I stayed one in Rittenhouse in Philly, well almost three years ago.
They had a console by the bed where you could control lights, tv, temp etc.
The best featue is you could set the temp of the shower and it would turn itself on when it got to the promper temp it would notify you.
It also had movies on demand. So my girlfriend and I decided to watch a video on demand. The movie Barcelona. She had never seen it. I told her about it. I got in the shower after the movie started, or was supposed to start.
I come out of the shower and she is seated on the bed with a funny look. And this is a girl who spent ten years working in Turkey and various other countries. Unshakeable.
The automated system had decided to lock on some weird shemale porn flick that was in a loop.
She figured it was glitched, and it wasn't me.
True story...
I thought the automated room would be romantic.
The next day they fixed it and gave us a free night.
True story. Nothing like shem porn to be a mood killer.
You hit the nail on the head. As a now 35 year old computer geek.(oops gotta change the sig). I will agree that the most I ever learned from computers were either obsolote or when they were in the early stages.
Apple//, I had to make my own modem cable, and learn assembly. I was not their for the games(well wavy navy was the bomb) But I loved bbs's, that is why I can still remember most of the hayes command set by heart.
My PC XT, where I learned about jumpers, installing hard drives, co processors, and my hearing was trained to listen to a hard drive killing itself. Also, on a side note, hard drives would last 5-10 years.
DEC - Yep, the command line, unix, playing adventure games.
These all gave me learned skills which I used to today. And the curiosity to make me keep learning.
OSX users laud their OX, and it is a great OS, but as having had to support mac users, they generally are less savvy on the whole than PC users, windows are linux. I guess I remember when the mac, and the apple in general was a very hardware and software closed endgame, and snooty as well. Still is.
They want these kids to learn, to be curious. And when you do not have it all dropped in your lap, you can make wonderous things happen with the least amount of hardware.
Even people who got their first computer ten years ago, have had it easy. Hell, I got read hat 4.2 installed and up and running on a dsl line with minimal effort.
I think it will allow these people to develop skills that we are losing in the industry. Innovate with what you have, not with horsepower to spare, and cycles to burn.
This comes from a guy who stil has working an Apple//c(corvus hard drive), xt 1088(with a worm drive), a Commodore 128, two amd boxes running linux, an XP, 2000, and server 2003, and a mac mini for shits and giggles(I do like os x).
But you know what, all of this has kept me learning.
And in the end, I still yearn for the blinking cursor.
As I always say ad nauseam. I work for the largest wirless provider in the US.
All wirless providers derive a great deal of revenue from Blackberry services. Especially bolt on blackberry data plans.
I am sure Ma Bell has got her big swinging dick out on the government on this one. You think they are going to let it disruot this chunk of their cash flow?
And what about all other providers that provide this service?
Not only the cash flow, but I cannot imagine the day this happens and my desk becomes swamped with escalations with me having to explain to Joe Jr Excutive Online MBA why he is not getting his emails on his shiny device that doubles these days as corporate dick who got the biggest electronic dick competition.
Jeez, not to mention all the soccer moms who have them. And the psuedo techis.
My life ain't looking too good if this happens. But then again I doubt it will
Yo, I am half ass Colombian, pop is from there. And I lived there from age 30-34. I think we should make the rest of the world aware of the saying(dicho) "todo es possible en Colombia" Everything is possible in Colombia.
You can get VHS, DVD, SVCD, CD, Games, etc, all copied. You can go into a legit store and have the choice of paying full price for the real version, or a fraction for the copy, what is the word in Colombia, achiviado?
But the parent poster should have realized, that Colombians due to poverty are pretty astute businessmen. Como Turcos. Make and save a buck while they can.
Colombia has a a chain of shopping centets called San Andresito. These shopping centers have stores which sell products at lower prices without taxes. San Andres is a Colombian Island which is duty free, so these "malls" are tax free.
Where were you pricing this? Some VAR that was trying to rape you?
I mean out of the box for server 2000 pricing last time I checked with a source of mine(3 years ago)(just checked an old email) and had a quote for 16k a cpu. And street price from Microsoft at the time direct was 20k per cpu.
Hell, even the new 2005 is only 24k per proc from MS on their site, and I am sure Tech Data, or some other company could get them two you cheaper. Whoever you were dealing with was charging you double.
