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WTF? Google's releasing a phone in competition with the iPhone?

Will we soon be living in Google houses, watching Google TV from our Google couch while eating Google chips and drinking Google Cola?
yeah, i have a friend who works at t-mobile (wireless company here, not sure if they're over there) and he told me about it. i'm kinda psyched, they've been selling some pretty lame phones as of late which is making me contemplating switching to another carrier even though i've been with them nearly six years and love them.
 
yeah, i have a friend who works at t-mobile (wireless company here, not sure if they're over there) and he told me about it. i'm kinda psyched, they've been selling some pretty lame phones as of late which is making me contemplating switching to another carrier even though i've been with them nearly six years and love them.

I thought that you, being the Mac whore you are, would already have three iPhones!
 
I thought that you, being the Mac whore you are, would already have three iPhones!
i would, but i do NOT want to switch to AT&T. maybe they're better now post-merger, but i was with cingular for a few years and i hated them. really hated them. i realized i was out of contract and switched to t-mobile. plus everyone keeps saying the iphones are plagued with problems. i was hoping the big announcement would be they were selling the iphone too or something similar.

if i were to switch for a phone, it'd be to sprint, even though i used to know someone who worked for them and told me how bad their customer service is. plus they're always ranked dead last in customer satisfaction surveys. but it'd be for this sweet phone: http://www.samsungmobileusa.com/Instinct.aspx
 
i would, but i do NOT want to switch to AT&T. maybe they're better now post-merger, but i was with cingular for a few years and i hated them. really hated them. i realized i was out of contract and switched to t-mobile. plus everyone keeps saying the iphones are plagued with problems. i was hoping the big announcement would be they were selling the iphone too or something similar.

if i were to switch for a phone, it'd be to sprint, even though i used to know someone who worked for them and told me how bad their customer service is. plus they're always ranked dead last in customer satisfaction surveys. but it'd be for this sweet phone: Samsung Mobile USA - Samsung Instinct Product Details

How come you would have to be with AT&T if you have an iPhone? Can't you just buy the phone and put a T Mobile SIM card in it?

And ooh, nice. I'm still using this ancient phone that can do ... nothing. When I was using it in U-Wen's presence, he just laughed at its archaicness. But I only use my phone to text and occasionally call people, so I've no desire to upgrade it.
 
Yeah, her and every other female on this site.

Yes, but not necessarily in the romantic way. I think it's safe to say certain females I'm taking the piss out of over on EYKIW in the Bono™ thread would rather I be crushed by a large object.

And what the sweet living fuck happened on your Madonna thread?!
 
How come you would have to be with AT&T if you have an iPhone? Can't you just buy the phone and put a T Mobile SIM card in it?

And ooh, nice. I'm still using this ancient phone that can do ... nothing. When I was using it in U-Wen's presence, he just laughed at its archaicness. But I only use my phone to text and occasionally call people, so I've no desire to upgrade it.
nope, they designed the phones so they're locked. you can only use them with AT&T. soon after their release someone did hack it for t-mobile, however you can't update the phone at all if you hack it, and i've heard for the new iphones they're unhackable. i really hate when phones are exclusive to one carrier.

oh wow. i haven't had a featureless phone since...since i was with cingular, and i switched in early 2003! i have a blackberry right now, but i always leave my phone on and the internet on it craps out when you do that. so you have to turn it off, remove the battery, etc. it's a pain since i have a cover on it to protect it from scratches. why, i don't know. it's not like i sell them on ebay when i'm done. i just give them to charity or throw them in a drawer to collect dust.

what really pisses me off is i tried buying a phone on ebay. i knew it was a european phone but the damn thing is incompatible with my carrier despite it being the same company, just its uk counterpart. i can make calls, but texting and such could've be done. i really wanted a pretty pink samsung too.
 
God, I DON'T KNOW.

purpleoscar went off the fucking deep end.

That's a requirement to be a Republican voter, though.

Yes, that's right, I just made a blanket judgement about 60 million or so Americans. And I stand by it. Here, the Republicans would be fringe crazies. The whole fucking lot of them.
 
nope, they designed the phones so they're locked. you can only use them with AT&T. soon after their release someone did hack it for t-mobile, however you can't update the phone at all if you hack it, and i've heard for the new iphones they're unhackable. i really hate when phones are exclusive to one carrier.

oh wow. i haven't had a featureless phone since...since i was with cingular, and i switched in early 2003! i have a blackberry right now, but i always leave my phone on and the internet on it craps out when you do that. so you have to turn it off, remove the battery, etc. it's a pain since i have a cover on it to protect it from scratches. why, i don't know. it's not like i sell them on ebay when i'm done. i just give them to charity or throw them in a drawer to collect dust.

what really pisses me off is i tried buying a phone on ebay. i knew it was a european phone but the damn thing is incompatible with my carrier despite it being the same company, just its uk counterpart. i can make calls, but texting and such could've be done. i really wanted a pretty pink samsung too.

Wow, I have honestly never heard of phones being locked to one carrier. I expect to be able to buy the phone I want and then shop around for the carrier who best suits me, and be able to change should another carrier with a better deal come along. But then the US phone system always seemed fucked up to me, since you lot sometimes have to pay for incoming calls!

And WTF, it won't work even though it's from the same bloody company? :huh:
 
Wow, I have honestly never heard of phones being locked to one carrier. I expect to be able to buy the phone I want and then shop around for the carrier who best suits me, and be able to change should another carrier with a better deal come along. But then the US phone system always seemed fucked up to me, since you lot sometimes have to pay for incoming calls!

