metro pcs new phones

[storm12]

wow!!!...... but when i went to the store last week a lady told me its coming out the 1st week of may and they already have the accessories for the blackberry 9350

[Acemania]

Activa is next in line to come out, and not too far off. I know no specs.

Samsung is coming out with a new LTE device with AMOLED, and 4.3" screen... From what I piece together, it's the Tikal.

HTC also says an LTE phone will release later this year from them.

According to Metro, they've been holding off on releasing too many LTE handsets until there is more back-haul and LTE coverage, so the user experience does not degenerate.

Im interested to see that HTC device. I hope its high end

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[mike2828]

Activa is next in line to come out, and not too far off. I know no specs.

Samsung is coming out with a new LTE device with AMOLED, and 4.3" screen... From what I piece together, it's the Tikal.

HTC also says an LTE phone will release later this year from them.

According to Metro, they've been holding off on releasing too many LTE handsets until there is more back-haul and LTE coverage, so the user experience does not degenerate.

Ok it makes sense to hold off on releasing more LTE phones but correct me if I'm wrong a nice higher end Samsung Tikal and a cheaper Huawei lte phone will make a perfect balance I bet they will release the cheaper phone first and then release the higher end later on but I am concern I believe Metro will get bought by Sprint even if the deal did not go through I think it will eventually happen.

[storm12]

i just called metro and the blackberry 9350 has not been drop from the line up. they already have it in stores, they just waiting on a date to start selling it and when they do, they goin to have ads about it and post pic of it in their stores....so i guess it will be out soon......i am bb fan and yea i kn bb not doin so well.

[TheU]

blackberry should create a dual operating system phone with their os and android. i dont know if that could work but i dont see why they couldnt figure it out. this way people can get the security they need on their cellphones and then switch to android for all the other stuff. another plus would be the designs. many people love the qwerty keyboards on the bb phones and no one has been able to copy that well enough yet on other devices.

[ChazzMatt]

blackberry should create a dual operating system phone with their os and android. i dont know if that could work but i dont see why they couldnt figure it out. this way people can get the security they need on their cellphones and then switch to android for all the other stuff. another plus would be the designs. many people love the qwerty keyboards on the bb phones and no one has been able to copy that well enough yet on other devices.

People wouldn't reboot their phones (to change OS) just to check their email. They want email WITH all their other apps.

My employer uses a secure app for our work email and if my phone is ever lost, they even have the capability to delete all content. For most people that takes care of everything that is needed. It's enough security.

For people who want to prevent government/law enforcement from snooping on them -- or in other countries, freedom activists keeping stuff secret from totalitarian governments -- the Blackberrry "security" does come in handy and overrides "cool" and "convenience." But that's a small market. That segment alone will not salvage Blackberry. They lost their cool factor, they have not kept up with what people want, they became lazy and arrogant.

As a result, Blackberry is going down the tubes, and customers are leaving like rats scurrying from a sinking ship.


http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/17/tech...erry/index.htm

Why a top app maker is ditching BlackBerry

by JULIANNE PEPITONE • APRIL 17, 2012



NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Here's a sign of just how far BlackBerry's star has fallen: The maker of one popular app is pulling the plug, citing a "steady exodus" of users gravitating instead to Android and the iPhone.

Visual voicemail company YouMail is ending development on its BlackBerry app. YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in a blog post that the decision was "bittersweet," because BlackBerry "got us our first million registered users and put us on the map as a company."

YouMail's app is currently among the top-10 most popular apps in the "productivity" category of BlackBerry's App World store. But Quilici says the customer base has collapsed.

As he wrote on YouMail's blog: "On many days we're now getting fewer BB users than Windows Phone 7 users, and we don't even have a Windows Phone 7 app!" (YouMail's apps for Windows are developed by third parties that license YouMail's API.)

"When we began to see that trend, it definitely made us think," Quilici told CNNMoney.

YouMail, based in Irvine, Calif., is growing rapidly on Apple's iPhone and Google's Android platform, Quilici said. Almost 2.5 million people are currently registered app users.

"Our company is only 10 people in total, and they're all development or customer support," Quilici said. "We need to focus on where we see growth. And right now, it's not BlackBerry."

It's a long way from the former YouMail-BlackBerry love affair. YouMail started out as a Web-based service in 2007, then added mobile in 2009 after BlackBerry users requested a handset app. Research in Motion gave YouMail a lot of support, Quilici said, by highlighting it several times as a featured app in App World.

