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I just find it comical that the Droid X was hyped up to come with 2.2 and then it launches with 2.1, which wasn't a big deal...
However now as a slap in the face.. The droid1 got froyo... The droid 2 has froyo.. Now the droid incredible also has froyo.. And the X is left alone by itself in 2.1 land.. Any comments?
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I'm not really worried about it as I (and probably most of us) already have froyo...even if it isn't OTA
Yeah its more or less just showing where DroidX owners stand on verizons priority list, that's last
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My brain can't handle the overload of ignorance that this thread is producing.........
elemeno0pee said:
My brain can't handle the overload of ignorance that this thread is producing.........
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wtf is ignorant about this threat besides the bull**** spewing from your mouth?
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wtf is ignorant about this threat besides the bull**** spewing from your mouth?
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hahaha, I agree with you there...
And I agree with the OP.... I think the Droid X should have gotten the update by now also... being the flagship phone and all.
Anyways, we shall wait and see..
Joe92T said:
I just find it comical that the Droid X was hyped up to come with 2.2 and then it launches with 2.1, which wasn't a big deal...
However now as a slap in the face.. The droid1 got froyo... The droid 2 has froyo.. Now the droid incredible also has froyo.. And the X is left alone by itself in 2.1 land.. Any comments?
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My comment is its BS!! i know its potentially just a week or 2 away (maybe) but there is no reason why it should be the last freaken droid to get the update. This is suppose to be the daddy of all phones. If anything it should have been the 1st. Sorry just impatient because i want it but dont want to mess with leaked version that has to be manually installed. Who knows if its even the final version.
I'm going to list the phones in order of release with their Froyo Status.
Droid - Froyo'd first
Droid Incredible - Froyo'd second
Droid X - FroyoLeak, no OTA
Droid 2 - Released Froyo'd
It's only logical that X is last. Of course, it's not Verizon's fault. It's technically Motorola's, as they are the ones providing support for the phones they themselves released... But with the leaked Froyo out, it's only a matter of time before the OTA update's out. Just give it time, ok?
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It's only logical that X is last. Of course, it's not Verizon's fault. It's technically Motorola's, as they are the ones providing support for the phones they themselves released... But with the leaked Froyo out, it's only a matter of time before the OTA update's out. Just give it time, ok?
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It's most likely Moto's fault. Taking their time, etc. I'm just hopeful they'll release it soon. I'm laying off upgrading to the leak because I did the leak on my eris and got screwed.
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I'm going to list the phones in order of release with their Froyo Status.
Droid - Froyo'd first
Droid Incredible - Froyo'd second
Droid X - FroyoLeak, no OTA
Droid 2 - Released Froyo'd
It's only logical that X is last. Of course, it's not Verizon's fault. It's technically Motorola's, as they are the ones providing support for the phones they themselves released... But with the leaked Froyo out, it's only a matter of time before the OTA update's out. Just give it time, ok?
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+1 as well. Whoever said this means the X is last on VZW's list of importance has no clue...vzw has nothing to do with it. Motorola does.
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the dx is getting froyo between early/mid september . which is around the corner now, only if they dont delay it again...
Ready for update. Will we be able to root the stock 2.2 like what they r doin with the EVO?
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It could actually be verizon holding it up. There is a very exhaustive testing process that all phones have to go through to be allowed on the vzw network. Most of the time the long lead is the first time through testing withdrawn updates taking much less testing and therefore much less time. However, if verizon found some issue that they don't want to allow on their network they could require motorola to go back, fix it, and get back in line to get the testing performed. Of course, some times verizon waves their hands let's the phone go through with minimal testing. We really can't know.
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It could actually be verizon holding it up. There is a very exhaustive testing process that all phones have to go through to be allowed on the vzw network. Most of the time the long lead is the first time through testing withdrawn updates taking much less testing and therefore much less time. However, if verizon found some issue that they don't want to allow on their network they could require motorola to go back, fix it, and get back in line to get the testing performed. Of course, some times verizon waves their hands let's the phone go through with minimal testing. We really can't know.