So either this is FUD or just a rip off vendor.
Our shop supports MS, Oracle, DB2, and postgres. And you can move freely between any of those from one to the other, no vendor lock in.
Vendor lock in is when you use specific functionality inherent to MSSQl(or db2, oracle, post) so that if you need to move from one to the other, that is the guy who built the databases fault, not the company that supplies it.
As always, I fly a desk for the largest cell carrier in the us.
Nokia does not offer a really good device with PDA like functionality. Mainly because Nokia sticks to making phones that make and take calls. And above all tend to be high quality and last for years and years.
Personal milage may vary. But I would say most Nokia customers are die hard. Nokias phone have an ease of use unlike many others, and a 1999 nokia will function like a 2005 one.
And most people want a phone to make and receive calls. That is it. Treos and PPC phones are a very small margin of our business. Blackberries a bit larger, but I would even to say people buy blackberries these days for cool factor. PDA phones are the mortarboards of the MBA.
Now throw the techie guy, the really techie guy 35 years plus, the network engineer, software gury, unix freak, he wants a simple little phone, cause he has realized that life is more than futzing around with gear when he is not at work.
From the fire lines customers want a simple phone, no bells and whistles. Camera phones, no one hardly uses but once or twice.
Motorola tried the MPX220, can we say recall and retool. We had to replace them with audiovox mobile units, never mpx is a better phone.
Treo 650, most are utter crap. You might have a good one, but I still get one escalation a day, because something just will not work.
Pocket PC phones, the Siemens Sx-66, great phone, bit large, comes unlocked out the box. Very little complaints, we actually farm them out to the really upset 650 customers in place of.
But back to your statement, Nokia has made its mark, and they will always have a large portion of the phone business, and they move slowly, but they do things right because of it.
howardforum.com anything and everything you need to know. Sorted by carrier and phone. You can ask and receive any answer you need there.
And as for unlocking phones. Well go for it, all my have the hidden features enabled, and I work for the largest cell carrier in the US. Did I get the answers from work, nope. Got them from the web.
Here is the issue. The features are generally locked because they are untested, are have no bearing on what service your provider is selling you. Also if you flash firmware, or in general screw some of the software up, and the phone goes tits up, you will not be under warranty anymore.
I spend a fair amount of my time explaining to customers if they flash something to the phone motorola, or nokia did not write, and their phone is no longer working. IT is not a warranty issue, because it is out of spec for the device.
I doube Nokia would post a crack, because when a phone is warrantied through a carrier, it is then warrantied generally back to the manufacturer. So nokia would be shooting itself in the foot.
Cables you can find anywhere on the net, hell best buy in the us sells a kit with cables and software that lets you get into about 99.9% of all phones on the market.
Well here is the axe as you so put it. I compile statistics and collateral on devices I have to support. 50 million customers is a fair sampling of the market I would say.
There are cell phones I would not reccomend to my worst enemy. LG1300, any low end Motorola. Suprisingly enough the Samsungs, though not as feature filled, are workhorses and have rare complaints, very high customer satisfaction. Nokias, well great devices, and a very loyal user base.
The Pocket PC phones work well.
Motorola Mobile Devices, well not so good. MPx220 was recalled, retooled and reissued, the Audiovox beat it hands down.
The 600 and 650 do not share common accessories, so chargers, etc you have to buy over. Caveat emptor on that one.
And you say the Treo forums are not reporting them? Hmmm, because they are buy fanboys? Are because generally support forums are by loyal users, who use the glass half full theory. Nothing wrong with that.
And of course you have the large number of people who just live with the problems.
Sorry, should have said the download of the patch to the pc os approx 30 megs.
And a lot of IT departments handle the updates, but I would say the majority of the users are people off the street and bought them. Real execs have secretaries or assistants at beck and call.
Also you might want to include this link http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo650up dater/sprint_dl.html Which is not who I work for, but the instructions for each carrier are as about as long.
Nothing plug and play about them. Having to update just about all of the supplied software packages as well.
Well I guess this should be take as a grain of salt.
I work for a large US cell carrier. I support devices across the data end, pda side, well everything on our network.
The 650 is the largest hunk of junk that EVER crossed the PDA world. About 1 in 50 work properly.
