The problem is, I highly doubt that's the limit AT&T is bumping up against. Seems to be more of a case of not enough towers, or not enough bandwidth available to the towers themselves...
Chrome is nice, a bit under featured, poor ad blocking (although it has gotten better its still slower and not as good as firefox.
In general, Firefox is faster than chrome all around. Even on older hardware, Firefox scrolls better than Chrome.
Same here. On older hardware, Chrome is incredibly slow (even with Flashblock + ABP) compared to Firefox... not to mention it uses exactly as much RAM (lower RAM usage was the main reason I was contemplating switching away from Firefox). So slow, in fact, that a lot of Flash video stutters in Chrome while being smooth in Firefox...
Now imagine a world where everyone has a smartphone with push E-Mail (which is actually the case in my group of friends, because I just never stop nagging:P)... then E-Mail is:
-Fast (instant delivery) -Free -As long or short as you want it to be -Deliverable to anyone with an E-mail account, which is free -Just as easy to set up as buying a prepaid card and a phone, and much easier than getting a phone on contract -Complete spam protection (I get about 1 spam e-mail a month, and that's distributed over 5 different accounts)
Add your list of e-mail pros to that...
Now obviously this only applies if the people you message have smartphones and push E-Mail... but hey, in the age of $100 Android devices (and that's outright, not on contract), that's a pretty sad excuse. Five months of "Unlimited messaging" will cover that pretty quickly;)
Android phones will also be moving away from cell phone companies with their own VOIP, like Google Voice or Skype. Google is against carriers in general (nexus) and wants to cut out the need for "minutes". Soon everything will be free VOIP and we'll only pay carriers for bigger data plans. Android is leading this idea, but Apple just isn't moving that way. Anyone agree or have anything to add?
Sure looks that way - I hardly ever pay for "minutes" any more, mainly because of Sipdroid and the fact that a certain mobile service provider here in Germany (O2) allows VoIP on their network. I gladly shell out cash for the biggest internet package they have available, because I can use it in any way I want (OK, P2P is contractually forbidden, but what am I going to download via illegal P2P that's smaller than 5GB?:P)...
In addition, most ISPs here include free calls to domestic landlines, including SIP access, with their DSL packages. The combination of that with SIP on 3G/WiFi handsets is just awesome... you know what's funny? SIP with the GSM codec over 3G sounds FAR better than regular mobile phone calls via GSM or 3G.:)
But you know what? I wish people would stop sending SMS and move to E-Mail instead. SMS bothers me a lot more than paying for minutes...
You should read the articles linked in the summary - quite an entertaining read. Chris Russo comes off looking like the victim, and the dating site (which appears to be the same to dating sites as blogs are to serious journalism) founder comes off looking like a complete jackass.
Not to mention buses and rails don't run very far past midnight unless you're in a very big city. Even here in Germany, in a city with 300k inhabitants (I know, tiny compared to an actual city in any other country [I say this having spent the majority of my life in Houston TX, Bangkok and Jakarta], but pretty much medium-large here), buses don't run past midnight. Yeah, there are night buses, but they only come like once every two hours... and as soon as you're out of the city limits, you're pretty much SOL without a car. No buses at all past 11PM (8 or 9PM Sundays!) or so...
Trains usually run regularly til about 3 AM around here, but that often means a 30-60 minute walk to the train station, and, depending on where you live, another 30-60 minute walk home.
Hell, even getting a taxi on Friday or Saturday night is absolutely horrid... it's not like in a real city (Oh how I miss Bangkok in this regard), where you can just step off the curb and flag down one of the 20 taxis that drive by every ten seconds. You actually have to call the dispatch and ask them to send a taxi to your address... and on Friday and Saturday night, they're usually all busy, meaning they take ages to arrive or don't arive at all.
I dunno, isn't the entire underlying engine vulnerable? Browsers like Dolphin don't implement their own engine, but rather just wrap around the existing browser...
Be happy. I went through that same crap with the Motorola Milestone before getting my Desire. Six months of misery... makes freedom taste all the sweeter;)
Why should Android users have to pay for Google's mistakes? I'm thinking more along the lines of:
1. Google releases code that's not theirs 2. Google profits massively from Android, users profit massively from Android 3. Google gets caught, pays bunch of fines and whatever it needs to to be allowed to continue use of the code 4. Users continue to profit, Google's profits from Android are diminished just a little bit 5. The whole issue is forgotten and life goes on as Android users continue to profit
I'm gonna go hug my CyanogenMod7 powered Desire now...:)
* True Multi-Touch
* 2GB+ Internal Storage
* WSVGA (1024x600) or higher resolution
* 1024MB or higher RAM, 800 or higher available for apps
* Decent speaker (speakerphone!)
