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Just wanted to say...

I just wanted to inform you all that today I was over at my local T-Mobile store in Chicago and they do indeed have an HTC HD2 in stock. Felt like putting that out there. The guy said that it would be out Wednesday soo... yeaah! And he didn;t know what an HTC Desire is so I feel smart now =D

Yo G1BRICKED, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but the SEARCH function is one of the most useful features ever! Everybody knows this already!

No dip home-boy! I have a masters degree in searching but just wanted to say it. Don;t player hate, appriciate. It was fun D: you made me sad now.

Good to know you're in Chicago. 1 less buyer in NYC.

G1BRICKED said:
No dip home-boy! I have a masters degree in searching but just wanted to say it. Don;t player hate, appriciate. It was fun D: you made me sad now.
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the G1BRICKED is getting an HD2 with me?

Haha no. I didn't say I'm getting it. I'm locked in for 12 more monthes. But I'm gonna try, cuz I got my ways. And hopefully I can get it!

im getting it n i lie in chicago too i went to walmart and they have the demo and it feels good in the hand but the buttons felt a lil bit weird i hope i get use to it

G1BRICKED said:
Haha no. I didn't say I'm getting it. I'm locked in for 12 more monthes. But I'm gonna try, cuz I got my ways. And hopefully I can get it!
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T-Mobile offers full upgrades at the 12 month point for smartphones
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/01/t-mobile-partial-upgrade-pricing-discount-goes-live-tomorrow/
Basically, beginning January 27, customers can upgrade their smartphone every year for the same price as new customers.
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Samsung Epic

Please follow the link and sign up so you know when the Epic will be available.
http://now.sprint.com/epic4g/?ECID=vanity:epic4G

sdotcarlisle said:
Please follow the link and sign up so you know when the Epic will be available.
http://now.sprint.com/epic4g/?ECID=vanity:epic4G
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Signed up earlier this week, but are you going to get it?
I hope we have a good community for it.

im waiting for epic to come out and see which of the 4G devices I should purchase base on user feedback\reviews.

i think it will have insane speed/graphics due to hummingbird, i would upgrade but i have 8 more months to go

Kcarpenter said:
Signed up earlier this week, but are you going to get it?
I hope we have a good community for it.
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i dont know i didnt like the moment but hey i'll give it a try, my evo should be here next week hopefully

sdotcarlisle said:
i dont know i didnt like the moment but hey i'll give it a try, my evo should be here next week hopefully
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Hmm, glad I didn't buy the Evo Now I can get this or whatever's better once my contract runs up.

I took back my EVO for the Epic. The EVO sucked in my opinion. The build quality is kinda horrid, I went through 3 EVOs all which broke on me. I was very disappointed with HTC this time around.

schizopunk said:
I took back my EVO for the Epic. The EVO sucked in my opinion. The build quality is kinda horrid, I went through 3 EVOs all which broke on me. I was very disappointed with HTC this time around.
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What do you do? Jump off cliffs with your phone?

Im gonna extended my contract for this sexy beast
Sent from my HERO200

DirtyShroomz said:
What do you do? Jump off cliffs with your phone?
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The EVOs hardware is horrible on their first builds. The first one the USB port broke, second one the bottom lights didnt light up right and the third one the USB port broke again, it got to the point where it literally couldnt charge it anymore. I've had enough with that ****ty phone.

sdotcarlisle said:
Please follow the link and sign up so you know when the Epic will be available.
http://now.sprint.com/epic4g/?ECID=vanity:epic4G
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I know better than to get a samsung phone after seeing what they did with the moment

Ugh I'm in a tough spot. Went wakeboarding with my hero in my pocket this morning, and I'll let it sit in rice for a few days but I'm not holding out hope. I do have a line in our plan up for upgrade.
Do I:
Use it on another hero, which will root and probably run Froyo happily for another 10 months
Get an Evo which is nice but frickin' huge. Suck up the $10 sucker fee and deny the phones on the horizon
Get a cheap flip phone off Craigslist and hold out for an Epic.
Do I even want a hardware keyboard? Even if I didn't use it this phone looks awesome. Samsung support scares me though. Perusing the Moment developer scene doesn't give me much hope of getting AOSP builds going.