And the 650 is used mostly by non techies. Realtors, doctors, lawyers. And salesguys, and people who think it is cool to lug it around. Which is fine.
We have to replace them out at an alarming rate. Exchanges through the roof. One multinational manufacture of corporate jets, had to have 5 sent to him in one week. I personally oversaw the case, and each unit. Two screens died, one had the white screen of death, and another would not let itself be unlocked for international use..
Not to mention early models only supporting palm branded blue tooth devices.
And a PDA that needs a 30 meg update download? Try telling this to the exec on the go.
I am operating system agnostic, as well as eqipment. I am 35 years old and been in tech all of my life, and never NEVER has anything made me cringe when an escalation hits my desk, and it is usually a 650.
I wish these reviewers would not use it for a week and then write a review. They need to do a Car and Driver six month review. They would change their tune.
Puto
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Well the phones are there and are being tested in several markets that switch seamlessly, already testing europe, and in some small areas here.
I might happen to work for a large carrier, and the times are a changing.
If you want to keep up on the latest cell tech.
www.gsmworld.com www.phonescoop.com this being the better of the two.
Well I will tell you why. And to preface I will say that the wife and I are getting a TDI Diesel Jetta tp replace her celica, but keeping my 2001 Montero.
In the 1980s american car makers released diesel engines in the us. They were converted gas engines, they leaked, diesel was high, ruined your driveways, would not start on mildly cold days, and sound like sherman tanks. They were a half ass attempt.
My grandfather had a diesel car and truck, my dad kept degreasers in the garage for whenever he parked in the driveway.
Basically they left a bad taste in the consumer mouth.
In europe they kept developing, refining, testing, and developing diesel engines from the ground up. And they are great.
As an experiment we took a recent family trip which ran from Ocala Florida(where my parents live) Jacksonville(where we live) down lo new orleans and then to Houma Louisiana(where I am from from) and we went in the Montero. 23 on highway abdout 19 in city. But we marked off the stations we stopped out to gas up. All but 2 had diesel, so diesel is availible and this week we are getting our TDI, which will become our trip and daily commuter car. The montero will remain, because it is a solid vehicle, and when can haul stuff around when we need too.
"As having been the owner of both a 2004 800mhz G4 iBook and a 2002 800mhz G4 powerbook... I can firmly attest that when used side by side, the 2002 powerbook was far more responsive and "snappier"® than the iBook."
I would be rather appalled to purchase a *new* computer with the same basic specs as my 2 year old computer.
You are correct sir. Well not on the t-mobile part.
However, too hard to tell if Nokia would not be pushed hard by wireless providers to not provide compatibility. Ringtones are a big moneymaker at 2.49 for a smidgen of the song, instead of apples 99 for the entire song.
I advise most customers to get data cable, moto tools, blue tooth dongle, etc so they can use their own music on the phones for ringtones.
As for aac+fairplay(fairplay, another oxmoronic title, like friendly fire) Again, the monetary issue is there. The carriers are not going to want to let Apple control the entire enchilada. S
So the nokias that support planin jane aac are the way to go
Check below link for instructions of dealing with the pesky itunes drm to get your music on your phone.
Ok, so he paid 80 dollaors for a phone with 2 year agreement.
He did not elect for the free phone. So the 80 dollars was a one off price for the heavily subsidized cost of the cell phone written off by the carrier for the two year contract. Example. Razr 400 dollar phone, you can get it for 99 or 199 wherever you look. Cost is written off because you agree to contract.
You smash the phone. Want the same phone. Well you are still responsible for the contract. The company is not responsible for your negligience. You can pick up a cheap phone and still make calls.
The company is taking the loss initially by betting you will be on a two year contract and that they will get the money back.
Cell phone companies are not in businee to give you an endless supply of free or subsidized phones when you break one after having it for a few months.
You can get insurance from the carrier, and if you have PDA or Razr, there are third parties that will insure them.
If i wreck new Montero, but have no insurance, do you think the bank will let me get by without making new payments, or just go ahead and give me a new one?
Motorola Tools runs on windows. But as an employee of the Wirless provider that introduced the razor, I can say probably no. And the V3, while kinda neat looking, is mostly hype, does not do edge, and breaks if you look it. V551 is same phone, does edge, and cost less, and is pretty hardier.