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Good point. But still..that doesn't portend that the X is low on verizon's priorities..quite the opposite I think.
I think there are tons more droids than droidx phones in use. The lack of flash in the recent froyo release for the droid seemed to have caught more of motorola and verizons attention since they rolled out /are rolling out an update in short order.
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First, this isn't a post about how to get root on 2.3. I know, at present, it is not possible. I know, I have tried pretty much every method imaginable
Anyway:
Where are we? I've heard rumors that S-off is coming from unreoked, alpharev x, team win will be coming "any day." Yeah, I'll believe it when I get it.
But, I think we are at the point where we are at HTC and Sprint's mercy. I mean, are we at the point where we are going to have to beg sprint and or HTC, to put S-OFF, or, somewhat more realistically, unlock the bootloader (or at least provide an RUU to downgrade?).
Anyway: Just discuss what you think about the plausibility of rooting the 2.3 release, and if we will ever see a free EVO. I am, sadly stuck on 2.3, as I didn't think about rooting, or know anything about it, until after I took the OTA .
Flame on! #johnnystorm
Is there a way to delete post instead of editing?
This isn't another one of those posts claiming to not be one of those posts about the locked bootloader that has been posted more than enough?
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COULD IT BE......
@AlphaRevX and @unrevoked have come together to build something... Revolutionary. See you tonight! http://t.co/QUU6G1A"
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Hey are u rooted on that thing? Oh no...... well sit back and hold yer breath like the REST OF US......
I don't think we're stuck at Spint's/HTC's mercy. We're just further down the priority list of the devs. That's fine, its the nature of technology. As STG posted, Alpharev and unrevoked are posting something tonight. That could be a universal GB crack (hope!) or it could be a rooted 3d/Sensation. Either way, OG Evo is moving up on the priority list. Its an old phone, but hardly forgotten.
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COULD IT BE......
@AlphaRevX and @unrevoked have come together to build something... Revolutionary. See you tonight! http://t.co/QUU6G1A"
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Hey are u rooted on that thing? Oh no...... well sit back and hold yer breath like the REST OF US......
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Damn You, You beat me.
http://revolutionary.io/
I hope that it really is a root for gb. stock rom is killing me.
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HTC isn't helping much either, though they say that they are going to. The've announced that they are going to start sending out updates with the new unlocked boot-loaders in August, and the Evo 3D is third on the list so it'll be out later in the year. I haven't read anything about them sending out an unlocked boot-loader for the Evo 4G.
As was previously stated, not forgotten, but no doubt far down on the list of priorities.
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HTC isn't helping much either, though they say that they are going to. The've announced that they are going to start sending out updates with the new unlocked boot-loaders in August, and the Evo 3D is third on the list so it'll be out later in the year. I haven't read anything about them sending out an unlocked boot-loader for the Evo 4G.
As was previously stated, not forgotten, but no doubt far down on the list of priorities.
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If I recall HTC's statement correctly, they said the 3vo and the sensation would receive the updates first and then in September they would unlock phones that have recently been locked down...I believe the og evo is on that list.
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If that "Something Revolutionary" is root for Evo Gingerbread, I will be voluntary slave to the devs for five years... Okay, maybe not, but Paypal donation, without question.
You guys are doing truly heroic work.
I still think it is obnoxious that Android phones (which ironically, is the "open" platform), have become more locked down. I am glad to see that HTC and other companies are starting to realize that this stuff is important. I think that it is at least a big step forward. I do believe HTC will follow through on their promise, at least for future phones. I don't think that they'd go back on their word. I'm just optimistic like that .
This "later today" thing is killing me. See; Now I am going to be on that page hitting F5 every couple minutes for the rest of the day .
Yea, yeah, I know: No ETAs.
Best of luck to all
@AlphaRevX and @unrevoked have come together to build something... Revolutionary. See you tonight! http://t.co/QUU6G1A"
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Hey are u rooted on that thing? Oh no...... well sit back and hold yer breath like the REST OF US......