But the customer base started dwindling, and development was taking exponentially longer for BlackBerry than for iPhone or Android.

"A feature that took two to three days to build on Android and the iPhone took two to three weeks on BlackBerry," Quilici said. "The platform is getting long in the tooth."

RIM did not respond to a request for comment. Quilici, who reached out to RIM on Monday after news articles began appearing about YouMail discontinuing its BlackBerry support, said he also hasn't back.

One developer leaving obviously isn't a death blow. But it's an ominious sign for RIM, which is struggling to stay relevant in an industry it once dominated.

If BlackBerry can turn itself around -- or if RIM was willing to foot the bill for app development, a tactic Microsoft is using to seed its Windows Phone app store -- Quilici said YouMail would gladly come back to the platform.

"We're all rooting for BlackBerry over here," he said. "IPhone was a success because it was different and cool, while Android got attention for being largely free and open. I hope RIM finds something like that to differentiate itself."

[SmartMark]

i just called metro and the blackberry 9350 has not been drop from the line up. they already have it in stores, they just waiting on a date to start selling it and when they do, they goin to have ads about it and post pic of it in their stores....so i guess it will be out soon......i am bb fan and yea i kn bb not doin so well.

ROFL LOLZ... Wrong

Accessories had come into the store ready for the release, but the phone was canned. Metro NEVER has a phone in the store and waits for a release date to sell it.

Whoever you're talking too is either pulling your chain, or is hopeful that Metro might actually still release the phone and just don't know.

[Mrcricket23]

Activa Specs that i know of
LTE
800 mhz processor
5 mp rear camera, VGA front camera, LED Flash
Gingerbread

[ChazzMatt]

Activa Specs that i know of
LTE
800 mhz processor
5 mp rear camera, VGA front camera, LED Flash
Gingerbread

So basically the Optimus M+, but with LTE chipset. See, LG could have done that.

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Sent from my LTE LG Esteem (LG MS910)

[storm12]

ROFL LOLZ... Wrong

Accessories had come into the store ready for the release, but the phone was canned. Metro NEVER has a phone in the store and waits for a release date to sell it.

Whoever you're talking too is either pulling your chain, or is hopeful that Metro might actually still release the phone and just don't know.

well i hope you are wrong about the phone but if you right i hope metro get a blackberry that runs on os 7.1 and how you know that the phone has been canned...do you work there or know someone that work at metro pcs??

[ChazzMatt]

(to SmartMark) well i hope you are wrong about the phone
but if you right i hope metro get a blackberry that runs on os 7.1
and how you know that the phone has been canned...
do you work there or know someone that work at metro pcs??

Let's just say SmartMark has good connections.

If you go back through the posts of the last year, you will see he has shared a lot of inside info. Along with "leakforyou", they are our two most reliable sources. They both were ahead of the LG Esteem bandwagon last year. They were leading it, we were just jumping on for the ride.

If either one says something about upcoming Metro stuff, listen.

[mike2828]

Let's just say SmartMark has good connections.

If you go back through the posts of the last year, you will see he has shared a lot of inside info. Along with "leakforyou", they are our two most reliable sources. They both were ahead of the LG Esteem bandwagon last year. They were leading it, we were just jumping on for the ride.

If either one says something about upcoming Metro stuff, listen.

I remember those days when Leak and Smartmark made us nervous either showing us pictures and giving us good inside info lol those were some good times waiting for the arrival of the Esteem a lot of panic lol good old times thanks again for all those leaks guys

[SmartMark]

Here's what I know about some of the new phones.

The Samsung r940 (Tikal). I heard someone speculate that it was the Dyle device. I can confirm that it is not. It IS a higher end device with a large AMOLED screen.

HTC has told us about a brand new device being built for Metro, but even the rep was not told any specs. It definitely is not a lower end device like the Wildfire. Not known if it is LTE or not.

The ZTE Arthur is 100% the N910 device. This has already been discussed here.


Huawei m920 Activa is next in line for LTE devices to be released. It' a lower to mid range LTE device. Look for it to be sold at $149-$179.

And Huawei has another device they've recently been testing. It's a feature phone. It's a mix between the m750 and a slide dialer. Here's a pic.


That's all I know, no specs so don't ask, release dates unknown, so don't ask that either

[mike2828]

Hey thanks a bunch smartmark you gave me hope with the Samsung device I'm waiting for that bad boy to replace my esteem also have you heard anything about lte or phase 2 or 3 and or any takeover plans? Thanks again men.

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[eL_ciiego.PCS]

Check this out, we should get this phone anytime now.