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Rwven
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 10:41 am: | 
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Casio Commando
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/casio-g-zone-c ommando/4505-6452_7-34660420.html
One of my co-workers just got one...I can hardly wait for my present contract to run out... |
Jeepinbueller
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 11:16 am: |
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I upgraded early to the Droid X about a month after it came out last fall. Love it. Upgraded to the BH6X battery and I get reliable life for at least 15 hours under heavy use. I see all the cool phones coming out, but as long as Verizon/Motorola keep pushing out updates (Gingerbread?) it's like getting a new phone every couple of months. I just upgraded the software to Android 2.3.3 and it's like a new beast. |
Hybridmomentspass
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 12:49 pm: |
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jeep - i agree about how nice it is to have so many updates |
Bartimus
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 07:25 pm: |
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I tried the stood incredible a few weeks ago but hated all the Verizon proprietary software bundled with it that I could not uninstall. It pissed me off that half those programs run in the background.
While I dislike apple, I got an iPhone because it is the ONLY phone Verizon sells that does not come with any "crapware" preinstalled. |
Bartimus
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 07:27 pm: |
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And I also hate the intuitive spelling thing on the iphone how do I turn that off? |
Badlionsfan
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 07:41 pm: |
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Settings>General>Keyboard>Auto-correction. |
Hybridmomentspass
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 09:15 pm: |
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Bart - I, too, hate that Twitter is installed on my phone, I've never used it and refuse to do so. Sucks it takes up space on the phone. |
Cyclonemick
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 09:27 pm: |
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My Droid X also came with allot of stuff pre_Installed but I dont really mind because I will never come close to using the 22 gigs of storage I have!  |
Krassh
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 09:39 pm: |
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Two new tegra 2 dual core processor smartphones for verizon.
LG Revolution 4G LTE is already released.
Droid Bionic which should be released in the near future.
Due to the dual core tegra 2 both should have excellent battery life from what I have read. |
Blake
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 12:03 pm: |
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Another reason I like iPhone is for its American roots. I guess you could say the same in part for the google OS devices. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 12:09 pm: |
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The majority of our phones come from the same factory in China. Apple, Motorola, and some others are designed in America. |
Blake
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 05:42 pm: |
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Are you saying that they are assembled in final condition in China? |
Froggy
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 06:59 pm: |
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Yes, in fact back when the 4 came out, people were getting tracking numbers for their phones and they were getting shipped directly from the factory in China. |
Badlionsfan
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 07:56 pm: |
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I was one of them. It was fun to watch it's journey half way around the world in just a few days. |
Krassh
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 10:05 pm: |
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Yes in fact one of Apple's major manufacturers in China is Foxconn. Deplorable working conditions. They had so many suicides guess what they did?
Improve conditions.... No.
They installed nets to catch the workers trying to leap to their deaths.
Guess a dead worker is a non-productive worker right?
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Froggy
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2011 - 10:19 pm: |
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As much as I want to rag on Apple about that, Foxconn is just the vendor. Dell, HP, and a billion other companies use their products too. |
Thumper74
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 10:34 am: |
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While we're on the subject, would it be possible to use an unlocked Iphone on Verizon?
I'm due for an upgrade in December and all the cool toys are $450+ |
Froggy
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 10:37 am: |
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Only if the unlocked iPhone has a CDMA radio, which only the Verizon one does. |
12x9sl
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 - 08:11 pm: |
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I have a Thunderbolt and like it alright I guess. I do wish I would have gotten an iPhone 4 though. Better battery life, better vibrate ring, sharper screen, better reception (my brother can walk around in our metal building shop talking on his phone), smaller and better physical construction. |
12x9sl
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 - 08:13 pm: |
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(Message edited by 12x9sl on June 20, 2011) |
01x1buell
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 - 09:17 pm: |
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i have the new droid charge and i love it great picture screen and 4g.. |
Cyclonedon
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 11:28 am: |
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I thought you could remove any program off you phone if you didn't want it on there. I can kill any programs that are running on my Droid. |
Boogiman1981
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 11:33 am: |
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cyclon depends on the hardware and what 'flavor' of android they installed ie motorola and motoblur... basically my cliq could be rooted but.... you couldn't install your own version of droid os because the hardware was looking for the motoblur and wouldn't move on until it found it. i have since moved on to a G2 and rid myself of that problem |
Hybridmomentspass
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 12:32 pm: |
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Cyclone, as I stated earlier, Twitter is on my phone from the factory and there is no option to uninstall it. It never runs, but still, I'd rather not have it on my list of apps |
Blake
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 01:15 pm: |
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Krassh,
That is astounding. I'd not ever heard of it until now.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchi na/
quote:The body of a 19-year-old worker named Ma Xiangqian was found in front of his high-rise dormitory at 4:30 a.m. Police investigators concluded that he had leapt from a high floor, and they ruled it a suicide.
His family, including his 22-year-old sister who worked at the same company, Foxconn Technology, said he hated the job he had held only since November — an 11-hour overnight shift, seven nights a week, forging plastic and metal into electronics parts amid fumes and dust. Or at least that was Mr. Ma’s job until, after a run-in with his supervisor, he was demoted in December to cleaning toilets.
Mr. Ma’s pay stub shows that he worked 286 hours in the month before he died, including 112 hours of overtime, about three times the legal limit. For all of that, even with extra pay for overtime, he earned the equivalent of $1 an hour.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/ 07suicide.html |
Hybridmomentspass
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 03:29 pm: |
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whoa, thats pretty wild, a buck an hour.
As for the overtime, I find it odd they have a legal limit on overtime, we dont have that here, 112 hours overtime equates to 28 hours per week, I know some people that do that or more each week |
