Comments on: The ‘Gphone Effect’ Is Affecting Verizon While They Deny It http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/28/the-gphone-effect-is-affecting-verizon-while-they-denying-it/ General interest observations and true web-log. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:42:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stu Mulne http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/28/the-gphone-effect-is-affecting-verizon-while-they-denying-it/comment-page-1/#comment-895074 Stu Mulne Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:55:07 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14825#comment-895074 I've got a Razr from Verizon. The phone's nice, but the interface is inconsistent. Dunno about the Bluetooth - it works well with the headset they gave me, but shutting Bluetooth OFF, when I don't want to carry the headset is an interface nightmare. The service quality is inconsistent, too, around here - just not built out enough, I think. It would be nice if I could put a better phone on the system next year when this one "expires", but I'll probably jump. For now, it's adequate, or they'd have gotten it back. (The local sales office is in a "good" area - my home/office is in a "bad" one. We're about six miles apart on the same straight-line roadway.... Big hill between us, though.) Regards, Stu. I’ve got a Razr from Verizon. The phone’s nice, but the interface is inconsistent. Dunno about the Bluetooth – it works well with the headset they gave me, but shutting Bluetooth OFF, when I don’t want to carry the headset is an interface nightmare.

The service quality is inconsistent, too, around here – just not built out enough, I think.

It would be nice if I could put a better phone on the system next year when this one “expires”, but I’ll probably jump. For now, it’s adequate, or they’d have gotten it back.

(The local sales office is in a “good” area – my home/office is in a “bad” one. We’re about six miles apart on the same straight-line roadway…. Big hill between us, though.)

Regards,

Stu.

]]> By: AlanB http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/28/the-gphone-effect-is-affecting-verizon-while-they-denying-it/comment-page-1/#comment-895068 AlanB Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:50:27 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14825#comment-895068 Yeah! Whether gPhone or Android ever come to fruition the mere threat proposed by Google and the OHA will make us all winners. Perhaps in a few years the USA will catch up with Europe where I understand fully 50% of phones are sold unlocked and with all the features the manufacturers designed into them. Yeah! Whether gPhone or Android ever come to fruition the mere threat proposed by Google and the OHA will make us all winners. Perhaps in a few years the USA will catch up with Europe where I understand fully 50% of phones are sold unlocked and with all the features the manufacturers designed into them.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/28/the-gphone-effect-is-affecting-verizon-while-they-denying-it/comment-page-1/#comment-895011 Kevin Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:02:46 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14825#comment-895011 Verizon is very very proprietary. They have a policy of locking up the BLUETOOTH functionality of their devices. I wonder if this will mean that they will start opening up the use of BLUETOOTH. Verizon is very very proprietary. They have a policy of locking up the BLUETOOTH functionality of their devices. I wonder if this will mean that they will start opening up the use of BLUETOOTH.

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