Verizon – it’s time to do more than advertise!
Verizon – it’s time to do more than advertise!
Well CES has just ended. Frankly I’m ready to go home. It’s been a very busy four days with lots of interesting new toys for consumers to wet their chops over and perhaps even buy after we “change” our current economic trend and get out of this recession. Maybe I’ll get a bailout from Obama and the rest of his fellow drunk sailor spending Democrats.
Palm announced the new iPhone killer wanna be, the Pre. Unfortunately, all us users of Palm O/S based units on the Verizon network are once again going to be sitting back on our butts, cooling our heels, while Sprint and perhaps others get first shot at the new technology. This is the 2nd time in recent history that Verizon has dropped the ball on Palm users, allowing Sprint to bring to their client base, the newer Palm technology as soon as it’s released. Perhaps Verizon thinks we’re going to capitulate and adopt Blackberry technology. Sorry Verizon, not going to happen. You, your bimbo and his army of clowns can just forget it and go get the current technology for us to use as well.
Speaking of the Verizon bimbo and his army of clowns. I got another chuckle out of how their marketing doesn’t really reflect how the network is working. I’ve been sitting here this week, on an upper floor of my Vegas hotel trying to send text messages to some of my family and associates. I’ve been bombarded with “National access coverage not available” messages as my message gets canceled. Now, I can see if I was in the rural outback of Pigs Knuckle Iowa that I might be too far from civilization to get a decent signal, but, I’m sitting by my window with 4 bars of signal strength. Usually, I get this message in more rural places, like DC, Chattanooga , and other cities. So you can imagine how I had visions of those Verizon bimbo ads when I looked out my window to a beautiful view of the mountains, a nice empty golf course, empty four lane highway…and no Verizon bimbo. No Verizon army of clowns and definitely no Verizon helicopters busy flying around making sure the network was up, running and solid.
Perhaps, they were busy playing blackjack and roulette downstairs at the tables.
I’m Don Rima, and that’s the way I see it, From Where I Stand.
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Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..
Matt Hanson
Why don’t you just get Sprint? If they have the phone you want then just switch… The PRE looks sweet BTW.
well, that’s the whole point. Verizon users should NOT have to switch. Making people switch means you potentially have to rebuy any software that’s not compliant – I don’t believe Palm runs on Blackberry and no I’ve not heard anything about the new version being upper compatable with lower versions of Palm O/S yet… I would think people would try to minimize how much extra they’re going to have to spend for new software…then there’s all the interuption issues with switching services and all that muckity stuff.
I just like to keep things simple.