User: Jon_Doh
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Looks Promising ..... But
the phone will be totally useless in the US without Band 17 support.
Not Much Of An Upgrade For The Compact
All the other sites are reporting that the compact only has 2 gigs of ram. I wish it did have 4. Frankly, except for the camera having more megapixels and a modest upgrade in the CPU the Z5 Compact is the same as the Z3 Compact.
Re: Big Brother
Is alive and well. Orwell's prediction came true 30 years late.
If you think the 1st amendment is alive and well try saying certain things in a cell phone conversation and watch how fact men in black show up on your doorstep to cart you away to a gulag in Eastern Europe where you'll never see the light of day.
Re: Qualcomm vs. Exynos
I've used both the S6 and Edge and I concur, it is very snappy. Everything was smooth with the phone.
Re: No Data while on Voice Calls!!!!
You need AT&T for that feature. It's always been a feature with AT&T. Verizon is late to the party and don't have the feature fully working yet.
The Caller ID Feature Sounds Good
until you discover that the app is polling Facebook and eating up data on every call you receive.
Sur Prize, Sur Prize
as Gomer Pyle would say.
Yeah, And They Have Half The Coverage Too
Sometimes you do just get what you pay for :lol:
Re: Agree
The specs are from two years ago. Plus the Fire OS is terrible - bloated and sluggish. Amazon makes you install apps from their store so app selection is pitiful. But Amazon is deaf to feedback. Customers have been complaining about the deficiencies in the Kindle Fire HDX since it came out - issues such as horrible screen with purple and yellow on it, poor battery life, random reboots, touch not working and OS hanging. ...
Re: Amazing way for T-mobile customers to save some cash.
Good luck finding coverage with that network. Take a road trip and mark how many spots have no coverage or if they do are serviced by painfully slow, outdated EDGE. I travel a lot and know first hand how inadequate their network is. You say you work for AT&T, well guess what? You're going to find yourself roaming on their network a lot. And they make you roam on EDGE. Enjoy the slow ...
Re: The Trick to a Cheap Phone at T-Mobile- BEATING THE SUBSIDY
There is a hidden cost to going with T-Mobile and that is their lack of coverage. Where you find coverage it's going to be mostly outdated, slow EDGE. Their 4G is as scarce as two dollar bills. And they have no 3G, even though they advertise they do. But they also advertise and show maps of all this great 4G coverage that simply doesn't exist.
Bottom, line you do get what you pay for. You want ...
Re: T-Mobile Are Liars
You must have found their 4G in a major city and then drove around in circles. I travel all over and the only places I find 4G is in large cities and even then the 4G footprint never covers the extent of the city limits or the metro area. Once out of the city you are on Edge, not 3G, but slow painful Edge.
Where I live I have to drive two and a half hours ...
T-Mobile Are Liars
They are the biggest liars in the industry. First they advertise they have the biggest 4G network, which they don't. They have the smallest. They show maps with 4G coverage in areas that only have 2G EDGE.
They also claim to have 250 million people covered with HSPA + 4G. The country only has 300 million people, so they're saying they have 83% of the population covered? That's just plain bullsh!t. I travel a ...
Re: One Reason, LTE Chipset
There has been a trend toward bigger phones for the past couple of years. But what has caused every phone maker to jump into the shoebox phone size arena is putting an LTE radio in the phones. The LTE chipset is huge and requires a big heatsink for cooling. Supposedly the next generation of chips will be much smaller and run cooler, but it seems to me once the trend has begun it's only going to ...
Re: The end of expandable memory?
64 gigs is plenty of memory. I have half that in my phone and have over 500 songs, tons of pictures and apps and still have two-thirds of it left.
Re: Verizon = Dropped Calls
Had Verizon and experienced a high number of dropped calls, not just in my area but everywhere I traveled to. The voice quality was terrible too with the other person sounding garbled. AT&T's network voice quality is much much higher.
Re: URGENT This article preaches the truth on T-Mobile and sloooow 2G
I'm in NC too and have experienced the same thing you have. Once I leave my city I don't come across another 4G area for a two hour drive. It's only painfully slow EDGE. When I'm in the far western part of the state I roam on AT&T and it's on their EDGE network.
In all the T-Mobile EDGE areas I travel to AT&T has those same ares covered with 4G. T-Mobile's maps are ...
Re: TMO 4G
HSPA+ is officially 4G. There are three different technologies that are recognized as 4G by the International Telecommunications Standards Committee and HSPA+ is one of them. But good luck finding it. T-Mobile only has 4G in major metro areas and then the footprint seems to be rather small. They're mostly and Edge network as the description at Phonescoop says. They claim to have some 3G, but in all my travels I've yet to find ...
Re: TMO 4G
T-Mobile's 4G is every bit as much 4G as Verizon's LTE says the International Cellular Standards Committee. That it is not real 4G is just propaganda put out by the Verizon Stormtroopers, which is ironic since Verizon never had real 3G, but only backhauled 2G.
Re: Buyout/Merger?????
Would never work. AT&T uses GSM, the world standard in cellular technology, whereas USCC uses CDMA, an American standard, that's totally incompatible. They are compatible with Verizon on a couple of bandwiths, but overall not even compatible with them enough to consider a merger. The other big CDMA carrier, Sprint, runs only one bandwith, 1900 MHZ PCS so they're out of the running.
USCC's best option for a buyout is to invest in building out ...
Re: USCellular Alive and thriving
Wow, they have 6 million customers and operate only in a handful of states and they are going to take down AT&T with over 95 million customers in all 50 states and US territories. Oh, another thing. AT&T's phones will work in every country in the world where there is cell towers. Will US Cellular's? And the answer to that question is a resounding no.
US Cellular is a joke, but I'm happy they're ...
Re: HTC Incredible
You sure you want one? I had three of them before finally dumping the thing and going with another brand. The Incredible line is plagued with power button issues, leaky screens that collect dust underneath them and reception issues caused by their placing the antenna in the back cover. But it's not just the Incredible line that has these problems, others like the Amaze do as well.
HTC has said since the days of the ...
Cupertino Hypocrits
Apple has stolen so much from Android, Windows Mobile and Palm and yet they have the audacity to file complaints and sue their competitors claiming they stole from Apple. What a f***ing joke.
I owned the original iPhone and you couldn't even install apps on it. It had little icons that were portals to web sites and this was back in the days of Edge. It had nowhere near the sophistication of the Palm I had. ...
Re: iOS vs. WebOS vs. Android
The Android OS and its apps are about like Shareware - glitchy and unsophisticated. WebOS is a great operating system, but it has suffered from the crappy phones it was on and lack of serious apps. If those two factors change it could become a major player.
IOS and Apple dominate because they build quality hardware and offer a broad array of useful well developed apps.
Re: why not android??
Because Android blows. The OS is a hog and it's slow. The apps are nowhere near as sophisticated as those on the iPhone. Case in point. I have a half dozen must have apps on my iPhone that I use everyday for business and personally. There is only one similar app made for Android and it has nowhere near the features the iPhone version has. Android apps remind me of shareware. Lastly, ...
Re: GSM Better
I was a customer of Verizon Worthless for over a decade and left them for AT&T before the iphone was released. As far as coverage goes I'd call it a toss up. I've found AT&T has coverage in places where Verizon didn't have any and vice versa. With any phone you should select your carrier based on who has the better coverage in the area where you are going to be using your phone.
As far as ...
Lay Off Druggie Limprod's Oxicontin
I switched from Verizon Worthles to Cingular (now AT&T) two years ago and all I've wondered is what took me so long. I'll never go back. Everything from coverage, call quality and customer service at AT&T is superior to VW. Not to mention the phones are much, much better. They're thinner, better designed and have way greater battery life. Verizon butchers their phones with their crappy custom user interface that keeps you from syncing ...
Two Things
I never trust any post or review that begins with "a friend of mine has a contact who has a friend whose first cousin ...." and that's exactly how you begin so your credibility is in doubt. However, there are professional reviews of the Prada out there and all of them criticize it's interface for being crude and awkward. Second, it uses 20 year old touch screen technology, not unlike that found in Palm or touch screen ...
Re: Ha !
A little better talk time, but no itunes :cry: just an mp3 player.
Re: I am a Verizon Wireless Employee - Cingular Growth Stats
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070124/...r_resu lts_dc_3
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc.'s (NYSE:T - news) Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. mobile phone service by customer base, on Wednesday said quarterly profit nearly quadrupled, boosted by customer growth that beat Wall Street estimates.
AT&T, which took full control of Cingular when it bought BellSouth last month, saw its shares rise $1.24, or 3.5 percent, to $36.60 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Cingular's strong customer growth numbers likely mean it has taken market ...
Re: I am a Verizon Wireless Employee
Sorry, but you have your facts wrong. Cingular has been adding customers and growing their customer base over the last year. Verizon has been the one losing customers, which is why Cingular has been increasing the distance between the number 1 and spot. As for the "tarnished" name several different studies contradict that statement. While all cell phone providers could do a better job at customer service, T Mobile usually leads in customer service followed ...
Re: Verizon to buy Metro PCS
Verizon buying Sprint or Altel makes more sense.
Re: CDMA-VS-GSM Technology Advantages?
There is no difference in the two technologies regarding one being better on the environment than the other just as neither is tehnologically superior to the other. Both technologies accomplish the same thing, but just go about it differently. Most CDMA and GSM phones operate at 1900 MHZ on the microwave frequency, others at 800 MHZ. Although their at the same frequency, how they use that bandwith differs. CDMA pings towers to establish connectivity. ...
Fat Verizon Phones
Why are all the phones from Verizon so dam fat? It's not because of a bigger battery, they always have much less talk time than GSM phones. This phone like the standard RZR is longer, wider and fatter. What gives VZ?
Re: largest coverage?
Verizon has great coverage but their coverage map is b.s. They show blanket coverage where there are no cell phone towers from any company. They need to be truthful and admit where they're lacking coverage. It's bad enough that a good bit of their coverage is patched together from other carriers.
