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Valencia, CA | Sprint's putting all their effort in Lets hope they have the funding to get it off the ground.
They need a handset to make use of WiMAX... it might as well be a good one. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in said by en102:Lets hope they have the funding to get it off the ground. They need a handset to make use of WiMAX... it might as well be a good one. Here is their press release:
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This smartphone has everything but the kitchen sink. It also has a 1500 mAh battery and it may need it.
Specs:
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kudos:2 | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in Yes it is. | |
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kudos:4 | said by xenophon:said by Romney2012:This smartphone has everything but the kitchen sink. It also has a 1500 mAh battery and it may need it. Everything but a physical keyboard. Is the battery replaceable? Battery is replaceable. And there is a microSD card slot that can hold up to 32GB card.
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Louisiana | said by xenophon:said by Romney2012:This smartphone has everything but the kitchen sink. It also has a 1500 mAh battery and it may need it. Everything but a physical keyboard. Is the battery replaceable? Exactly! This phone is a HUGE no go for me... no keyboard! ARGHHH.... I hate on screen keyboards, you have to look at the phone to type since there are no keys to feel. Damn you apple for starting this retarded trend!
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| | | | | | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in I have a Droid and never use the physical keyboard. I can type faster with the screen in portrait mode and without looking. | |
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Louisiana | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in said by Big Dawg 23:I have a Droid and never use the physical keyboard. I can type faster with the screen in portrait mode and without looking. If I had a droid I wouldn't use that horrible keyboard either.
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1 edit | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in I have a Droid and the keyboard is just fine. Over 30WPM consistent anyday baby.
The on screen HTC keyboard for Android is very sweet though and I can type as fast as I can think with that one.
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Louisiana | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in said by sapo:I have a Droid and the keyboard is just fine. Over 30WPM consistent anyday baby. The on screen HTC keyboard for Android is very sweet though and I can type as fast as I can think with that one. That keyboard is same keyboard phones came out with in 2005-2006. Looking at the keyboard you can see they threw it on there at the last minute.
If you compared that keyboard to say the Blackberries of today or the Touch Pro2 you'd see what I'm saying.
There's simply no comparison:
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1 edit | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in If you actually used the Droid for an extended period of time then you would see what I'm saying as well. A one day demo at the store or using a friends with a predetermined mindset is not a good way to compare my friend. I have had the keyboard on the 6800 and G1 and I had initial confusion with Droid but I adapted and learned for I am human. I bet I can match or beat the speed at which you type with that Touch Pro2 or Blackberry.
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Westminster, MD | said by en102:Lets hope they have the funding to get it off the ground. They need a handset to make use of WiMAX... it might as well be a good one. Well since Dan sold off all the people responsible for maintaining the network to a foreign owned company, he's rolling in $$$ now, plus the royalties for putting his mug back in television ads again (ego anyone?).
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The Lou | Re: Sprint's putting all their effort in Smartest move Sprint made. It provides more leverage to stay afloat as a company.
What's wrong with foreign ownership? That company still pays taxes into the US economy. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Android Evolution Unlike that *ahem* other...device. | |
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| Re: Android Evolution said by tiger72:Unlike that *ahem* other...device. But, there's an app for that.
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kudos:2 | Re: Wowzers... No SERO, but it'll be worth it to me to finally ditch SERO for this one. Android handsets can't do SERO unfortunately... | |
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| Re: Wowzers... I'm afraid as well; I really don't want to lose my trusty physical keyboard 
That said, I could probably get one of those projected BT keyboards for seirous typing...and with that sized screen the onscreen keyboard will be several times the size of my physical one (HTC Touch Pro)... | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Wowzers... said by iansltx:..and with that sized screen the onscreen keyboard will be several times the size of my physical one (HTC Touch Pro)... The onscreen keyboard is bigger than its competitors.
EVO in the middle; iPhone on bottom; Nexus One on top:
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South Bend, IN | I'm with you on this but I'll probably buy the phone anyway. It will give me an excuse to txt my girl less cause I'll tell her I don't have a keyboard anymore! haha | |
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| Re: Wowzers... I was the same way, but give it a chance and I think you'll slowly come around to the on-screen keyboard. I too refused to let go of my physical keyboard since the old HTC Mogule days...
