I still have my 1995 era OS/2 box I built. Some of the components go back to 93 or so. I paid an obscene amount in 1996 for the 2.1GB Micropolis SCSI drive in there. Hands down the best component in the thing is the STB 4Com 4 port serial card. With it's myriad of jumpers to set I was amazed it worked right the first time...
I use flac because my Squeezebox supports it. So does XMMS. So does Winamp. Nero and Roxio support burning audio CDs from it (with appropriate version/plugin).
I'd been down the mp3/Ogg Vorbos road but found myself transcoding from one lossy format to another which had to stop. With flac I have the lossless copy to transcode from. I rip on Windows using dBPowerAmp and with AccurateRip I feel that when it says it's accurate, it is. I've seen people start to rate dBPowerAmp as good or better than Exact Audio Copy.
My wife has an iPod and I finally have her ripping to Apple Lossless. I figure Apple Lossless is better than lossy AAC, even if it is proprietary.
Most people won't spend $400+ on a phone because they see the "free" phone and take that...with a 2 year contract. Americans in general want something for nothing, and we really believe that the free phone you get from the cellco must be so darn cheap to make that they can give it away. WRONG. The cellco give you, the consumer, a price subsidy if you sign that nice 2 year (or more I've seen) contract. Ever seen the ETF on a contract? I'll bet that price generally covers most of the cost of the phone you just got for "free." The cellco just takes the money out of you over your contract period, or all at once if you break your contract. AFAIK ETF charges are not prorated for contract length and if you break your contract late into your contract period your now former cellco just made some extra money from you.
I've been out of contract for almost 4 years now, and the last 4 handsets that have been in my household didn't come from my cellco. I buy unlocked because they aren't crippled with carrier specific firmware or reduced functionality Bluetooth. Do I pay more for my phones? You bet. Is it worth it to me? Absolutely. Is it worth it to the common Joe? No. They'll take the "free" phone.
They aren't all two year contracts...Centennial Wireless is pushing 30 month contracts. Screw that! I've been contract free since 2003 and it feels sooooooooo good!
I'd really love to see you make a phone from NExtel work with Verizon. Can't be done.
There are 5 digital "standards" in use in the US: TDMA (AT&T, Cingular), CDMA (Verizon, SPrint), GSM (T-Mobile, Cingular, AT&T), IDEN (Nextel), and UMTS (AT&T, Cingular). While some phones can use two different technologies, NONE can do them all.
That may be so, but I've yet to get Powerball for Series60 to run under Windows XP. The phone could send the file around, but any non-S60 device would be the end of the line.
Well put. Granted I leave my BT on all of the time, but my phone is set to be hidden from others (and my Siemens SX1 doesn't seem to be vulnerable to bluesnarfing). I only leave it on because I don't always know when i want to use my BT headset or send something to the phone from the PC. In the case of the PC I don't always want to get up and get the phone to turn BT on. If I was going to get it, I would just plug it into the USB cable.
S60 makes it much harder than Windows to install a malicious application. That's a very good feature in this age of viruses and worms.
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My N8 says Made in Finland, my wife's N8 says Made in China.
I feel good about 50% of our phones.
Available in select markets in October for about $710 according to Phonescoop. I'm sure that's an unsubsidized price.
I still have my 1995 era OS/2 box I built. Some of the components go back to 93 or so. I paid an obscene amount in 1996 for the 2.1GB Micropolis SCSI drive in there. Hands down the best component in the thing is the STB 4Com 4 port serial card. With it's myriad of jumpers to set I was amazed it worked right the first time...
I use flac because my Squeezebox supports it. So does XMMS. So does Winamp. Nero and Roxio support burning audio CDs from it (with appropriate version/plugin).
I'd been down the mp3/Ogg Vorbos road but found myself transcoding from one lossy format to another which had to stop. With flac I have the lossless copy to transcode from. I rip on Windows using dBPowerAmp and with AccurateRip I feel that when it says it's accurate, it is. I've seen people start to rate dBPowerAmp as good or better than Exact Audio Copy.
My wife has an iPod and I finally have her ripping to Apple Lossless. I figure Apple Lossless is better than lossy AAC, even if it is proprietary.
Most people won't spend $400+ on a phone because they see the "free" phone and take that...with a 2 year contract. Americans in general want something for nothing, and we really believe that the free phone you get from the cellco must be so darn cheap to make that they can give it away. WRONG. The cellco give you, the consumer, a price subsidy if you sign that nice 2 year (or more I've seen) contract. Ever seen the ETF on a contract? I'll bet that price generally covers most of the cost of the phone you just got for "free." The cellco just takes the money out of you over your contract period, or all at once if you break your contract. AFAIK ETF charges are not prorated for contract length and if you break your contract late into your contract period your now former cellco just made some extra money from you.
I've been out of contract for almost 4 years now, and the last 4 handsets that have been in my household didn't come from my cellco. I buy unlocked because they aren't crippled with carrier specific firmware or reduced functionality Bluetooth. Do I pay more for my phones? You bet. Is it worth it to me? Absolutely. Is it worth it to the common Joe? No. They'll take the "free" phone.
They aren't all two year contracts...Centennial Wireless is pushing 30 month contracts. Screw that! I've been contract free since 2003 and it feels sooooooooo good!
Or as Autosport has revealed McLaren Electronic Systems.
Even though I'm a McLaren fan, it worries me to see Microsoft and McLaren reliability put together...
I'd really love to see you make a phone from NExtel work with Verizon. Can't be done.
There are 5 digital "standards" in use in the US: TDMA (AT&T, Cingular), CDMA (Verizon, SPrint), GSM (T-Mobile, Cingular, AT&T), IDEN (Nextel), and UMTS (AT&T, Cingular). While some phones can use two different technologies, NONE can do them all.
And ironically Jamster only works with the GSM carriers.
That may be so, but I've yet to get Powerball for Series60 to run under Windows XP. The phone could send the file around, but any non-S60 device would be the end of the line.
Well put. Granted I leave my BT on all of the time, but my phone is set to be hidden from others (and my Siemens SX1 doesn't seem to be vulnerable to bluesnarfing). I only leave it on because I don't always know when i want to use my BT headset or send something to the phone from the PC. In the case of the PC I don't always want to get up and get the phone to turn BT on. If I was going to get it, I would just plug it into the USB cable.
S60 makes it much harder than Windows to install a malicious application. That's a very good feature in this age of viruses and worms.
The site that does this is cool, but they got the production date of my SX1 wrong.
Manufacturer Siemens
Model type Siemens SX1(the best)
Reference DE
Production date 28-01-2004
Phone version N/A
Phone GSM phase GSM Phase 2 or higher
But it did make note that it's the best!
Act like they are jammed.
I think that happened near Cheyenne. I remember seeing that in Trains many years ago...