Verizon takes shots at Android

[mark166]

Hey, this is competitive business at work. It is the result of a SWOT analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. After the analysis, a strategy for "selling against the competition" is developed. The angle they take, of course, is the the out-of-the-box capabilities of the G1, and not what other apps further enhance it nor what is coming "down the road".

Some of the things they say are only half true, but that is true enough. "Limited coverage" sounds bad, the fact that for me, that same coverage covers 92% of my locales through the year makes it seem less limiting. "Limits music to OTA..." is only in the Amazon sense, but is not true in general. As always, "buyer beware" and most are not.

Just good healthy competition, and the underscore of the Verizon selling "cheat sheet" is that they view G1 as a credible and serious threat.

Mark

[kotor]

How about this ?

Is this true that you only have 128mb for installing application ? what if you have install a extra memory card ?

[night002]

WAAAAAHHHHH!!! Give me a break. Some of those "points" are really reaching.

1. I fail to understand why would anyone use this particular phone for corporate email or synching with a PC when it seems like most of Google's services are web-based. WinMo and BlackBerry devices are intended to do these things. Problem solved.

2. Big deal with "no audible turn-by-turn directions". Has Google Maps done that on any phone? And oh yeah, this is a PHONE! Why not just get a Garmin if one wants turn-by-turn directions? Problem solved.

[futuregeek]

I believe Google and this Open OS is the epitome of the Hacker Ethic. Give the citizenry the freedom to make something better and they will. Restrict their options/freedom and they will find a way around these restrictions... by choosing a product that gives them the freedom they seek.

These cell phone companies have no concept of this . I would pay a considerable amount of money if they would just stop restricting the phones and charging to unlock each and every feature. Just charge me a lump sum for all the unlimited feature and you would have my money.

Google and the Open OS have the right idea. Just look at how many "Hackers" {I don't mean it in the negative sense} are going to be trouble shooting this OS and improving it. Not to mention all the Apps that are going to be available in the near future.

Guess what my X-Mas present is gonna be this year?


Future Geek
www.50-1-50.com

[gbk1]

i like to check my gmail with the directions emailed to me while talking on speaker phone while i get lost and have dgAway respond to incoming texts and making my hidden LED blink the color of my choice and phone vibrate at my chosen vibration pattern and visually seeing little pop up IMs from AIM on Hello AIM and have voicemails automatically downloaded into my phone all the while hearing sweet sound of my MGS Alert notification ringtone.

yea i can dream my G1 ever be that active. for now, i just stalk the market.

[ghoonk]

How about this ?

Is this true that you only have 128mb for installing application ? what if you have install a extra memory card ?

70MB for installing apps, and you can't install apps on the memory card. That said, I still have 35MB free now, even with Market taking up 11MB, and if I did a reset and restore, I'd easily get back to 45MB, which is more than enough for me. I don't keep apps that I don't use, and since Market is online and always available, I install apps that I don't use frequently on an as-needed basis, then uninstall them

[mornindew]

There is a petition that has started to put pressure on Verizon to carry Android. If you feel so inclined go ahead and sign the petition and digg the story.
Petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ver...-carry-g-phone
Digg:
http://digg.com/software/Petition_Ve...Google_Android

[kitsunisan]

You know, as much as I hate Verizon, I'm pretty happy with them not carrying the platform. Maybe once it really becomes commonplace, it will be a draw to lure subscribers away from Verizon.