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Verizon Wireless can go straight to hell. I realize that there are certain areas where they are the only viable option when it comes to reception. And you can be damn sure that they know it too because they milk it for every last possible penny. It would be bad enough if they only allowed you to use horrible phones with their service. But no - they take GOOD phones, and then take their horribly generic, feature-crippling, haphazardly written crap ass UI and stick it on them so that you only use half of the features that the phone is capable of. And you have to use their garbage interface to use even those.
I used a Motorola Razr with the Verizon interface on it for about a year and a half and I can't fucking take it anymore. They sell Motorolas, Nokias, Samsungs, and LGs and at some point decided that their homemade interface was so good, that they ought to cram it onto every single phone that they carry. Some of these phone manufacturers actually make really good products and even they aren't arrogant enough to toss one standardized UI on every one of their phones. But you can be damn sure Verizon won't let that stop them. What's the result? A bunch of poorly designed menus that you can't customize, on a restrained phone that lags like a 286 running Counterstrike.
I don't know which phone manufacturer came up with predictive text input first but it's a great idea because you only have to hit each key once when you're writing a text message on a number pad. Sure, there are times when some combination of keys may be two different possible words ("leo" and "ken" for instance...or "awake" and "cycle"), but the majority of them it gets right the first time. That is unless you're using my generation of razr with verizon's cheap ass interface forced onto it. Lets say you hit the number 4 and hit space...that's an easy one to figure out. You're typing a one-letter word that could either be "G", "H", or "I". Which is most likely? If you think the answer is "I", then you're too stupid to work for Verizon wireless, because the whiz kids over at team-V decided it should be "G" instead. Even the Nokia 8290 that I had 7 years ago could get that right.
So yeah, if you've ever gotten a text message from me that said something like "G'll be there in a few minutes," you have Verizon to thank for that - the lousy rat bastards.
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| | Posted 10/29/2007 11:40 PM - 24 Views - 6 eProps - 3 comments
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