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Verizon Goes on Offensive Against iPhone Again With 'Droid Does' Teasers

Awesome advert and plenty of iDonts...

They forget iDont play Flash as well...

Hopefully Apple is watching this and working on iDos...

:rolleyes::apple:
 
I looked at Verzon's list closely and realized that it's a very "who cares" list....

My thoughts...

1) Real Keyboard - iDon't care. With the newly-added Horizontal mode for texting and emailing, I type super-fast.

2) Simultaneous Apps in the background - iDon't care. My battery life thanks Apple for not allowing every app to run in the background.

3) 5MP Photos - iDon't care. 3MP is good enough for now. Couple that with the 3GS's ability to shoot and trim video, I'm doing just fine, thanks. Within a year or so, 5MP will be standard. Anything bigger than 3MP, I simply bring my Nikon D90, thank you.

4) Customize - iDon't really understand this one.... not a lot to comment on.

5) Widgets - iDon't care. The iPhone DOES run 85,000 apps, so what's the diff?!

6) Allow open development - iDon't care. There's too much ballyhoo over "Open standards this & Open standards that" -- Apple does use tons of open standards. Every developer is making money on the App store and Apple is too. Sounds like a fair arrangement... I just know that I have my pick of almost 100,000 apps so again, iDon't care.

7) Pictures in the dark - a flash would be nice. One for Droid.

8) Rechargable batteries - iDon't care. My phone has plenty of juice and it's super slim, trim and quite sexy with the curves. The Droid looks so square and ugly. I'll take sexy, thank you. I can charge anywhere there's electricity (everywhere- thanks 21st century) -- at home, in the car, at work. Plus if that's not enough, I can buy a "Juice Pack" -- no big deal, especially at the cost of its beautiful design. Honestly, I have never owned a secondary battery for a cell phone. No need. The phones give me what I need.

Lame list.

I'll stick with Apple.
 
bruinsrme said:
I am a windows users and I see the android platform similar to the windows platform where it can be used in multiple configurations, hardware, and devices.
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I look at this "feature" and see Android's principle weakness. How can they expect a rich app environment when devs must create any number of input/output options for their software? i.e., this phone has no keyboard; this one has a keyboard, but also a touch-screen; this one has multi-touch, but the others don't. What a nightmare. It's worse than the webOS approach (if that's possible).
 
CalMin said:
Verizon has fanboys?
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They seem to on these forums. While there's a healthy contingent of AT&T customers who are happy with their service, there's also a number of people who go on about how Verizon has awesome service everywhere or if Verizon had the iPhone we'd have tethering by now.
While I can't speak to Verizon's service, I think people have unrealistic expectations about what Verizon can do. I call these people fanboys.
If they weren't fanboys, those people would be honest and admit that Verizon would be like AT&T and unable to handle the load of providing service for all the iPhone customers.
Or they could admit that any phone company would be unprepared for the crush of iPhone customers and would be overwhelmed. But I don't see that happening when people wish Verizon got the iPhone exclusivity instead.
 
Wow

Wonderful looking commercial. Terrible looking phone. Of course, I have not had my hands on it, but the Android built in apps are just terrible to look at regardless of function. The iPhone apps are beautiful and work well. But, I do hope for strong competition.
 
djellison said:
If any Apple fans watch this and go "Oh - but that's not strictly true" or "That's a lie" or "Err - No - actually, you can do X, Y Z" etc etc

Welcome to the world of any realist who's seen a I'm-a-Mac advert in the past few years. This is EXACTLY the same.

A taste of Apple's own medicine - and I can smell the hatred, hypocrisy and flame wars starting already.
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That was my impression as well. The flames are across so many forums already.

There is far more at stake than just phones. I know a few people that went apple because they wanted an ipod, iphone, and imac. Makes sense to me.
Now if you break the i relationship then will the same people buy another mac? that could put create angst with apple.

I wanted to replace my older dell with a mac mini for the i experieince. Now I may wait to see what the droid platform is all about.

ETF..sell one of my three jailbroken 3Gs and I am all set.
 
iSlicer said:
Wonderful looking commercial. Terrible looking phone. Of course, I have not had my hands on it, but the Android built in apps are just terrible to look at regardless of function. The iPhone apps are beautiful and work well. But, I do hope for strong competition.
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The voyager was an ugly phone and it did extremely well.