ACtually no. Good news is as per advertising on Cartoon network the new Family Guy Episodes(reruns of the sunday ones on Fox) will appear on Cartoon network on Thursdays.
American Dad has already been shown Cartoon Network as well.
Ahh you mean Cingular has all of ATT's GSM towers in its aresenal now.
Cingular also has the edge network in 90 percent of the locations. I can do 115k to my laptop.
And actually I live in Florida and in a rural area. And Cing GSM works fine. All depends where you are. Florida has a lot backwoods.
75% of Cings customer base is also GSM. The GSM migration begain with the Gaine phones three years ago. And since the average life of a cell phone is 2 years, most people have GSM.
I might also have a little more insight due to having worked for most cell carriers.
Well being from Louisiana, the name Duplantis is a familiar one, Barry more so, and some quick googling confirmed my suspicions.
Barry Duplantis is from the same town as I am and was my company commander in military school. A special forces cat who went to military college(marion military) while he is the service, imagine a guy at 23 leading 40 14-16 year cadets. And pulling it off.
That being said, Barry is super intelligent and resourceful, so and knows his way around a machine, used to site in front of my apple 2 in the barracks. Plus can whip most peoples asses in under ten seconds. But heart is a great cajun man.
As for people in the military who use computers. Two of my best friends who are ex marines, and they are unix whizzes, total geeks.
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I stayed one in Rittenhouse in Philly, well almost three years ago.
They had a console by the bed where you could control lights, tv, temp etc.
The best featue is you could set the temp of the shower and it would turn itself on when it got to the promper temp it would notify you.
It also had movies on demand. So my girlfriend and I decided to watch a video on demand. The movie Barcelona. She had never seen it. I told her about it. I got in the shower after the movie started, or was supposed to start.
I come out of the shower and she is seated on the bed with a funny look. And this is a girl who spent ten years working in Turkey and various other countries. Unshakeable.
The automated system had decided to lock on some weird shemale porn flick that was in a loop.
She figured it was glitched, and it wasn't me.
True story...
I thought the automated room would be romantic.
The next day they fixed it and gave us a free night.
True story. Nothing like shem porn to be a mood killer.
Puto
Amen Brother.
//, I had to make my own modem cable, and learn assembly. I was not their for the games(well wavy navy was the bomb) But I loved bbs's, that is why I can still remember most of the hayes command set by heart.
//c(corvus hard drive), xt 1088(with a worm drive), a Commodore 128, two amd boxes running linux, an XP, 2000, and server 2003, and a mac mini for shits and giggles(I do like os x).
You hit the nail on the head. As a now 35 year old computer geek.(oops gotta change the sig). I will agree that the most I ever learned from computers were either obsolote or when they were in the early stages.
Apple
My PC XT, where I learned about jumpers, installing hard drives, co processors, and my hearing was trained to listen to a hard drive killing itself. Also, on a side note, hard drives would last 5-10 years.
DEC - Yep, the command line, unix, playing adventure games.
These all gave me learned skills which I used to today. And the curiosity to make me keep learning.
OSX users laud their OX, and it is a great OS, but as having had to support mac users, they generally are less savvy on the whole than PC users, windows are linux. I guess I remember when the mac, and the apple in general was a very hardware and software closed endgame, and snooty as well. Still is.
They want these kids to learn, to be curious. And when you do not have it all dropped in your lap, you can make wonderous things happen with the least amount of hardware.
Even people who got their first computer ten years ago, have had it easy. Hell, I got read hat 4.2 installed and up and running on a dsl line with minimal effort.
I think it will allow these people to develop skills that we are losing in the industry. Innovate with what you have, not with horsepower to spare, and cycles to burn.
This comes from a guy who stil has working an Apple
But you know what, all of this has kept me learning.
And in the end, I still yearn for the blinking cursor.
Puto
Not at all. Clearly posted typing with one hand and hamburger in another. I do not own a Blackberry.
Puto
As I always say ad nauseam. I work for the largest wirless provider in the US.
All wirless providers derive a great deal of revenue from Blackberry services. Especially bolt on blackberry data plans.
I am sure Ma Bell has got her big swinging dick out on the government on this one. You think they are going to let it disruot this chunk of their cash flow?
And what about all other providers that provide this service?
