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VOIP Cell Phones Coming Soon
prostoalex writes "Associated Press reports on the latest cell phones with WiFi support demoed at this year's CTIA Wireless 2006 conference. New models fall back to WiFi hotspot when the user is at home, at work, or cellular signal gets too weak. Biggest surprise? The cell phone conversation is not dropped when the switch between cellular network and WiFi hotspot takes place."
Wow. Incredibly mature response on your part. And just to let you know, I used to work for an international telecom company. About half of our development team were from Russia, so apparently I have as much anecdotal evidence as you do. And from what they told me, it wasn't anywhere nearly as bad as the US's jingoistic public school education would have people believe. It wasn't that great, but it also wasn't all that bad. Which interestingly enough, is very much my take on capitalism. It has many great aspects to it, but it also has a handful of negatives to go along with those. My point--every economic system has it's pluses and minuses. Just because you were raised under one doesn't instantly make it the best and all the others are completely evil and wrong, as many of your neighbors and cohorts would have you believe.
This guy's the limit!
As someone who HAS moved to China, and has lived in Beijing for one year, I can tell you first hand that everything is customer oriented and personal here. You never have to talk to a machine on the phone, the person behind the counter ignores everyone else until you are dealt with, everything is anonymous (gas, electric, phone, etc through smart cards), you can negotiate prices, and storefronts are generally realistic embodiments of customer needs, i.e. a few simple counters with products, instead of disneylands designed by corporate offices. You usually never have to deal with an anonymous beaurocracy that treats you like a number when you need service. It's quite amazing and strange that things in the supposedly free USA are quite the opposite.
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
Excuse me? I merely asked a very legitimate question of him. Interesting that both he and you accuse me of very much unfounded things (projection as giorgiofrs put it), yet there is no basis for any of that in my posts. And I'll let you have the final word on this, since I really don't care one way or the other for final words.
This guy's the limit!