So sad you are locked into a $350 ETF, DROID has a flaky speaker! :>(
Verizon Wireless now charges up to $350 early termination fees per phone on your account
from Engadget by Paul Miller
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It's no reason to panic just yet, but apparently a good amount of
people are having trouble with the external speaker on their Motorola
Droid cutting out for no reason. It seems to be software-related, and
sometimes a reboot fixes it temporarily, but it's a scary problem for
people relying on the handset as an alarm clock (or, you know, to
receive calls), since you never know when it will strike next. For its
part it seems that Motorola is replacing handsets that have the issue,
though that's no guarantee of escape from the clutches of silence.
Let's hope Motorola updates us with a software patch or some other
serious solution soon -- people need to hear that robotic "Droooiiid"
alert sound -- and meanwhile let us know if you've been seeing a
similar issue.
This isn't the only area causing frustrated users pain. The Droid App
store sucks rocks. Not only are the apps of poor quality compared to
the front runner iPhone, the Droid apps are excruciatingly hard to
find compared to using the iTunes App store. It is a good thing there
is only one tenth for the Droid of the apps an iPhone has for that one
reason alone. More apps would be overwhelming pain for the Droid user.
Will Verizon update their Droid doesn't ads to include...
Droid doesn't have a desktop version of the App store like Apple's
iPhone?
Droid doesn't have a reliable speaker to take phone calls with?
Do you know any frustrated iPhone users who thought they were cool by
switching to Verizon's Droid who are now dragging back to home to
Apple? I read of one account in an online newspaper tech column today.
;>)
John Doe
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Larry
b7db-3b7...@g27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:
> Do you know any frustrated iPhone users who thought they were cool by
> switching to Verizon's Droid who are now dragging back to home to
> Apple? I read of one account in an online newspaper tech column today.
>
>
>
Droid users will find that the fantastic Motorola S9 or S9HD bluetooth
headsets will pair on both handsfree and A2DP bluetooth stereo with the
Droid, like any other premium Motorola phone with an MP3 player to give you
simply amazing stereo sound for about a street price of $70-80 for the
S9HD.
Be very wary of online sales gimmicks promising S9 headsets for $30 from
online sellphone stores. I had a problem with a busted S9 delivered from
one of these shysters but the nice people at Chase VISA did a chargeback to
the merchant who became MUCH more cooperative with an RMA after he found he
wasn't going to be paid....(c;]
I've never found a better in-the-ear stereo headset than the Motorola S9HD.
It makes my MotoROKR Z6m phone sound like a huge DJ system...and never
makes a mechanical noise when you move your head.
--
Larry
Larry
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> Subject: Re: So sad you are locked into a $350 ETF, DROID has a flaky
> speaker! :>( From: John Doe <jd...@usenetlove.invalid>
> Newsgroups:
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> When you are trolling Verizon users, Spammer, there is no
> point in including (misc.phone.mobile.iphone).
>
> "Verizon Wireless now charges up to $350 early termination fees per
> phone on your account" <vic.healey gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
Er, ah, JD? Vic is one of Apple's biggest online fanbois and is trying to
make, quite unsuccessfully it seems, a touchy-feely point for other iphone
fanbois thinking of jumping ship to new technologies from old.
--
Larry
George Kerby
On 11/15/09 11:36 PM, in article Xns9CC5644CE2...@74.209.131.13,
"Larry" <no...@home.com> wrote:
They sound well, but the comfort factor keeps me from using them as much as
I would like. (S9HD)