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gport_tennis

wes_mantooth;743013 wrote:The Bionic should be amazing....wish I was eligible for an upgrade.

if you have had your phone for longer than 12 months, you might qualify for an annual upgrade. that gives you 2 year pricing

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wes_mantooth

I bought the Incredible on its release day...not sure when that was...May possibly

gut

All the rumors are now that the Bionic has been canceled or on life support at best. The Targa, which has better specs, is supposedly the replacement but won't be out until Q3 or Q4. Rumors, anyway, that over the last 6 months seem to be little more than rather [uneducated] guesses.

Scarlet_Buckeye

Tobias Fünke;742480 wrote:Waiting until July for the iPhone 5 should be an option.

I'm waiting till Verizon gets the 4G iPhone.

Tobias Fünke

sherm03;743006 wrote:Don't wait on an iPhone 5. If Apple's history is any indication, this year's iPhone will have very little changes over the iPhone 4 (similar to the way they handled the iPhone 3g, and then the iPhone 3gs).

I had actually read that the iPhone 5 was going to be nasty, with an A5 processor and 64GB. I don't know if I can resist it.

Tobias Fünke

sherm03;743006 wrote:Don't wait on an iPhone 5. If Apple's history is any indication, this year's iPhone will have very little changes over the iPhone 4 (similar to the way they handled the iPhone 3g, and then the iPhone 3gs).

I had actually read that the iPhone 5 was going to be nasty, with an A5 processor and 64GB. I don't know if I can resist it.

karen lotz

gut;743124 wrote:All the rumors are now that the Bionic has been canceled or on life support at best. The Targa, which has better specs, is supposedly the replacement but won't be out until Q3 or Q4. Rumors, anyway, that over the last 6 months seem to be little more than rather [uneducated] guesses.

Where have you seen these rumors? I just did a quick search and the first one that comes up is this:

http://androidcommunity.com/droid-bionic-release-date-soon-same-for-droid-3-atrix-says-verizon-20110408/

gport_tennis

wes_mantooth;743105 wrote:I bought the Incredible on its release day...not sure when that was...May possibly

April 29 was launch day. If your a primary on a family plan you get annual upgrade so you might be able to get that bionic after all

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sherm03

Tobias Fünke;743154 wrote:I had actually read that the iPhone 5 was going to be nasty, with an A5 processor and 64GB. I don't know if I can resist it.

The iPhone 5 could possibly be that way. However...the iPhone 5 may not be what is being released this year. Like I said, Apple releases products in 2 year cycles. They will have a great device in year 1. And then make minor changes in year 2. The same can be said about all their other products besides phones (see the iPad and the iPad 2). The iPhone 4 was the big launch, and (if Apple's history is any indication) there would not be too many changes to this year's device.

As far as the Bionic...there is nothing that I have heard that would indicate it going away. Stay tuned for a press release from Motorola in the coming days...

gut

karen lotz;743158 wrote:Where have you seen these rumors? I just did a quick search and the first one that comes up is this

It's all over droidforums.net and a few similar sites. But even as far as rumors go, these sites are getting way less reliable. You'll probably say - and be correct - that it's uber nerds confirming each other off the same rumor or two. It was a great site for about a year, but now it's just a bunch of geeks whining over rumors that in most cases make no sense.

The seed of this rumor (and it probably has some merit) is that Moto has had some issues with the dual core Atrix, and of course the TBolt has had it's issues...So my suspicion is people are just running wild with speculation that Moto can't get a dual core LTE out in the next few months.

j_crazy

I bought the Inspire (I hadn't seen the post about the Atrix being $99 until after i purchased it).

what are some cool apps/widgets for this MOFO?

remember I'm a Droid virgin, so I really don't know shit.

sherm03

j_crazy;743552 wrote:I bought the Inspire (I hadn't seen the post about the Atrix being $99 until after i purchased it).

what are some cool apps/widgets for this MOFO?

remember I'm a Droid virgin, so I really don't know shit.

Seriously take it back and get the Atrix. You are going to be upset in a year or a year and a half when there's all kinds of things that phones are capable of, but you won't be able to do them because your phone doesn't have the processing power/RAM to do it.

I Wear Pants

Sherm is probably right. If you just got the phone it will be easy to return it and you'll like the results.

Jawbreaker

Can you please tell your company to unlock the bootloader ( I.e. the xoom). I then might purchase a Motorola phone. Thanks.

j_crazy

not going to return it. they will charge me $35 bucks to restock the Inspire plus the $100 for the Atrix.

sherm03

Jawbreaker;743659 wrote:Can you please tell your company to unlock the bootloader ( I.e. the xoom). I then might purchase a Motorola phone. Thanks.

