On 05/09/2012 06:47 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister<no_reply@...> wrote: >> >> http://online.wsj.com/video/2356B22D-1406-4BFF-8C13-A9413F8054D3.html >> >> That's gunna be the final nail into Nokia's coffin! :/ >> > US Cellular turned down the iPhone when the CDMA version was offered to them, > so an iPhone is not likely to ever be in my future. My first smartphone was > an HTC Desire, which was a great phone with one major flaw: insufficient app > space. Recently, various updates consumed enough app space that I had to > uninstall an app. That happened only a few weeks before I was eligible for a > phone upgrade. My new phone is the Samsung Galaxy S2, and it is spectacular. > At this point, I can easily see my next phone being the Galaxy S5 or whatever. > >
I still have my HTC Eris and it's only running Android 2.1. I'm waiting for ICS (Android 4.0) to become a lot more ubiquitous before getting another phone. My Acer tablet got ICS a week ago. My main problem is sorting out a new plan because I can't see keeping my $70 a month one since I really don't the phone part that much. My relatives are all on Verizon but keeping that plan just to get an occasional free call from them is silly. Around here MetroPCS has a $40 all you can eat phone/text/data plan but they aren't known as a good carrier especially if you want to go out of the area. The iPhone "simply works" because it "works simply". IOW, if you are a developer it's a narrow API to work with. Android has a far more extensible API. You can do really wild stuff with it. Of course keeping things simple works for Apple. Fragmentation on Android and the lack of experience of the people Google hires is a problem.