I hope so
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Certainly hope so of course. When is 'tonight'?! Suspension. Killing. me! Arrrg!
Let it be root!
Root for the 3D because no one cares about the 4g anymore? Yup.
Disclaimer: I care about the Evo 4g, it just seems like it's being abandoned.
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Root for the 3D because no one cares about the 4g anymore? Yup.
Disclaimer: I care about the Evo 4g, it just seems like it's being abandoned.
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Its certainly not going to be OG Evo oriented. That much is clear. However, progress is progress. These guys were talking about a universal bootloader unlocker. This could be it. If not, its root for 3d/sensation. Now they focus on OG Evo.
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Its certainly not going to be OG Evo oriented. That much is clear. However, progress is progress. These guys were talking about a universal bootloader unlocker. This could be it. If not, its root for 3d/sensation. Now they focus on OG Evo.
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Is rooting the shooter and pyramid really all that revolutionary? I'm holding out hope for the big one. This could be a good day.
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Is rooting the shooter and pyramid really all that revolutionary? I'm holding out hope for the big one. This could be a good day.
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dunno. I know they've been working on it for a while. I got an OG so I haven't really been paying attention. But hey, I'm with you. I hope its the big one.
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RT @ eye_baller: Today's menu is pretty exciting: An @alpharevx and @unrevoked gratin, basted with @htc kernel sauce. #omnonnom
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Maybe something like an updated UnrEVOked3 or Gingerbreak?
The only option we have is to hope. and with unrevoked backing it. we have a possiblity of it being for us.
I'm very hopeful that this is going to be a universal root. But the pessimist in me is prepared for disappointment.
Well, considering the dinc2 has the same gingerbreak exploit patched may be universal
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Well, considering the dinc2 has the same gingerbreak exploit patched may be universal
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Here's hoping...
(crosses fingers)
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Omgadroid said:
I hope so
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^X2
who cares about the stupid 3d? one can only hope permaroot is done so they move on to the phones that most of us still have lol
I'm probably wrong but I thought I read that the 3D and the OG Evo use the same bootloader. If that's true than wouldn't root for the 3D mean root for the Evo?
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I'm probably wrong but I thought I read that the 3D and the OG Evo use the same bootloader. If that's true than wouldn't root for the 3D mean root for the Evo?
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if its the same bootloader wouldn't that mean that even if we root we can't get s-off until (if) they unencrypt it? I never heard them say they were going to do our phone just the sensation and the 3d
please!
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I'm probably wrong but I thought I read that the 3D and the OG Evo use the same bootloader. If that's true than wouldn't root for the 3D mean root for the Evo?
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what i do know is they said the exploit they found would work across all bootloaders with some tweaking, that said however, the 3d is a lot more locked down than the evo is, and i believe the current temp root for 3d doesnt work for the OG evo because they work differently , even though they use the same or similar bootloaders, i could be getting some of it wrong but u get the jist of it
Well they released revolutionary for almost all phones but the EVO.
The thing I dont get is why do they hack the phones that will have S-OFF shortly and not the ones that will not??????
http://revolutionary.io/
I dont get that either. Im half tempted that if something does not happen within a week or two (due to my 30 days) taking back my evo for a samsung. I know the developers are working on a solution, but i cant go without wireless tether now that i have my tab back. This is frustrating.
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Well they released revolutionary for almost all phones but the EVO.
The thing I dont get is why do they hack the phones that will have S-OFF shortly and not the ones that will not??????
http://revolutionary.io/
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Yea I didn't understand that either, but maybe it was just because they wanted to see if they could do it? I hope now that this is out we get a root solution soon.
who cares what this says anyways
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The thing I dont get is why do they hack the phones that will have S-OFF shortly and not the ones that will not??????
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perhaps, because the evo4g is an old phone near it's EOL, regardless of how you look at it? these devs have moved on to newer and better phones. why would you expect them to still take care of a phone that's well over a year old?
