iPhone 4 on Verizon

I am not sure if I should be happy or start crying. On good side I am probably eligible to upgrade but on the other hand the worst carrier in San Francisco Bay area will get more traffic when many people who were waiting for this get iPhone or switch from other carriers. I cannot make or receive phone calls at my workplace in Palo Alto using this "most reliable" network. It does not work at home in Mountain View without extender either. Friends on any other networks here do not have this problems. Now I am stack for one more year and I am sorry that I switched.

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Reception problems with Verizon

Couple months ago I moved from Cupertino to Mountain View. In my new apartment I could not make a phone call so I decided to change cell carrier from AT&T to Verizon. It seems like instead of zero bars I got one. So making calls is not possible either. I am stuck with them for next two years so I had to by their Network Extender so we can use our phones at home. Just in case of emergency I also got us land line, you need internet and electricity to make calls so it would not not work if we got some disaster. Land line should have higher survival potential :-)

The second part of the story is my workplace reception. AT&T worked great there, while it is a dead zone for Verizon. I can barely send text message. I was wondering why all other carries could work in this area while "nation's most reliable" network is completely dead. It looks like Verizon got only 2 cell towers in whole South Bay. Wonderful, even T-Mobile got more :-(

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You can visit CellReception site to check what are locations of cell towers in your area.

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webOS 1.4.5 available for Verizon Pre Plus

As usually I have learned about update from third party site, Verizon does not have any updates notification in place. Searched their site, searched Palm's release notes page and nothing. I downloaded it this morning at home while I was still on my WI-FI and in network extender range. It took more than advertised 15 minutes but update was non-problematic so far.
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I do not know if GPS issues are resolved so I used GPS Fix before my morning bike commute and it seems like nothing is better than it was before.

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Palm has released the webOS 2.0 Beta SDK to developers

Palm introduced webOS 2.0, the next generation web-based operating system! We've got lots of new and updated
features to make your apps more powerful and flexible. New features include:

• Stacks - grouping related cards in stacks, reducing clutter, and making it even easier to move quickly between task


• Quick Actions - Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites—all without having to launch an app


• Apps can have custom Touchstone at-a-glance views with Exhibition


• Synergy is opening up to developers


• HTML5 and Javascript support is much improved


• Hybrid PDK/SDK apps will be fully supported

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