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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #250 on: June 23, 2010, 03:21:35 PM »
Sprint people:  Is the HeroII/Legend or some other Android device coming out soon?  mrs. dave needs a new phone but thinks the EVO is too big.  Plus, I don't want to pay $10 extra a month for her anyway. 

Elite looking Sprint worker at the Elite Sprint Store across the street from the Sprint Center told me that the Hero2 would in fact be coming out in the next few months.  Probably Q4 of 2010. 

That guy sounds like he looks amazing.  Tell him thanks.
Thank him for nothing, it isn't true imo.  My guess is that there are no new HTC launches this year- however, I would think that it is a safe bet that Sprint does launch a couple of new android phones in 3Q though.


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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #251 on: June 23, 2010, 03:23:06 PM »
Sprint people:  Is the HeroII/Legend or some other Android device coming out soon?  mrs. dave needs a new phone but thinks the EVO is too big.  Plus, I don't want to pay $10 extra a month for her anyway. 

Elite looking Sprint worker at the Elite Sprint Store across the street from the Sprint Center told me that the Hero2 would in fact be coming out in the next few months.  Probably Q4 of 2010. 

That guy sounds like he looks amazing.  Tell him thanks.
Thank him for nothing, it isn't true imo.  My guess is that there are no new HTC launches this year- however, I would think that it is a safe bet that Sprint does launch a couple of new android phones in 3Q though.

Anything worth a damn if you had to guess?  Anything a mrs. dave type wouldn't mind carrying around?

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #252 on: June 23, 2010, 08:08:53 PM »
No doubt, apple is slow to implement features into their phone that hamper its ability to function the way they want it.  Even missing all of those features, it's still a great phone.  Crazy, huh?

Yeah, the iPhone 4g is going to be cool, I just wouldn't ever be able to use one cause I text while driving a lot and I'd die in a fiery vehicle accident if I didn't have a physical keyboard.

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #253 on: June 24, 2010, 10:40:51 AM »
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My iPhone 4g will be here 2marow lol #teamIphone

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #254 on: June 24, 2010, 01:06:41 PM »
still waiting for an android phone on Virgin + a Rockbox app for Android.  Which people are working on!

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=f1f11e34f8a1a7232d6412c855c01195&topic=25107.msg168499#msg168499

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #255 on: June 24, 2010, 01:11:42 PM »
still waiting for an android phone on Virgin + a Rockbox app for Android.  Which people are working on!

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=f1f11e34f8a1a7232d6412c855c01195&topic=25107.msg168499#msg168499

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i posted somewhere in this thread or the other one- i think july is what i read online.


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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #256 on: June 24, 2010, 01:27:52 PM »
What does rockbox do?  Like, music or whatever?

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #257 on: June 24, 2010, 01:32:17 PM »
What does rockbox do?  Like, music or whatever?

yeah.  It's really good for music geeks like me.  Mainly because I can delete songs while they're playing, but there's about everything you could possibly want, other than some itunes smart playlist type stuff, maybe.

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #258 on: June 25, 2010, 11:08:51 AM »
FROYO!!!

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http://gizmodo.com/5570938/android-22-froyo-available-today

Root and install immediately.  Report back.

My contract ends July 31 and I'm seriously considering an EVO.  Your information could prove vital to my decision.

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http://gizmodo.com/5572751/froyo-available-on-sprint-in-near-future-motorola-droid-x-in-august

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #259 on: June 27, 2010, 09:19:08 AM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #260 on: June 27, 2010, 09:46:42 AM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

:surprised:

Hey, everyone who's got one of these fancy phones with no keyboard aside from the touch screen.  Can you text and do stuff easily while driving?

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #261 on: June 27, 2010, 10:01:55 AM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

:surprised:

Hey, everyone who's got one of these fancy phones with no keyboard aside from the touch screen.  Can you text and do stuff easily while driving?

FIXED!  :driving:

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #262 on: June 27, 2010, 10:05:37 AM »
what was wrong w/ it?

