I’ll probably end up going with a Motorola Milestone (the international equivalent of the Droid) through Telus.
I am just posting this so everybody can have a chance to tell me I am getting the wrong smartphone, or alternatively to self-importantly explain how they don’t have a cellphone and only communicate through smoke signals. Smoke signals are the new fixies!
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Smoke signals? Fuck that noise. Trained squirrels are where its at…
Psh, squirrels are nosy assholes. Carrier badgers are the shit, though.
Pfff, telegraph is where it’s at.
Join the 19th Century, people!
You’re getting the right cellphone for now. Really it comes down to the latest Droid or the iPhone. I don’t know how AT&T service is in Toronto, but in many places in the US, it blows chunks. I’m old fashioned in that the primary use for my cellphone is still the “phone” part and since I travel a lot, my choice was pretty easy. Verizon and Motorola also offer unlimited data plans, while AT&T does not.
The iPhone is superior in some facets, battery life and the selection of apps most prominently, but overall I think you made the right decision.
As was pointed out in the previous smartphone bitchfight thread, we don’t got no AT&T up here in Canada. We have Rogers/Fido’s network and Bell/Telus’ network. The Bell/Telus network is slightly faster; the Rogers/Fido network spreads slightly wider. But both networks are basically decent.
Canadian cell companies are terrible and screw us over most every other way – new phones arrive slower, prices for phones and plans are exorbitant, hidden service fees are like a thousand tiny daggers in your back – but in terms of network strength we’ve got you beat easy.
I only communicate by the use of trained balloonists sending semaphore messages back to me. The clarity of messages like “CAUGHT IN WIND HELP ME” and “RKGSPLA” has never been better.
Telepathy for me, all the way.
All I care about is my phone quacks when I take a picture with it. If your phone is a non-quacker, you are just a loser.
Heh. Progress.
In my day, my phone was tethered to the wall, so I never lost it. The handset was large enough I never dropped it. The keys were large enough I never botched a number. And I never dropped a call, or couldn’t get a signal.
And my bill had only two digits before the decimal.
It should also be noted that “superior network strength” really only holds in the better populated areas of Canada. I go back to Saskatchewan, and my Rogers cell phone becomes an eclectic paper weight.
I prefer the iPhone: better selection of apps, gorgeous screen (can’t even see any pixellation), and that great camera that can shoot HD video as well as HDR. But Droid’s fine too.
I wonder why the Droid has a different name internationally? Maybe George Lucas refused to license it to them outside of the US?
It seems most phones have various names in different markets, and even *slightly* different features. Apple is one of the exceptions in terms of uniformity, the only distinction I can think of being whether the phone is factory unlocked in a particular country or not. (Yes for Hong Kong, Australia, and just recently Canada if you ask for one.)
iCerebra for me. Connection is lousy unless you have the X-Gene app but coverage is the best out there.
I use a TELEX Machine. Beat that.
As a person from Victoria, I am automatically significantly more self-righteous than you guys. We communicate through feeling auras in Mother Gaia, dude.
OH HEATHERCLIFF *waves flags*
Droid is C and TM of LucasartsfilmsindustriallightsandmagicalTHX90210, and I’d imagine that obtaining global rights to the use of the term costs a lot more than the US rights.
Yeah, most phones have different names in different markets, mainly because most NA phones don’t work in Asia and etc. Over here in Korea, the big phone that’s slapping the IPhone around like it owes money is called the Galaxy S, which is a touch screen phone with a healthy selection of Apps. That’s basically the korean Android.
We have the Samsung Galaxy S here in Canada too. It’s… a phone.
Meh, phones.
You’re just boasting that you have people you speak to beyond shouting distance.
Phones? Yeah, I liked phones. Back before everyone else did.
Now I’ve got something way cooler. It’s pretty obscure, you might not have heard of it.
It’s a little something I like to call… having no friends. Heh. :smug: