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AND not OR - big difference

amarryat

Oct 16, 2015, 1:58 PM
"Sprint claims the 23GB threshold is far more than most customers ever use, and can be used to load 600 photos, stream 60 hours of music, or stream 50 hours of video. "

is wrong. Should be:

Sprint claims the 23GB threshold is far more than most customers ever use, and can be used to load 600 photos, stream 60 hours of music, AND stream 50 hours of video.
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BlaiddGwyn

Oct 29, 2015, 10:18 AM
I'm sorry, but the whole "50 hours of video" thing is so very wrong. Perhaps at low quality, but I prefer to watch YouTube videos in HD so I can actually see it, instead of a bunch of squares that kinda/sorta look like a video. A single hour of 1080p video can take close to 1 GB of data by itself (look at this website for examples: http://www.clifftam.com/much-data-youtube-vid eo-use/ ). And it doesn't matter if I start to watch it and decide I don't like it and click off to something else. Thanks to "buffering", it's already transferred close to a quarter of the video to me before I decide whether to close it or not. I tend to just browse YouTube on my phone when I'm bored (for example, waiting for the public transportation bus), and I somet...
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