Not only the cash flow, but I cannot imagine the day this happens and my desk becomes swamped with escalations with me having to explain to Joe Jr Excutive Online MBA why he is not getting his emails on his shiny device that doubles these days as corporate dick who got the biggest electronic dick competition.
Jeez, not to mention all the soccer moms who have them. And the psuedo techis.
My life ain't looking too good if this happens. But then again I doubt it will
Puto
Yo, I am half ass Colombian, pop is from there. And I lived there from age 30-34. I think we should make the rest of the world aware of the saying(dicho) "todo es possible en Colombia" Everything is possible in Colombia.
You can get VHS, DVD, SVCD, CD, Games, etc, all copied. You can go into a legit store and have the choice of paying full price for the real version, or a fraction for the copy, what is the word in Colombia, achiviado?
But the parent poster should have realized, that Colombians due to poverty are pretty astute businessmen. Como Turcos. Make and save a buck while they can.
Colombia has a a chain of shopping centets called San Andresito. These shopping centers have stores which sell products at lower prices without taxes. San Andres is a Colombian Island which is duty free, so these "malls" are tax free.
Puto
Where were you pricing this? Some VAR that was trying to rape you?
I mean out of the box for server 2000 pricing last time I checked with a source of mine(3 years ago)(just checked an old email) and had a quote for 16k a cpu. And street price from Microsoft at the time direct was 20k per cpu.
Hell, even the new 2005 is only 24k per proc from MS on their site, and I am sure Tech Data, or some other company could get them two you cheaper. Whoever you were dealing with was charging you double.
So either this is FUD or just a rip off vendor.
Our shop supports MS, Oracle, DB2, and postgres. And you can move freely between any of those from one to the other, no vendor lock in.
Vendor lock in is when you use specific functionality inherent to MSSQl(or db2, oracle, post) so that if you need to move from one to the other, that is the guy who built the databases fault, not the company that supplies it.
Puto
As always, I fly a desk for the largest cell carrier in the us.
Nokia does not offer a really good device with PDA like functionality. Mainly because Nokia sticks to making phones that make and take calls. And above all tend to be high quality and last for years and years.
Personal milage may vary. But I would say most Nokia customers are die hard. Nokias phone have an ease of use unlike many others, and a 1999 nokia will function like a 2005 one.
And most people want a phone to make and receive calls. That is it. Treos and PPC phones are a very small margin of our business. Blackberries a bit larger, but I would even to say people buy blackberries these days for cool factor. PDA phones are the mortarboards of the MBA.
Now throw the techie guy, the really techie guy 35 years plus, the network engineer, software gury, unix freak, he wants a simple little phone, cause he has realized that life is more than futzing around with gear when he is not at work.
From the fire lines customers want a simple phone, no bells and whistles. Camera phones, no one hardly uses but once or twice.
Motorola tried the MPX220, can we say recall and retool. We had to replace them with audiovox mobile units, never mpx is a better phone.
Treo 650, most are utter crap. You might have a good one, but I still get one escalation a day, because something just will not work.
Pocket PC phones, the Siemens Sx-66, great phone, bit large, comes unlocked out the box. Very little complaints, we actually farm them out to the really upset 650 customers in place of.
But back to your statement, Nokia has made its mark, and they will always have a large portion of the phone business, and they move slowly, but they do things right because of it.
As for OSS on phones. Well one day.
Puto
howardforum.com anything and everything you need to know. Sorted by carrier and phone. You can ask and receive any answer you need there.
And as for unlocking phones. Well go for it, all my have the hidden features enabled, and I work for the largest cell carrier in the US. Did I get the answers from work, nope. Got them from the web.
Here is the issue. The features are generally locked because they are untested, are have no bearing on what service your provider is selling you. Also if you flash firmware, or in general screw some of the software up, and the phone goes tits up, you will not be under warranty anymore.
I spend a fair amount of my time explaining to customers if they flash something to the phone motorola, or nokia did not write, and their phone is no longer working. IT is not a warranty issue, because it is out of spec for the device.
I doube Nokia would post a crack, because when a phone is warrantied through a carrier, it is then warrantied generally back to the manufacturer. So nokia would be shooting itself in the foot.
