PolarBear
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Re: WHISPr
Not criminal, just very restrictive. The way Apple forces you to buy apps from the app store is akin to Ford requiring me to buy a new car stereo or air freshener or auxiliary lights from the dealer.
If I pay that much for a car, I'll get my car toys from any source I damn well please. Likewise with my phone. I paid for it, don't tell me what I can and cannot install on it. |
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ptrowski
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I jailbroke my phone so I could customize it in many ways that cannot be done via the original phone, yes. I like to change my carrier name to whatever I want, etc.
But the wifi point was not the original point you were trying to make....
"Shhh, don't say stuff like that to the iPhone fanboys, they'll shun you. And don't tell them that Blackberries have MMS capability and true push email, either. "
No wifi mention there. Your point was to start a flamewar. Also there are very few wifi enabled Blackberries on AT&T.
Look, you got your anti iPhone post in, good for you. My point has been I have tried both, and for me and some others mentioned here the iPhone outperforms the Blackberry. We have tried both, and can make educated posts based on our experiences. You just want to dig on a phone you have not even tried and a carrier you don't even have.
On the 3G side, the phone doesn't magically stop working when not in a 3G area, so my service works everywhere I go. The difference is in your area I could chose between 3g or not. You cannot.
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Necronomikro
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said by PolarBear  :said by easonin :said by PolarBear :So how do you send someone a picture who doesn't get email on their phone? What I do is send the pic via email on my iPhone to their phonenumber@mms.mycingular.com for att. hits their phone like mms. I dont know anyone who doesn't have att though, so the other carriers might do it differently. I was waiting for someone to come up with that totally inconvenient idea. So then how would I do that to a T-mobile customer, or Verizon, Sprint, Cricket, Altell, Unicel, Boost, or Virgin customer? Sure, the ways are there, but are you really going to have that info on hand when you go to send someone something? In true Apple style, they made it a major pain in the ass to do something very simple (as was the entire point of this thread - needing another only-temporarily-free app to circumvent an otherwise extremely annoying process simply to use wifi). I just add email contacts to their contacts with the @mms.whatever for their company. *shrug* |
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you can also email to mms on most carriers...
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ptrowski
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said by PolarBear :Not criminal, just very restrictive. The way Apple forces you to buy apps from the app store is akin to Ford requiring me to buy a new car stereo or air freshener or auxiliary lights from the dealer. If I pay that much for a car, I'll get my car toys from any source I damn well please. Likewise with my phone. I paid for it, don't tell me what I can and cannot install on it. I have tried some of the additional apps for the Blackberry and was far from impressed. Plus a boatload of them were WAY overpriced.
Thanks but no thanks.
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