User: hepresearch
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Re: Metro's Latest Entry-Level Phone is the TCL ION X
Who cares if the specs 'aren't exciting'? Budget phones in general are under-rated these days... so many people turn up their high-minded noses at budget smartphones that they seem to forget that those can still make calls, send texts and messages, surf the internet, serve location and mapping, take decent photos and (somewhat) decent video, and pretty much all have big screens nowadays; however, with the price of the top-end phones skyrocketing, it is nice to see budget ...
Re: Compatibility
To be fair, the Motorola Moto G100 gets the same exact AT&T LTE band support (and no 5G NR support) as the Nokia G20 and Nokia G10, which cost less than half of what the Moto G100 costs. The Nokia XR20 gets better AT&T network LTE band support, and 5G NR, than the Moto G100, and costs about the same. Granted, the Moto G100 is, hands down, the superior phone in most other respects, but Motorola really ...
Re: Compatibility
I hear you, but then why are Motorola "fans" asking for more devices that, while they are pretty neat and have cool features, lack US band support? I mean, the Moto G100 doesn't even get support for AT&T 5G NR... only T-Mobile's 5G NR is in any way supported, and even that not completely. Why are Motorola "fans" asking for 'cool phones' that have little US band support? It just kills me... and if Motorola persists ...
Re: Compatibility
I agree its a shame, but especially for Motorola, who usually pushes good band support for their other models in the US... seriously, what were they thinking?
I've had a couple of Motorola Moto E handsets from Cricket (AT&T) in the past five years or so, and they have never had such poor support for AT&T's current LTE bands as this device in question - basically this gets just 2, 4, 5, 12, and 66.
Maybe its a good thing my ...
Lucky its only a third of what Qualcomm charges for their's...
Just an observation - Qualcomm gets three times that, for their patents, from each Android phone. For what it's worth, the West in general welcomed Huawei into the fold, allowed Huawei to take a leading role in the development of the 5G NR standard, even allowed Huawei and China to make crucial advances that contributed to the mobile technology standard in ways the West had not conceived of previously, and they (the US and the West) did not ...
Re: Glad to see Qualcomm silicon in these...
Agreed on the Snapdragon 460. My current device has the Snapdragon 450 and 2 GB of RAM, and works well enough so far, even with Samsung's One UI implementation (thank goodness it's a lighter UI than TouchWiz or Samsung Experience UI). The Snapdragon 450 is similar in computing performance to the 460, but built on the 14nm process, rather than the more efficient 11nm process, so I expect the 450 requires more power to do the same ...
Glad to see Qualcomm silicon in these...
I believe these are the latest outgrowth of an ODM partnership with Emblem for AT&T and Cricket. In the past, we have seen Tinno being that ODM partner to Emblem, but now with VinSmart taking the place of Tinno, and Qualcomm silicon instead of MediaTek, if these do well, I could see myself giving them my money in a couple of years.
The Cricket Ovation was really the only Tinno-sourced device in the Emblem lineup at Cricket that did ...
Re: Connect phone to my Tv
I just recently got a Samsung Galaxy A11 myself... and a smart TV. Most TV's nowadays have an HDMI connector, and the Samsung Galaxy A11 has USB-C (reversible). The charging/data cable that comes with the Samsung Galaxy A11 is USB-C to USB. So, if you are going to use the charging/data cable that came with the Galaxy, you will need to at least get a USB to HDMI adapter - otherwise you will need a USB-C ...
Re: What happened to.......
Only applicable to Cricket if you're talking 5G NR... Icon 2 is a 4G phone - ergo, it didn't need Band 66 for anything.
Re: 6739 chip is TRASH, ANDROID GO is trash
Someone will be grateful for this... it has better specs than my old favorite, the Nokia E75. If these didn't sell, they would not make them in the first place. Just remember that, very often, one person's "trash" is another person's treasure!
Re: yikes
At least its a 64-bit SoC, unlike what they could have put in there... like, say, a QC SD 212 SoC which is still 32-bit, and which is still used in some devices in our day. There are worse, and even less-capable, processors out there. The low-end solutions are eventually improving, slowly.
People who are in need of an affordable, though 'mundane', solution may look at this as acceptable. There are many who do not have the ...
FCC type-acceptance... cannot mix two services and be type-accepted!
From the description and the picture, this Motorola T800 appears to mix a UHF service (GMRS or FRS) with a VHF service (probably MURS). As far as I know, the FCC rules are set up to prevent these two services from overlapping in one device, similar to the situation with Baofeng radios that combine Amateur bands and GMRS in one device. They cannot be part-95 type-accepted, and are therefore illegal to manufacture or distribute in the US. ...