bohiti said:
Ugh I'm in a tough spot. Went wakeboarding with my hero in my pocket this morning, and I'll let it sit in rice for a few days but I'm not holding out hope. I do have a line in our plan up for upgrade.
Do I:
Use it on another hero, which will root and probably run Froyo happily for another 10 months
Get an Evo which is nice but frickin' huge. Suck up the $10 sucker fee and deny the phones on the horizon
Get a cheap flip phone off Craigslist and hold out for an Epic.
Do I even want a hardware keyboard? Even if I didn't use it this phone looks awesome. Samsung support scares me though. Perusing the Moment developer scene doesn't give me much hope of getting AOSP builds going.
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Not to mention the Epic is very likely going to have that $10 fee as well

Yeah, no doubt.
I guess I've decided to use my old Q9C (UGH!) for the month or so until the Epic is rumored to come out. I'll pick it up and try it out, and use the 30 day return to hop back to Evo if I don't like it.

bohiti said:
Yeah, no doubt.
I guess I've decided to use my old Q9C (UGH!) for the month or so until the Epic is rumored to come out. I'll pick it up and try it out, and use the 30 day return to hop back to Evo if I don't like it.
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Huh? i thought i read this wasn't coming out till late fall? I like the design of the phone & the specs but the touch wiz interface sucks.

bohiti said:
Ugh I'm in a tough spot. Went wakeboarding with my hero in my pocket this morning, and I'll let it sit in rice for a few days but I'm not holding out hope. I do have a line in our plan up for upgrade.
Do I:
Use it on another hero, which will root and probably run Froyo happily for another 10 months
Get an Evo which is nice but frickin' huge. Suck up the $10 sucker fee and deny the phones on the horizon
Get a cheap flip phone off Craigslist and hold out for an Epic.
Do I even want a hardware keyboard? Even if I didn't use it this phone looks awesome. Samsung support scares me though. Perusing the Moment developer scene doesn't give me much hope of getting AOSP builds going.
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not worth it to waste an upgrade on a hero. go grab a old palm or blackberry and use it if u want the epic. or just suck it up and get the hero

Or if you wanted to pick up phones at radioshack you could just return each phone before the 30 days were up until it got released,
I did a whole tour exploring different phones and platforms waiting for the evo when I headed back to sprint, each time you return a phone it resets your 30 day period

Jwahlg said:
Or if you wanted to pick up phones at radioshack you could just return each phone before the 30 days were up until it got released,
I did a whole tour exploring different phones and platforms waiting for the evo when I headed back to sprint, each time you return a phone it resets your 30 day period
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there was no history of your returns in the system? i don't want to get dirty looks lol

flam253 said:
there was no history of your returns in the system? i don't want to get dirty looks lol
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no you get to try a device for 30 days if you dont like you can try another device for 30 days. sweet huh.

all i know is touchwiz looks like crap and so does the taskbar theme. i may just try to pick up a cheap evo.

Forum demographics (male or female)

I must be wrong, but every time I see someone in this forum, I assume he is a guy. I must be wrong. Are there any girls here?
(sorry for the trivial question, but I just think it can't be true).

everyone knows there are no girls on the internet, sheesh.

ha ha ha ha. they don't care about their cell phones like us.

Not as many girls on this one as some of the other android forums but yes there are a few of us .... I'm mainly on SprintUsers.com but most links refer to here so decided to see what I can do over here.