But I just got the Touch Pro 2 which has a HUGE screen... and I find myself using the on-screen keyboard more and more. So now as I look at my phone.... if they shaved off the keyboard it would be noticeably slimmer and lighter.
This new 4G phone looks like its filled with even more awesomeness. Bigger screen and HDMI output (think streaming YouTube HD to your TV thru the phone on 4G) | |
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South Bend, IN | Re: Wowzers... I hope you're right cause I plan on getting this phone | |
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kudos:1 | Trust me, as a Android user for over 6 months who has owned the Verizon 6800 (identical to Mogul), G1, and now the Droid that HTC keyboard that is pictured is very awesome. The white one is made by HTC while the black one is the stock Google one which is inferior to the HTC one. When set to portrait mode into Compact Qwerty mode with its learning feature, auto complete, and automatic spelling correction it has me tearing up the screen. Words literally seem to pop out of thin air. The Full qwerty in landscape mode however does not compete with a physical keyboard but you do get used to it.
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I may switch from a Pre this summer but what I most like about Pre is the perfected one-handed operation and easy switching of apps. Droid definitive does not work well in one hand and is awkward at multi-tasking. If this phone can do these two things well, I'll probably make the switch.
Does Android 2.1 still only store apps in internal storage? This is an issue as some long play 3D games take up over 200MB. | |
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There is a simple hack to have android 1.5 and up put the applications on the SD card, so no worries there. | |
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kudos:1 | Most applications that need more than about 20MB simply create extra storage folders on the SD card. For example, CoPilot GPS saves about a gig of data to the SD card.
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kudos:2 | WANT Enough said. As long as the phone is compatible with Sprint's current plan lineup (I'd get the $70 Everything 450 more 'n' likely) and costs $300 or less, I'm getting this phone. | |
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| said by iansltx:Enough said. As long as the phone is compatible with Sprint's current plan lineup (I'd get the $70 Everything 450 more 'n' likely) and costs $300 or less, I'm getting this phone. +2
I haven't been happy with Sprint in the past, but I may be willing to switch for this phone.
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| Great, but where is 4G? This is called 3.9G First off, Sprint is using a technology that no other carrier in the US is running, all the other carrier's including Verizon (CDMA) are evolving to the GSM based evolution of UMTS which is LTE, so nobody to roam off of for WiMax and they wont get roaming revenue likely either since the big companies will not be using WiMax. And in vast rural area's, Verizon and AT&T will have an advantage with 700mhz, laws of physics, there are other issues that come with it but they can be fixed.
Second, THIS IS NOT 4G! According to the IMT-Advanced spec's for 4G this is not 4G but it is 3.9G, same with Verizon's initial rollout of LTE, it's 3.9G and not 4G until it is upgraded to LTE advanced and capable of 100mbps. I mean people are seeing faster speed's with HSPA than WiMax.
Sprint should be sued for false advertisement because there isn't a 4G network here.
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If Palm is planning on a new phone for Sprint, they better announce it before Evo becomes available. With lower than expected sales with Pre, they have to put out a killer phone or die. | |
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Same was true with Sprint's EVDO rollout in the mid-2000s. In many cities, it was just there in pockets but not officially not announced until most of metro covered. | |
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join:2003-07-05 | Wow. Screw the iPhone.
I'm going after this, Android + 4G is just too much to pass up. | |
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Jacksonville, FL | The only thing stopping this.... The only thing that could stop this is an injunction from Apple from their ongoing legal issues with HTC.
Wired posted a rumor that Palm is now looking to moving to Android ASAP.
Everyone I know who took on the Pre has dropped it already for the HTC Hero. One discovered a critical issue on the Pre where when the contacts reached its limit it would start randomly truncating data. Problem is no one at Palm knows what the limit is, even the development team in India. Android has no such limitations so far.
Every new release on Android puts the Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile farther in the hole. If Palm was smart they would license Android and place the WebOS GUI on top and just get it over with. (Not!) | |
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- far better one-handed operation than any smartphone that exists - Palm focuses on this more than anyone
- much more open than iPhone yet more polished than Android
- no one does multi-tasking better, especially switching apps
- completely based on standards, easiest to develop for (Quake was ported in a day). GameLoft ported iPhone advanced 3D gaming apps instantly.
