User: bones boy
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Brilliant stuff Rich!
Thanks for posting this.
Re: Anker Quality
PS Rich I can’t believe you’re still doing this. Major props to you.
Re: Anker Quality
I second the above. There are lots of knock offs online but Anker knows what they are doing. I’d love to see them make their larger power supplies a bit smaller though.
This was very useful
Thank you. Did not catch this anywhere else!
256GB variant not mentioned in article
The Midnight Black version comes with 8 GB RAM/256GB Storage. Didn't see that mentioned.
Whatever.
I would settle for any security update later than Oct 2017
Charging people for a hardware launch event?
That doesn’t sound promising.
Nitpicking time
The U11 will hardly work in Beijing without bands 38-40. This is my life, nitpicking on such insignificant matters.
I would have included the new Oneplus 5 simply for the amount of LTE band capability. Or more dual-sim phones.
Thks Eric for the write-up.
Looks good
Please add to new phones as soon as you can, so we can easily compare. The included LTE bands and dual-SIM look like a winner for travelers.
Re: No support for Sprint
Isn't Sprint's primary band 25? Don't they use 1900 MHz in most places? I don't know but I'm curious too. Pretty stoked that the unlocked L6 has CDMA access at all.
Sent my S8+ back to Samsung today
Wanted to leave the Apple ecosystem. Pre ordered the S8+ as my first Android device. Wanted to love it and get rid of my bland boring iPhone. Couldn't do it.
The phone is built beautifully, but ended up hating the curved screen. Some apps would have text on the curved part of the screen that was almost illegible due to the curve. Some apps would have menus in the top left or right of the screen that i had ...
Re: Penetration is the key!
Agreed. However TMO has a lovely LTE roaming agreement w/ a local carrier that makes the waiting less painful. It would just be nice to be able to activate a phone here, instead of having to travel down south to do so.
Additionally - VZW was able to get a network up/running in Alaska really quickly - they launched here in 2013! And remember, ~ 1/2 the year you can't do any installations of any sort because the ...
Penetration is the key!
This low frequency will travel much further that the 2.4 Ghz and even the 800 Mhz. They shouldn't need as many antennas to cover similar areas as other carriers which means quicker deployments. At least I think I have that right. What an excellent move for T-Mobile. Plus look at all that lovely pimk in Alaska, where T-Mo has ZERO (native) coverage.
Cool features not available in US market?
No Battery Care and no fingerprint sensor for phones sold in USA market? Makes no sense. Looks like a really good phone LTE-band wise (LTE (Bands 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,12,13,17,19,20,26,28,29,32,38,3 9,40,41) and the crazy megapixeled cameras. Also don't see any documentation about it being a dual-SIM phone - even though it says so on their website, nothing in their White Paper or User Manual confirms. Typical Sony confusion.
Good for Samsung
It's distressing to me how Apple just sat on their hands with regards to voice assistance, and let Google and (supposedly) Samsung just zoom by them in this arena. Alexa is so much eaier to use and better sounding than Siri - it gives real answers and not just links to websites - and Bixby appears to be deep-rooted in the OS as well as making the SDK available to developers before launch. To me, Apple really dropped the ...
Great write up Eric - one addition
The Oneplus 3T can accept dual SIMs. That is a HUGE plus for a world traveler such as me. One tray holds my world roamer SIM (Truphone or Piranha) and leaves the other for any in-country SIMs that might be a better value. Or you can use two SIMs with different preferred roaming lists - like Piranha and Truphone. Anyway it's a convenience I would not want to travel without.
Fool me seven times
Shame on me
Hmmm
I have several VoIP apps that do this now.
Haha
AT&T is unhappy about throttling? That is called IRONY
WOW an Alaska story!
Local news for me!
In any event ACS is about to be past tense. Their "broadband business" consists of lousy residential DSL service while GCI is planning Gigabit (cable) Internet later this year. I believe ACS is still the LEC in the big cities (for POTS) but who still has that?
Re: who in there right mind???
adams10462 said:
I have no problems.. maybe you need glasses..
The irony here is so beautiful. :lol:
Many car makers
expressly suggest you do not plug anything or drive around with things in your OBD port.
Re: VoIP
Additionally many WiFi operators block VoIP traffic on their access points.
Re: T-Mobile's LTE spreading like a cancer...
what's a "jap"?
How does one join this class action?
They did this to me in 2009 when i was on vacation using data via their AT&T Navigator. Resulted in a $900 phone bill. I paid it and discontinued my service the same day.
Re: Quality
Hey Rich, hope you've been well. So isn't this just really a voice codec change/channel allotment difference? Maybe the equivalent of GSM's EFR codec?
A match made in heaven
Linksquared interferes with GPS, and AT&T interferes with productivity.
Re: NTP - a "patent-holding" company without a website...
by the way - the patents *do* expire in 2012. Good.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ntp-face s-uphill-battle-against-rich-foes-2010-07-09
NTP - a "patent-holding" company without a website...
:roll:
Petrocom used to make a fortune off this
Petrocom used to make money hand over fist, charging up to $5/min. roaming over their TDMA-overlaid-to-GSM network.
Read between the lines
"major effort to improve the quality of its network" = changing the voice codec from AMR to Half Rate. Less compression = better sounding voice. But that's not an upgrade. Just conjecture.
"whatever assets remain at Zer01"?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Re: is this good or bad?
To me, roaming is not the cash cow it once was. In my opinion, there is still encouragement to build a network because it seems to me that carriers make more money off the regular monthly postpaid customers than they do off an occasional roamer. Obviously if most of your minutes are spent roaming the home carrier has the right to shut your service off.
Seems to be Quad Band + Tri Band WCDMA
The Nokia USA website seems to indicate the phone is Quad-band GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 + WCDMA 850/1900/2100 OR WCDMA 900/1900/2100.
http://www.nokiausa.com/find-products/pho nes/nokia-e72/specifications
That would make the specs on the Info page incorrect.
But what do I know? Nokia not having great days here lately. You should see all the complaints about the E72 in Nokia's forum...
http://discussions.nokiausa.com/d iscussions/board?board.id=communicators
Re: Differences between E71 and E72?
Looks like the E72 has 5 MP camera and the 4 special buttons (mail, calendar, etc.) on the front are a little different. If anyone gets this phone please let us know if Symbian S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2 comes with threaded messaging.
Differences between E71 and E72?
They look the same to me. E71 is nice phone but no threaded SMS - ugh! Hopefully it's on the E72.
This has been the law in Alaska for some time now ...
... and absolutely no one seems to pay attention to it. At every stop light most people are looking down into their laps. I assume they're not asleep...
Projector sold separately
http://www.lge.com/us/mobile-phones/LG-GW820. jsp
Re: add more 1900 umts instead!!
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Ugh.
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