Droid, the phone that finally lets me cancel my iPhone — here’s why | VentureBeat

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Garyedwards bookmarked on 2009-10-19

Running video on the iPhone AT&T network is awful. Verizon’s VCast technology, by contrast, allows streaming mobile video that is best in class. Verizon’s network will get better in the coming months. Brian Higgins, Executive Director of Verizon’s LTE Innovation Center, recently told VentureBeat that “when we are further along with LTE [Long Term Evolution, or Verizon's 4G technology, expected to be rolled out soon], one of our primary focus points will be how we get more video onto the network. We believe that this will be the first high-end network which will support mobile video in a robust manner — true video.” Verizon’s creation of a “4G Venture Forum” with highly regarded venture capital firms (including Charles River Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Redpoint) is designed to encourage further innovation on the network — creating applications that are designed for it, and ready to go when 4G is launched.
Droid is vastly better interface and hardware front than previous Android phones.
the iPhone wasn’t designed for corporate users
fast browser, and will have thousands of applications. And it also has a slide-out physical keyboard, allowing for more precise, quick typing.

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19 Oct 09

Gary Edwards
- Running video on the iPhone AT&T network is awful. Verizon’s VCast technology, by contrast, allows streaming mobile video that is best in class. Verizon’s network will get better in the coming months. Brian Higgins, Executive Director of Verizon’s LTE Innovation Center, recently told VentureBeat that “when we are further along with LTE [Long Term Evolution, or Verizon's 4G technology, expected to be rolled out soon], one of our primary focus points will be how we get more video onto the network. We believe that this will be the first high-end network which will support mobile video in a robust manner — true video.” Verizon’s creation of a “4G Venture Forum” with highly regarded venture capital firms (including Charles River Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Redpoint) is designed to encourage further innovation on the network — creating applications that are designed for it, and ready to go when 4G is launched.
- Droid is vastly better interface and hardware front than previous Android phones.
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- - the iPhone wasn’t designed for corporate users
  - fast browser, and will have thousands of applications. And it also has a slide-out physical keyboard, allowing for more precise, quick typing.
Mal Burns
A new phone called Droid is about to hit the market at the end of October that most likely will ...

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