If I were a T-Mobile customer I would get some free crap phone, buy an unlocked iPhone, and then put the sim card in there.
Tada! I've now avoided misery from owning a G1.
That has to be one of the worst "iPhone killers" out there.
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If I were a T-Mobile customer I would get some free crap phone, buy an unlocked iPhone, and then put the sim card in there.
Tada! I've now avoided misery from owning a G1.
That has to be one of the worst "iPhone killers" out there.
It's funny because I was only thinking the other day that I can no longer safely assume that someone has a Windows machine when I first meet them, especially if they are in their 20s like myself.
The devise from HTC is a nice piece of junk, but Android being open platform in comparison to iPhone is also very promising, but will never get there until the hardware advances. Being open platform, it would not surprise me if a virus pops up sometime soon. Although Google has put provisions in place. That I might do though (buy crap phone and hack SIM on iPhone) if I were with TMo.
WOW, that would be a major mess up (almost as worse an Microsoft's most recent Zune screw up) for Google and T-Mobile if a G1 gets a virus.
By any means, is it possible for an iPhone to get a virus? I've gotten a couple pop ups on my iPod but didn't noticed a performance change or anything like that.
It's possible and likely, just not through the App store. It would have to be downloaded through the Mail.app or possibly Safari and is quite likely with such a growing customer base and audience.
Good thing we can restore from a backup.
I don't understand what a virus one your iPhone or iPod could do except for annoy you.
As each application is sandboxed and only one non-system application can run at a time then the virus really can't do much.
Personal information, cellular data, anything a Windows virus does. Potentially the iPhone could carry that information or virus to your computer during a sync? Anything a current virus does on a Windows machine I'm almost sure could be done on an iPhone or iPod Touch. This is all speculation, but there's no reason to think otherwise. By the way I would love someone to correct me because these are some pretty scary thoughts. The iPhone is one of the most popular(growing) and used platforms, it's a bulls eye for pirates.
I think he is mentioning the operating system, not the hardware made by HTC. If you put the Google OS into iPhone with iPod, i think it would be a great device. Goople for the win!
I agree. The storm is ill-conceived and badly implemented. I haven't spent that much time with one, but I'm far from impressed. A small part of me wants to replace my iphone with a bb because then I wouldn't have to carry both (right now I have my personal iphone and an older 8700g from work), but I've honestly never considered the storm. I'd almost certainly go with a Bold - now that's a nice phone.
RIM should do what they do, and do it well. They're not going to out-iphone apple, but they can certainly sell a lot of phones to people who prefer BB for various reasons. The best thing the storm has going for it is verizon because there are so many people who are convinced they can't get good coverage with anyone else (utter rubbish in my experience, but I know many of these people).
That's right, I view the Android OS of the G1 to be the biggest competition to the iPhone.
I think I read something about copy/paste being available only when some security holes are patched. With Copy/Paste/Push/more apps in the background hacking would be easier. Let's not forget Bluetooth. I believe there's a reason for Apple crippling down the Phone.
That's very likely... It's one of the prime reasons they control the App store, it's for our own good in the end.
IMO, while there's no competition for the iPhone, the Android platform has the most potential. Notice I didn't mention the G1. The hardware for Android phones will be their downfall.
The Storm is a failure, IMO and will only please Verizon customers wanting an iPhone. Not too many people will leave their carrier for a Storm.
The Storm is a failure, IMO and will only please Verizon customers wanting an iPhone. Not too many people will leave their carrier for a Storm.
i actualy think the storm is a little bit bettter than the iphone. i realy like the whole click touch screen thing +landscape texting 
Yup, definitely the Android G1 Google phone. Most of my friends and non-iPhone relatives are leaning towards the G1. Even looking at the Forums for G1, many of the posters compare the G1 to the iPhone, though we feel there is no comparison...
