I sat home yesterday trying to decide if I should make the move and pick up a x7501. Compusa had 3 of them in stock in Delaware and the customer service rep I spoke to on the phone said they were priced at $899. Spending that kind if money a couple days before Christmas would definitely get me in trouble. I spent half the day looking at youtube videos of ppl reviewing this ultimate gadget freak toy. I read and re-read threads all over this board some good some bad.
At about 5:00 I decided it was time to go get my fix. Compusa is 45 miles away and I made the trip in traffic in less than 30 minutes. I walked into Compusa $899 in hand (no tax in DE) excited and anxious, weaving through the gift givers with nothing but contempt. GET OUTTA MY WAY I NEED MY FIX! I'm at the cell phone counter looking for a sales rep, cause I know what I want and I want it now. No need to look around no need to browse. All the dealers are busy so I decide to play with the store model until I can get help. I then come out of my tunnel vision to realize that this Compusa is going out of business and the Advantage is marked 30% off. OMG! $899 down to $629. OK no more waiting for a rep I need this thing now! I grab a rep, drop my $629 and I'm out.
My decision (see my other thread) to get the Advantage was based on 2 things. 1: GPS and 2: 3G Internet. I need a GPS unit and I wanted features comparable to the Garmin 760 but did not want to spend that kind of money on a device that did one thing well. Navigating. I use Garmin XT on my Tilt now and the 400mhz can't draw the map fast enough for everyday GPS use, plus the screen is not big enough. With 3G this is the perfect set up for me. I got my corporate email while on the road, VPN access, contacts and calender, virtually unlimited note pad, traffic updates, word, excel, pdf's and while I'm waiting for Verizon to show up to a vendor meet, I got Orb. I'm in gadget bliss right now.
For the price I paid and for what I need, the Advantage ($629) kills the Garmin 760 ($699.99). Thanks guys you helped me alot and I am very very satisfied!
BTW I don't recall anyone saying how crisp and clear the screen looks. This 5" VGA looks amazing while navigating. Now I just need a mount.
I go thru phones and other gadgets like I had a money tree in my back yard. I still have my Nokia N93 after maybe 3 years It is the phone I come back to when-I get bored or when I am not happy with a new purchase and sell it after a few weeks. the new phones never come close to being the Apple iphone. All though they try to be something better. I finally bought an iphone 2 months ago. One legally unlocked by Apple. I love it.
As for "my love for gadgets." Nothing out there comes to my HTC Shift. The only thing that would improve on this would be if one day it started ringing and a voice came out of the speaker. I take it with me everyday and everywhere. there are many days that I feel like it would be nice to travel light. Take a small purse rather than a gadget bag-but even on days that I wouldn't need it for anything I would feel lost without it if I left it home!
Am I crazy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
Inappropriate language, so careful.
still funny
As a person that works in wireless retail and a store that doesn't carry the iPhone but does carry the EVO, I almost cried I was laughing so hard when my boss showed me this video a few days ago. So many people think that the iPhone is the holy grail of smartphones but it really isn't...
Sidenote: I'm a Mac user and I will NEVER go back to PC, but phone-wise I can't see myself leaving an Android device to go back to an iPhone (yeah I even had one before I left AT&T for a Sprint Hero.)
I've been using my Focus for a few weeks now and absolutely love it. WP7 obviously needs more features and settings, but MS will be cranking those out soon.
A friend of mine really liked the phone and bought the LG Quantum WP7 and she is very happy with it. When she upgraded her phone, everyone at work was telling her to get an iPhone. Talk about peer pressure! I was surprised that she said no way and wanted a WP7 phone instead after seeing mine.
I've even got some compliments from iPhone users, mainly on how quick and smooth the OS feels.
Time will tell but WP7 is definitely here to stay.
Tempest790 said:
I've been using my Focus for a few weeks now and absolutely love it. WP7 obviously needs more features and settings, but MS will be cranking those out soon.
A friend of mine really liked the phone and bought the LG Quantum WP7 and she is very happy with it. When she upgraded her phone, everyone at work was telling her to get an iPhone. Talk about peer pressure! I was surprised that she said no way and wanted a WP7 phone instead after seeing mine.
I've even got some compliments from iPhone users, mainly on how quick and smooth the OS feels.