Cables you can find anywhere on the net, hell best buy in the us sells a kit with cables and software that lets you get into about 99.9% of all phones on the market.
Just do it at your own risk.
Puto
Well here is the axe as you so put it. I compile statistics and collateral on devices I have to support. 50 million customers is a fair sampling of the market I would say.
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There are cell phones I would not reccomend to my worst enemy. LG1300, any low end Motorola. Suprisingly enough the Samsungs, though not as feature filled, are workhorses and have rare complaints, very high customer satisfaction. Nokias, well great devices, and a very loyal user base.
The Pocket PC phones work well.
Motorola Mobile Devices, well not so good. MPx220 was recalled, retooled and reissued, the Audiovox beat it hands down.
The 600 and 650 do not share common accessories, so chargers, etc you have to buy over. Caveat emptor on that one.
And you say the Treo forums are not reporting them? Hmmm, because they are buy fanboys? Are because generally support forums are by loyal users, who use the glass half full theory. Nothing wrong with that.
And of course you have the large number of people who just live with the problems.
Check this link.
http://www.google.com/search?q=treo+650+lawsuit&h
Puto
Sorry, should have said the download of the patch to the pc os approx 30 megs.
p dater/sprint_dl.html Which is not who I work for, but the instructions for each carrier are as about as long.
And a lot of IT departments handle the updates, but I would say the majority of the users are people off the street and bought them. Real execs have secretaries or assistants at beck and call.
Also you might want to include this link http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo650u
Nothing plug and play about them. Having to update just about all of the supplied software packages as well.
Puto
Well I guess this should be take as a grain of salt.
I work for a large US cell carrier. I support devices across the data end, pda side, well everything on our network.
The 650 is the largest hunk of junk that EVER crossed the PDA world. About 1 in 50 work properly.
And the 650 is used mostly by non techies. Realtors, doctors, lawyers. And salesguys, and people who think it is cool to lug it around. Which is fine.
We have to replace them out at an alarming rate. Exchanges through the roof. One multinational manufacture of corporate jets, had to have 5 sent to him in one week. I personally oversaw the case, and each unit. Two screens died, one had the white screen of death, and another would not let itself be unlocked for international use..
Not to mention early models only supporting palm branded blue tooth devices.
And a PDA that needs a 30 meg update download? Try telling this to the exec on the go.
I am operating system agnostic, as well as eqipment. I am 35 years old and been in tech all of my life, and never NEVER has anything made me cringe when an escalation hits my desk, and it is usually a 650.
I wish these reviewers would not use it for a week and then write a review. They need to do a Car and Driver six month review. They would change their tune.
Puto
Well the phones are there and are being tested in several markets that switch seamlessly, already testing europe, and in some small areas here.
I might happen to work for a large carrier, and the times are a changing.
If you want to keep up on the latest cell tech.
www.gsmworld.com
www.phonescoop.com this being the better of the two.
Puto
Well I will tell you why. And to preface I will say that the wife and I are getting a TDI Diesel Jetta tp replace her celica, but keeping my 2001 Montero.
In the 1980s american car makers released diesel engines in the us. They were converted gas engines, they leaked, diesel was high, ruined your driveways, would not start on mildly cold days, and sound like sherman tanks. They were a half ass attempt.
My grandfather had a diesel car and truck, my dad kept degreasers in the garage for whenever he parked in the driveway.
Basically they left a bad taste in the consumer mouth.
In europe they kept developing, refining, testing, and developing diesel engines from the ground up. And they are great.
As an experiment we took a recent family trip which ran from Ocala Florida(where my parents live) Jacksonville(where we live) down lo new orleans and then to Houma Louisiana(where I am from from) and we went in the Montero. 23 on highway abdout 19 in city. But we marked off the stations we stopped out to gas up. All but 2 had
diesel, so diesel is availible and this week we are getting our TDI, which will become our trip and daily commuter car. The montero will remain, because it is a solid vehicle, and when can haul stuff around when we need too.
Puto
"As having been the owner of both a 2004 800mhz G4 iBook and a 2002 800mhz G4 powerbook... I can firmly attest that when used side by side, the 2002 powerbook was far more responsive and "snappier"® than the iBook."
I would be rather appalled to purchase a *new* computer with the same basic specs as my 2 year old computer.
