Yegolev
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The pamphlet makes it sound nice. Waiting and seeing.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Quinton
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Motorola blurs something alright, the line between ugly and uglier.
I have to say that I am completely baffled by your sense of aesthetics for hardware. You were pointing out some of the most godawful hideous phones I've ever seen the other day as the second coming of the robot jesus, and now you're hating on this device, which is pretty decent in my opinion. |
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Yegolev
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I watched the video just now so I could see if there was a picture of Linda McCartney on the back or something, but no, it looks like most every other black touch phone...?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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TripleDES
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Still waiting for the Sony Ericsson Rachael aka apparently Xperia X3.
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EVE (inactive): Deakin Frost -- APB (fukken dead): Kayleigh (on Patriot).
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Yegolev
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Well, while we are wishing here, I'm waiting for a Verizon Android phone so I can get the company discount before I am laid off.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Trippy
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Motorola blurs something alright, the line between ugly and uglier.
I have to say that I am completely baffled by your sense of aesthetics for hardware. You were pointing out some of the most godawful hideous phones I've ever seen the other day as the second coming of the robot jesus, and now you're hating on this device, which is pretty decent in my opinion. The body looks okay -- nothing special. The Home button, though, is a horrible design decision or did red stop being the universal color for "DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER" while I wasn't paying attention? |
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Yegolev
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I think the color red means other things in the current era of consumer electronics for laymen. Coupled with black, I think it means "I like Nickelback and watch Sons of Anarchy".
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Trippy
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I missed that bulletin.
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schild
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I missed that bulletin. Well, you just don't hang out with enough 16 year olds, man. |
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MuffinMan
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Anyone have plans of picking up the HTC Hero next month? Trying to decide if I want to exchange my Pre for it or not.
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Yegolev
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I'm still looking around. It's a possibility but I can't say for sure.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Quinton
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Out of curiosity, what makes you want to replace the Pre?
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MuffinMan
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Mainly poor battery life, not a big fan of slider phones and I just can't get used to the keyboard. Couple of minor things too like no Facebook app (yet), can't change e-mail/text alert sounds, vibration is very weak. After I put my music on it only leaves me with 500mb, it would be nice to have a microSD slot.
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Yegolev
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I agree about the MicroSD, that's basically a necessity. Even the Wii lets you save things to a SD card now.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Quinton
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Yegolev
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Great. Turns out I will be employed by TCCC at least until December 31, which should mean that I can get the corp discount on a Tao. Also the hardware specs seem nice; I'm hoping I can easily deflect chuckles and sneers from the iPhone users.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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JWIV
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Great. Turns out I will be employed by TCCC at least until December 31, which should mean that I can get the corp discount on a Tao. Also the hardware specs seem nice; I'm hoping I can easily deflect chuckles and sneers from the iPhone users.
I am intrigued! |
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Trippy
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Also the hardware specs seem nice; I'm hoping I can easily deflect chuckles and sneers from the iPhone users.
Not a chance. |
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Yegolev
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Hopefully you are commenting on the personalities of the iPhone users and not on the Tao hardware.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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NiX
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Anyone have plans of picking up the HTC Hero next month? Trying to decide if I want to exchange my Pre for it or not.
Reviews say the Hero can't handle the heavily modified Android. Lots of stuttering/slow downs when transition between apps and such. Still hoping the CLIQ comes out in Canada sooner, but it won't happen. The only Android phone worth buying is the Dream. |
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MuffinMan
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Yea I've read that too and some mixed reports that the stuttering is almost all gone with the new software updates. I have 3-4 days after it comes out to exchange my Pre, although I've grown to like a lot more now that I've had a month with it. Dropped it last week and cracked the corner of it  |
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NiX
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So it's faster? Cause I wouldn't mind getting the Hero if the stuttering is fixed or negligible. I'm running an HTC S720 with WinMo 6.1, it can't be worse than that, can it?
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schild
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So it's faster? Cause I wouldn't mind getting the Hero if the stuttering is fixed or negligible. I'm running an HTC S720 with WinMo 6.1, it can't be worse than that, can it?
Thought you wanted an actual keyboard. |
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NiX
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I'm running out of options here and the Dream is "old" by phone standards. Not to mention the CLIQ is almost a full year out by all reports I can find in regards to it coming to Canada.
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Arrrgh
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I was thinking about a couple of heroes but the wife drops her phone a lot. Anyone able to recommend a good case for frequent phone droppers?
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MuffinMan
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Exchanged my Pre for a Hero today. The only way I've gotten the os to stutter is when I loaded up every page with multiple widgets and was playing a song on last.fm. Great phone so far, no complaints at all. The customization of the UI is amazing
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Falconeer
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My alarm isn't working anymore! I've been late at work for two days in a row now!
I set up the default android alarm and it just doesn't ring if the phone is in standby. Oddly, when I check the phone and I turn on the screen it goes off as soon as I do it, but it doesn't fire until the screen is touched and the phone awakened by the standby mode.
It is driving me nuts, any idea? I didn't do/installed much at all on this phone and I am not running any kind of modification. I even downloaded another alarm from Android Market and it has the same problem. It's like the phone goes into a DEEP SLEEP mode and it doesn't allow the alarms to work until it is manually awakened from standby. Which makes alarm useless.
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Yegolev
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Buy an alarm clock?  I'm helping! |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Falconeer
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Yegolev
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Actually I use the daily alarm on my BB to let me know when to go home, so I will be in the same situation eventually.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Quinton
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Odd that the alarm doesn't work. What device? What OS version?
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Falconeer
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HTC Magic. OS... uhm... Android?  No really, what do you need to know? It says: firmware version 1.5. Do you need the kernel version? |
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Quinton
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HTC Magic. OS... uhm... Android? No really, what do you need to know? It says: firmware version 1.5. Do you need the kernel version? This is almost certainly a userspace/framework issue and not a kernel issue. HTC Magic is an HTC build, not one of ours, so it's possible they broke something, but the basic alarm manager stuff would be pretty hard to break (all kinds of stuff depends on it). Possible that the alarm app has a bug. Basically the situation you see is: 1. set an alarm 2. let the screen turn off 3. time of alarm passes without alarm going off? I just tested this and it works for me (alarm wakes device up and makes annoying beeping noise), but I'm using a much newer build (newer than donut/1.6). |
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tazelbain
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So HTC Hero, anyone get this?
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MuffinMan
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I picked mine up this past Sunday. The first Best Buy that I went to was sold out and it looked like it was selling well at the second.
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