User: PooFlinger1
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Re: Transparently False
Maybe you know something about net neutrality that I don't. But from what I understand, it's not about re-directing traffic to preferred vendors. It's about limiting bandwidth or filtering traffic based on traffic type.
When data packets are transferred, the header data in them can identify what type of packet it is and what it is for (ex: http, ssh, ping, etc.).
Currently, there are some ISPs that THROTTLE or limit the ammount of available bandwidth for ...
Re: Proof
netboy said:
you want proof?
try to crack/break your pdaphone screen.
and it will cost you over 150$ to replace LCD! you tell me is that price fixing or not. over 150$ just to replace a 2.8" LCD screen? you can get a 19" LCD monitor for 150buk!
You are forgetting something major... Labor. When you buy a 19" LCD monitor you are not paying anyone labor to install the screen. HOWEVER, when you pay to have ...
Trying to hang in there
I think this is another attempt at radio shack, sorry, THE Shack, to hang in the brick and mortar retail arena. I worked for them back in 2004/2005 and I could really see things starting to shift back then. Why they let go of Verizon (who paid WAY WAY more than sprint per new activation/upgrade) still escapes me. Maybe someone can fill me in on that. But beyond that point, they are trying to compete ...
Re: national security
I don't think that anything marked as exempt from FoI act would be posted. Therefore, no breech of national security.
Re: Sim Card--YES!!!!
Just because a service is fast enough for VOIP does not mean that it can handle VOIP. For VOIP to be successful, you have to have very little packet loss, and very little jitter.
Jitter is the difference in the time it takes packets to reach their destination or the difference between pings. By default, VOIP such as SIP and IAX typically build in about a 30ms voice buffer to accomodate for varrying responce times. When your ...
Re: They had it coming for a long time
wonderwall said:
Verizon isnt in competition with ATT and never will be. We build our customers not buy them
LOL... ummmmm... Cingular/ATT merger? How is that not buying customers? every major national carrier got to where they are by purchasing smaller companies. ATT, Verzion, Sprint, TM.... They all do. And if ATT is so good at building, how come they still have higher customer churn than Verizon and TM?
Re: New VZW Changes
But the change isn't aimed at heavy users. It's aimed at the casual web user who spent more money in minutes than they would have if they paid per MB. Heavy/heavier users are better off on the $15 unlimited plan.
Re: Absurd
I didn't say they were pressing charges, but "Invistigations and possible lawsuits". And Yes, I know that MS is a different beast, but so is apple. Fact is that the EU did state that they intended to specifically target US corportations for investigations and possible lawsuits. It was posted somewhere on toms hardware I believe and possibly on another site I frequent. If I find it i'll post a link.
I know the paragraph said investigate ...
Absurd
Personally I think this is just one of the EU's latest attempts to squash US compettition. First was microsoft. Wether you like them or not, they were targeted for more than just monopolistic tatics. The EU has pretty much said that it planned on targeting US corportations for such investigations and possible lawsuits. Apple, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are just a few. I wonder what would happen to poor old europe if the US just ...
Ringtones with Bitpim
To do ringtones with bitpim, you will first need the data cable that verizon sells. Install the drivers, install bitpim, connect the phone, start bitpim.
Bitpim will recognize it as "Other CDMA Phone".
Under the View menu, make sure "View FileSystem" is checked.
Next, in the category tree on the left, select file system. The root node should be someting like "/". Expand that and look for a new node titled "ff", then expand the one titled ...
Re: Finally!!!!!
yes and no. I don't believe monopoly laws cover spectrum like that. So long as a company owns the spectrum, they are free to deploy as they wish to an extent. However, even if there were monopoly laws that prevented that from hapening, they could easily get around that by purchasing the whole company since the monopoly would no longer be considered on the local level and would be national which means no monopoly since there ...
Re: The point is this....
You have some good points, but you took it personal and are not looking at the big picture. NOT all stores have the trained employees that you speak of. The one's in my area sure don't. I know because I used to work with them. Secondly, Sure, you get the same warranty, but who honors that warranty? Best Buy? I don't think so. The manufacturer does. So saying that they have ...
Re: Yeah...
Oh I don't know, they could have possibly pulled people from another project that wasn't as big as their new OS.
Re: who's laughing now....