In reply to eastercat
I live in the Northeast. There are a good number of corporate Verizon stores. I can't speak for the rest of the verizon customers but my experieince at the corp stores was very similar to the experieinces many brag about having at the apple store, minus needing an appointment.

Verizon fanboys: I am sure there are some out there. My personal experience has been ATT customer service for the iphone is poor at best since they seem to blame and redirect people back to apple for any issues. Verizon deals with whatever issue is at hand. Once experience at the ATT store was enough, erase all settings and content doesn't not fix a broken mute switch.
 
The commercial was actually very good. Can't knock 'em on that. The phone on the other hand.....*yawn*. If you really want a lot of the features they mentioned, Jailbreaking phones is brain-dead easy and opens up a world of customization options, tethering etc.
 
A lot of talk for a phone that's not even out yet.
Companies should now realize that going head to head with Apple and the iPhone or iPod won't get them anywhere.

I find the commercial very immature, kind of like a bully in the 7th grade.
If any company wants to succeed along side the iPhone they need to make a unique phone with unique softwares/programs and options.
 
iDon't Get It

I heard about the ad and then saw it last night on TV and quite frankly iDon't get what the marketing message is. It lists a whole bunch of stuff that their product doesn't have. That convinced me even more that my iPhone is better. Then they close with this weird frenetic treatment that I found scary more than I did inviting.
 
It's difficult to comment on a phone and its usability with it not being on the market just yet. I'm sure that Apple's appreciating the commercials coming out days prior to their earnings report.

I am however sick of ATT/Apple's exclusivity arrangement. I would love to have another carrier option. That's why I keep my 3GS jailbroken just in case I get too fed up and want to move it over to T-Mobile.

More competition is good. Looking forward to hearing great things about the Droid.
 
djellison said:
A taste of Apple's own medicine - and I can smell the hatred, hypocrisy and flame wars starting already.
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Not necessarily. Personally, I find the Mac/PC ads funny as hell and a bit tongue-in-cheek. I don't think they are intended to be all that factual, and as someone who has to support multiple platforms, I know they are not. But I stull get a chuckle out of them.

Verizon's ad, on the other hand, was just not that funny. Yeah, there are things about the iPhone that aren't ideal, but apparently their ad agency had to have the same humorectomy that the rest of the company got.

Personally, I dislike both Verizon and AT&T. But when I moved to an area where they were the only two carriers with decent coverage, I had to pick. The iPhone was the decider. No regrets.

There was a time, long ago, when we would have fun with outrageous claims in advertising. Then a bunch of lawyers got really fat and happy.
Now, for the most part, it's just not fun anymore.
 
It won't effect iPhone sales. The only thing that would hurt those sales would be aggressively priced plans/rates on Verizon, which won't be happening anytime soon.

Besides that, this phone lacks any striking visual appeal. Though the hardware isn't ugly by any means, its all about the OS in todays market. And since this phone will be running Eclair (Android 2.0), and its open source and completely customizable, I fully expect it to look better upon release or you can simply change it around yourself to your likings.

Love the commercial, though it was amusing, but past that it doesn't matter. The iPhone will always sell. That's something that people here seem to equate with quality, which isn't always the case. Regardless of how many units the iPhone sells, that doesn't mean its the best phone, it has just become the default for touchscreen phones. Keep on bringing the competition...Sense UI looks great on the other Android device coming to Verizon from HTC. I'll be picking one or the other up next year.

RogueWarrior65 said:
I heard about the ad and then saw it last night on TV and quite frankly iDon't get what the marketing message is. It lists a whole bunch of stuff that their product doesn't have.
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There product, aka the Moto Droid, does everything it lists the iPhone doesn't. All its saying is Android on the Moto Droid provides a lot more options then the iPhone, minus an App store, excluding jailbreaking.
 
The iPhone will always have one advantage over anything the competition wants to counter with.... it's an iPod. Good luck iPhone haters.
 
azboricua said:
To me Verizon themselves need to change a lot of things before they can compare themselves to Apple or AT&T.
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I can make clear phone calls with good reception on my verizon phone. Couldn't when I had AT&T for a trial period.

Too bad, cause I really wanted the iPhone
 
Nice commercial, definitely caught my attention last night enough to see what it was all about online. Plus competition is always good for the consumer.

It will be hard to topple the popularity of the iPhone though.
 
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