Time will tell but WP7 is definitely here to stay.
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Same happened to me, even Iphone 3GS users felt very tempted to switch to WP7... I have a Focus.
I traded for my Focus (iP4). I have a friend that says they are going to WP7 when their upgrade comes around.
My boyfriend got a Focus after I got mine. He said because, "You look like you really are in love with that phone" (with an eye roll)
But I don't know how much it counts because I let him use my get-one-free from AT&T, so he didn't pay anything for it.
I was following WP7 for 4 months before it came out. I got the Focus the first day and the O/S has exceeded my expectations. Second day I had one sold to my lady friend after she saw mine. A friend of my friend saw hers and bought one the 3rd day. My wife has never had a smart phone and use to be intimated but now in 1 month will buy a Focus after using mine. I believe we are some of the best salesman and women and showing others the smooth O/S sells units. If Microsoft was smart they would give owners incentives to show the phone and compensate people in some manner. I exactly felt the sales initially would be slow but the more peeps that get them in their hands the more friends that will be exposed and that will drive a faster and sustained market share
Also, I have found that turning on Birdy Bounce and passing the phone around does wonders. My whole family went retarded over it this weekend. Dad had problems accidentally activating the capacitive Bing button, though.
We are passing them around to Android and iPhone users at work for test runs. After they use the phone for the day, we're having trouble getting them back. We've been using the Focus and the HTC Surround in that testing. The Focus is far and away the Favorite. If Verizon comes out with the HTC Trophy like they are targeting in January, we may start rolling WP7 out to users who want it on Verizon. I can't roll out the Focus until we get a few SD cards that are certified to work. 8GB isn't enough for folks who have music. 16GB in the Trophy should be enough to start. it would be great if Samsung came out with a CDMA focus with at least 16GB on the phone or a certified SD card preinstalled.
On the SD card thing, I have used Sandisk 16gb Class 2 and 4 and they both work somewhat. After two weeks or so i started having some minor issues. Nothing like the 32GB gave me but I would see perhaps one or two soft resets a day. . that is why I can't recommend the Focus yet for my users. Focus ran great with only the base 8gb in the unit. No resets at all. But I need the extra space for my music library.
Blizzard
So after a day at work (8-4:30) I drove my friends (carpooling) to Severance Hall in Cleveland, OH. We set out at 5pm and arrived at the Hall at 9pm due to the snow.
At the end of the concert (10pm), we drove home and arrived home at 1am in the morning - it made for a very long day and a very long drive that normally takes about 40 minutes.
The crux of the story is this, in the carpool, four of us have an iPhone 4 and I have the Focus. Everyone's iPhone died on the way to the concert (no battery). Therefore, since the journey home was taking so long, everybody in the carpool borrowed my phone to call home and talk to their families. Everyone was extremely impressed at the responsiveness of the Focus and Windows Phone 7 - they absolutely loved it. They commented on the fluidity of the OS, the ease of use (I didn't tell anyone how to use the Phone - they figured it out themselves).
They asked hundreds of questions, used the internet, etc. etc. They were thoroughly impressed with the Phone.
The one thing that everyone agreed on and kept commenting on was ease of use - and I have to agree, it's a very easy to use OS.
Well done Microsoft.
M
ps. My phone died at 1:10am, it was a day of light to medium use (I know that's highly subjective....)
Two friends were due for upgrade along with me (I was due for 4 months but waiting for WP7) and after using my Focus they instantly got one each (surrounds - it was free!).
Both were upgrading from dumbPhones.
all my friends are poor and have no phone upgrades
but they all like the samsung focus
my phone is constantly being borrowed when im somewhere
My wife switch from iphone, and is very happy so far. Her iPhone is not going back to her purse any more.
She enjoy the integration of the social network, the keyboard, the great image and colors of the Samsung Focus
My in-laws liked my focus so much, they bought a pair of of the LG's, cause they wanted keyboards. Btw, they are big mac fans.
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...Second day I had one sold to my lady friend after she saw mine. A friend of my friend saw hers and bought one the 3rd day. My wife has never had a smart phone and use to be intimated but now in 1 month will buy a Focus after using mine...