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #263 on: June 27, 2010, 10:13:02 AM »
what was wrong w/ it?

No idea.  I shook the eff out of it and took the battery out about seven times and smacked it with my hand and BAM! works.  I should probably get a job at Sprint with my magical phone fixing skills.  But, yeah, if it does it again I'm taking it back.  

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #264 on: June 28, 2010, 10:51:55 AM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

:surprised:

Hey, everyone who's got one of these fancy phones with no keyboard aside from the touch screen.  Can you text and do stuff easily while driving?

the droid has speech to text, so I usually just do that while driving.

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #265 on: June 28, 2010, 12:17:16 PM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

:surprised:

Hey, everyone who's got one of these fancy phones with no keyboard aside from the touch screen.  Can you text and do stuff easily while driving?

the droid has speech to text, so I usually just do that while driving.

yeah, takes some getting used to.

BTW for those that didn't know texting while driving becomes illegal July 1 statewide.

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #266 on: June 28, 2010, 01:13:16 PM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

:surprised:

Hey, everyone who's got one of these fancy phones with no keyboard aside from the touch screen.  Can you text and do stuff easily while driving?

the droid has speech to text, so I usually just do that while driving.

yeah, takes some getting used to.

BTW for those that didn't know texting while driving becomes illegal July 1 statewide.

but what about hands free texting?

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #267 on: June 28, 2010, 02:18:21 PM »


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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #268 on: June 28, 2010, 03:02:46 PM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

:surprised:

Hey, everyone who's got one of these fancy phones with no keyboard aside from the touch screen.  Can you text and do stuff easily while driving?

the droid has speech to text, so I usually just do that while driving.

yeah, takes some getting used to.

BTW for those that didn't know texting while driving becomes illegal July 1 statewide.

but what about hands free texting?

If my texts often contain words like "pak" and "emaw", will the speech thing work?

That law only applies to people who aren't good at texting while driving.

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« Reply #269 on: June 28, 2010, 03:04:21 PM »
^^ This

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #270 on: June 28, 2010, 04:18:09 PM »
Well, my EVO is broken.  It won't power on.  The light doesn't even come on when it's plugged in. 

:surprised:

Hey, everyone who's got one of these fancy phones with no keyboard aside from the touch screen.  Can you text and do stuff easily while driving?

the droid has speech to text, so I usually just do that while driving.

yeah, takes some getting used to.

BTW for those that didn't know texting while driving becomes illegal July 1 statewide.

but what about hands free texting?

If my texts often contain words like "pak" and "emaw", will the speech thing work?

That law only applies to people who aren't good at texting while driving.

I know you can add words to the dictionary, not sure how EMAW would translate, i'll have to try that. sadly Pack would probably be chosen over pak every time.

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #271 on: June 28, 2010, 09:35:20 PM »
played around w/ a coworkers evo today. IT MIGHT BE TOO BIG! DID NOT EXPECT THIS!!!  :runaway:

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« Reply #272 on: June 28, 2010, 09:37:31 PM »
bro that was my biggest concern!   :runaway:

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #273 on: June 28, 2010, 10:12:47 PM »
FROYO!!!

 :runaway:

http://gizmodo.com/5570938/android-22-froyo-available-today

Root and install immediately.  Report back.

My contract ends July 31 and I'm seriously considering an EVO.  Your information could prove vital to my decision.

Was considering rooting but now it doesn't look like I will need to  :excited:

http://gizmodo.com/5572751/froyo-available-on-sprint-in-near-future-motorola-droid-x-in-august

One of the KidFighters cracked my phone's screen.  Badly. Looks like an EVO is definitely in my future.  Going to have to limp through this month, as I'm far too cheap to pay for any kind of stop gap measure.

This could be cross posted to the Kid thread if you so choose. 

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Re: Cell Phone Insiders
« Reply #274 on: June 28, 2010, 10:14:54 PM »
Announced pending release of the Samsung Epic today...looks like a 4G version of the Moment