you really going to want to switch over to a 1st Gen phone that hasn't had time to mature and doesn't do some things that same?
I think that's the problem with today's phones. They are so loaded with unique features that you'll get married to them and switching will be a major pain. It's getting harder and harder to switch as each phone start to become more and more unique. Why switch to something else when you're used to one thing? Also, those people can get a new iPhone too for the same price. The Pre is nice, but not nice enough to woe iPhone users. Sprint needs to target the masses who don't have a smartphone yet, not the people who already do.
Optical Grade Glass Oleophobic Coating Screen - NOT PLASTIC
3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
CPU/GPU same as the Pre, but FASTER
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3587
Open GL/ES 2.0 Optimized by iPhone OS
SGX535 and SGX540 (28 MPolys/s) for handheld high end mobile, portable, MID, UMPC, consumer, and automotive devices vs the Palm Pre weaker SGX530/1 (14 MPolys/s) for the handheld mobile market
16GB/32GB
8GB for $99
Talk time: Up to 12 hours on 2G - Up to 5 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use: Up to 5 hours on 3G - Up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 30 hours
Size and weight
Height: - 4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
Width: - 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
Depth: - 0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
Weight: - 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
Predictive TEXT
iTunes seamless integration
Movies
Video PodCast
Audio PodCast
TV Shows
Music
Music Videos
iTunes University
iTunes Latino
50 thousand apps and growing fast
REAL High End 3D accelerated Games
High End Applications
Dock Connector API and I can't wait to see the 3rd party hardware stuff coming this summer. This alone pushes the iPhone way beyond the wanna bees.
BT API
MobileMe with Locate me and Remote Wipe
Apps open and switch instantly now
Superior battery life by a huge margin
Video Recording ( Widescreen ) and Instant Editing right on the iPhone, Instant Share to YoutTube, MobileMe and eMail
Instantly share pictures to MobileMe Gallery
It's an iPod!!
Safari with AI, Multi-Touch controls
Real Cut, Copy & Paste. Yeah even non editable text can be copied.
Voice Memos
Voice Control and yeah not just English, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, English (UK), English (U.S.), Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Germanm, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish
MMS with full copy and paste
Real Universal Global Search to the Framework/API level. It mean all apps, not just core apps get Global Search
Keyboard with the best predictive intelligence yet. Has 40 international layouts and growing. Nice to have a virtual keyboard to easily add languages.
Dictionary supports international languages also
Character recognition so you can write in Chinese characters!
Digital compass ( hikers/bikers/campers ) will love this
Tethering
Nike + iPod
Parental Control - Restrict: Safari, YouTube, iTunes, Installing Apps, Camera, Location, In-App Purchases, Explicit lyrics in music and podcasts, Movies by rating (R, PG-13, etc...) or movies in general, TV by rating (TV-MA, TV-14, etc...) or TV in general, Apps by rating (17+, 12+, etc...) or Apps in general
Autofocus and selectable Focus on the Camera!
Photo and Video Geotagging
Google Sync
Exchange Sync
AGPS - Voice Turn by Turn support
Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)
Optical Grade Glass Oleophobic Coating Screen - NOT PLASTIC
3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
CPU/GPU same as the Pre, but FASTER
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3587
Open GL/ES 2.0 Optimized by iPhone OS
SGX535 and SGX540 (28 MPolys/s) for handheld high end mobile, portable, MID, UMPC, consumer, and automotive devices vs the Palm Pre weaker SGX530/1 (14 MPolys/s) for the handheld mobile market
16GB/32GB
8GB for $99
Talk time: Up to 12 hours on 2G - Up to 5 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use: Up to 5 hours on 3G - Up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 30 hours
Size and weight
Height: - 4.5 inches (115.5 mm)
Width: - 2.4 inches (62.1 mm)
Depth: - 0.48 inch (12.3 mm)
Weight: - 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
Predictive TEXT
iTunes seamless integration
Movies
Video PodCast
Audio PodCast
TV Shows
Music
Music Videos
iTunes University
iTunes Latino
50 thousand apps and growing fast
REAL High End 3D accelerated Games
High End Applications
Dock Connector API and I can't wait to see the 3rd party hardware stuff coming this summer. This alone pushes the iPhone way beyond the wanna bees.
BT API
MobileMe with Locate me and Remote Wipe
Apps open and switch instantly now
Superior battery life by a huge margin
Video Recording ( Widescreen ) and Instant Editing right on the iPhone, Instant Share to YoutTube, MobileMe and eMail
Instantly share pictures to MobileMe Gallery
It's an iPod!!
Safari with AI, Multi-Touch controls
Real Cut, Copy & Paste. Yeah even non editable text can be copied.
