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IPhone, will you switch?

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twistedlim

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Marketplace reported this morning that Verizon is going to announce tomorrow that they will be introducing the iphone. I know the phone is generally knocked here but is it knocked because verizon does not carry it or because it is not android. With the lack of 4G phones for verizon I am curious to see how many will jump the adroid ship to pick up an apple product?

Marketplace Morning Report from American Public Media
 
I am with AT&T and sold my iPhone 4 to wait for the Motorola ATRIX.
I've had EVERY iPhone. Time for a change. :)
 
Oh and no, no plans to jump ship. I've played with the iPhone several times trying to make myself like it. I just can't do it. The screen of icons alone drives me insane. Now I haven't played with the 4 so multi tasking may be better now? but closing an app to open another shortened my playtime even more than the shitty screen of icons.
No flash. I understand HTML5 to view them differently, not sure how well that will actually work to view flash content, great? horrible? don't know.
 
I will definately get an iphone if and when we get them, since I work for verizon I get it for next to nothing.

Odd are though I will only use it for a day or two before switching out to my OG droid, X, fascinate, or my bionic when I get that. I mainly want an idevice for the games they have.
 
twistedlim said:
Marketplace reported this morning that Verizon is going to announce tomorrow that they will be introducing the iphone. I know the phone is generally knocked here but is it knocked because verizon does not carry it or because it is not android. With the lack of 4G phones for verizon I am curious to see how many will jump the adroid ship to pick up an apple product?

Marketplace Morning Report from American Public Media
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The iPhone gets knocked because it's locked down, by both Apple and AT&T. There is no where near the amount of freedom (like with Android) with the Apple OS. That's why I'll never own one. It's my phone - let me do what I want to with it!
 
Nuance said:
The iPhone gets knocked because it's locked down, by both Apple and AT&T. There is no where near the amount of freedom (like with Android) with the Apple OS. That's why I'll never own one. It's my phone - let me do what I want to with it!
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This. Apple products are just crap. They aren't even your products, they're Apple's, and Apple is leasing them to you with a laundry list of conditions that you can't do this or that.
 
You guys are just iphone haters! I can't wait to get one of these incredibly locked down, so easy a caveman can do it, devices..... for my wife. :D Me on the other hand, you'll have to pry my D1 from my cold dead hands, at least until Verizon brings something out to replace my D1 that I can heavily customize and tweak to make it my own.
 
Papadroid said:
You guys are just iphone haters! I can't wait to get one of these incredibly locked down, so easy a caveman can do it, devices..... for my wife. :D Me on the other hand, you'll have to pry my D1 from my cold dead hands, at least until Verizon brings something out to replace my D1 that I can heavily customize and tweak to make it my own.
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I could not have said it better myself. Iphones are what i consider toys now. I would buy one for the wife and the 10 yr old daughter.. They both have ipods so why not make them feel special.. But for me no way cant do it.. I like the iphone but its not for me.
 
Verizon customers are not going to jump on the iphone. What is going to happen is that iphone customers are going to switch to Verizon for their superior coverage and service.
 
Not sure if I would have switched, but the two year plan with no upgrade for 16 months kills it for me. That means no LTE for 16 months.
 
im jumping over right away. i've been waiting for this for a long time. my droid was nice, but I'm nearly on my 4th one in less than a year and I keep having all kinds of quirky issues with it. The current one is actually starting to physically bend and now has a curve to it.Time for something a little more reliable
 
ill be getting the iphone for sure the day them come out. It's one of those things i've always wanted and never had so now's my chance. If i like it great, if i don't i'll sell it. But unless you have been on at&t and owned one, i really dont thik you should be flaming apple for something you've never yourself tried. ... 1 word ... BANDWAGON
 
watersrules said:
I see children with iphones.. Android is for grown-ups.
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Funny, all of my friends are in their 30's and 40's and 80% of them own iPhones and have AT&T. Now a few more of them will get the iPhone with Verizon.

Calling the iPhone a child's toy is pretty asinine.
 
ill be getting the iphone for sure the day them come out. It's one of those things i've always wanted and never had so now's my chance. If i like it great, if i don't i'll sell it. But unless you have been on at&t and owned one, i really dont thik you should be flaming apple for something you've never yourself tried. ... 1 word ... BANDWAGON
 
I used to curse Verizon for not having the iPhone and would've been in line to buy one once upon a time. But when I got my Droid and rooted it and have seen all that you can do to it, I will never buy an iPhone. Sure, you can jailbreak the iPhone and theme it, but that's nothing compared to all the ROMs available for the Droid1. Not to mention being able to flash the next OS before it's been "officially" released. For someone like me, who is a serial rom flasher, I'd go crazy with a locked down iPhone.
 
just got a d2g, and am not happy with battery life. I don't root the phone, was happy but am on my 3d d1 and the phone has terrible lag.

thinking about returning the d2, not sure what to get. was thinking iphone, heard that the battery life is much better, but really like the qwerty. bummed that no lte announced at ces, only 4.3, which is too large for my pocket...
 
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