WELL IS ANYONE GOING TO TRY IT ANYWAYS JUST TO SEE..
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WELL IS ANYONE GOING TO TRY IT ANYWAYS JUST TO SEE..
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it dosent work on evo it reads device
don't count the OG developers out just yet.
You know what. I don'tget this at all. They started unrEVOked for the Evo 4g. But the suprising thing is that they still support the desire and aria. If it doesn't come out, we should try looking in the code for the desire or aria roots to seeif we can use any of that for the evo.
I am unrooted now because sprint tried to force me to buy the evo 3d for the full 500 dollar price, so I have to wait til april to upgrade (but I'm waithing for kal-el processors.
I believe the exploit they have found isn't available on our phone. If that's the case its an exploit only in sense 2.1+. Please feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
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Well they released revolutionary for almost all phones but the EVO.
The thing I dont get is why do they hack the phones that will have S-OFF shortly and not the ones that will not??????
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Cause the newer phones need root first.
Now they can focus their time on OG Evo and older phones
If someone has access to an EVO 3D ill trade my rooted EVO 4G for it lol
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If someone has access to an EVO 3D ill trade my rooted EVO 4G for it lol
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about 6 hours to late
did they get S off? lol i know the 3d is and now i want it!!! Ill have to sell my stupid iPhone and try to get the 3d lol
Dont be sad guys im sure the evo will get root soon. Yes alot of devs jumped ship to 3D but theres still plenty great devs that are using their evo 4G's. They had root a while back for the 3D but couldnt release it just yet because it could potentially show htc how they found root or what exploit they found and htc would patch it. I dont know who's trying to root the latest gb on evo but im sure someone is doing it...Now just gotta find an exploit in gb to take advantage of to unlock 2.3.
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Dude ...
LOL
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from root wiki:
Will you release the source code?
At this time, we are not disclosing the vulnerability we have exploited.
That doesn't seem fair! Android is about open source.
In some senses, we agree; but at times, a tradeoff needs to be made. Releasing the source code for this, we believe, would compromise the greater ability to unlock devices like these in the future. Given the choice between sacrificing the liberty of running code on our handsets and the liberty of reading the code by which we unlock it, we feel that the millions of handsets are more important. It is unfortunate that we must make such a choice, and we look forward to the day in the future that no such decision need be made.
ie progress for OG EVO?
I love my rooted evo. I cant see myself going back to stock ever
seems like root is almost coming
Well if root is coming soon it would be nice to hear from a dev. like its coming , hold on, soon, working on it or something please.. p.s. don't leave the OG in the back of the bus..lol
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I did a search and didn't see a new thread about this, so forgive me if its a repost.
I've come across two separate resources tonight that both claim to have heard that the new Nexus Prime will have a keyboard. Here's the first link. Here's one from Phandroid.
I know this post is off topic, but I've read a lot of Epic owners who are contemplating an upgrade to the new Epic Touch 4G and I know a lot of you guys are holding out for a new superphone with a keyboard. I figured this might help you make a decision when it comes time to upgrade from the Epic.
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I did a search and didn't see a new thread about this, so forgive me if its a repost.
I've come across two separate resources tonight that both claim to have heard that the new Nexus Prime will have a keyboard. Here's the first link. Here's one from Phandroid.
I know this post is off topic, but I've read a lot of Epic owners who are contemplating an upgrade to the new Epic Touch 4G and I know a lot of you guys are holding out for a new superphone with a keyboard. I figured this might help you make a decision when it comes time to upgrade from the Epic.
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If it has a keyboard...i might have to overlook that screen size..>_>
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Well...this sure kills my urge to jump ship to the Epic Touch in a couple months. Now its between the Galaxy SIII or the Prime
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I'd still get the E4GT. The Nexus isn't coming till Nov 3rd, and that's on Verizon, no telling when Sprint gets it. Although, if a keyboard is a must have, its nice.
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Metal body, Samoled screen, AOSP, timely updates, and a hard keyboard. Yes PLEASE! If this phone materializes I would gladly pay full retail for it.