And WTF, it won't work even though it's from the same bloody company? :huh:
yeah, i know. you can technically do that for 99% of the phones out there, but you pay out the ass for buying the phone outright. a phone that'd cost $100 with a contract would be $300 or something with no contract. but the iphone is locked so you can't use it with anyone else. a lot of verizon phones are like that too, locked so you can't use them anywhere else.

i know! i tried connecting to the internet and it wouldn't let me. and i have a plan that pretty much enables unlimited use of everything.
 
Hey Khan, what's the deal with Free Your Mind only being visible if you're logged in?
 
Hey Khan, what's the deal with Free Your Mind only being visible if you're logged in?
it's to stop google bots from indexing it, i believe. there's a ton of extra traffic when it was visible to guests, but i forget why that was disabled. i can't remember if trolls were joining or what the reason was. i think zoo confessionals is like that too, if it is it's because of the personal nature of posts and stuff.
 
yeah, i know. you can technically do that for 99% of the phones out there, but you pay out the ass for buying the phone outright. a phone that'd cost $100 with a contract would be $300 or something with no contract. but the iphone is locked so you can't use it with anyone else. a lot of verizon phones are like that too, locked so you can't use them anywhere else.

i know! i tried connecting to the internet and it wouldn't let me. and i have a plan that pretty much enables unlimited use of everything.

Wow, that's fucking lame. I mean, here, it does tend to cost more to buy your phone outright, but any that you get from a carrier, you can quite easily just pop open and swap SIM cards. I think the carriers here are actually doing quite well out of that, especially with the teen market. Some people have SIM cards for, say, three different carriers, so when they want to call a friend on Vodafone, they'll put in their Vodafone SIM card to get the good Vodafone-to-Vodafone deals, then they'll swap to an Optus card to call somebody on Optus, etc.

Did you phone them to complain or anything? Though I can imagine they'd just say "our UK and US departments operate independently", bla bla bla.
 
it's to stop google bots from indexing it, i believe. there's a ton of extra traffic when it was visible to guests, but i forget why that was disabled. i can't remember if trolls were joining or what the reason was. i think zoo confessionals is like that too, if it is it's because of the personal nature of posts and stuff.

Oooh, OK. That makes sense. Though I imagine EYKIW/WTAHNN might throw up further problems when the album leaks! Make it so the Google Bots can't access WTAHNN and we can share links to the leaks in peace. :wink:
 
Wow, that's fucking lame. I mean, here, it does tend to cost more to buy your phone outright, but any that you get from a carrier, you can quite easily just pop open and swap SIM cards. I think the carriers here are actually doing quite well out of that, especially with the teen market. Some people have SIM cards for, say, three different carriers, so when they want to call a friend on Vodafone, they'll put in their Vodafone SIM card to get the good Vodafone-to-Vodafone deals, then they'll swap to an Optus card to call somebody on Optus, etc.

Did you phone them to complain or anything? Though I can imagine they'd just say "our UK and US departments operate independently", bla bla bla.
yeah. to compare the phone i have, it's $300 outright, $150 for a one year contract, and $100 for a two year contract. i would never bother with a two year contract, there's no guarantee i would like the phone enough to keep it for so long.

no :reject: i just returned the phone.
 
Oooh, OK. That makes sense. Though I imagine EYKIW/WTAHNN might throw up further problems when the album leaks! Make it so the Google Bots can't access WTAHNN and we can share links to the leaks in peace. :wink:
:crack: ugh, we need to! i belong to quite a few forums and the only other forum i can think of i follow that's open to guests is the frenz forum. so i don't get the point of allowing guests to access the forum anyway.
 
:crack: ugh, we need to! i belong to quite a few forums and the only other forum i can think of i follow that's open to guests is the frenz forum. so i don't get the point of allowing guests to access the forum anyway.

As someone who occasionally lurks on forums like Frenz to get setlists, I do find open forums convenient. And, you know, being able to read what's going on may be an inducement to you to sign up and participate. But then again, so can closed forums - the PT Forums are closed, and I wanted setlists, so what else was I going to do? I guess it works both ways.

And who's going to do the new thread? We're almost there.
 
yeah. to compare the phone i have, it's $300 outright, $150 for a one year contract, and $100 for a two year contract. i would never bother with a two year contract, there's no guarantee i would like the phone enough to keep it for so long.

no :reject: i just returned the phone.

Ahh, right. I've no idea if that's good or bad in an Aussie context, though I think some carriers offer certain phones for free. I got my phone for free, since Mum was able to get it off somebody who works in the industry! I just use pre-paid credit; I don't use my phone enough to justify a plan.

Ahh. :lol:
 
As someone who occasionally lurks on forums like Frenz to get setlists, I do find open forums convenient. And, you know, being able to read what's going on may be an inducement to you to sign up and participate. But then again, so can closed forums - the PT Forums are closed, and I wanted setlists, so what else was I going to do? I guess it works both ways.

And who's going to do the new thread? We're almost there.
:tsk: if the forum in question has free registration (which all forums but one i visit are) then i just sign up.

your mom.
 
:tsk: if the forum in question has free registration (which all forums but one i visit are) then i just sign up.

your mom.

If I don't intend to actively post, I don't really see the point in signing up.

Well, with Chass gone, I suppose it's you or me. I do have a few ideas floating around ...
 
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