Nokia as the last tiny barrier to Apple hegemony
There isn't a lot that Nokia can do to Apple, even if they win this. Monetary damages on the order that they could get would do little to deter Apple. On the other hand, if Apple wins its anti-trust case against Nokia, that would set a huge precedent - breaking up Nokia and making their patents much cheaper to license, or unnecessary to license, would remove the last obstacle that any mobile phone company could possibly have ...
Not the same Nokia
Nokia will never be like what it was before the days of Steven Elop, and it will certainly never be the same Nokia ever again, but I do wish them all the best. If they can make a decent entry-level Android phone for $100 or less, I will be a little impressed. I don't know if I would ever buy a Nokia ever again, after having been such a big fan and then getting punched in the ...
An Unfortunate End...
It's a shame that the Motorola brand will be done away with... the brand that developed the first mobile phone, and then helped to popularize mobile phones, particularly in the US. At least with Nokia (Devices and Services), when that brand went away, there was some hope that the brand would come back in some fashion in 2016 thanks to the surviving wing of Nokia, but Motorola Solutions is not nearly as likely to try their hand at ...
Re: Looking Forward to the Musashi
I am a little concerned that the Musashi is going to be too large when opened. The Nokia N75 that I had years ago was also rather large for a flip phone - being a Symbian S60 smartphone flip phone - but the Musashi will be much larger from the description and specs. Over the years I have migrated back to a basic flip phone, as the form factor just cannot be beaten, and I have watched ...
Re: Love the Idea of a Flip Phone
I hope so. Reminds me of my old Nokia N75 in a way, but I'm sure it will be much improved. I hope the Musashi does well when it reaches the US, so that others may be tempted to make clamshell Android smartphones for the US market in the future. If it is affordable enough, I could be interested in buying one myself.
Re: Huawei might have something
Jayshmay said:
Rockstar is an energy drink!
... which they all drink as they sit around and talk about which Android OEM to sue next. Takes a lot of energy to file all of the legal paperwork.
Why Huawei?
It will be interesting to find out why Huawei has been dropped from the suit. Could it be that they've been dealt in on the side of Rockstar? I have, for some time, argued that Rockstar is all about subduing those who make software open and free, and destroying competitive situations in the mobile industry. Apple, Microsoft, and BlackBerry are all quite unified in their quest to bottle up and control Android (and Linux in general). ...
Re: I hope it happens.
I used less than 1GB in an average month back in the day, and that was while tethering a home PC through my Nokia 9300 on T-Mobile at EDGE speeds. Of course, that was back when $19.99 got you unlimited data plus tethering... and then while employed by T-Mobile I got all of that for $9.99, through my HTC Dash.
The last time I had data on AT&T I still used less than 1GB per month. I'm just ...
Just in time...
Just in time for the Nokia Normandy. It will probably be released as the NEW Asha series starter. Everything on it looks like they borrowed from Windows Phone (start screen) and existing Asha (hardware keys and notifications) handsets, but is actually running on the back of a forked Android variant. Perhaps this is the final step for replacing Series 40 altogether.
And now, it will have HERE Transit.
The Sickness
Thankfully there are a few more barriers than I had previously thought of listed, so let's hope that they can't agree on the structure of the deal to begin with. I fear that FCC regulators would give this deal a pass because the total subscriber base of the new company would still be smaller than either AT&T or Verizon and have less spectrum, so I have to hope that they won't even figure out a deal in the ...
Re: Let's hope this doesn't happen
Yes, but the FCC and the regulators are a lot less likely to have a problem with it. Yes, it will be a big problem for customers. Aside from T-Mobile, no one cares much about customers right now, except that they want more of them. T-Mobile is rocking the boat, and there are powers in high places that want this to stop. They want to end the hemorrhaging of their profit margins more than anything ...
Re: I don't get it...
Think about it... create as much churn as possible, hoping that this dislodges as many customers as possible from the two biggest carriers, and then do something insane - create a third carrier that is almost as big as either of the two biggest, all at a time when as many people as possible are out of their contracts or in the act of looking to switch carriers. Could these moves be designed to dislodge as many people ...
Tizen and diversity
It seems to me that there is some question as to whether Tizen is just a little too similar to Android to make much difference. I've heard that, in theory, Tizen is supposed to work on the lowest-cost hardware available, and hence supplant the old basic/feature phones altogether, but I also know that Android is continually making progress in reaching further into the lower-tier. The question is whether Tizen will be ready in time to knock the ...
Re: Let's hope this doesn't happen
Unfortunately, this is a little more likely to happen than the AT&T/T-Mobile attempt. Put together, Sprint and T-Mobile are not quite as large in customer base as either AT&T or Verizon, and since the two-GSM/two-CDMA major carrier model of the last decade is bound to collapse with the advent of everyone being on LTE, the FCC would probably be okay with having just three major carriers sharing one standard technology. I don't like it, either, but when ...
