Uncle Miltie

Motorola Droid: A Promising iPhone Challenger

Here is the quandry - will Verizon cripple the Droid with all the Verizon "our way or the highway" demands, or will the open Android "anything goes" model be running on the droid?

If the device is crippled, it becomes another blah iPhone wannabe.

If the device is not crippled, Verizon loses several potential revenue streams (tv, gps, ringtones, etc.).

Until I see proof otherwise, I'm betting that Verizon will not give up those secondary revenue streams, relegating Droid to also-ran status.

AT&T OKs VoIP For the iPhone, Too Bad Google Voice Isn't VoIP

Seriously, TechCrunch needs to get a bed with their infatuation of all things Google. They take at face value everything Google says (which has been shown previously to be about as evil as every other company), and assume that Apple is lying about the FCC stuff. Here's a suggestion - assume that both companies (and AT&T as well) are lying to a degree, and you'll be closer to the truth.

Second item - 99.9% of the US public has no idea what Google Voice is, and even fewer actually have it. Quit acting like this is the worlds greatest tragedy because Michael Arrington can't get a Google Voice app on his iPhone.

Since TechCrunch is soon to be releasing their own device (which will undoubtedly receive nothing but praise in TechCrunch), I would suggest that they get dropped from Seeking Alpha as they will no longer be an independent blogger, but will now actually be a manufacturer with a dog in the fight. And I'd hazard a guess that they have some tie-in with Google on it...

Why Apple Should Start Wooing Verizon Like Google

The title of this article should read "Verizon needs to roll out LTE ASAP so it can get iPhone". Until the big V gets it done (like Bell did in Canada), no iPhone. It's as simple as that.

AT&T's "Edge" Network Shatters iPhone Mobile Web Expectations

When I'm on EDGE, I use the mobile web, and pages like mobile.nytimes.com or m.usatoday.com load fast - under 2 seconds. On the other hand, if I try to load nytimes.com or usatoday.com they take forever.

The key to using EDGE on the iPhone is the mobile web. On other phones, it's painful because you can't display everything correctly, or it's too hard to navigate, or you spend too much time waiting for the page to scroll. On the iPhone, those shortcomings are not an issue.