Puto
I like some of Apple stuff. But
You are correct sir. Well not on the t-mobile part.
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However, too hard to tell if Nokia would not be pushed hard by wireless providers to not provide compatibility. Ringtones are a big moneymaker at 2.49 for a smidgen of the song, instead of apples 99 for the entire song.
I advise most customers to get data cable, moto tools, blue tooth dongle, etc so they can use their own music on the phones for ringtones.
As for aac+fairplay(fairplay, another oxmoronic title, like friendly fire) Again, the monetary issue is there. The carriers are not going to want to let Apple control the entire enchilada. S
So the nokias that support planin jane aac are the
way to go
Check below link for instructions of dealing with the pesky itunes drm to get your music on your phone.
http://www.mobymemory.com/Content/iTunes.compan
Puto
Ok, so he paid 80 dollaors for a phone with 2 year agreement.
He did not elect for the free phone. So the 80 dollars was a one off price for the heavily subsidized cost of the cell phone written off by the
carrier for the two year contract. Example. Razr 400 dollar phone, you can get it for 99 or 199 wherever you look. Cost is written off because you agree to contract.
You smash the phone. Want the same phone. Well you are still responsible for the contract. The company is not responsible for your negligience. You can pick up a cheap phone and still make calls.
The company is taking the loss initially by betting you will be on a two year contract and that they will get the money back.
Cell phone companies are not in businee to give you an endless supply of free or subsidized phones when you break one after having it for a few months.
You can get insurance from the carrier, and if you have PDA or Razr, there are third parties that will insure them.
If i wreck new Montero, but have no insurance, do you think the bank will let me get by without making new payments, or just go ahead and give me a new one?
Puto
Well as somone who supports the Razor on a daily basis(guess where I work, wirless providor that is.
Motorola has several new models that were announced about six weeks ago, all in the Razr line. With transflash memory slots within the phones.
Actually moto made this announcement back in Feb.
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=1256
A razrlike smartphone
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=1256
Also some nokias have been playing aac for quite awhile now.
Puto
Motorola Tools runs on windows. But as an employee of the Wirless provider that introduced the razor, I can say probably no. And the V3, while kinda neat looking, is mostly hype, does not do edge, and breaks if you look it. V551 is same phone, does edge, and cost less, and is pretty hardier.
Puto
READ all About it!
The Speed in which all slashdot editors can be duped has effectively quadrupled in the past year.
Repeat news for Nerds who missed it the first time.
Puto
ACtually no. Good news is as per advertising on Cartoon network the new Family Guy Episodes(reruns of the sunday ones on Fox) will appear on Cartoon network on Thursdays.
American Dad has already been shown Cartoon Network as well.
Puto
Ahh you mean Cingular has all of ATT's GSM towers in its aresenal now. Cingular also has the edge network in 90 percent of the locations. I can do 115k to my laptop. And actually I live in Florida and in a rural area. And Cing GSM works fine. All depends where you are. Florida has a lot backwoods. 75% of Cings customer base is also GSM. The GSM migration begain with the Gaine phones three years ago. And since the average life of a cell phone is 2 years, most people have GSM. I might also have a little more insight due to having worked for most cell carriers.
Well being from Louisiana, the name Duplantis is a familiar one, Barry more so, and some quick googling confirmed my suspicions.
Barry Duplantis is from the same town as I am and was my company commander in military school. A special forces cat who went to military college(marion military) while he is the service, imagine a guy at 23 leading 40 14-16 year cadets. And pulling it off.
That being said, Barry is super intelligent and resourceful, so and knows his way around a machine, used to site in front of my apple 2 in the barracks. Plus can whip most peoples asses in under ten seconds. But heart is a great cajun man.
As for people in the military who use computers. Two of my best friends who are ex marines, and they are unix whizzes, total geeks.
Puto
Word,
Blondie for ten bucks will either:
1. Crush a can with her tits.
2. Give you a lap dance
3. Or sell you a comic book
The Clermont is scene. It tooks into sort of preppy dance club at midnight.
But all in all a good dive bar.
Puto
off top of head sams club, full hardware modem. And of course the ever venerable price watch and ebay. Puto
Well,
If I were you I would shell out the 1-15 bucks for a regular modem.
The old adage do not bite your nose off to spite your face comes to mind.
Puto