Voice Memos
Voice Control and yeah not just English, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, English (UK), English (U.S.), Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Germanm, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish
MMS with full copy and paste
Real Universal Global Search to the Framework/API level. It mean all apps, not just core apps get Global Search
Keyboard with the best predictive intelligence yet. Has 40 international layouts and growing. Nice to have a virtual keyboard to easily add languages.
Dictionary supports international languages also
Character recognition so you can write in Chinese characters!
Digital compass ( hikers/bikers/campers ) will love this
Tethering
Nike + iPod
Parental Control - Restrict: Safari, YouTube, iTunes, Installing Apps, Camera, Location, In-App Purchases, Explicit lyrics in music and podcasts, Movies by rating (R, PG-13, etc...) or movies in general, TV by rating (TV-MA, TV-14, etc...) or TV in general, Apps by rating (17+, 12+, etc...) or Apps in general
Autofocus and selectable Focus on the Camera!
Photo and Video Geotagging
Google Sync
Exchange Sync
AGPS - Voice Turn by Turn support
Viewable document types: .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel)
Network coverage varies from city to city. I just left Sprint for the iPhone 3G S and I can tell you that without a doubt, AT&T's network owns Sprint! It's no contest. Speed and coverage, AT&T is definitely a better choice. I had the Samsung Instinct which had such great potential, but Sprint being completely retard, screwed the phone up worse and worse with each firmware update. I went through 4 Instincts... and a year of headaches. I honestly considered the Pre, but after spending the last 6 or 7 months with the iPod Touch 2g... I fell in love with it and decided that I would wait for the next gen iPhone and that's what I did. I end my contract with Sprint in a few days and I really hope they ask me why :D
I hope the Pre does well because I like Palm as a company, but Sprint can stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
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Pre you can simply unlock the core and it is faster the then Iphone,Pre also has a higher resoluition,better camera,far more intuitive UI,better and faster browser,better TV viewing,FREE GPS,FREE EVEYTHING incuded in their Plan. Apples and ATT charge you for everything EXTRA then a few BASICS. IF you were to use both Products to their abilities as you have shown Apples have a few,THEN YOU WOULD PAY OVER $50 MORE A MONTH TO USE APPLES.
@quixel1---Someone is sure bent out shape. Other than the cost of AT&T (which I agree sucks), show some facts.
Wait a minute. I have some numbers for you right here (straight from Palm and Apple). Basically there are two main things that the Pre does that the iPhone does not. 1-Multi-task (sacrifice battery life) 2-Physical Keyboard
Other than than what is mentioned above, your post is mostly FUD! They have the same screen resolution (iPhone display is bigger). Pre only has one capacity (8GB), while the iPhone has two (16 and 32GB). Shall I continue to debunk your BS?? No, I'll stop where I am at. Now, I am not trying to promote the iPhone because I do wish that Apple would drop AT&T on their butts. The Pre is a nice device with a lot of potential, but your bias against one device deserved a response.
Palm Pre-
Display-3.1-inch touch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color 320x480 resolution HVGA display.
Camera- 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and
extended depth of field
Capacity-8GB
Physical QWERTY keyboard
Power and Capacity-Not mentioned on Palm's website.
Apple iPhone-
Display-
3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Camera-3 megapixels
Autofocus
Tap to focus
Video recording, VGA up to 30 fps with audio
Photo and video geotagging
iPhone and third-party application integration
Capacity-16GB or 32GB flash drive
Power and battery3
Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter
Talk time:
Up to 12 hours on 2G
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use:
Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 10 hours
Audio playback: Up to 30 hours
As for the ad, so Sprint has resorted to lying/overstating to win converts? Sounds like the laptop hunter ads.
Maybe if you have an unlimited everything plan, Sprint will save you $1200. But for me, it's $5 a month more for ATT. That's all. And $100 extra for the phone, though I get a 32GB phone not some wimpy 8GB. I waited for the 32GB iphone before moving from a normal phone. Why would I move backward?
As for not running multiple apps at a time, or not updating live, that is a half truth. It runs SOME apps at the same time, just not 3rd party ones. And considering how much freaking battery running apps takes, I am glad the iPhone doesn't. Would it be nice sometimes? Yes. But when I forget to quit an app? Well, the Pre's just run out of power before your day is over. This is the reason Apple hasn't enabled open multi tasking yet, and I can see why.
But Palm is scared. In one weekend, they sold 100,000. The iPhone 3Gs sold 1 million in their first weekend. I bet Palm thought they would get more takers...