Ahhhh, no, it's visual. And that comes directly from apples website. Visual Voicemail is their way of being able to listen to any message without having to listen to the one before it. So you could open your voicemail and pick which message you want to listen to, much like chapters on a DVD.
As far as whos laughing now, I was referring to the concept of delay and delay alone; not how big the delay was, ...
who's laughing now....
I seem to recall apple making fun of microsoft for delaying the realease of Vista... Kinda funny now that the shoe is on the other foot.
Re: NOKIA.....
Actually, I've never owned a nokia phone in my life. Why? because I'm a CDMA subscriber, and their CDMA phones were never as good as their TDMA/GSM phones. That, and they only ever offered low end models, and I always buy the high end.
Why wouldn't they just make their own phone? How about cost of production, development, testing, liscensing, etc. etc. Why doesn't the US produce all of it's own oil? Why ...
Re: NOKIA.....
Actually, if you had done your homework, you would have seen that the 5100 series didn't start till around 1998... and continued through 2004 and later. Back in the 80's and early 90's the only thing you could buy was practically bag phones, and in the mid 90's motorola came out with the first brick phones....
Nokia also makes very nice phones for the GSM side of the cellular market and has often times been the #1 grossing ...
Re: RICH/ERIC
Actually, I have a vx9800 and it supports mp3's out of the box. There was no hack done, no software update. I simply put them on my miniSD card and hit play and boom, music.
So Protege is right, the chocolate is not the first phone to support the mp3 format.
Re: what about verizon???????????Vodafone is...
Vodafone is a full participant. If you go onto the OMTP website, they are listed on the front page as a participant. However, even though they own most of verizon, it does not nessecarily mean that verizon will or will not participate as well.
Re: T-Mob strongarm!
It's not shady... Its smart. Big companies do this sort of stuff ALL THE TIME. And its not a secret by any means. People title cars under the companies name to write it off as a business expense, Large companies sometimes sell their products under a smaller companies name. The list goes on and on. Its a way for them to spend less money, and there was nothing illegal about it.
Re: I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
Right, and if it was verizons name in there and not cingulars, I probably would have said the same thing... Regardless of the company, they should only dip their fingers in so many pockets.
Here in STL, we only have SBC available as a landline. There are some idiots that see a bundle deal and buy based on that fact alone and dont look at the companies/products involved and don't do any research. I know that out ...
Re: lol. About Time!
Nextel18 is right, cingy has a LONG way to go before they can compete with nextel. Try getting nextel subscribers to switch over... If it were compatable with nextel it would be a different story. But when you have workers connected to foreman, connected to suppliers, connected to manufacturers... Its very hard to break a link in the chain. You have to take the whole chain. And when you talk about 100+ people, its ...
Re: why why why
I can see why a company would want to offer it. Just look at all the nextel subscribers. There are tons of applications that can benifit from PTT technology like construction workers, police, retail managers, etc. etc. the list goes on.
However I also agree that its a waste of money for both verizon and cingular to try and persue a good PTT network. If you cant storm the enemy you have to flank em'. ...
Re: I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
not nessecarily. If a company can prove that another company has an unfair advantage or is making it very difficult if not impossible for others to sell their product or service then that would qualify them for an antitrust.
Thats what nailed microsoft in some of their cases. They did not have a monopoly (like with IE) but because it was bundled and required for windows, it was hard for netscape to market their product even though it ...
Re: I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
I never said that this was a monopoly or anti-trust but that i saw one comming in the future. Not nessecarily because of this. SBC/Cingy/ATT/Yahoo... the relationships go on and on... that's what Im basing it on.
Re: I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
My version of 98 did, as did my retail version of 95. My OEM verison of 95 did not as the manufacturer removed it. As for 3.11, they didn't start bundling it until 95. 95 and 98 were the only two versions (and a few NT) to include office. The lawsuit was filed before 2000 came out so they stopped after 98SE.
Re: I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
No, it was actually incorporated into windows. Even if you went out and bought a version off the shelf, it came with office. At that time they never really released a version without it.
Re: I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
I never said that this was monopoly abuse or that it was forced. I was making the assumpition due to the increase in "partnerships" that cingular is making.
How does microsoft apply? They didnt charge any more for office with windows than they did for just windows, but because of the pricing and the fact that it was more expensive to buy other office products, it made it hard for the competition to sell their software.