They aren't going to do that. And don't be surprised when everyone else starts installing the e-fuse chip as well.

gut

sherm03;743790 wrote:They aren't going to do that. And don't be surprised when everyone else starts installing the e-fuse chip as well.

Well, Samsung just said they aren't going to lock bootloaders unless Google makes them, and the HTC TBolt was unlocked. Although I think VZW may be just as guilty here as Moto (and AT&T is even worse).

I Wear Pants

sherm03;743790 wrote:They aren't going to do that. And don't be surprised when everyone else starts installing the e-fuse chip as well.

Then maybe they'll enjoy their slide back down to post-RAZR/pre-Droid irrelevance.

like_that

Been debating whether to get an iPhone 4 or wait on the iPhone 5. I called apple and AT&T, and they could not give me any information on when the iPhone 5 is coming out.

sherm03

I Wear Pants;743886 wrote:Then maybe they'll enjoy their slide back down to post-RAZR/pre-Droid irrelevance.

Doubt that will happen.

dlazz

j_crazy;743552 wrote:I bought the Inspire (I hadn't seen the post about the Atrix being $99 until after i purchased it).

what are some cool apps/widgets for this MOFO?

remember I'm a Droid virgin, so I really don't know shit.

You really should shell out the $135 for the Atrix.

As for Apps:

Audiogalaxy: Let's you stream music from your computer. If you leave your computer on all of the time, you can have all of your music at your finger tips. If you don't...
Pandora + TinyShark: Pandora is self explanatory, TinyShark is free Grooveshark
Google Goggles: Fun to play with
GasBuddy: Find "cheap" gas
Barcode Scanner: Scan barcodes
$Beautiful Widgets: Add widgets to your homescreen
*Go Launcher: Different launcher
*GO SMS: Different SMS app
Dolphin Browser: More feature heavy browser over the stock one
Dropbox: Handy for transferring files to your PC
$Seek Droid: Useful in case you lose your phone. Enables you to GPS locate it, remotely wipe it in the event you lose it.
Soundhound: ID songs off of the radio
$Tapatalk: As long as you aren't a douche like imex99 and know how to turn off the signature, it lets you browse the Chatter easily.
Wordfeud: Scrabble, similar to Words with Friends.
Yelp: Find various things to do in your area

* indicates preference. there's many alternative launchers/SMS utilities
$ costs money

wes_mantooth

dlazz;743948 wrote:You really should shell out the $135 for the Atrix.

As for Apps:

Audiogalaxy: Let's you stream music from your computer. If you leave your computer on all of the time, you can have all of your music at your finger tips. If you don't...
Pandora + TinyShark: Pandora is self explanatory, TinyShark is free Grooveshark
Google Goggles: Fun to play with
GasBuddy: Find "cheap" gas
Barcode Scanner: Scan barcodes
$Beautiful Widgets: Add widgets to your homescreen
*Go Launcher: Different launcher
*GO SMS: Different SMS app
Dolphin Browser: More feature heavy browser over the stock one
Dropbox: Handy for transferring files to your PC
$Seek Droid: Useful in case you lose your phone. Enables you to GPS locate it, remotely wipe it in the event you lose it.
Soundhound: ID songs off of the radio
$Tapatalk: As long as you aren't a douche like imex99 and know how to turn off the signature, it lets you browse the Chatter easily.
Wordfeud: Scrabble, similar to Words with Friends.
Yelp: Find various things to do in your area

* indicates preference. there's many alternative launchers/SMS utilities
$ costs money

Agreed.

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I Wear Pants

Firefox Mobile is pretty nice anymore. Especially since it can sync your history, passwords, bookmarks, and open tabs with the desktop version.

j_crazy

thanks for the apps recommendations dlazz, i didn't want to go through 11 pages of that shit on justins thread.

I didn't like the go launcher though, if it would have let me put the clock and weather back like the HTC default does, i would have been okay with it.

thanks for that browser, hadn't seen it until then, but it's pretty tight.

dlazz

j_crazy;743989 wrote:thanks for the apps recommendations dlazz, i didn't want to go through 11 pages of that shit on justins thread.

I didn't like the go launcher though, if it would have let me put the clock and weather back like the HTC default does, i would have been okay with it.

thanks for that browser, hadn't seen it until then, but it's pretty tight.

The HTC default is called HTC Sense. You can get Beautiful Widgets and customize it to your liking. They have some that look very similar to the HTC one.

I'm assuming you've already figured out how to add widgets to the homescreen? (hold anywhere on the homescreen and it'll let you add stuff)

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