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ikramerica--2008 You say that the only reason ATT civerafe is panned by critics is because the writers all live in NewYork?? Also you say in Sarasota where your family lives that ATT is the best. I travel and stay in Sarasota at times for business and having used both ATT and
Sprint travelling ,I could not get a decent signal in Sarasota using ATT,Sprint blows ATT out of the water in Florida in general as I have been up and down the coast more times then you can count. ATT only costs you $5 more a month? Again Unless you use almost nothing on the Iphoen you are (wrong)...IT costs an extra $10 a month just to get nights and weekends at 7 pm on the Iphoney and an extra $20 a month for unlimited texting.GPS and everything else all cost EXTRA on the IPHONEY while all are incuded in the most basic Pre plan.
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As for NYC, Sprint is great there. So is Verizon. I know plenty of people who won't get ATT in NYC because there are so many dead spots. It's gotten better, but Verizon is still king there for coverage. But when I visit, I personally don't have problems with ATT. But again, that is the difference between living somewhere and simply visiting.
But here in Los Angeles, Sprint isn't great. Especially in the hills, they stink out loud. You can get ATT signals in many places that Sprint just doesn't work. I gave Sprint 5 years to get their act together, assuming that all carriers were just as bad, but then finally switched to Cingular (ATT) and it was just better overall. Now, the only place I can't get coverage with ATT is at the Y, which is sandwiched into a hillside.
But what I really hate the iPhone most for is creating an army of smug users that are becoming the most bigoted people I have met in all my years on the internet. That's my number one incentive not to buy one, I like who I am, and iPhone owners just can't seem to make me feel "uncool" enough to join the herd.
Are you typing you reply on a touchscreen gabenowak? I don't thinks so.
As for "lost" or "misplaced" phone, you can try MobileMe's location service. I really do not need another ISP but tried it anyway just for fun and it is a nice service. Not only that, I can now keep track of my children and my family can track me as I crisscross the region running errands. A nifty little feature.
As for this article, it is as competition should be. Now it is up to the consumers to decide which device best meet their needs and there are many diverse needs. Pre is good for some but poor for others, iPhone will work for some and won't for others. There is room for a lot of growth in this area and no one can claim the "crown" yet.
Personally, I prefer no one gets the "crown". The more honest competition, the more innovation and the faster prices drop and the better it is for a consumer.
I'm sure it doesn't take that much time and effort for them to ping a phone and locate it. As for the rest of the MobileMe services... I don't need them. I would like to just be able to find my phone if it's ever lost or stolen. Why not sell that as a $25 a year service instead of forcing $100 a year for a bunch of stuff I don't need.
Sorry if you think all of that should be free (I know some companies offer some of it for free), but I think it's worth the money, considering how well integrated it is.
Don't blame ATT they have to SUBSIDIZE the IPHONEY blame APPLES for this ,IF they didnt't OVER-CHARGE ATT FOR THE IPHONEY THEN YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY SO MUCH TO BE ON A CR-APPLE NETWORK."
And how much is the Pre costing Sprint?? Ever looked that up?? Didn't think so. I did and it is $700 at most sites. The 16GB iPhone goes for around $800, but remember it has double the storage. Now will please do everyone a favor and get a life and turn your D--- CAPS LOCK OFF!!
apple's products are no better than the rest, they just know how to market it.
I still get the occasional hankering to get a iphone when a cool app or OS upgrade comes out, but I stop when I realize how much I'd have to spend each month. Its just too much.
Palm Pre feels like a girls phone. Not as smooth as the Iphone, close.
The $99 SEP is the only thing I am going to miss with Sprint.
The moral of this, people, is do a little research before jumping on an "unlimited" plan. You may not really need it. As the old saying goes, "a fool and his..."
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In short all three carriers have their issues but no one has the total experience of the iPhone. No other devise comes close.
but everyone b****ed about the iPhone and its battery life and no one even mentions it about the pre
if Sprint's network was so great they be #1 or 2 network not the crap it is
RIP My iPod Touch 2G :'-(
But in all seriousness. The iPhone is pretty alright but it's not built for people with jobs or studies to worry about. They like to pretend like that's not the case but who are they fooling? Not any reasonable person--I'll tell you that.
Today I buffered a 30 minute documentary on YouTube while I listened to music on Pandora and browsed the web. I still had my sudoku game open. I had to take a call but the apps remained open. I had 3 pages open because I was comparing information and got a little sms notification from my gf telling me about a dinner she wants me to go to with her. I added it to my calendar. I still had my other apps open. I decided to catch up on the Iran situation so I opened my AP application. I had no interest in closing my other apps. I didn't have to luckily.
