The hopeful end all to all Verizon bitching. Verizon doesn't give two Sh!ts about you. You are .2 percent of their customer base. Their customer base is mostly families who have a mother who wants something pretty in pink; a father who really doesn't care, and two and half children that want the coolest phone. Note: coolest to kids means what ever is popular which will normally be something ridiculous like the nokia twist or something that flips or slides open...DEVOUR.
Verizon knows they have the best service in the US. Verizon knows that the people they have on their network are there because of their service. Verizon knows that they will get new customers because people will eventually get fed up with their phone not actually functioning as a phone. Verizon knows that no matter how slow they are to bring out new phones it doesn't matter because to 99.8 percent of the population, getting a signal is the number one priority.
ATT operates on a different business model. Bring out the trendiest, hippest phones and sign on D-bags that don't care if they can make a call 30 ft outside of a major city.
ROFL, this post is awesome and so true. I love the last part. It's seriously hopeless arguing with AT&T people about their shitty service. "What bro? I never get dropped calls... I get good service everywhere!" shortly after that bitching about not being able to make a call somewhere, then you call them out on it and the reply is something to the effect of... "Nah Bro, I normally ALWAYS get perfect reception!"
As for the topics at hand... I'm currently of the opinion that we will not see the Bravo / Desire on Verizon or maybe even the US for that matter. Verizon will obviously see the Incredible, whatever it ends up being. Luckily the Nexus One in this whole mess is still nearly as sexy as the Desire. I'll admit, the Desire just steals my heart in the looks department, the buttons, the optical pad, the style.... it's just gorgeous and very advanced looking. However, if we won't see it here, then after seeing those pics on that MWC link of the Desire and N1 held next to each other, I can say the N1 holds its own and they do look very similar in many ways.
The N1 will be a fine option for me (for the time being). I must also admit that the more I read on people saying phones with an overlaid UI (such as Sense) take forever to get updates IF AT ALL, and the fact that people are saying with the N1 / Android update adding many of the functional features of Sense, the N1 is becoming more and more appealing, and any Sense phone is becoming less and less. I'm weird about updates, I love getting them ASAP, so it's an important thing to me.
All I can hope is that Google shapes up on their customer support significantly, and kills most of the N1 bugs before it hits Verizon since we wont have the option of store support.
My mind can still change though, if some very good competition emerges. So far though, N1 keeps coming back to the top for me.
