They had Java enabled cell phones last year in Japan with 16-bit color screens too. My friend even had Dance Dance Revolution on his phone! But they had bugs too, including one that made the recipients of a specially formatted email's phones dial the Japanese equivalent of 911...
they said 1.5 % of viewers signed up within the first week, so you gotta figure that that's between 10-15k people by now, at 5$ a pop. so figure they have gotten between 50-75k. i don't see what the whole big deal is... whoo remove the ads. even the new big ones aren't that bad. have they considered more FEATURES...?
144 kbps isn't that fast, and the service prices would probably be through the roof. If you want wireless in your home you can just buy a wireless router and hook it up to your dsl line. The speed doesn't make it a replacement for dsl, and unless you could somehow replace your cellphone with your computer and some phone software this looks to be pretty expensive each month?
On a side note, verizon's dsl for the Philly area was _DOWN_ last weekend! But other than that i would have to call the reliability excellent. We have prob.5 days/month with problems.
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They had Java enabled cell phones last year in Japan with 16-bit color screens too. My friend even had Dance Dance Revolution on his phone! But they had bugs too, including one that made the recipients of a specially formatted email's phones dial the Japanese equivalent of 911...
they said 1.5 % of viewers signed up within the first week, so you gotta figure that that's between 10-15k people by now, at 5$ a pop. so figure they have gotten between 50-75k. i don't see what the whole big deal is... whoo remove the ads. even the new big ones aren't that bad. have they considered more FEATURES...?
144 kbps isn't that fast, and the service prices would probably be through the roof. If you want wireless in your home you can just buy a wireless router and hook it up to your dsl line. The speed doesn't make it a replacement for dsl, and unless you could somehow replace your cellphone with your computer and some phone software this looks to be pretty expensive each month? On a side note, verizon's dsl for the Philly area was _DOWN_ last weekend! But other than that i would have to call the reliability excellent. We have prob .5 days /month with problems.