Motorola RAZR2 V9m
Verizon Razr2 V9m
Any idea how much of the cool stuff Verizon will take away from its customers?
Also, anyone heard of an official release date or price? I've heard/read on here end of August. (Sometime around the 20th to compete with Sprint maybe?)
Also, anyone heard of an official release date or price? I've heard/read on here end of August. (Sometime around the 20th to compete with Sprint maybe?)
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Wolfpack4 said:
Any idea how much of the cool stuff Verizon will take away from its customers?
Also, anyone heard of an official release date or price? I've heard/read on here end of August. (Sometime around the 20th to compete with Sprint maybe?)
Someone has a V9m with the Verizon UI on HOFO. With the Verizon firmware, the phone is completely butchered.
You CANNOT read texts on the external screen with his V9m.
You CANNOT scroll through recent calls on the external screen with his V9m.
He COULD NOT play an MPEG movie file on his V9m at all.
On the same note, someone else has a generic V9m running on Alltel, I believe, with the Moto UI. That one could easily read texts from the front and do...
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🙄 Uh which goes back to my original point about verizons stealth phone releases. They know with their branded cripple ware phones are going to run like crap and so verizon wants zero expectation build up (frightened off by v710 law suits). Verizon sells phones on looks, feature set, and weather or not is a good cell phone dead last (ie send receive phone calls and text).Verizon loathes people like us who come here to phonescoop , howards other sites, because we want high quality state of the art phones that a fun and flexible were as Verizon want to lock down the phone with their cripple ware and enslave you to the gin/Vdcast/vermizon music store crud and as a after though the hope you can receive phone calls on your phone. So far I...
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not going to happen the ui is here to stay the network is what keeps me with veirzon too, i agree their ui is weak as hell but i just have to choose a quality network and cs over a ui, im not defending verizon i think their practices suck, we just have to pick our poison and so far for me verizon is what i choose.
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I can live with the UI, but here is what the other versons of the RAZR2 got that Verizon hacked out:
Here is what the Motorola CEO promised us on May 15th this year:
11:03 - Completely redesigned UI, demoing with Danica Patrick. Crystal Talk that accounts for background noise, ups the volume. "It's also a talking phone." Has some text to speech going on, reads off some SMS. And SMS can be read and replied to without opening the flip.
11:10 - "Internet and email: RAZR 2 features a full HTML browser, now you can access all the sites you know and love. Access your gMail, Hotmail, etc. It also has our unique Motosync software, giving you access to your work email and calendar on your corporate server."
11:11 - "Look how fast, how cl...
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Here is what the Motorola CEO promised us on May 15th this year:
11:03 - Completely redesigned UI, demoing with Danica Patrick. Crystal Talk that accounts for background noise, ups the volume. "It's also a talking phone." Has some text to speech going on, reads off some SMS. And SMS can be read and replied to without opening the flip.
11:10 - "Internet and email: RAZR 2 features a full HTML browser, now you can access all the sites you know and love. Access your gMail, Hotmail, etc. It also has our unique Motosync software, giving you access to your work email and calendar on your corporate server."
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This was released on CNET:
http://news.com.com/Skype+petitions+FCC+for+open+cel ... »
Skype is pushing the FCC to make all phones of the same technology active on any network. Basically, if Skype gets its way, Verizon won't be able to blacklist an ESN based on the phone being from another carrier. That'll mean ALL CDMA phones will be unlocked like a GSM phone. Don't want the Verizon UI? Buy the Alltel version and they will HAVE to activate it. That means there will be GENERIC VERSIONS OF CDMA PHONES IF THIS IS PASSED!
http://news.com.com/Skype+petitions+FCC+for+open+cel ... »
Skype is pushing the FCC to make all phones of the same technology active on any network. Basically, if Skype gets its way, Verizon won't be able to blacklist an ESN based on the phone being from another carrier. That'll mean ALL CDMA phones will be unlocked like a GSM phone. Don't want the Verizon UI? Buy the Alltel version and they will HAVE to activate it. That means there will be GENERIC VERSIONS OF CDMA PHONES IF THIS IS PASSED!
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Choco, that article was Published: February 22, 2007. Old news.
The new 700MHz spectrum is what Verizon is fighting now. Many are hoping that Google will get it.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070712-verizo ... »
The new 700MHz spectrum is what Verizon is fighting now. Many are hoping that Google will get it.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070712-verizo ... »
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