User: neurocutie
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Kill switch -> kill owner?
This law is intended to curb violent thefts of smartphones but to me it is just as likely to increase the murder of smartphone owners who would otherwise report the theft and trigger the kill switch...
Re: Apple isn't a wireless carrier! band REJECTION
The problem isn't in making a multi-band phone, but rather having the hardware needed to REJECT out-of-band signals and channels particularly when channels are spaced too tightly, without sufficient "guard bands". It means adding expensive and possibly bulky filters to the RF section and may even impact radio sensitivity. All in all, the 700Mhz allocations are a big mess.
Re: Injuries caused by 3rd party adaptors
"I have never, ever, not even for the first charge, ever used an "apple" branded adaptor for my ipod. Never. I can tell you - I have not been injured"
hmmm... well the dead can't post...
Re: Garbage
from the TIA website (which is quite a sight...)
"Can individuals join TIA?
No. All forms of membership within TIA, including participation on engineering committees, require corporate membership, not individual membership."
(i.e. protecting the interests of large corporations, not consumers...)
Re: Garbage
silly TIA... the FCC is NOT supposed to be "neutral"... (or is it neutered) it is supposed to protect the interests of the consumer and the people of these US...
nonsensical... top 5%, there ALWAYS will be a top 5%...
"We warned you" "top 5%"...
How does that work exactly as there ALWAYS will be a top 5%, even if everyone just uses about 1MB/mo. So what, this is a way to continually ratchet EVERYONE's data usage down??? The top 5% will first be at 10GB, then 5GB, then 2GB, then 1GB, then 500MB... always still there will be a top 5%...
Re: wondering about AT&T and Tmobile future and LTE
Please cite.when and.where Hesse dissed the iphone. He has been saying publicly for years that the iphone is a good smartphone and he wished Sprint could get it. Yes of course Sprint has tried to.field and sell iphone competitors, beginning with the Samsung Instinct and HTC Touch Vogue, and yes ads for those phones tried to show how they are competitive with the iphone, but that is not the same as dissing. Verizon also had fielded competitors to the ...
Skype?
If Skype or similar can work well on Tmo data, this would be a great deal.
Re: What the FCC wants
"Is to bankruptcy of private industry and the creation of 'Internet' as a government controlled 'utility'....they desire this rule because they know it will cause harm to private industry."
Sorry, but NO. Its ridiculous to suggest that the FCC wants to "harm" private industry and cause its bankruptcy. Its like saying the reason the FCC mandated number portability or fair ETFs was to "harm" private industry. Indeed without regulated Net Neutrality, the harm will be done by the carriers like ...
uncertainity --created WITHOUT net neutrality, not WITH...
funny that (self-serving) Verizon thinks that net neutrality will create "uncertainty" in the market, when it creates exactly the opposite. A level playing field establishes CERTAINITY. Its the possibility of ISPs and carriers charging arbitrary companies and services more or less and the power to squeeze them, that's what would create uncertainity... and what needs to be prohibited by regulations.
Re: And can't you see how ridiculous that is?
T Bone said:
Some websites are more demanding of the network than others....it is only fair that people be charged more doing things which use more data...It seems like you've forgotten that websites ALREADY pay for their network bandwidth based on usage. Big users such as Netflix and Youtube ALREADY pay huge amounts for every byte they send out, in proportion to how much they send out.
Net neutrality is about making sure that if Netflix uses 10x more data than ...
Re: HP Killed Off WebOS too soon
HP barely made an effort with webOS, and killed it off abruptly without even giving it a fair chance.
The more cynical part of me wonders whether they didn't purchase Palm specifically for the purpose of killing webOS and wiping out a competitor.I think you give HP too much credit, particularly since what exactly was Palm competing with?
As the saying goes, Never ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Re: Fair weather lawsuits
Iknownothing said:
I'm pretty sure that if the doj were "owned by Verizon" they wouldn't be suing to block this merger.
That is correct. Verizon does want this merger because 1) it removes a low pricing competitor, 2) hastens the duopoly, 3) paves the way for Verizon to take over Sprint.
Re: Figures. (Verizon? mum as expected)
"Even though ATT will sell part of Tmobile. Who is right and who is wrong in this complicated merger is ATT wrong is the DOJ wrong is Sprint right in their accusations. Where is Verizon in all of this?"
AT&T only would want to sell parts of Tmo it doesn't want... obviously. These lawsuits and DOJ/FCC actions will minimally force AT&T to sell MORE than it would otherwise like to, but will have to to improve, albeit inadequately, the impact ...
