Weekend Discussion

by Xav de Matos, Jan 08, 2011 8:00am PST

The snow finally fell hard on Toronto last night. It's a welcome change of pace from the dirty, muddy look the city has been sporting for most of the holiday season. Now, where's my shovel!

Here's what Team Shack will be playing this weekend.

Alice O'Connor: I'm hoping to spend the weekend reading or out and about but I'll probably end up playing a dash of Vanquish or Kane & Lynch 2 anyway.
Garnett Lee: It's the first round of the NFL playoffs and there are some great games to watch. The rest of the time I'll be finishing Uncharted 2, starting LittleBIGPlanet 2, and probably spending some time in the jungles of Bad Company 2 "Vietnam" online.
Brian Leahy: This weekend I'll be playing more WoW and SC2, though I do plan on turning my consoles on again this weekend to check out the Community Playlist in Halo: Reach, Vanquish, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and more NFS: Hot Pursuit.
Xav de Matos: Since I have to get ready for some upcoming travel, I may focus my attention on handhelds for a while. I've packed my iPhone with new games, downloaded new titles for my PSP, and dusted off Chrono Trigger for my NDS. At home, I'll keep my focus on replaying Dead Space, perfecting rounds of Super Street Fighter IV, and tearing it up in Vanquish.
Jeff Mattas: [Shoveling sand. There's no snow in California.]
Ozzie Mejia: School's started, so I'll be hitting the books...and sneaking in some rounds of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

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Holy Shit. The iPhone is coming to Verizon and it's going to be awesome: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/verizon-to-offer-unlimited-data-plans-for-iphone-users.ars

Jan 09, 2011 9:40pm PST

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  yay iphone for verizon, just around the time people stop caring about it : spaceless
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    I doubt that's what sales will indicate. : afty04
    - listen im the only one that counts : spaceless
  - seriously i'm going to be upset if this is what ends up happening "oh you didn't pay out the ass for a... : DeBurgo
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  Yeah, maybe so. Sounds like it though. I was wondering if maybe it was just iPad coming to Verizon netw... : jimmy_legs
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    ipad is already sold by verizon : chrisschutz
    - But it doesn't have a radio capable of the verizon network. They just give you a little myfi type device ... : boarder2
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  Good. Now maybe AT&T will get a better Android selection. : Topsiderover
  - Motorola Atrix! : jra101
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    If you saw the news from CES, a whole slew of sexy Android phones are coming to AT&T. : SiW.
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      cellphones are advancing so fast. i think my little droid is hardly over a year old and the phones are way faster now.
      
      i really like samsungs galaxy phones, and those two new ones that were shown at CES look nice.
      
      but fuck, motorola has been so good to me with updates for my original droid. ive read that samsung doesnt seem to update their devices at all.
      
      i really want my next phone to be dual core and have 4G, but i have about 5 months left with verizon before that happens, so who knows what crazy shit will be out then.
      
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      cellphones are advancing so fast. i think my little droid is hardly over a year old and the phones are wa... : spaceless
      
      My Nexus One is about a year old... but I don't regret getting it one bit. Still as happy with the phone ... : Demius
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      And they're mediocre as ever : Serpico74
      
      needs more approved apps imo : spaceless
      
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      It may not appeal to you but you can't honestly say the Atrix is mediocre with a straight face, can you? : SiW.
      
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      I got my hands on almost everything at CES and I can't say that much of it impressed me. A lot of hoopla : Serpico74
      
      But it's ok, I save my worst comments for the Razer Switchblade. People online are going gaga over it and... : Serpico74
      
      What did you think of the Blackberry Playbook? I was shocked by the performance, it was impressive. We as... : airrob
      
