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By Justin Haygood on November 27, 2009 1:28 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In the United States, its hard to find a smartphone being advertised that isn't powered by Android (except for the "JesusPhone" aka the iPhone - the biggest piece of crap ever made, come on, my old Motorola W490 FEATURE PHONE could at least do multiple things at once)

So, I'm making a list of all of the ones currently available on all the major carriers in the United States:

Prices are as of 11/27/2009 at 1:30 PM from their respective websites

T-Mobile USA

T-Mobile G1 - $129.99 with 2 year contract, $399.99 or $20/mo without
T-Mobile myTouch 3G - $149.99 with 2 year contract, $399.99 or $20/mo without
Motorola CLIQ - $149.99 with 2 year contract, $349.99 or $17/mo without
Samsung Behold II - $229.99 with 2 year contract, $449.99 or $22/mo without

Verizon Wireless

Motorola DROID - $199.99 with 2 year contract, contract required
HTC Droid Eris - $99.99 with 2 year contract, contract required

Sprint PCS

HTC Hero - $179.99 with 2 year contract, contract required
Samsung Moment - $179.99 with 2 year contract, contract required

I no longer trust Microsoft with my data

By Justin Haygood on October 11, 2009 10:19 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

So Microsoft totally fucked over T-Mobile USA.. they botched an upgrade without backups, and thus losing all Sidekick owner's data... For some reason I don't trust Microsoft with my data anymore...

Facebook for Android

By Justin Haygood on September 29, 2009 10:23 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

So.. Facebook and Google have finally released a Facebook application for Android. For this review, I'm testing on the following:

T-Mobile G1 (on the T-Mobile USA network in Atlanta, so full 3G)

OS: Android 1.6

It's a very basic application, much more so than the Facebook application for Blackberry (which I used through several iterations, owning a Blackberry Pearl 8100, Blackberry Curve 8320, Blackberry Pearl Flip 8220, and using a Blackberry 8800 from work). It doesn't let you see your Facebook inbox for one, but let's hope Facebook (well, the Google engineer that is working at Facebook for this application) gets around to adding that feature soon. However, it is very quick at posting messages and loading your news feed (the page you see), and it does let you upload photos and videos (very well integrated with Android) and comment/like on posts. It even has a home screen widget that has a textfield for updating your status and showing recent status updates.

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