Apple fanboy drones like to say that no one multitasks really but that's just their fragile psyches not being able to handle a phone doing things their jesus phone can't. the fact of the matter is that apple is no one to tell me how I should use my device.
I just ordered a 1350MAH extended battery. The pre comes with a 1150MAH battery pack. That battery pack isn't too good but atleast I can change it. Browsing the precentral forums I read up on how pres can have homebrew apps without any sorts of hacks. I installed SimplyFlipFlops by clicking on a link in an email. Flash is also coming to the device by years end. There are talks of adding video recording support. I can't wait to they unleash that beast to developers. I really like the phone. If you don't like it that's fine. But if you're going to bash it at least make some sense. Don't discredit it by saying the iPhone is better because in many ways it is not.
NO NO SeizeCTRL She saw you humping your Iphone and saw you drooling and umm the other thing coming out of you -that is just not natural dude. She definitely was freaked out by you and Actually will get a restraining order for you if you don't quit stalking her."
Your poor mother. So many restraining orders, so little time. See quixel1, it's easy to act like an idiot.
After a year long dysfunctional relationship with my Samsung Instinct, I'd almost hump any phone that came along ;) I had to purchase an iPod Touch to make up for all of the shortcomings of the Instinct. Sprint could not live up to the hype. If you visit the official Instinct website, they still insist on showing all the iPhone Killer stuff it can do... Sprint did not live up to the promises. The Instinct had a lot of potential, but Sprint screwed up time and time again, from a failed app contest with nothing released, to firmware updates that made the phone worse, and they even went so far as to limit how many songs the music player app would load to try and circumvent the slow loading time.
So I wanted something with a good browser, WiFi and a great music player... the iPod Touch was perfect for that and after 7 months, there was no doubt, that anything would be better than the Instinct and the iPhone would do exactly what I had come to expect my Instinct failed to do and the iPod Touch excelled in minus the phone part.
I guess more or less, I'm willing to hump success than suffer another year of failure and misery on Sprint. As I said, I will miss the $99 Simply Everything Plan, but I will not miss lousy coverage in my area, pisspoor customer service, and the only thing they are willing to do is swap out a phone with problems with an identical phone with identical problems.
Now if you will excuse me, I have some private time with my iPhone (bom chica bal wow wow)
THE PLASTIC PRE I returned mine after a day - A geniuine peice of s__t. Amazing how deceiving advertising is.
The technology-heavy Nasdaq outperformed, helped partly by gains in Palm after it posted a narrower-than-expected loss late on Thursday and said demand was strong for its new Pre smartphone. Palm shares jumped nearly 16 percent to $16.22.
Yep , Apple fans , Palm is dead. NOT ! Palm Pre FTW !
You'd think with six months of build up and hype, there would have been more takers for the Pre. Maybe it was just a bad name? I don't know...
Apple stock--142.44 +2.58? (1.84%?) Jun 26 4:00pm ET.
Not saying that Palm is dead. the Pre is a decent phone, but Palm's stock doesn't hold a candle to Apples.
Wake up! The money you guys are speaking of..... $200.00 mth. for a phone will feed 100 people for a year. But 1000 just died of starvation as I was writing this comment. Most of them were children.
As for the Apple iPhone or Palm Pre or RIM Blackberry... I just can't justify the price for any of them, but boy I'd sure like to have one. Send your donations to IWANTASMARTPHONE.com, better yet, send your donations to http://www.FeedTheChildren.com
Please... change your way of thinking, it's not all about YOU
But I also have plastic coated phones that are 5 years old and never scratched. Yet some ifans hold on even in the face of obvious change. Even though there are obvious videos showing the palm pre is faster in many circumstances, they still cling. If I've learned anything in the last 25 years about apple, is their fans tend to be cultish and rarely if ever go to another brand which is sad because they usually miss out. Even though the iphone, at this point, looks like a bulky, square, dated, slow phone lacking newer features such as multi-tasking they resist noticing. And don't say multi-tasking isn't useful, because had it been on the iphone, you guys would stand there are talk about how wonderful it was and how no other phone had it but apple. It's the same with the desktops. Even though mac's aren't really superior, they go on and on about how they are. Granted I think osx does have advantages, at the same time, I think the claims are severely exaggerated. So much as to not warrant having another one. For me, the only really impressive product from apple over the years is actually the iphone and perhaps the ipod touch. Why? Because they are so sleek and modern and the touch is awesome.
BUT, they are not the only ones doing this anymore. In fact there are many other phones coming out that have other abilities such as Samsung which does HD that the iphone can't do. And that's due to apple cutting back the battery so it appeals to ifans desire to have sleek and shiny. Cutting back battery, means cutting down cpu output to accommodate that. Just a little thicker and it would have enough juice to do that. For those who doubt there are articles out there. That said I hope Sprint and others do well inspite of close minded ifans, because competition is what's important for growth.
That said, let me cut-and-paste a little hominy that I posted elsewhere today:
"I know Apple haters frequently like to quote the "Apple tax" and the fact that non-Apple customers are saving money, and here is yet another study [published today] that shows that Apple customers are at the top of the pack in terms of customer satisfaction.
Even though you Apple haters are so thrilled that you're saving money, why are you so unhappy with your total ownership experience?
Can money buy happiness? In terms of high-tech product purchases, maybe the answer is yes..."
It would be pretty stupid to say you bought an apple product paid way more than a comparable non apple product and were still not satisfied. You might even lie to yourself and say that all is well.
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REALLY cvaldes1831 -are you that BRAINDEAD or BRAINWASHED? He said exactly the Problem and you fit exacty what he was talking about. YOU APPES FANBOIS have such a narrowminded Myopic View of everything that is not APPLES. You are brainwashed,the rest of the people are HONEST and say YES we want this or that ,This Product could be better. YOU APPLES peope say OMG my IPHONESY is the BEST EVER it COUD BE NO BETTER as it is APPLES so therefore IT IS PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!! This and Ony this is why the Customer Satisfaction is so high. YOU ARE CUILTIST ZEALOTS!!!! Lets;s go ask the David Koresh People or the People that drank the original Kool-Aid that you guys drink or even the Obamites what they think about their GODS...LOL you will get the same exact UnAdulterated Aduration and Narrowminded LOVE and HATE for Anything ESE that does not AGREE with their WACKO PERCEPTIONS."
The same can be said for "braindead" zealots like yourself, but hey, I'll yet your ridiculous comments speak for themselves. Say "hi" to your sister AppleSuxLeo, BTW.
You should try to improve your reading comprehension someday.
I have never written once here (or anywhere else) that the iPhone was perfect. It is in fact far from perfection (the Japanese would tell you that as they have largely ignored the iPhone -- their phones are years ahead of those in the States).
Also, I'm not an iPhone owner. Two years ago, nobody was an iPhone owner. Yet every single customer satisfaction survey puts Apple owners (whether it be their computers, their music players, or now their smartphones) at the top of the pack.
The iPhone has several huge advantages over the competition. A.) Apple controls the entire ecosystem (hardware, software, App Store) and thus provides an overall better customer experience. B.) Apple deliberately chose GSM technology which covers 70% of the world's mobile subscribers. C.) The iPhone has a sister device in the iPod touch which drives up the user base of apps substantially.
Note that I am not the one who is giving Apple the highest customer satisfaction rating. That's based on a sampling of everyone (i.e., not just Apple fanboys). That's what's so odd to me. If saving money is so great, why aren't you happier at the end of the day?
That's not food for thought just for you, ckh1272, that's for everyone to consider.
ckh1272,
You should try to improve your reading comprehension someday."
@cvaldes1831-Speaking of reading comprehension, you should pay attention to the quote above my reply. I was responding to the troll known as quixel1. I agreed with your other post, so let's please try to keep our reponses directed to the right person.
"That said, let me cut-and-paste a little hominy ..."
I couldn't help but notice the irony of this. I guess "cut-and-paste" has it's uses after all. ;-)
I like it! They can pull each others Pants off. Bring it on!
Beer, Car, Service Company's and so on, do it since years!
Never saw this kind of comparison commercials before? Many just coming out from the cave or a deep bunker I guess ;-)
It just will help the Costumers, until the FBI investigates for price fixings again.
But all Networks in the US are still behind the rest of the world!
And what for a Wireless Service provider let you do everything with your Smartphonesupercomputerallyoucaneatandletyoudowithitwhatyouwantandwhenyouwant? None, all cut things off, you strain to much on there networks!
- by Perry_Clease June 26, 2009 8:31 PM PDT
- Time will tell how many 1st generation iPhone users switch to the Pre.
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- by TechnoMan475392 June 27, 2009 1:33 PM PDT
- You can't do that on most phones. The internet is using the data service for a call, and calling also uses data for a call. One or the other.
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- TechnoMan475392 is correct.
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Showing 1 of 6 pages (259 Comments)I have yet to try a Pre, to handle one, so I can't comment on it. Is it true that, unless your are on WiFi, you can not use the Pre cell phone and surf the web at the same time?
Most 3G smartphones run voice and data over 3G and cannot do both simultaneously. The iPhone 3G and 3GS are unusual because voice is running over plain ol' GSM whereas data is running over 3G (or EDGE).