Yes in ultra power saving mode it can send and receive calls and SMS, it can even send and receive email and browse the web, though your actual battery life will greatly depend on how much you use it. What it doesn't do is color, background data, LTE, or allow any background applications.
They've had to put up massively larger number of towers to keep the cell size down enough to provide good bandwidth per user and they have to provide WAY more bandwidth per site which requires fiber upgrades and expensive network equipment to provide.
good voice quality HD Voice absolutely blows away GSM AMR or any of those generation of codecs, heck it's better than POTS (G711 ulaw) by a large margin
7 day battery life My Note 4 can go 21 days if I put it into ultra power saving mode
rugged / waterproof. Droid Turbo 2, waterproof, shatterproof, oh and 48 hour regular use battery to go with your above point.
The fact is if you want something with specific characteristics you can probably get it so long as you don't require flagship specs.
Actually AT&T turned off the last AMPS networks on February 18, 2008, the reason is that TDMA (Digital AMPS) reused the AMPS network but broke each AMPS channel into 3 TDMA carriers. Though it was about 10 years ago when the fee for staying on TDMA went from $5 to $10 a month which was enough to push me off of Cingular and onto T-Mobile prepaid.
Other good ones on windows are terraterm and hyperterm Pro, I've run into situations where each was the only thing to correctly emulate a terminal for certain remote hosts.
Well, we still have to figure out a good way to get rid of coal fired power plants, that task alone is probably going to take a good chunk of those 80M people. If you had 80M people building windmills and solar-thermal plants you could get rid of coal worldwide in less than a generation, maybe even produce enough excess power to have everyone use a BEV. That would be a significant good to everyone on the planet and the primary reason we don't do it today is cost, but cost is just a way of measuring labor so if you have a bunch of available labor the cost should be reduced.
The A9 isn't that far ahead unless you want to focus only on single core metrics. The only metric with a significant margin is multicore FP and nobody really cares because you'll pass any tough FP off to the GPU and the 810 is already about 75% as fast as the A9 in Manhattan offscreen so doubling GPU performance would give it a significant lead (but that's not a given since I haven't seen anything about the GPU being double). This really shouldn't be a surprise since they're similar core architectures on the same process node with nearly the same transistor budget so performance shouldn't be drastically different.
A little over 10 years ago I did a project for IBM where we took a PS/2 running OS/2 and a Netvista running Windows and replaced the HDD and doubled the ram in the Netvista and the new image ran OS/2 in MS VirtualPC 1.0. The client was a large mortgage originator and the cost to build and certify a replacement package in all 50 states was going to be into the 8 figure range so continuing to run OS/2 was by far the cheaper solution.
Yup, the financial services wing has been under-performing the manufacturing part of the company since 2007 and because of GE's size they were going to be labelled a systemic risk by the Fed which would have brought a huge amount of auditing and capital requirements that would have further dragged on the company.
Republic Wireless also does the credit thing, they're both powered by bandwidth.com but Republic uses WiFi/Sprint/Verizon vs Fi which uses WiFi/Sprint/T-Mobile and Fi requires a Nexus device vs Republic which requires one of their customized Moto devices.
The 3 year tech demonstration was supposed to aid in the control of the airspace around DC as reported by the Washington Post, it's supposed capabilities include detecting small radar cross section craft like cruise missiles and also manned and unmanned craft (ie large drones) so if they didn't identify something several times the size of a cruise missile in the DC airspace I'd call that a fail.
Billions spent and the stupid thing couldn't detect a man in an ultralight headed straight for the Capital, we need to cut our losses and scrap the thing already.
No, this is an attempt to push off the negative growth and low margin consumer business from the big money enterprise stuff. They sent the very profitable printer division with the consumer end because it was really the only way to make that group not immediately get destroyed in the market. Much like with phones nobody but Apple really makes any money in PC's.
Funny enough there IS a company that makes a (nearly) silent generator, Bloom Energy. Unfortunately they're several times the cost of a traditional standby generator ($7-8/W) so they really only make sense where electricity is expensive and there are incentives (California).
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Yes in ultra power saving mode it can send and receive calls and SMS, it can even send and receive email and browse the web, though your actual battery life will greatly depend on how much you use it. What it doesn't do is color, background data, LTE, or allow any background applications.
It's more useful than a cellphone was 10 years ago!
They've had to put up massively larger number of towers to keep the cell size down enough to provide good bandwidth per user and they have to provide WAY more bandwidth per site which requires fiber upgrades and expensive network equipment to provide.
good voice quality
HD Voice absolutely blows away GSM AMR or any of those generation of codecs, heck it's better than POTS (G711 ulaw) by a large margin
7 day battery life
My Note 4 can go 21 days if I put it into ultra power saving mode
rugged / waterproof.
