Verizon..... SUCKS

[sonnemad]

Unfortunately there are a number of us who cannot just switch to Sprint or any other carrier. I am stuck with Verizon as my employer is paying for my verizon plan and won't pay for any other plan. I am not about to go spend $70+ a month on a sprint plan just to get a better phone sooner. And better is still up for grabs as there has been no official word from verizon on the specs of their Diamond.

[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by sonnemad

Unfortunately there are a number of us who cannot just switch to Sprint or any other carrier. I am stuck with Verizon as my employer is paying for my verizon plan and won't pay for any other plan. I am not about to go spend $70+ a month on a sprint plan just to get a better phone sooner. And better is still up for grabs as there has been no official word from verizon on the specs of their Diamond.

sorry to say but id eat my hat if the Verizon phone was better then its announced specs.

its going to be crippled, horribly. just like every other device they release. you're in lala land if you're thinking Verizon is going to switch up there tactics now.

the Verizon diamond will be a paper weight compared to the Sprint and telus one. also Alltel is going to have a crippled device just like verizon.

[sonnemad]

What announced specs? Verizon has not released any information on their specs for their Diamond. The only specs I've seen are the leaked document from Sprint comparing it's diamond to the verizon diamond. I know better than to believe a "leaked" spec document from one company about another companies products.

Until Verizon releases specs on the Diamond. I'll assume that it's the same as every other CDMA diamond out there. Verizon will as always cripple the software on the phone, and then load it down with a bunch of crappy pointless applications. But I have yet to see anything that would convince me that the hardware will be substantially different.

[doctorPDA]

Juggalo_X, you're right about the vast majority of Verizon phones (about the crippling)..... I was an owner of the Verizon Motorola V710 and I hated what Verizon did to it. I may be wrong, but weren't the Verizon and Alltel HTC Touch versions the same as the Sprint HTC Touch version, with the exception of the color? WiFi and GPS were removed from all the versions compared with the original GSM version.

The one released document about the crippled Verizon Diamond (http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/More...le-a_3021.html) was released with a "Sprint Ahead" logo on it. Does anyone here know of other evidence to suggest it will be crippled? I hope you're right Juggalo_X, as I wouldn't want you to eat your hat!!! What kind of hat is it??

Also, regarding the Alltel Diamond, based on the posts on this site, it didn't appear to be crippled... Do you have alternate evidence? I hope you're wrong on this one.

By the way, thanks for all of your cogent posts.

[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by doctorPDA

Juggalo_X, you're right about the vast majority of Verizon phones (about the crippling)..... I was an owner of the Verizon Motorola V710 and I hated what Verizon did to it. I may be wrong, but weren't the Verizon and Alltel HTC Touch versions the same as the Sprint HTC Touch version, with the exception of the color? WiFi and GPS were removed from all the versions compared with the original GSM version.

The one released document about the crippled Verizon Diamond (http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/More...le-a_3021.html) was released with a "Sprint Ahead" logo on it. Does anyone here know of other evidence to suggest it will be crippled? I hope you're right Juggalo_X, as I wouldn't want you to eat your hat!!! What kind of hat is it??

Also, regarding the Alltel Diamond, based on the posts on this site, it didn't appear to be crippled... Do you have alternate evidence? I hope you're wrong on this one.

By the way, thanks for all of your cogent posts.

when i was surfing looking to altell pics for there manila style the spec sheet i saw was the exact same as verizons. now the sad truth is verizon is probably going to cripple there device, given there track record with others they have did it to. altell, since i could find jack all about it really, im more inclined to say that the specs i saw for them may have been more likely bogus then verizons. those specs have been out for a while. and with all the smack talk on verizon, you'd think if they wernt true they would release something different to save face?

i vaguely remember reading a review some where on the verizon diamon and all the guy did was complain about how it was crippled. ill see if i can dig it up. i may be mistaken.

the hat is made of fruit roll-ups heh...


i just had a thought..... does any one els hate the verizon guy? i just wanna slap him when i see the comercials lol