Re: less competitions = higher prices. BS!
mmmm, VM is a prepaid brand of Sprint and does not own their own nationwide network. They are at the mercy of Sprint, who in turn has said that they will ptobably not be able to compete if the duopoly is created.
middlemen
Since Sprint in turn wholesales WiMAX *from* Clearwire... so now why would anyone interested not wholesale direct from Clearwire?
I guess Sprint can throw in 3G also but... this can't be that lucrative for Sprint, unless the prices are so high that make it unattractive to begin with.
Translation: Carriers want to MONETIZE all usage of 3Ghz and below...
what a surprise that the wireless carriers want to commercialize and monetize the usage of ALL spectrum below 3Ghz... that's a laugh...
no more TV, FM and AM radio, WiFi, bluetooth, CB, ham radio, GPS, etc, etc... all that would need to move... really???
Re: Yay
"What do you mean no competition? Verizon doesn't offer competition?"
No it really doesn't, anymore than BP or Shell competing with Exxon Mobile. Its called a cartel or oligopoly.
"Sprint doesn't offer competition?"
Nope, not really. And even less so after this Tmo buyout. It is expected that Verizon will buy Sprint (ignore what Verizon is saying now about it -- just self-serving nonsense to confuse the regulators).
"Prepaid doesn't offer competition especially when prepaid service is on the raise?"
Not really either, because ...
merger/buyout?
Sounds great, this HSPA+ expansion...
but if the AT&T buyout succeeds, since AT&T has OTHER plans for AWS 1700Mhz spectrum (LTE), won't much of this HSPA+ expansion have to be dismantled? at least severely restricted in available bandwidth?
Re: Really?
no, BUYING Nextel was not Sprint's biggest mistake... its what they DID to Nextel afterwards...
Sprint writing off $30+B is widely recognized as one of the most disasterous losses/destruction of corporate value in history. Its hard to argue that the mismgmt of Nextel's value was not a huge mistake, blunder, incompetency -- whatever you want to call it...
Re: carriers won't be happy...
"Unless it results in increased data usage, and increased therefore puts greater strain on the network, the carrier won't care one way or the other."
let me reword that for you...
Unless the carriers believe there is absolutely no way to make more money off of admittedly the exact same service or data usage, the carriers WILL try every means and artificial distinctions to squeeze further payments and fees from its customers.
carriers won't be happy...
that they won't be able to charge you an extra $30-50/mo for a whole separate data plan just for the tablet... I guess they'll call this "tethering" even though its all the same CPU, etc... an extra $20 monthly charge for "screen tethering"... that's the ticket!
Re: Make the right choice
While I agree that stopping the buyout is the 'right' thing for the US consumer, since Tmo's parent company, DT, has decided that Tmo should no longer exist, there really isn't any 'right thing' for Tmo. That is, if this buyout doesn't go through, some other buyout or dispersement will happen (e.g. Sprint). Tmo will not exist in the near future, unless some other investor/buyer steps in and wants to run Tmo as an independent carrier... probably not going ...
Re: Normally...
Because:
1) A duopoly will be very bad for the consumer,
2) Because both AT&T and Verizon have benefited hugely from billion's of dollars worth of the most valuable spectrum (850Mhz) over the years, which they got for very little or nothing -- i.e. they've had a leg up from the start, compared with PCS carriers. Spectrum is a public resource, despite any auctions for the licenses, and a requirement of operating with those licenses must be that it serves the ...
Re: Shame
"I heard that T-Mobile lost a ton of customers in Q1, a net loss of at least 100,000, if I'm right."
true, but remember that Sprint has been losing MILLIONS of customers... sometimes as much as a million per quarter. Its a bit better now, but still losing, particularly postpaid iDEN customers... lost about 10 million of those...
credit cards? (on the mat)...
So what happens if you lay down a credit card on the mat? Its the field strong enough to erase the magnetic stripe info?
Re: Why would anyone buy this phone?
only problem is, this phone has a lousy browser, so cheap data is almost useless...
never buy a dumbphone that can't support Opera Mini or have an alternate GOOD browser (which there really aren't any AFAIK...)
opera mini
the reason why Opera Mini doesn't work is simple: this phone is based on Brew, which is like the enemy of Java. Opera Mini is written in Java and requires a good JVM (except for a couple of native ports).
personally, I would not buy ANY phone that did not support Java... particularly a dumbphone... you got to have Java on a dumbphone -- no other way you'll get decent apps. Brew is too limited...
arsenic and Darwin
I guess we should also have a new law, a new fine if we ingest arsenic. $100 if you are caught eating rat poison or buy poison with the intent to ingest...