Girl? What is this, Girl-thing, that you speak of? I'm intrigued...
LOL

LoL. I have had to explain at least 3 times to my girlfriend why she doesn't want to get the purple LG phone with flowers on it and the $70 unlimited data plan.
She is a pHD.
I don't foresee her joining this forum in the near future.

my girl couldnt even use the evo touchscreen. she just kept hitting it with her nails or something awkward *facepalm*
back to the razr she goes.

i once saw a girl on a linux forum and she schooled everyone.. it was one of the hottest things ive ever seen.. but at xda, i dont think so.. plus its probably better that i dont find out cause then i would only come to xda to answer her questions as soon as i found out cause even if she is butt ugly i can find the inner beauty in a tech gurl.. gawd, tech gurls are such a turn on
let me know if u need anything sasha

nenn said:
everyone knows there are no girls on the internet, sheesh.
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ROFL!!! this just made my day! well done!

nenn said:
everyone knows there are no girls on the internet, sheesh.
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hilarious
10char

I've been checking out XDA since way back when I first got my FUZE. So much great info here. I rooted my FUZE and was very happy with the results. Now I'm enjoying the EVO. It's nice to see that there's at least 1 other girl on here! LOL.

My gf has a Evo too (She switched from a iPhone) and she is in love with Android and loves having her phone as she says "hacked" but we know as rooted. She doesn't know about XDA though, I just install the cool stuff for her

(Didn't like my post and regretted it...but had to wait till now to delete)

toenail78 said:
gawd, tech gurls are cool
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yeaaaaa... i agree.

My ex couldn't even figure out my iPhone, yet somehow my 62 year old mom figured out how to use her evo and start texting, too!
But other than that, I don't think very many girls know what a forum even means, much less how to find one. Haha.

Hrshycro said:
But other than that, I don't think very many girls know what a forum even means, much less how to find one. Haha.
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sweetheart, comments like this is why so many girls have not posted. BTW, putting a HaHa on the end of a sentence still does not make it funny.

There are some woman here. Not sure how many though. My wife has my old hero and is eying my evo for when I grab the next best thing in a few months.

my grandma jus got an EVO she rooted it all her self......maybe i should bring her to this thread and to u guys dont u guys think so...........
j/k

I don't believe that hacking phones is a "girly" thing to do. or is it? I do wonder about some of you guys though.....
Just like you wouldn't really expect alot of girls to be drag racing. There are a few. And these girls are one of a kind.

I don't mean to stereo-type any women here....but it has been my seeing that most women prefer more of a girly like life sytle.... very rarely have I ever met a women who care about how fast a phone is.. how many gigahertz it has, how much RAM or the difference in kernels or software let alone all the technical b.s. we throw in between. But it is nice to see them around. For example... I serve the country in uniform, and while yes they are here in uniform. They don't much care for technical details of there job. They just show up and do what is asked of them. Nothing more. And again while most are wrapped up with clubs and fashion and what have you there is a small handful of them that do surprise us.... glad to see at least there are surprises here.
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Comfirmed: Expect froyo for the vibrant sometime this month!!

Facebooks official vibrant group just post the message. Oooh yeah!
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"A birdie just told me to expect Froyo for Vibrant as early as this month!!!!!"
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And which of the many Samsung Vibrant's on Facebook is the official one.

Its off the many samsung vibrant pages which I'm not so sure is the "official" page anymore. Probably a blonde moment. Uh I'm going to sign of now. Sorry for the false alarm peeps...
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As early as this month doesn't sound too concrete or confirmed to me. They haven't even pushed the 2.1 update with gps fix. I hope I'm wrong though.

As far as I know, this is coming from a Samsung tech employee in Finland, and is only stated for the international Galaxy S. I wouldn't expect this by the end of the month for our US Vibrant.

T's Response
I called T today to find out about the GPS fix that was leaked to come out today. I was transferred to T's Android Rep who stated that the GPS Fix is to be included in 2.2 and that he did not have a time for the release. He could not even speculate on the time frame for a release but that it was in the works and coming soon. I would not expect the update till late November but before Christmas. It could be pushed back even farther if there is any chance of there being some issues with the update to 2.2 The last thing Sam and T want is bad PR it would be a loss of sales and loss of customers. I believe they are going to test the crap out of the 2.2 update which will be nice to have a great stock rom.