A chance for survival
The more I hear from Mr. Chen, the more I see some hope for BlackBerry after all. He seems to have an "eat the elephant one bite at a time" message in a lot of what he says. BlackBerry will have to equivocate and cut its losses under Chen, but it will do so strategically, by the sound of it. They may have to shift to working on low-cost devices for emerging markets, all built at ...
Re: That's NEVER going to happen
When I talk about 'feature phones', I'm not talking about Android/iOS/Windows Phone, but I am talking largely about Java-based or BREW phones.
There are still some people in this world who use feature phones. I am one of them. I have used lots of smartphones in the past - like Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Symbian - and while I have played with Android devices and iPhones, I don't yet own a newer smartphone myself. I really miss ...
Tizen was designed to put feature phones out of existence
When a Tizen phone can cost $40 off contract, then yes there is a reason for somebody to buy that instead of an Android phone - and the world will finally be done with BREW MP and Series 40, the two great smartphone-pretenders, along with all of the other Java and BREW feature phones. As far as I understand it, this is what Tizen was designed for... to be put on the least expensive hardware available, but still ...
wise investment?
Is this a wise investment?
Granted, BlackBerry has the indispensable portrait QWERTY design, but world is largely moving on. And yes, BlackBerry still has an edge over the competition when it comes to mobile device security, but this is not something that sells nearly as well in the consumer market as it does in the enterprise market. Sure, BlackBerry could still make a decent comeback in emerging markets, but I doubt they'll make a comeback in the US ...
Compare to BlackBerry Q10 - case closed
Exhibit A - Typo iPhone keyboard
Exhibit B - BlackBerry Q10
Exhibit C - BlackBerry keyboard patent
Admissible argument - date of (C) precedes application and invention of (A)
Admissible argument - date of (B) release precedes release of (A)
Admissible argument - (A) is nearly identical to (B) keyboard
Gavel down... case closed...
Re: Is the same price for all the lines
This is looking like an even more wild idea the more I look into it. They even split the bill and can send separate invoices to each member of the "framily" if need be. This sounds really awesome.
Re: I wonder
The documentation over at Sprint appears to insinuate that its 1GB per line.
Re: Verizon
Yeah... but now SoftBank is just about in charge over there...
That, and with everyone merging onto LTE technology, there is less incentive to keep four major competitors. The original rationale for four was that you had two per each major technology... two for GSM, two for CDMA. Now everyone is going to be on LTE all together, so that rationale breaks down unless someone can rework it quickly enough to give four major competitors a reason other ...
Re: Why such an aggressive move?
I also used to work for T-Mobile, and I also kept an AT&T line throughout the process... though mostly just because my wife at the time (we are no longer married) refused to touch any phone from anything but AT&T with even a ten-foot pole. I mostly used my employee line to tether to our home computer (unlimited data plus tethering for just $19.99/mo. was the consumer plan at the time - a great deal) and carry my ...
Re: Why such an aggressive move?
I'm not really complaining. I already am on AT&T, and I really don't care too much about T-Mobile except on points of interest as of late, but I just wanted to re-ask the question in the context that came to my mind.
I can see your point. My only thought, though, is "are the big names really that hard up for customers that they will try to cannibalize each other alive?" It seems like they are really ...
Whoa folks...
Thankfully, the big corporations don't often sue some everyday critic just because an offended fanboy tells them that they should. We don't need to be making hollow threats to each other here. Don't sue... teach!
I don't know anyone's network that is garbage... otherwise, no one would be getting service on said network. They work where they are and don't work where they aren't, also depending on how full the towers are at any given time, and ...
Re: Why such an aggressive move?
I am not sure as to why, but this is the kind of move one makes in desperation. It requires a substantial outlay of money (up to $450) for each T-Mobile customer who responds to it, and there are some 30+ million or more of them. Is this AT&T's way of trying to 'buy' T-Mobile's customers outright, since they couldn't 'buy' T-Mobile in the past due to regulations? I kind of like T-Mobile's ideas on a ...
Capitalism
Capitalism does have a segment that operates that way, but not all variants of capitalism work this way. The arm of capitalism to which you refer is called mercantilism. In mercantilism, nations compete over resources that are assumed to be scarce, people are treated as labor tools that must be paid as little as possible to get them to work, and consumers are treated like crack addicts that must be parted from as much of their money ...
Re: And what would you like with your Blackberry meal
From an old Symbian fan to all the BlackBerry fans...
"These Berries taste like BURNING!!!"
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