I would pay full price too if that's the case
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Good grief...with the DAMN rumors already....how the hell do we have specific leaked specs on the SGS3 coming out next year but a phone coming out in 2 months is shrouded by so many slaw ass rumours...ugh
Long story short...if its coming to sprint with a Qwerty....the Epic 4G touch can kiss my hairy A**!! Again that's if we can get some damn facts and get past all these rumours...
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Good grief...with the DAMN rumors already....how the hell do we have specific leaked specs on the SGS3 coming out next year but a phone coming out in 2 months is shrouded by so many slaw ass rumours...ugh
Long story short...if its coming to sprint with a Qwerty....the Epic 4G touch can kiss my hairy A**!! Again that's if we can get some damn facts and get past all these rumours...
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IDK, to me it wouldn't make sense to have it with a keyboard. I would think Google would want to make it any more bulky. Also if they are trying to compete with Apple which I think they do. they would want to keep it as slim as possible
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IDK, to me it wouldn't make sense to have it with a keyboard. I would think Google would want to make it any more bulky. Also if they are trying to compete with Apple which I think they do. they would want to keep it as slim as possible
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If they produce two versions it would draw in more customers, especially with the iphone coming to sprint. Makes sense to me.
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+1 if it has a kb I'm in then ill get the sg3 next year and I have been saying for awhile that I would stay with this og epic but if that prime has kb that will be enough to push me all in
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IDK, to me it wouldn't make sense to have it with a keyboard. I would think Google would want to make it any more bulky. Also if they are trying to compete with Apple which I think they do. they would want to keep it as slim as possible
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G1 had a keyboard, I wouldn't be suprised one bit if they released one of these with one too.
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Sounds delicious!!! I hope sprint gets the keyboard version. I love my Epic and all but that phone sounds nice enough to pay full price for. Not that I have to. I have an upgrade coming in December.
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I think the Verizon Droid Prime will be the one that has the keyboard. tfleming223 said that the "one" with the keyboard is the one that I prefer, thus if he's right only one of the Nexus Primes will have a keyboard. I speculate that Verizon's Nexus Prime will have a keyboard (if they don't get two versions) because the phone is being dubbed "Droid Nexus Prime" and the first (Verizon) Droid, which put Android on the map, had a built-in keyboard and it was hugely successful as some Droid 1 owners proudly rock it till this day.
a HWKB and a Notification LED and on Sprint and i'm SOLD.
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I think the Verizon Droid Prime will be the one that has the keyboard. tfleming223 said that the "one" with the keyboard is the one that I prefer, thus if he's right only one of the Nexus Primes will have a keyboard. I speculate that Verizon's Nexus Prime will have a keyboard (if they don't get two versions) because the phone is being dubbed "Droid Nexus Prime" and the first (Verizon) Droid, which put Android on the map, had a built-in keyboard and it was hugely successful as some Droid 1 owners proudly rock it till this day.
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For whatever reason, I had figured Sprint would be the one with the keyboard, but you raise a very valid point here in which 'Droid' is in the name, and they've had keyboards.
I think the deal about Verizon getting it first is pretty much fact and beyond rumor at this point in time, so how long do we think they'll get exclusivity on the phone? A few weeks? A month? Or will they just get the 'Droid' Prime while the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (or whatever it will be called) and they come out at the same time?
Please no kb
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If VZW gets this phone with a hw keyboard, it's Bye Bye Sprint (still pissed about the loss of the Premier program) So I guess we'll just have to wait and see...
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If VZW gets this phone with a hw keyboard, it's Bye Bye Sprint (still pissed about the loss of the Premier program) So I guess we'll just have to wait and see...
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Yeah, I too would seriously consider switching. I have been a Sprint customer for more than 10 years, but with the end of the Premier program and my contract up for renewal in October, I would really consider it. People on Verizon at work get much better signal than I do on Sprint and just that fact seems to kill my battery life.
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a hwkb and a notification led and on sprint and i'm sold.
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