Digital_Warrior said:
I called T today to find out about the GPS fix that was leaked to come out today. I was transferred to T's Android Rep who stated that the GPS Fix is to be included in 2.2 and that he did not have a time for the release. He could not even speculate on the time frame for a release but that it was in the works and coming soon. I would not expect the update till late November but before Christmas. It could be pushed back even farther if there is any chance of there being some issues with the update to 2.2 The last thing Sam and T want is bad PR it would be a loss of sales and loss of customers. I believe they are going to test the crap out of the 2.2 update which will be nice to have a great stock rom.
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Stop with your speculation. If Samsung waited till November, no one in these forums would still have a Vibrant. Every other phone to come out in the last few months has been updated to froyo (Droid X will be out soon, but has seen many leaked versions). Waiting till November would be a deathwish for Samsung. By then, Gingerbread might be out then the whole process would start over again.

Uglyboyed said:
Facebooks official vibrant group just post the message. Oooh yeah!
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link? or it did not happen

I would still keep my phone no matter when the updates come out. It happens when it happens. No one can make it happen any earler. So every one needs to chill.
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Froyo. I don't even know what it was (a yogurt desert) before buying an Android phone, now I see this word on a daily basis. God Bless Xda.

you know what. im kinda tired of seeing these threads. I think Sammy And Tmo are gonna take there sweet ass time with this. Seeing as they alreay have your money from when you bought the phone ($400 full price, $200 New 2 yrs contract, or a penny if you got on the amazon ****) they dont really have to care. They provided a phone that worked. that was that. they dont have to update it. if they wanted to they could be like yeaaaaa **** it. and there is nothing we could do but cry and build our own roms for it.
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money. theres rumours left and right about when its gonna get 2.2 - if it does it does if it dont it dont. not much we can do

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you know what. im kinda tired of seeing these threads. I think Sammy And Tmo are gonna take there sweet ass time with this. Seeing as they alreay have your money from when you bought the phone ($400 full price, $200 New 2 yrs contract, or a penny if you got on the amazon ****) they dont really have to care. They provided a phone that worked. that was that. they dont have to update it. if they wanted to they could be like yeaaaaa **** it. and there is nothing we could do but cry and build our own roms for it.
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money. theres rumours left and right about when its gonna get 2.2 - if it does it does if it dont it dont. not much we can do
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The one thing WE CAN DO: sell our pieces o' **** for something else, i.e. a nexus one, iphone 4, droid x, etc. etc.

aeok18109 said:
you know what. im kinda tired of seeing these threads. I think Sammy And Tmo are gonna take there sweet ass time with this. Seeing as they alreay have your money from when you bought the phone ($400 full price, $200 New 2 yrs contract, or a penny if you got on the amazon ****) they dont really have to care. They provided a phone that worked. that was that. they dont have to update it. if they wanted to they could be like yeaaaaa **** it. and there is nothing we could do but cry and build our own roms for it.
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money. theres rumours left and right about when its gonna get 2.2 - if it does it does if it dont it dont. not much we can do
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I almost agree with you here, aside from the fact they did NOT give us a working phone. Try your GPS on your stock Vibrant and come back and tell me it works

spacecasespiff said:
I would still keep my phone no matter when the updates come out. It happens when it happens. No one can make it happen any earler. So every one needs to chill.
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How long will you chill for? Hell, in december it will be out for almost 6 months. So if thats the case, f that,.

aeok18109 said:
Tmo has us real good tho. they get you for the monthly and if you ditch them before 2 yrs is up hey guess what your shelling out another 200 bucks for nuking the contract LOL. its all about money.
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That's why I got no contract. I'll just mosey over to verizon or sprint or one of the many other carries with a Galaxy S phone once they come out with Froyo.

Uglyboyed said:
Facebooks official vibrant group just post the message. Oooh yeah!
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I went through all the Vibrant Facebook Pages and found the one mentioning Froyo and there is no way in hell that is a Samsung managed page.
a) They bag on the Captivate - Samsung wouldn't do that
b) July 14th - Said "I just played with one" - Why would Samsung say that?
c) "Their review" links to http://thetechninja.wordpress.com/ - Why would Samsung do a review of their own phone?
So, rumor squashed, there is absolutely no basis for believing anything posted to that page. The OP here should not have said its the official Vibrant page when it clearly isnt.