Isn't being killed by a truck enough of a fine?
You can't protect people from Darwin, nor should we...otherwise you end up with a society like in the movie Walle -- humans are overweight blimpoids that do nothing but eating and enjoy and are totally protect from themselves but ...
Re: A good start but......
Well Verizon does have PagePlus, which is definitely one of the best deals in prepaid. Its full BYOD and can allow you to maintain a line for as little as $30/YEAR. So why should VZW try to compete with its own MVNO?
Re: So, Okay. Here's the thing.....
"I wish companies had better things to do than to sue each other."
You've missed the point that their respective lawyers DON'T... it is a lawyer's job to sue and to find more issues to sue for... no suits, then lawyer's don't get paid...
Re: Clear wins the court case. Sprint is guilty. No contest. [thoroughly broken down]
well no...
- just because Sprint's fee is for every device regardless of coverage doesn't mean that Sprint's agreement with Clear stipulated that Clear gets paid for every device regardless of coverage.
- IF it ends up that Clear gets a fee for every device regardless of coverage, AND that fee is $9/mo, then Sprint would have to charge every 4G device customer something closer to $20/mo, because 1) Sprint has to make a profit and charge more than wholesale rates ...
the sleeve kills it...
needing a sleeve is what will kill this product... unless the "sleeve" doubles for a case that you would always want on your phone anyways (e.g. the case needed for an iPhone4).
Otherwise, they'd be better off making little 1" nibs that you stick on your micro/mini USB port and hopefully allow some freedom to place the phone just somewhere close to the charging base.
Re: The iphone4...
"If you hold or touch it in anyway, it ceases all radio transmission thus making it extremely safe."
Your logic is flawed... if the iPhone is "ceasing transmission", its because all that radio energy is being absorbed by YOU! and its transmitter is probably even jacking up the power to compensate, putting even MORE energy into you...
Therefore, it would be more accurate to have Jobs advertise the iPhone's additional "feature" -- a handheld microwave oven... to warm you hands up ...
Re: What's the use? (re: PP phones)
Yes Pageplus phones are "laughable" because PP doesn't waste any resources worrying about phones and all the phones it *does* offer are refurbished...
With PP you are supposed to get/bring your own phone... ANY Verizon phone (and many other CDMA phones as well).
Just pick up any Verizon phone on ebay, craigslist, or even Verizon itself if you must... (including Verizon prepaid phones at Walmart)...
Re: Its not going to happen.
I can think of several pens that directly abut public and residential areas. I don't see how they *aren't* going to interfere with public cell phone usage...
Re: Why don't all of us turn to prepaid providers?
...you end up paying a lot more for a phone that can only work in certain areas.Well, yes, part of the monthly charges (MRC) in a postpaid plan are due to the phone subsidy, about $5-8/mo. But other than that, no, PagePlus is a NATIONAL PLAN, on Verizon's native network. So it works across the US also... (not int'l though, but of course most AT&T plans don't include int'l usage either...)
Go FCC! :)
Well actually I do have mixed feeling about this FCC action. Sure, more gov't intervention is never good. But Apple+AT&T *is* exhibiting behaviors that are triggering antitrust concerns.
Why should Apple have the right to prohibit a customer from running a particular program on his iPhone?
If Microsoft prohibited Windows users from running Firefox or Opera, would that be okay? (obviously not, the courts and DOJ have already said so). So then why is it okay for Apple to prohibit the ...
Wrong, the converters are only $10 after coupon... FCC should force blackouts...
No, the converters are $50 at Walmart ($60 at Best Buy). The coupons give you a $40 credit, so consumers only have to cough up $10.
The excuse now is that they ran out of funds for these coupons. Stupid... Congress can easily authorize more funds for the coupons (which they have) without altering the switch date -- people have need more than a year of constant nags from all sides about this... its stupid...
The people that haven't yet ...
Opera Mini Browser - One Click
I just hope that this new One Click interface makes it easy to add and, more importantly, access 3rd party apps like Opera Mini browser. Uniformly, the web browser on such phones is a lousy POS and the Opera Mini browser is far, far superior. Yet most of these phones make it difficult to "one click" or even four click access such 3rd party apps, instead burying such user-installed apps deep down multiple menu levels. I hope these new ...
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