The problem is that Palm no longer has clout and is terrible at marketing. They also sold more phones in first 6 months than Android, but that doesn't matter.
It's a great OS, just doesn't have the momentum. I am however ready to switch to Android if necessary. I just wish Android had the benefits of webOS as well. | |
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Albany, NY | said by ricep5:The only thing that could stop this is an injunction from Apple from their ongoing legal issues with HTC. Wired posted a rumor that Palm is now looking to moving to Android ASAP. Everyone I know who took on the Pre has dropped it already for the HTC Hero. One discovered a critical issue on the Pre where when the contacts reached its limit it would start randomly truncating data. Problem is no one at Palm knows what the limit is, even the development team in India. Android has no such limitations so far. Every new release on Android puts the Palm WebOS and Windows Mobile farther in the hole. If Palm was smart they would license Android and place the WebOS GUI on top and just get it over with. (Not!) This is simply not true. WebOS is a very robust and polished OS that handles even based multi-tasking like no one else can even do unless they rewrite the OS.
Palm has done an awful job, and QC on the Pre has been horrible.
I would love to see webOS on HTC/Samsung/LG etc... it is a very open platform, virtually open source style development. It is HTML5 and uses standard GL expressions making it easy as hell to write for. It is by a large margin the best mobile OS on the market and most advanced.
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Jacksonville, FL | Re: The only thing stopping this.... Don't fret, I think WebOS is cool and while I don't know the million people who currently use the Pre, I just know that the 8 people whom I am acquainted with Pre's eventually gave up on them.
Of those 8, 6 got tired of the poor support structure, and 2 actually got escalated to the India development team and finally gave up when they didn't know what was wrong.
Since they were all on Sprint, they migrated to the Hero.
While these people are not uber geeks by any means, they had enough issues where support was required. Like any V1.0 products they were essentially testers on behalf of Palm.
MYHO: Palm is in a dead end game and has been since the death of the PDA. The former 3Com hacks running the asylum missed the boat when they couldn't get their user base out of the Treo fast enough. They ended up wasting precious development dollars on the Palm tablet which was stillborn. Hindsight is 20/20, but the dollars should have been working on WebOS, which is nice, but late to the game. | |
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I would not be surprised however if HSPA + surpasses WiMax availability in the US with more consistent DL/UL speeds and overall coverage at least in the interim.
With Verizon adamantly committed to LTE and AT&T changing their minds every other week what they plan to do, it may be a race between T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel about who can brag about having the fastest speeds or the rest of this year into next year.
Both T-Mobile USA and Sprint are very hungry and have a lot to prove to both consumers and investors alike.
Either way, the rest of this year should be exiting as they try to "up one," eachother. I have a feeling we're going to see a lot more ad wars and PR wars in the coming months as tensions rise and saturation rates get higher.
I'm also interested to see if DT buys or leases spectrum from Clear to create their own 4G network or if they switch teams entirely and allow their US unit to go WiMax. | |
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Hollywood, FL | Ooooh shiny! Well I replaced my Treo 755p when I was gifted a Treo Pro. I still have my "credit" for discounted device cost, so let's see what this sucker comes out to when released.
Either this or the Sprint Nexus One will be a good choice replacement I think. | |
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South Bend, IN | oh ya This phone is so freakin awesome! If I had to knock it though I would have liked more RAM and a physical keyboard but who am I kidding I will get this phone!
I don't care about 4g really since it isn't coming to my area anytime soon but 3g is here and the coverage is fine.
What I don't get it why is it everytime Sprint comes out with something all the Verizon and Iphone fan boys have to knock them and go on and on.
Seriously don't you guys have anything better to do? | |
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kudos:1 | Re: oh ya More Ram? What would you really do with it. I have never had ram issues and I have 256MB.
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| Re: do they force you to sign up for a voice or voip plan ?? said by vlad1000:do you have to have a gsm or voip plan from sprint in order to use this phone? or is it completely unlocked and one can simply use skype on it? You will have to get a voice plan.
Unlocked for a CDMA phone is misleading. Many networks won't allow users to bring phones that aren't sold by that network. So even if it were able to be sold completely unlocked, where would you take it?
On GSM/UMTS that of course wouldn't be a problem.
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Will I still be able to use my $30 a month SERO plan too? 
