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[geekchick]

Eeee! Suck it, AT&T.

noreply-nexus@google.com to me

Hello geekchick ,

Your order has shipped.

Order # xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Shipped on January 6, 2010

Sent to:

[Me, obvs]

Shipped by:
FedEx overnight

When you receive your Nexus One phone, please visit http://www.google.com/phone/activate to complete activation and port your existing number to T-Mobile.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I want a review of the usability of the soft keyboard. That's the biggest thing stopping me from ordering 2 of them and telling AT&T to suck it. The AT&T network has been so bad lately it's not funny.

[geekchick]

None of my phones have had keyboards, so either is likely to be a step up for me. ;) Will post opinions after I've had a chance to play with it a bit.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

The phone I have right now has a keyboard, but it's way small. The phone in my icon is actually my old phone, which Dan has now, but my newer one is similar. I'm more concerned about how easy it is to type on a virtual keyboard, where there's no tactile feedback, plus I have fat fingers :-D

I'm going to go with an Android-based phone no matter what. I hate WinMobile, which is what I have now, and the Palm Pre doesn't have much app support. I'm bummed about that, because I love my Palm, but since it doesn't run the same OS I can't use my apps on it.

woot!

[penk.livejournal.com]

Awesome :) There is a temptation to go Droid. I think that's where the industry is headed. But my iphone is so stable and useful and workable.

I have toa dmit i'm not thrilled about the money I'm giving AT&T alas. :(

Re: woot!

[geekchick]

I've been giving AT&T (well, Cingular) money for years, but since my last phone asploded and I'm out of contract, I was shopping around anyway. Chris is on T-Mobile and it seems to have good enough coverage, so I figured "why not?"

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'm stuck with Verizon because that's NASA's contract... sigh.

[geekchick]

They're planning to release a version for Verizon Wireless in the spring sometime.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

There's several Android-based phones available from Verizon already, if you're not wanting to wait for the Nexus.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Question is whether the Nexus is preferable to the Droid? Or the Palm Pre, for that matter... iPhones are out because we don't have an AT&T wireless support contract.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Depends on what features you want. Dan and I would both have Motorola Droids right now if the Outlook sync software was out. I like having a physical keyboard, which the Nexus doesn't have. The Nexus and Droid are both based on the Android OS. The other reason I was waiting was I wanted to see what features the Nexus had before making a choice. The Droid is currently a Verizon phone.

I wouldn't get a Palm Pre, mainly because it doesn't have a lot of developer support, so it doesn't have nearly the apps that the iPhone and Android phones do. I could replace Dan's phone right now with an iPhone, but the cost is more than it would cost for me to cancel the AT&T contract and switch us to Verizon or T-Mobile. And the iPhone doesn't have a keyboard, either.

[scherzoid.livejournal.com]

Palm's WebOS seems to be picking up significant momentum. The pace of additions to Palm's app catalog has certainly sped up, jumping from several hundred to well over a thousand in the past couple of weeks. There are also hundreds more free apps easily available from alternate sources, with Palm's tacit approval and no "jailbreaking" required. (And simple apps are pretty trivial to write -- I've done a couple proof-of-concept apps myself using just HTML and Javascript, and I'm hardly a professional programmer.)

In addition, last week's WebOS update laid the foundations for GPU and native Linux app support on the WebOS platform. Within three days, developers had Doom running on the Pre, with Quake and several other games following this week. (There are two Pre users, two iPhone users and a Droid user in my group at work. At lunch the other day we got four simultaneous instances of Doom running on my Pre, flipping from card to card at will. One of the iPhone users sobbed just a little bit. :) )

There's also building support from carriers. Today, AT&T announced that it would launch two WebOS-powered handsets in the first half of 2010, and tomorrow Verizon announces the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus.

And I suspect that Palm might have a couple of surprises up its sleeve during its presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show tomorrow... we'll see.

[gible.livejournal.com]

you're good with me flying over to mug you right?