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Sprint PCS Launches 3G Network

Posted by michael on from the first-post dept.

pdp1144 writes "Sprint PCS launched the first nationwide 3G wireless network today. Code named Vision it will allow wireless data speeds starting at an average of 50 to 70 kbps." The question is, how much? If the data plan is such that you can use up a month's allotment in five minutes of downloading... Simson Garfinkel had a good column on this recently.

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  1. Woot! by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 2, Funny

    At last I can watch porn wherever I go!

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    Je t'aime Stéphanie
  2. Bullsh!t... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 2, Funny
    Listen... when I can get my Laptop (Windoze OR MacOS X OR Linux) and sit in a Starbucks and browse at cable modem speed for $40/month, call me. Until then, you can keep your crappy prices and crappy content.

    ***Screenshot from a Sprint 3G Cellphone***

    (1) Weather

    (2) News

    (3) Pr0n

    (3) Sport Scores

    (4) Get AOL Now!

    *********

    Is THAT the reason I want wireless web at any speed on my cellphone?

  3. Doesn't anyone use a phone as a phone anymore? by Winterblink · · Score: 2, Funny
    I mean the technology's really nifty and all, but for crying out loud who the hell needs to be able to do all that crap on a two inch screen? Coolness factor aside, what's the point? Wouldn't it be amazing if you're stuck on a mountainside after your car wrecked, and your only communications with the outside world is a phone that died after an hour or two because it was kept busy updating you with sports scores.

    Aaicheewahwah...

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    "I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
    -Hoban Washburn
    1. Re:Doesn't anyone use a phone as a phone anymore? by efatapo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Personally I think the remaining 99.5% of the time this is going to be used is on the executive corporate toilet - anyone for next-gen Snake between the stalls? ;)

      My snake is staying in my stall thank you very much! :)

      Is it just me or was that the worst game choice you could've made in this example.

  4. Re:Nothing really new year but, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here in Arkansas the CB radio works jes' fine and that's the way we like it, 10-4 good buddy!!

  5. Re:AT&T rolled this out 2.5 weeks ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought it was called MLife.

    These companies really need to get new advertising people. When the Mlife commercials started they didn't say what it was. They advertised it as if it could be anything from a vaginal yeast infection treatment to a new brand of beer. I was utterly stunned when they said it had anything to do with wireless phones. "Surely they must be wrong... it's an allergy medication isn't it?"

  6. What about the phones...? by sammy.lost-angel.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    So when can I buy the fancy new phones? And will they have bluetooth? Or better yet, can I get the T68i for sprint 3G and stand out infront of the Washington Monument and ask people from Texas to take my picture? :)

  7. Cellular Response by Moridineas · · Score: 4, Funny

    I really enjoy how invariably the posts in each slashdot article about cellphones are split 50/50 between:

    a) "I HATE CELLPHONES THEY ARE THE BANE OF ALL THINGS GOOD AND SHOULD BE OUTLAWED, GREAT THIS JUST MEANS THAT EVEN MORE PEOPLE WILL BE YAPPING IN PUBLIC AND AT MOVIES" (seen here)

    and

    b) "FINALLY CRAPPY OLD AMERICA IS CATCHING UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD, FINALLY, WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, WE'RE STILL BETTER, TAKE THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM, CELL PHONES FOREVER!!" (seen here)

  8. i'm a product of my upbringing by Schwamm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simson Garfinkel had a good column on this recently.

    read as

    Simon and Garfunkel had a good column on this recently.

    which made me wonder
    1) when did they start actually working together again, and
    2) what the hell do they care about this stuff?

    stupid brain.