Droid Turbo 2, waterproof, shatterproof, oh and 48 hour regular use battery to go with your above point.
The fact is if you want something with specific characteristics you can probably get it so long as you don't require flagship specs.
Actually AT&T turned off the last AMPS networks on February 18, 2008, the reason is that TDMA (Digital AMPS) reused the AMPS network but broke each AMPS channel into 3 TDMA carriers. Though it was about 10 years ago when the fee for staying on TDMA went from $5 to $10 a month which was enough to push me off of Cingular and onto T-Mobile prepaid.
Retail pricing for HDD's is already below $.03/GB, 8TB drives can be had for $230.
Use Google authenticator with openvpn at home, keyloggers won't help them.
Or copy it to the untrusted store.
Or copy it into the untrusted store.
Other good ones on windows are terraterm and hyperterm Pro, I've run into situations where each was the only thing to correctly emulate a terminal for certain remote hosts.
Well, we still have to figure out a good way to get rid of coal fired power plants, that task alone is probably going to take a good chunk of those 80M people. If you had 80M people building windmills and solar-thermal plants you could get rid of coal worldwide in less than a generation, maybe even produce enough excess power to have everyone use a BEV. That would be a significant good to everyone on the planet and the primary reason we don't do it today is cost, but cost is just a way of measuring labor so if you have a bunch of available labor the cost should be reduced.
There's plenty of stuff compiled for an older version of glibc that won't run.
I wonder if Microsoft had some say in what was installed on them, to reduce the amount of Lenovo garbage compared to being sourced elsewhere.
Yeah, those were Microsoft Signature Edition laptops, no crapware allowed.
The A9 isn't that far ahead unless you want to focus only on single core metrics. The only metric with a significant margin is multicore FP and nobody really cares because you'll pass any tough FP off to the GPU and the 810 is already about 75% as fast as the A9 in Manhattan offscreen so doubling GPU performance would give it a significant lead (but that's not a given since I haven't seen anything about the GPU being double). This really shouldn't be a surprise since they're similar core architectures on the same process node with nearly the same transistor budget so performance shouldn't be drastically different.
Meh, they matched the GPU performance of GT2 for twice the $, now let's compare it to gt4 with 128MB of eDRAM...
Stock AOSP kernel versions
4.4 Kit Kat 3.10
5.x Lollipop 3.16.1
6.0 Marshmallow 3.18.10
So I'd guess 820 devices will be at least 3.18.10 =)
A little over 10 years ago I did a project for IBM where we took a PS/2 running OS/2 and a Netvista running Windows and replaced the HDD and doubled the ram in the Netvista and the new image ran OS/2 in MS VirtualPC 1.0. The client was a large mortgage originator and the cost to build and certify a replacement package in all 50 states was going to be into the 8 figure range so continuing to run OS/2 was by far the cheaper solution.
Yup, the financial services wing has been under-performing the manufacturing part of the company since 2007 and because of GE's size they were going to be labelled a systemic risk by the Fed which would have brought a huge amount of auditing and capital requirements that would have further dragged on the company.
Republic Wireless also does the credit thing, they're both powered by bandwidth.com but Republic uses WiFi/Sprint/Verizon vs Fi which uses WiFi/Sprint/T-Mobile and Fi requires a Nexus device vs Republic which requires one of their customized Moto devices.
The 3 year tech demonstration was supposed to aid in the control of the airspace around DC as reported by the Washington Post, it's supposed capabilities include detecting small radar cross section craft like cruise missiles and also manned and unmanned craft (ie large drones) so if they didn't identify something several times the size of a cruise missile in the DC airspace I'd call that a fail.
Billions spent and the stupid thing couldn't detect a man in an ultralight headed straight for the Capital, we need to cut our losses and scrap the thing already.
And $14.10 for a pharmacy technician which is probably the person who actually fills out the paperwork 99% of the time.
No, this is an attempt to push off the negative growth and low margin consumer business from the big money enterprise stuff. They sent the very profitable printer division with the consumer end because it was really the only way to make that group not immediately get destroyed in the market. Much like with phones nobody but Apple really makes any money in PC's.
Yeah it's two years, you said you were waiting for a bubble burst which doesn't seem all that likely to happen in the next 2 years.
Funny enough there IS a company that makes a (nearly) silent generator, Bloom Energy. Unfortunately they're several times the cost of a traditional standby generator ($7-8/W) so they really only make sense where electricity is expensive and there are incentives (California).