* Front camera
* Camera LED
* D-Pad on front
* CyanogenMod Support
* 1600mAh+ battery
* Hardware keyboard w/ D-Pad
* Notification LED
* Wireless charging (Inductive or similar)
I'd pay well over $1000 for a device that meets those specs, and I probably wouldn't mind it being close to an inch thick to accomodate it all:)
Screen: AMOLED uses too much power displaying bright backgrounds and the pentile matrix makes text horrible to look at, the Nexus/Galaxy only have about 330mb of RAM available (Desire & Nexus1 have ~415 and the desire HD has 600+), the processor will be outclassed by, well, every high end handset coming out this year...
Unfortunately the original Youtube comment was much more in keeping with Motorola's actual policies... the apology is weak, hinting at the possibility of there some day being a development platform. Too late for the thousands of locked down pieces of crap they've sold already.
Hell, when the Droid X was hot in the blog-press-o-sphere, I spent hours commenting, telling people not to buy the damned thing... nearly all of the people commenting said they didn't care, and that they would buy anyway. Now, as I read the blog posts about this little fiasco, I'm seeing 70%+ of the comments saying "The Droid X is my first and last Motorola phone!"... why won't people learn from other people's mistakes?:(
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The problem is, I highly doubt that's the limit AT&T is bumping up against. Seems to be more of a case of not enough towers, or not enough bandwidth available to the towers themselves...
Turn D2 on, then off, then on again. Only way I got it to work... D2 off doesn't work at all any more.
To be fair, D2 has been improved massively.
I switched back to Firefox from Chrome.
Chrome is nice, a bit under featured, poor ad blocking (although it has gotten better its still slower and not as good as firefox.
In general, Firefox is faster than chrome all around. Even on older hardware, Firefox scrolls better than Chrome.
Same here. On older hardware, Chrome is incredibly slow (even with Flashblock + ABP) compared to Firefox... not to mention it uses exactly as much RAM (lower RAM usage was the main reason I was contemplating switching away from Firefox). So slow, in fact, that a lot of Flash video stutters in Chrome while being smooth in Firefox...
Any ideas why?
Wouldn't that make Microsoft even stupider for copying Google's search results?
Now imagine a world where everyone has a smartphone with push E-Mail (which is actually the case in my group of friends, because I just never stop nagging :P)... then E-Mail is:
-Fast (instant delivery)
-Free
-As long or short as you want it to be
-Deliverable to anyone with an E-mail account, which is free
-Just as easy to set up as buying a prepaid card and a phone, and much easier than getting a phone on contract
-Complete spam protection (I get about 1 spam e-mail a month, and that's distributed over 5 different accounts)
Add your list of e-mail pros to that...
Now obviously this only applies if the people you message have smartphones and push E-Mail... but hey, in the age of $100 Android devices (and that's outright, not on contract), that's a pretty sad excuse. Five months of "Unlimited messaging" will cover that pretty quickly ;)
Android phones will also be moving away from cell phone companies with their own VOIP, like Google Voice or Skype. Google is against carriers in general (nexus) and wants to cut out the need for "minutes". Soon everything will be free VOIP and we'll only pay carriers for bigger data plans. Android is leading this idea, but Apple just isn't moving that way. Anyone agree or have anything to add?
Sure looks that way - I hardly ever pay for "minutes" any more, mainly because of Sipdroid and the fact that a certain mobile service provider here in Germany (O2) allows VoIP on their network. I gladly shell out cash for the biggest internet package they have available, because I can use it in any way I want (OK, P2P is contractually forbidden, but what am I going to download via illegal P2P that's smaller than 5GB? :P)...
In addition, most ISPs here include free calls to domestic landlines, including SIP access, with their DSL packages. The combination of that with SIP on 3G/WiFi handsets is just awesome... you know what's funny? SIP with the GSM codec over 3G sounds FAR better than regular mobile phone calls via GSM or 3G. :)
But you know what? I wish people would stop sending SMS and move to E-Mail instead. SMS bothers me a lot more than paying for minutes...
You should read the articles linked in the summary - quite an entertaining read. Chris Russo comes off looking like the victim, and the dating site (which appears to be the same to dating sites as blogs are to serious journalism) founder comes off looking like a complete jackass.
