http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Didn't think it was possible to ef things up this bad with an android device but AT&T never ceases to disgust me.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
My sentiments exactly! There really is nothing else they could have done to neuter this phone. What the fuck is ATT doing right now...all these amazing phones and they skip over them because of the iPhone. Avoiding Android like this can only hurt them. Reminds me why I left Verizon 3 years ago...they crippled all of their phones. Well, I guess when my 2 years are up with ATT Ill be heading back to Verizon...maybe.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Your avatar is made of win.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
AT&T, don't be gay. Seriously.

What's next, ATT Navigator instead of Googles Navigator when it updates to 2.1? If it updates to 2.1..]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/EXPLETIVE!! If AT&T keeps this course, and I'm sure they will, my November upgrade will be to a different carrier. My girlfriend can stay with them for her iPhone, but I will be going to VZW.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
"Doing it wrong" depends on your qualification of that statement. "Doing it wrong", as far as being successful in the market? Absolutely. "Doing it wrong" as far as being a corporate whore for Apple? Nope, they're doing it perfectly.

AT&T might as well just re-brand itself "the iPhone company". Apple won't let them take any other phone seriously. Even their HTC selection, which they used to be far and above the best option for, is dwindling.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
"This phone would of been 10x better"

Would of? WTF is that supposed to mean?]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Doing it wrong refers to the what the company is doing to the consumer -- in almost all of my posts. It's US who need protection from these f-up companies like AT&T -- we give them our hard earned money that we worked for and they use it to stick broken broomsticks in our orifices and then proceed to plunge harder and harder until...well, you get the idea :)]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Yep, I switch to VZW in december and have been lovin it ever since.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
You just can't learn how to not piss off your customers can you AT&T?]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
So much for an "open source" OS... thankfully we can always root it...]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.baduku.com/topics/motorola-backflip_240]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Irrelevancy.]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/or maybe apple should buy att for service for their iphone... then they wont have to worry about other phones competing with it...]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Did we really think, with the iPhone on AT&T, that Android can just swoop in and take Jobs' glory? I don't think so.

VZW FTW. 'Nuff said.]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/well ok drama queen, go to verizon, sprint, or t-mobile and quit whining. Seriously, competition drives innovation, not whining. If you keep paying them, they probably won't change their ways, now will they.]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/On the other hand, it’ll be wise to sleep over it before buying this one. Early concepts of backflip: http://bit.ly/motorola-backflip-core-function]]>Mar 8th 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Don't you know we're dealing with a bunch of illiterate morons?]]>Mar 8th 2010 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 9th 2010 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/yep, still trying to understand how people come to use
would of
instead of would have

besides the possibility of them learning English verbally, and never read any book, or grammar, then transcribing what they heard. in which case, if not already pretty bad, they are doubled with hearing / comprehension issues.

it's horripilating!]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/And those two sentences after? Seriously?
If you're going to correct someones grammar, try using some yourself.]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Other countries, especially the "socialist" ones, have government regulations on things like exclusivity, bundling and such, and look what they've got to show for it... better phones and the inability to lock a phone model to one carrier.

Also, other countries' Coca-Cola contains real sugar, not HFCS. Another victim of the US free market capitalism (the corn market dictates that HFCS is cheaper than cane sugar).

So tell me, how is our system of "laissez faire" non-intervention better for the consumer again?]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
If you have AT&T, you failed!]]>May 12th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Motorola is also acting perfectly stupid as well. Case in point: signed bootloader for the European Droid (=Milestone). I'm not sure who all is to blame here.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Because you never owned an iPhone in the first place? LOL. Where are these plants spouting up from? VZW?]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Too bad Fresh Start is a $50 option that's only available with the W7 Pro upgrade. I don't feel like paying $200 to not have crap on my computer. ]]>Mar 8th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
I returned it 36 hours later. I was frankly disgusted with it and wanted it out of my house as soon as possible. It literally has no redeeming qualities as far as what I'm looking for in a phone.

(When I decided I wanted to return the iPhone, I started trying to fix my old phone again, and I finally did.)

The guy at the store was like "oh my god i don't even!" when I brought it back in. He was like "you... you didn't like the phone??" He literally was stammering.

So no, they really don't know that not everybody wants an iPhone. They think it's God's gift to the world and we all should be thankful that they offer it to us.

On the other hand, his reaction suggests to me that not many people return them. Of course, that could have something to do with the fact that they lied to me about being able to return it - they told me I could only do it to upgrade to more MB. I noticed the receipt didn't say anything about that, though, so I contacted them online and they told me to bring it back. I wonder how many people keep these things because they think they have no choice.]]>Mar 8th 2010 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/i blame AT&T: Apple Telephone & Telegraph]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Backslide.]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/Mar 8th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/motorola-backflip-doesnt-allow-non-market-apps-proves-atandt-doe/
Backwards]]>Mar 8th 2010 11:17PM