When a company ...
Re: I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
Stuff has happened. Not every instance is addressed, but take a look back at Standard Oil, the original Bell Communications company, and yes, even microsoft. It was only a few years ago that Office was included with windows. However after loosing a anti-trust lawsuit, it is no longer bundled with windows.
I agree that alot of times nothing is done, but to say that nothing will happen or ever has happened is a bit naive.
I see an anti-trust lawsuit comming!
If this goes through trials well, and they deploy mass market, I don't see it too long before an anti-trust lawsuit is brought against them. I base that statement on the Microsoft case a few years back. Now when you buy a new PC, it only comes with a trial version of office instead of the full version.
Only time will be the real test in the matter, but SBC/Cingular is dipping their fingers into more and more ...
Re: MP3 Ringtones?? can it be done? HELP
Get BitPim. You can use it to transfer mp3's to your phones memory to use as ringtones.
Re: Recap
OOOH a tower, anyone can design an enclosure. An enclsure is not hardware, its just an enclosure. Alienware designs their own enclosures too. Big deal. As for Firewire... As for firewire, it was a join operation between them and sony (iLink). But USB2.0 is faster anyway.
As for compability, thats the fault of the pc makers, not microsoft. It's up to the PC makers to test the hardware. As for games on ...
Re: more consolidation (thoughts)
No I'm not missing the point. If you have that 800MHz spectrum of iDEN, you can't jsut convert it over to say 1900MHz CDMA. They reside in two completly different spectrums. The wole reason that they do these auction is because each area or market can only have so many providers in a given spectrum. If an area is at capacity for a given spectrum then you cant add more. Even if the towers ...
Re: more consolidation (thoughts)
No, when a carrier wants to put up more towers in new areas, or convert existing towers to a differnt type they have to clear it and buy the liscense to use those frequencies in the area. Thats the whole reason the FCC has these auctions. If you bought say two towers, one CDMA and one GSM, you can still operate both as long as you dont change the way the towers operate or change the frequency ...
Re: more consolidation (thoughts)
Alltel wouldn't buy them because they dont have the funds. Even if they could afford the Tmobile company itself, the network conversion or customer buyout would be too expensive. They would be spending billions of dollars on the company itself and billions more to switch the customers over to CDMA. Switching the network over is not an option since the only way to add spectrum is to purchase it at the FCC auctions when the have ...
Re: more consolidation (thoughts)
That would never happen. The owners almost sold Tmobile themselves. Tmobile will end up getting bough by somone else. Most likely verizon since Cingular bought ATT and sprint bought nextel. The FCC and FTC wouldnt let anyone else really buy them. and the small companies wouldnt have the money to buy them. The only other real player in the market to buy them would be bill gates... Imagine if you owned your ...
Re: Recap
Fashion, yes, fashion is what is selling the ipods, not features. Do they play WMA? No. Can you EASILY replace the battery that goes dead after about a year? No. Apple outsells, because they out advertise, and out show, but dont out perform.
As for the PC... WTF? What hardware does apple make? The processor is made by IBM, graphics usually by nVidia... and so on, and so on. ...
Re: Recap
Motorola is the Nintendo of the cell phone industry. The take a good idea, and screw it up. Good design, shotty software. When PSX cameout, they used CD's but nintendo said no, we like cartridges... When PS2 and XBOX came out they used DVD's but again, nintendo said no, were gonna uses special MINI discs... When T9 came out, moto said no... were gonna use iTap.
And lets face it. Apple is NOT ...
Re: Don't everyone freak out on me...
muchdrama said:
SPCSVZWJeff said:
I agree with you on this one. It seems that time could become a foe to Cingular. Can they afford to allow their CDMA counterparts to develop and deploy future versions of EVDO? Given Sprint's history of deploying new network technology quickly across their entire network and Verizon's buildout of EVDO I am not sure there is a lot of room for error if Cingular wants to be a major player in the data business. But the ...
BT hacks?
Are there any bluetooth hacks that will enable OBEX on this phone?
I am currently deciding between the a970 and the VX-9800 and here is my criteria:
1: OBEX capable with hack (a970 is not)
2: mp3's can be used as ringtones
Those are the two main deciding factors for my decision. Any help would be appreciated.
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