Not to mention buses and rails don't run very far past midnight unless you're in a very big city. Even here in Germany, in a city with 300k inhabitants (I know, tiny compared to an actual city in any other country [I say this having spent the majority of my life in Houston TX, Bangkok and Jakarta], but pretty much medium-large here), buses don't run past midnight. Yeah, there are night buses, but they only come like once every two hours... and as soon as you're out of the city limits, you're pretty much SOL without a car. No buses at all past 11PM (8 or 9PM Sundays!) or so...
Trains usually run regularly til about 3 AM around here, but that often means a 30-60 minute walk to the train station, and, depending on where you live, another 30-60 minute walk home.
Hell, even getting a taxi on Friday or Saturday night is absolutely horrid... it's not like in a real city (Oh how I miss Bangkok in this regard), where you can just step off the curb and flag down one of the 20 taxis that drive by every ten seconds. You actually have to call the dispatch and ask them to send a taxi to your address... and on Friday and Saturday night, they're usually all busy, meaning they take ages to arrive or don't arive at all.
Heated steering wheel. Only a $1000 extra, but comes with the (mandatory) fingertip drunk-sensor...
Hence "Opera and Firefox should be fine though." ;)
Awesomeness. Which has actually been the case mostly...
Sent from a Desire baked into Gingerbread.
It's inexplicable. This is one area where Google needs to do some serious catching up...
I dunno, isn't the entire underlying engine vulnerable? Browsers like Dolphin don't implement their own engine, but rather just wrap around the existing browser...
Opera and Firefox should be fine though.
A week(end) away from home :p
It's broken here. The threshold sliders, they do nothing!... all I can see are +5 posts. WTF?
Someone from Google stated that Android was profitable a few months ago. At Google, I'm guessing profitable doesn't mean pennies... :)
Be happy. I went through that same crap with the Motorola Milestone before getting my Desire. Six months of misery... makes freedom taste all the sweeter ;)
True, but let's just hope Google throws money at them until they say yes :p
Why should Android users have to pay for Google's mistakes? I'm thinking more along the lines of:
1. Google releases code that's not theirs
2. Google profits massively from Android, users profit massively from Android
3. Google gets caught, pays bunch of fines and whatever it needs to to be allowed to continue use of the code
4. Users continue to profit, Google's profits from Android are diminished just a little bit
5. The whole issue is forgotten and life goes on as Android users continue to profit
I'm gonna go hug my CyanogenMod7 powered Desire now... :)
Just saying, there are far more reasons to root Android devices than just SuperUser access...
Heheh, think bigger!
* True Multi-Touch
* 2GB+ Internal Storage
* WSVGA (1024x600) or higher resolution
* 1024MB or higher RAM, 800 or higher available for apps
* Decent speaker (speakerphone!)
* Front camera
* Camera LED
* D-Pad on front
* CyanogenMod Support
* 1600mAh+ battery
* Hardware keyboard w/ D-Pad
* Notification LED
* Wireless charging (Inductive or similar)
I'd pay well over $1000 for a device that meets those specs, and I probably wouldn't mind it being close to an inch thick to accomodate it all :)
No more pentile? Sounds usable :)... might even be in the running again for my next phone ;)
Speaker, yes, the rest, bull.
Screen: AMOLED uses too much power displaying bright backgrounds and the pentile matrix makes text horrible to look at, the Nexus/Galaxy only have about 330mb of RAM available (Desire & Nexus1 have ~415 and the desire HD has 600+), the processor will be outclassed by, well, every high end handset coming out this year...
May be dev friendly, but the specs sorta suck. It's a Galaxy S with a few refinements...
Now the Moto Atrix, THAT is what the Nexus S should have been - dual core, a gig of RAM, higher res, INNOVATION with the docks.
Too bad I'm never buying Motorola again... I just hope HTC follows suit (in addition to using BETTER SPEAKERS) soon.
Unfortunately the original Youtube comment was much more in keeping with Motorola's actual policies... the apology is weak, hinting at the possibility of there some day being a development platform. Too late for the thousands of locked down pieces of crap they've sold already.
Hell, when the Droid X was hot in the blog-press-o-sphere, I spent hours commenting, telling people not to buy the damned thing... nearly all of the people commenting said they didn't care, and that they would buy anyway. Now, as I read the blog posts about this little fiasco, I'm seeing 70%+ of the comments saying "The Droid X is my first and last Motorola phone!"... why won't people learn from other people's mistakes? :(