class action

[skipcaly]

I recently discovered that I cannot uninstall pre-installed applilcations.   I am planning on starting a campaign to fight this issue.  Starting with a complaint to the Ohio State attorney general or better business bureau.   Anyone interested in joining in on the fun?   I am tired of this facistic approach to paying for a service that surprises you wilth restrictions and limitations that are unreasonable and diminish the product I am paying for.   Every application I can't remove takes space and other resources that limit my phone.

[B33]

Well i hate to break it to ya but what your trying to do has been hashed over since Verizon started selling smart phones. Pre-installed apps are just some thing that comes with your phone. I have 2 of them an had them for over a year.There a Droid X an Droid Incredible both of them have ( pre-installed apps ) an there is now way that Verizon is going to do away with them any time Soon... So you'll just have to get use to them. Sorry!

[skipcaly]

Thanks for the words of wisdom

, but I dont settle. We will see what the state attorney general says...

And I have time and money so I will explore the legal side of things. I

have never liked being dictated to. Especially when I paying.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone

[Wildman]

Well the one side I don't think you have considered, the preinstalled apps is how the service providers offset the price of the equipment and service and if they totally discontinue with this process they will have to figure out another method to make up for the lost revenue which would most likely lead to the service and devices prices going up...   So end the end you would be paying more for what you have now.

The apps really do not effect the devices performance or effect the amount of storage on the device because it is stored in a area the isn't accessible by a average user..

Also if you read the web others has stepped into the situation you are considering without any real change.

[demmo86rt]

muahahahahaha, the evil Verizon strikes again.

[budone]

I can tell ya what the Attorney General is going to say...."I have bigger issues to worry about".  And I doubt you will get that much.

These apps do not use memory that you would use and do not use resources unless you use the apps.

[skipcaly]

We will see

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone

[MrOpinion]

--Budone- <these aps do not use memory the you would use ----- Man are you clueless - or just ignorant  -- yes many supposed apps are just downloaders with an icon  but way too many are actually installed apps that update themselves (downloaders don't)  - they add up to roughly 1 Gig out of the 8 that are on the phone  (250 K actually un-installable if you uninstall and go through files and manually delete remnants--  and just what make you think that space would not be used by apps I actually want to have..    SORRY BUT YOU are the proud owner of the most ignorant response I have seen yet

And to your 'don't use recources -- well they 'update and google books went as far as downoading three new books when I deleted tho old ones thinking - yeah can't delete App but at least I can dump junk  -- so whos broadband (recources) allowance do you think they are using  -  -     man you are soooooooo wroooooong Budoooooone

[Ann154]

, Out of curiosity, what phone model did you have before the Droid Razr that you didn't notice any pre-installed applications on it?

[droidsw]

You had 14 days to return the phone.

[skipcaly]

I was with at&t and an iPhone. There was none of the nonsense like this razr.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone

[Ann154]

Apple dictated what is on their phones across all carriers. A completely different animal.

[Ann154]

Also why didn't you get the Verizon iPhone when you came here if you didn't want these pre-installed applications?

[droidsw]

Is anybody else noticing that since you can't quote in the mobile version (and I'm assuming that's what's going on), these posts don't sequentially make sense and seem out of kilter? You kind of have to assume which reply is to which comment, unless the person specifically addresses that person.

In the mobile version, when you reply to a specific post, how about the usual expected notation saying "In Response To".

Off topic, I know.

[skipcaly]

IPhone is not 4g. Possibly a poor decision on my part.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Phone

[Ann154]

, If you want a 4G LTE phone without a lot of pre-installed applications, then you will have to get the Galaxy Nexus phone.

Otherwise all the other android phones from Verizon have some or a lot of the Bloatware.

[mdram4x4]

another lawsuit threat?

has anyone ever carried through

please stop threatening and do it

once you or your lawyer read the contract you will see you agreed to allow vzw to put those apps on there

they do get paid for it

[skipcaly]

Watch the papers. If they get paid I should get a free phone.

Sent from my iPad

[mdram4x4]

skipcaly wrote:

Watch the papers.   If they get paid I should get a free phone. 

Sent from my iPad

you do get a subsidized price

[MrOpinion]

Wrong - ARE YOU CLAIMING THAT IF I PAY FULL RETAIL _ I DON'T GET THE BLOATWARE ??   keep dreaming

as the price is not subsidized for the sake of the apps, but for the 'phone service / broadband service I have to subscribe to for two years '   and if you buy it at full retail  (or cancel early and be chrged the difference)  you still get all the junk on a phone you bough outright  - It's like buying a car with a full time passenger .

[MrOpinion]

SHOW ME   --- BECAUSE IT DOESN'T   as they are also there if I purchased the phone outright without a contract - therefor no agreement to host such apps   .  .  .  .   problem for us is that no two are willing to get together  -- lawsuits like this have never been won by the vendors - they continue doing it - different versions  counting on the consumers inability to unite