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Are you not afraid your wife will either read this post or ask your friend who your (boom chicka bow wow) "Lady Friend" is and you will be in big trouble?
Yes, I keep catching my wife looking over my shoulder. She's on the iPhone 4. I have to admit, the iPhone 4 is a VERY nice phone (after Jailbreaking), but I didn't want to fall into the Apple Trap . I've handed the Focus to her to use, and she's quite impressed also. It's smooth and easy to run. Screen is very impressive.
My girl is now tyring to Bogart my focus. She wants me to use her iPhone 3GS. Now I just traded my iP4 to get the Focus last week. No way is she getting my Focus. Gonna find her a deal online somewhere, so we'll have one more people on the WP7 team!
IMHO anyone who uses WP7 for atleast 10 mins will love it. I just showed it to one of my friends who was lecturing me for not buying an iP4 instead and even he loved it.
I think word of mouth is really the best way to promote WP7. So plz guys/gals show your WP7 device to as many people possible.
Whole family.
My mother bought one on my recommendation (Android to comples for her, iPhone too fragile for her). Loves the integrated voice command.
Father saw it at Thanksgiving and wondered why she got it. Later in the day he was wondering what the Knicks score was, brother stepped up to my mother's phone and said, "Knicks score" and up it came. Bowled my father away, and he bought one.
Brother and sister-in-law loved it too. They are getting one. My son, well, he is a Sprint fan and is waiting for them to carry it. As for me, couldn't wait. Got the Focus - love it.
Since then, showed a friend, and he and his wife got the LG - he loves the keyboard. She's a Mac person, but seems to be warming up to it.
So, I'll be attending the wedding of my gf's sister this weekend. Unfortunately, their grandmother (close to 90 I think) lives on the other side of the states and can't come due to illness and immobility. So, we just came up with a plan. Google talk the wedding and let her watch on the other side.
I got front row seat because I've been put in charge of the video-ing.
This is an example of how technology has truly made life better for all of us.
Last xmas, I was able to instruct my relatives in Vietnam to hook up skype and for the first time ever all my family here and in Vietnam were able to celebrate the holidays together. My parents have a 70-some inch tv, so skyping with the family on the other side of the planet was awesome.
nice story, especially the xmas one
Are you Vietnamese?
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Are you Vietnamese?
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No I'm a meat popsicle.
My father did these kind of things 10 years ago already...
He managed to broadcast a (amateur) talent show over the internet to another crowd in another building a couple miles away....
But reading this story... doing this nowerdays is so much easier... every human who has a curtain level of logic will find out how to do these kind of things with modern technolegy...
I even broadcast via UStream over 3G (using my phone) to show some-one somethign real quick (when is skype support coming!:S) as if it's an everyday thing...
goodintentions said:
No I'm a meat popsicle.
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goodintentions said:
So, I'll be attending the wedding of my gf's sister this weekend. Unfortunately, their grandmother (close to 90 I think) lives on the other side of the states and can't come due to illness and immobility. So, we just came up with a plan. Google talk the wedding and let her watch on the other side.
I got front row seat because I've been put in charge of the video-ing.
This is an example of how technology has truly made life better for all of us.
Last xmas, I was able to instruct my relatives in Vietnam to hook up skype and for the first time ever all my family here and in Vietnam were able to celebrate the holidays together. My parents have a 70-some inch tv, so skyping with the family on the other side of the planet was awesome.
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Great idea Make sure you don't get to drunk and have the camera pointed at the conag all night.
What a great story!
i did something similar for my older sisters wedding. my grandmother was in the hospital at the time recovering from a bad fall. It is really nice when technology brings us together.
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My parents have a 70-some inch tv, so skyping with the family on the other side of the planet was awesome.
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Wait wait wait!! A 70 inch TV?!
SwiftLegend said:
Wait wait wait!! A 70 inch TV?!
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Well, more like 68.
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Bad news, people. Just as the bride was walking in, the hotel's internet died.
Sue them
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goodintentions said:
Well, more like 68.
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Bad news, people. Just as the bride was walking in, the hotel's internet died.
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Holy #*^@!! I don't think I have a wall that big!
I went to a friends wedding and it was in their house and their parents were in Shanghai and Beijing and we were in a skype call with them during the ceremony here in "Vancouver it really has changed things