LG and Android 2.0 on Verizon

I'd like to stay on Verizon* and I've been really happy with my
VX6000, VX9800 and VX10000 -- well, my 4 Voyagers, as they have to be
replaced pretty frequently -- but I face a lot of pressure to get
something like an iPhone. I need better mobile web browsing and so
forth.

So, I'm all excited about the Motorola Droid, but I have a brand
loyalty problem. Lucky Goldstar has been a decent provider of phones,
and I'd like to keep upgrading on the path. So, I'd be happy to wait
for the GW620 -- unfortunately, it seems to be Android 1.5 based** and
focused on the social media user. I was alarmed to hear that LG has
committed to releasing all of its business user smart phones on
Windows Mobile, but given hope to see that LG is hiring Android
developers in India.

I got excited by all the DROID stories and started looking into this.
I guess I have to decide whether to get the DROID now or wait for LG
to bring out an Android 2.0 phone.

* -- because they don't sell phone records:
http://malechem.blogspot.com/2006/04...help-stop.html
** -- http://news.softpedia.com/news/LG-GW...r-123266.shtml

"Ion Freeman" <ionfreeman@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:faed0e11-2e16-4c12-bc40-eb9a29e6406a@r31g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
> I'd like to stay on Verizon*
<snip>
> * -- because they don't sell phone records:
> http://malechem.blogspot.com/2006/04...help-stop.html

You almost have to feel bad for companies who are victims of this type of
urban legend nonsense. My 79 year-old mother still refuses to buy gasoline
from a Shell station because she firmly believes a similarly apocryphal
1940's-era story that Shell secretly sold oil to the Japanese in WWII.

No wireless phone company sells, or has ever sold, call records. The
blogger you quoted (who cites an anonymous blog entry that no longer exists
as "evidence") apparently completely misunderstood the "pretexing" scandal
of a few years ago, where shady companies would offer to sell call records,
then obtain them by calling your phone company pretending to be you and
asking for the records to be released to them (as "you".)

When investigators hired by HP did this to get call records of journalists,
the whole thing came to light and carriers put an end to it by tightening up
security.

Stick with Verizon for the coverage, the customer service or whatever, but
if this nonsense is the only reason you stick around, I should point out
HP's investigators got info from Verizon just as easily as they did from
AT&T!