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*rumor*Bionic being pulled from shelves**
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thethreelaws
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Ha ha, that's funny :lol:
However, if these problems are real, and I'm not somehow using trick videography or anything like that, then I would start to agree with the unsellable part.
Please check out my video (in this post of that thread) and tell me what you think of that in that thread.
YankeeDudeL
Android Expert
Looks like ICS is coming to the Bionic after all.
pool_shark
Android Expert
Or you can simply charge it.
DSCR
Well-Known Member
Hmmm, which do I wanna carry around in my pocket, a couple of thin batteries, or a fat(ter) charger and usb cord....
I burn through batteries at a fast clip as I listen to a lot of sports and news online. Radio station dedicated apps, sirius/xm, slingbox, and "listen now" functions on web sites with dolphin. Not to mention maps/navigation, texting and email.
I really cant remember what it was like before smart phones. And extra batteries......
kool kat2
Android Expert
DSCR
Well-Known Member
LOL. In 1991, my first bag phone weighed maybe 8 lbs. Before that, pagers and pay phones and calling cards. It was a big deal to get a new company calling card. Before that, pay phones and answering machines at home. Before that, pay phones, busy, call back later.....
Oh, I really can remember. Those weren't the "communication" days....
kool kat2
Android Expert
Haha oh man I remember not too long ago I was out and with a dead phone and needed a ride.... I couldn't find a payphone to save my life........
pool_shark
Android Expert
Why would you need to carry it in your pocket? I charge mine in the car, and I charge with my laptop. The car charger stays in the car, the USB cable goes in the laptop bag.
marine one
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Gonna show my age here. I remember as a kid in 6th grade when the first touch tone (or "push button" as they were called back then) phones came out. Most people thought they were a gimmick and not worth the extra few bucks a month on the phone bill. Back then all phones were hard wired into the house (so you paid for installation) and rented from Ma Bell. I had two friends who got them at home. One friends father worked for Bell Telephone and the other worked for Western Electric.
Frisco
=Luceat Lux Vestra=
And what was interesting (now to look back on) is that those touch/push button telephones still operated on the pulse system; you'd hear the clickety-click on the phone receiver as if a dial was still being used. At least in our area.
Later they came with a switch on the bottom so the user could take advantage of the "tone" system or leave it on pulse if that was all they had in their local phone system.
N
nheminger
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That's such good news!
DSCR
Well-Known Member
LOL, not everyone is close to power all the time or sitting in one place all the time. I am a contractor. I charge batteries in the truck via usb or the inverter that powers my netbook and printer. I am usually out of the truck moving around a job site with the phone and extra batteries in my pocket. I can use it better if the phone is not in the truck charging.
When I go to SEC ball games, I might be away from a power source for several hours or all day, cranking sports radio or sirius/xm with the phone through my bluetooth.
When I do all day motorcycle rides, I prefer the phone in my jacket pocket while listening to music or sports or even talking on the phone while listening to navigation through my bluetooth powered UClear helmet communicator. All while I have a battery charging under the seat and 2 or 3 more in my pocket.
etc etc
So, you see, when you move around a lot, taking extra batteries is the best option. I do have chargers distributed through out my house and vehicles. But they are usually charging batteries, not the phone itself.
I USE ALL the phone ALL the time. I am unconcerned with shutting stuff off to save battery. I just pop another one in and keep going......
thethreelaws
Member
i remember that. so when did tone dial first come out?
reason i ask is that i dont know if i experienced it when it was actually new or just new to my area.
No need to be worried about any severe issues that would make the Droid bionic unsellable... The picture is of a Radioshack company-wide bulletin called "The Shack Today" which was announcing that Radioshack is no longer allowed to sell the motorola Droid bionic due to a decision by Verizon wireless. If you look closely at all the various advertising for the Droid lines of phones, you'd see that Verizon has hired Lucasfilms ltd to produce promotions for their phones. It has also been stressed by Verizon representatives to Radioshack how big the release of the bionic would be coupled with the date on which Radioshack would again sell Verizon phones and service. However, Radioshack's own marketing division has determined that they will limit all advertisement to emailed sales fliers and in-store signs rather than let the rest of the world know that they actually sell phones (and stay in business because of profits on cell phone contracts). As such, Verizon determined that since Radioshack did not openly share the same enthusiasm over the release of the bionic, they are hereby unfit to sell it at this point in time...
Has nothing to do with popularity or apple or all the other rumors!!
Radio Shack stores all over received a large shipment of bionics from their supplier that for one reason or another had esn issues... more specifically the esns were not in verizons database so therefore the phones would not activate..
So radio shack made the decision to pull them until the issue had been resolved...
Radio Shack stores all over received a large shipment of bionics from their supplier that for one reason or another had esn issues... more specifically the esns were not in verizons database so therefore the phones would not activate..
So radio shack made the decision to pull them until the issue had been resolved...