      2011 year of android : sgtsanity
      
      are you dead inside ? : hanged_man
      
      I guess you missed the LG Optimus 2X something or other. : GreatGooglyMoogly
      
      I was glad to see them starting to get dual cores. Now we just need some with super high dpi 720p screen... : DinK
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  rumor rumor rumor. i'll wait till they say it for real : RikiTiki2
  - Why do people keep saying this? Who cares if it's a rumor. If it turned out to be false then we all go ba... : ovrlrd
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  I know I've been an Android fan boy in the past but honestly the app market for the iPhone is much better... : thecatinthehat
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    It is, but the android market share has surpassed the iphone's and coupled with far fewer applications in... : terath
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      Despite what people think, Android has still not surpassed overall market share of iOS devices. That said... : ovrlrd
      
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      You're being retarded. iPad and iPhone are not important in the smartphone arena, which is what this ent... : Halen
      
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      They are important when discussing the app store... : datoo
      
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      if so then so are the numbers of users who have all multiple devices sharing one account. : Hoax
      
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      I'm not sure I understand your point. There are a lot of factors at play here, but I don't think ovrlrd's... : datoo
      
      while retarded is one of my favourite words to describe shackers and probably having used it to describe ... : Hoax
      
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      Dude, the free version of angry birds on android makes 400k a month. The free version.... it has great m... : terath
      
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      Also, don't think I'm against apple at all. Hell, I was an early adopter of their laptops when they went ... : terath
      
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      Oh, and finally, if you are arguing 50 +- 10%, and one camp has drastically fewer apps, you still have a ... : terath
      
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      Not sure if you were referring to me or not, I myself have a macbook pro and an android phone and I think... : datoo
      
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      I was just trying to clarify and reinforce my point. Ovrlrd is always over the top towards apple. Smart g... : terath
      
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      I love how everyone thinks I am biased yet the subthread blew up before I even got to say my part. I was ... : ovrlrd
      
      And I am too tired and did a horrible job writing that.. guess thats a sign I need to sleep. : ovrlrd
      
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      This is what surprises me most about WP7. Microsoft trying to play Apple's game, as if they don't remembe... : Tchest
      
      In what way is microsoft stuff easier to work with? : datoo
  - I have both an iPhone 4 and a Galaxy S, and whilst the actual app is better on iOS, as you say, they're b... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  How old is the Motorola Droid now? Hmm.. November 2009.. And Verizon policy was always that you could u... : SiW.
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    I don't understand why anyone would "upgrade" to an iPhone 4 that's going to be 3G only right now instead... : TabsAZ
    - There is not going to be a LTE iPhone this year if the iPhone 4 is coming to Verizon next month. There is... : ovrlrd
    - I'm not really thinking about people like you, more the people that got the Droid because it was "like th... : SiW.
  - You can upgrade early, but not a full year. I got my Droid in November 2009 and I'm eligible in July bot... : DinK
- webOS 2.0 is gonna 0wn : Patch-e
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  Both Apple and Verizon have missed out on SO much fucking money making it take this long. Not that either... : Thisispol
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    It's Verizon who fucked up. They actually had an opportunity to get the 1st iPhone, but passed because Ap... : ovrlrd
    - Apple tried to buy out the second largest digital music provider at the time (verizon). Verizon was not a... : Rigg5
    - I cannot believe there won't be a V-Cast app preinstalled on the Verizon iPhone. : ThomW
  - AT&T probably paid them metric shit tons for the exclusive : Ovate
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  Wonder what this means for Android. It's been doing phenomenally thanks to Apple's exclusivity. Is it t... : passingstranger
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    I don't think the assumption that apple's exclusivity helped android's success that much is true at all. : razorblade79
    - Even if it is true, the damage is already done. Even my freaking mother and her best friend have Android... : DinK
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  not having read the thread or the article; does unlimited data plan mean a flatline without bandwidth to ... : Hoax
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    do you actually hit the 200MB limit most of the time? I've got a 1000MB limit before speed throttling and... : razorblade79
    - it takes me about two days if i'm conservative ;) but yeah wlans help and are the reason i've been draggi... : Hoax
  - In Canada, between our two new incoming cellphone providers, one gives 5 GB then chokes to 64kb/s if they... : terath

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