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Stop with your speculation. If Samsung waited till November, no one in these forums would still have a Vibrant. Every other phone to come out in the last few months has been updated to froyo (Droid X will be out soon, but has seen many leaked versions). Waiting till November would be a deathwish for Samsung. By then, Gingerbread might be out then the whole process would start over again.
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Nothing to add except that I thought it was funny that you began with "stop with your speculation", then proceeded with your own speculation.

I love how people make posts about "hey man, i read this somewhere", and somehow REFUSE to post a link.
Do you think we're stupid?
Post a link or it's BS.

Here is the link the OP is referring to:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Samsung-Galaxy-S-Vibrant/129061660469467?ref=ts
Take note from my post above that there is no way in hell this is official Samsung news.

Things To Do While Waiting For Our HD's ?

While reading some of the other posts it seems ppl are so excited to get there phones and are upset about the suposed delays. So for those people who are wanted to do stuff with there HD without having it here are my sugestions :-
-- Making some cool theme ieas in the theme section
-- Dessuss the accesories that look good/bad in thee accessories sections
-- Looking for cool new apps (thats always fun)
-- Pass the time catting to fellow HD owners to be in irc (freenode #DesireHD)
-- Reading this thred you probably spent 10-15 seconds reading this you have now gotten 10-15 seconds closer to getting your phones (yay !)
I do Not recomend
-- Refeshing the Realese date threds every three seconds (which i seem to be doing)
:-D

-- Alternatively, Stop procrastinating on those assignments

-- Email all big tech blogs and beg for their Desire HD reviews!

Buy an iPhone 4

^Wow that is a good one! Nice idea
I think if we have developers around here, maybe rooting could be a good place to start? I mean, we do have the original rom to take apart.

-Continue to Moderate this forum

- watch some porn

@home said:
Buy an iPhone 4
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joke mybe, but serious for me, i am realy consider to cancel my DHD and buy iphone 4.
mybe its time to leave android and find some other world.

Stop him!!!! You will be doomed to bad signal for life and no left hand support!!
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Waiting for DHD
Well guys I am going to buy a desire 2nd hand and then see what the reviews say about the DHD and make a decision then.
After all how much can I lose £50???

I just purchased desire brand new £250.00 already sold to someone for the end of the month pickup.
Now where was I ow yes living

I just got pipped at the post on ebay. I dont mind paying £250 but its difficult finding one at the right price.

Try gumtree that's where I found mine. You could buy mine and I could get another!

liorra3 said:
joke mybe, but serious for me, i am realy consider to cancel my DHD and buy iphone 4.
mybe its time to leave android and find some other world.
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The iPhone really sucks. You have to wait for a jailbreak (and that's going to take a while) and you can't tweak the iPhone. Just wait for the HD.
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@home said:
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A bit extreme - personally, I will never use a "closed" device again. Android is the light in the Apple Dark.

Well guys I bought myself a second hand Desire this morning and the seller rang me up to confirrm despatch.
The great news is that I can get rid of my iPhone 3GS and have use of a "better" phone for me.
That means that I can be less anxious about the DHD release but will wait for the reviews etc and then decide whether to skip the DHD for the new dual core phones out post xmas and which should run Andriod 3.0
Keeping my pre order with Clove though and hedging my bets

Here is some good naughty stuff to get you started:
http://tinyurl.com/3x2ljt7

Got email from Mobilephonesdirect.com this morning.
We are
expecting to be able to fulfil your order in the next 15 working days which
means your Desire HD should be with you by the end of October.
I pre-ordered this back when delivery date was the 7th.
Looks like none are getting them before the end of this month, ow well at least we know now.
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kingkeld said:
Here is some good naughty stuff to get you started:
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Drool!
Im gonna overclock my touch hd as much as possible... doesnt really matter if it breaks anymore!
Actually, I need to sell it... oops

just thought i'd let you guys know. if you do a youtube search of HTC Desire HD and sort by date to most recent, you'll get a ton of new videos from the last couple of days.