Sprint takes a bite out of the Apple, touts innovative Pre features like 'multitasking'
By Paul Miller 
posted June 26th 2009 11:28AM
posted June 26th 2009 11:28AM
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and im sure for every 1 person that hates Sprint theres another that hates AT&T. We all have different stories to tell about these comapanies.
Me personally iv had only once problem with Sprint in 8yrs of being a customer.
Im glad Sprint and Palm are finally bringing out the advertising. I love my Pre and its been the best phone iv ever had. Not hating on the iphone at all but its just not for me. I like having options and multitasking to me is very important feature. Plus the $$ i save on my sprint plan cant be beat by AT&T. Give me unlimited everything for $60 and ill continue to be a customer.
50k compared to 1million. Enough said.
50k-1M which is the normal ratio between smart people and dumb people..smart people always have been a minority of the population =)
See, like here. This fellow could have just said "iPhone!"
lmao EGO
@reefur7 @ Jun 26th 2009 11:37AM "50k-1M which is the normal ratio between smart people and dumb people..smart people always have been a minority of the population =)"
Cool, so you agree then finally. Mac users, the minority have always been smarter than the Majority Windows users...dumb people as you say. Cool!
So what you're saying reefer is that the dumb people are spread all over the world and the smart people are concentrated just here in the states! Brilliant!
or i could have just said PRE!
a bunch of people drives Ford.
not a lot people even know what a Ferrari is. im willing to bet you drive a Ford. sad.
oh dammit. my grammar is all messed up. have mercy on me grammar Nazis!!
@ reefur7
I guess I am missing something because the amount of money that and Att and Apple are making on 1 million iPhone's really shows other wise.
I guess by your standards, buying product from a desperate company that offers bad customer service and crappy service in general really makes you intelligent.
Palm must be really smart if they decided to put the only device that can compete with the iPhone on the worst network.
thats right jso, because pissing boatloads of money away every month is soooooo smart. I've never had a problem with customer service or my network. More often than not it's everyone else who has problems in basements elevators subways...and i've still got plenty of bars.
herd mentality ftw
I don't see how you can compare the number of apps. The Pre is new, while the iPhone has been around for a couple years. And by a couple, I don't mean 30.
You all got the numbers mixed up man. The 50k+ is the number of Apps available in App Store, not how many downloads within a month. Last time I remembered Apple is reaching almost 1 billion downloads.
I am not talking about the applications in the stores. I am talking about the first weekend sales. Apple Sold 1 million phones even after Roger McNamee tried to talk down what Apple would sell. The Pre only sold 50k.
Oh, now suddenly a large number is a bad thing. Like Windows users right? Come on the iPhone has a lot of apps--more than the Pre. Where's all the people crying choice is good? To be fair, the Pre has a lot of apps made when they don't even have an SDK yet. Happy?
I love Apple fanboys. They somehow thing that large sales for the iPhone makes it a much better phone, but when the majority of people buy Windows, they are stupid, and Apple is better.
You can't have both!
Oh this'll be fun!
*Grabs popcorn*
*Pulls out the Diet Water*
Pass me those Milk Duds.
I think for a nice change of pace, instead of actual conversation, people should just shout "iPhone!" and "Pre!"
They still should have also said
"you still don't have MMS on your iphone? the Pre's had it since day 1!"
I agree with this sentiment.
PRE.
Yes the Pre does things the iPhone doesn't it runs literally a couple (30) apps vs 50,000+ on the iPhone...
Not much of a feature to run multiple things when there are only a couple things to run...lol
Literally a couple is 30?
This isn't Utah. A couple is 2.
That said... the Pre, and Sprint itself, is a piece of shit. The iPhone is costly, and WORTH IT.
Real-time updates suck, and shouldn't be something you brag about in the jailbreaking/rooting-happy era.
There are 30 applications right now...there will hundreds or even thousands in the next few months. And honestly I would rather have a few thousand really great apps than 50,000 apps littered with iFart.
Since when have these threads ever held "actual conversation"?
@Cheddar-- a couple = two.
@robpetrin
Imagine a phone you don't have to jailbreak for basic features. What do you jailbreak your iphone for?? backgrounder, winterboard and notification mods.
Guess what? The pre has 2 of those 3 so unless you really want some mario theme the pre doesn't need jailbreaking.
*steals a handfull of popcorn*
release the fanboys!
Man, they couldn't even get passed your post before kicking off.
iPre !
Cheddar - now let's be fair and honest here... it took the iPhone a year to get an app store and SDK. While no one really expects the Palm apps to rival the iPhone, I'm sure given a year's time, the Palm will have a nice catalog of apps.
Well with this article they will get a flame war. Secretly though in a roundabout way you can tell that engadget has a iPhone bias since every ad on this page is for the pre. more refreshes, more money for advertising....more money sprint/palm pays engadget....They're inadvertantly funding the opposition!!!!!!!!!
Hero! Who's with me?? :p
Wow, Cheddar, that was the dumbest thing I've read here in a long time. I think I might have lost a couple (hopefully not 30) IQ points just reading it. Holy shit...
@JC
I'm sitting here with my T-Mobile SIM card and my iPhone 3G S.
Enough said.
Diet Water?
Wow.
That ad made me chuckle.
I want to see what happens next!
Genesis does, what Nintendon't.
@ Rob
Enough said? I'm not sure using a 3GS on Tmobile is the ideal situation, but I guess their plans are a lot cheaper?
An iPhone 3G S on T-Mobile? Given that the phone doesn't support T-Mobiles 3G frequencies, don't you really have an iPhone S?
Great amusement value...this thread
When a "cell-phone" is the center of attention in ones "life" .......then you have none
I can't wait to see endless PreFart apps on the Pre marketplace or whatever it's called. In fact, I'm going to write one now...
SAMSUNG i330!!!
Apparently NOT enough said.
I have a T-Mobile SIM card and an iPhone 3G S.... therefore I need a jailbreak to unlock it in order to use it.
And yes, not being able to use 3G on it is a flaw.... but I don't have 3G service in my area right now anyway, so I didn't get 3G on my old G1 anyway. (
Blackberry!
Damn new length limit.
G1 + puddle = RIP
$600 for iPhone vs. $200 (T-Mo early cancel) + $200 (AT&T iPhone) + $10 more for the plan for 24 months
$600 vs. $640
I'm currently not in range for T-Mobile 3G (I gotta pay for it anyway), so no 3G, iPhone or G1. Oh well.
Yawn.
Landline!!!!!
/agree with ChillyCat
Telepathy!
@ChillyCat:
You can thank Apple for doing that. Just like they did with PC's.
People are addicted to their Blackberry's, but they don't get offended and don't cry when you insult it.