Or you could just purchase 100% wind/solar power like me. My power company purchases more renewable power than they would have otherwise to offset my usage.
Still have a gasoline car for now, though.
I'm also curious for a different reason. The newest OLED display I've used was in a Lumia Icon and text was fuzzy around the edges compared to an older, lower-res phone with an LED backlit LCD display. My Nexus One had the same issue to a much larger extent.
If they use a PenTile or derivative display on the next iPhone I will not consider purchasing one.
For me it's as follows-
~$300 lost by giving away my device instead of selling it
>$700 over two years to give up prepaid for the cheapest contract I can find
~$40 tax
Must be a Verizon thing then. Page Plus and Selectel transfer the CDMA voice portion with the SIM card as well. Perhaps it's implemented as an automatic ESN swap on their end.
I've done such a swap on two different phones that don't support VoLTE.
Why do people put up with all these BS fees the Verizon charges? I use the same network through an MVNO for a flat $30/month including all taxes and fees. I've had no issues and get more LTE data than I ever use. I bought the SIM for a subsidized $0.01 shipped and there was no activation fee. In fact, my first month was 1/2 price.
Yes, there are a few missing features. I don't get VoLTE, WiFi calling, or visual voicemail. LTE speeds are also throttled but I honestly can't tell the difference with normal usage. I certainly don't think these things are worth the extra $$$ a contract would entail.
RTFA. The headline is outright WRONG. The driver intentionally accelerated towards pedestrians assuming the car would stop itself independent of any kind of self parking feature.
Windows Phone is developed against low-end hardware to ensure that it runs well on it. I've played with a Lumia 520 and found it to be more than fast enough.
The 520 sells new for less than $70 off contract. It's definitely "low end".
Intel's refusal to properly support HDMI/DisplayPort to a TV without clipping the black levels makes their integrated GPUs worthless to me. I'm selling my newer laptop in favor of keeping my old one that has ATI graphics for this reason alone.
I just bought one last night. I'm tired of all the little broken things and lagginess of my two previous Android phones and iOS isn't for me.
I'm not paranoid about privacy concerns because I have nothing to hide.
Exactly. I live in a university town and the local Radio Shack stocks all sorts of parts, soldering tools & supplies, Arduinos, soldering kits, and other gadgetry.
The EE dept's electronic shop is still the place to go for specific parts though.
Not necessarily. Embedded systems, for example, can absolutely rely upon closed-source software for which there is no open/cheaper/comparable alternative. I posted my reply while on break from working on such a very thing.
The company's growing rapidly and raking in $$$. I fail to see how they have a "horrible business model".
I just ditched Google Voice after using it for 2-3 years because it's incredibly unreliable. Missed/late deliveries of texts, incoming calls that don't arrive and go straight to voicemail (with an occasional notification that I even have one!), and messages that won't even send without a reboot. I'm far from the only one either.
Sorry Google, but I need my phone to actually work as a phone. I guess I got what I paid for.
Funny- it's Intel's driver for my PRO/1000 GT that's been occasionally causing my desktop to crash and reset when going into standby, according to the minidumps. Maybe it's just Intel that's not ready for Windows 8?
Win8 Pro RTM x64 from MSDNAA.
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Or you could just purchase 100% wind/solar power like me. My power company purchases more renewable power than they would have otherwise to offset my usage. Still have a gasoline car for now, though.
Well, yes. OLED displays do indeed lack a backlight. That's the whole point.
Assuming you mean OLED-
I'm also curious for a different reason. The newest OLED display I've used was in a Lumia Icon and text was fuzzy around the edges compared to an older, lower-res phone with an LED backlit LCD display. My Nexus One had the same issue to a much larger extent.
If they use a PenTile or derivative display on the next iPhone I will not consider purchasing one.
For me it's as follows- ~$300 lost by giving away my device instead of selling it >$700 over two years to give up prepaid for the cheapest contract I can find ~$40 tax
That "free" upgrade would cost me $1k+ over two years. I'll keep my prepaid plan and iPhone 6, thanks.
I'm done with Slashdot. I miss the days of curated, relevant, SANE content.
Must be a Verizon thing then. Page Plus and Selectel transfer the CDMA voice portion with the SIM card as well. Perhaps it's implemented as an automatic ESN swap on their end. I've done such a swap on two different phones that don't support VoLTE.
If you have an LTE phone you can just swap the SIM and be done with it. At least that's the case on the two Verizon MVNOs I've dealt with.
Why do people put up with all these BS fees the Verizon charges? I use the same network through an MVNO for a flat $30/month including all taxes and fees. I've had no issues and get more LTE data than I ever use. I bought the SIM for a subsidized $0.01 shipped and there was no activation fee. In fact, my first month was 1/2 price.
Yes, there are a few missing features. I don't get VoLTE, WiFi calling, or visual voicemail. LTE speeds are also throttled but I honestly can't tell the difference with normal usage. I certainly don't think these things are worth the extra $$$ a contract would entail.
FTFA: You can still get the driver from Windows Update. It's just not shipping with the driver on the system image.
RTFA. The headline is outright WRONG. The driver intentionally accelerated towards pedestrians assuming the car would stop itself independent of any kind of self parking feature.
Windows Phone is developed against low-end hardware to ensure that it runs well on it. I've played with a Lumia 520 and found it to be more than fast enough.
The 520 sells new for less than $70 off contract. It's definitely "low end".
I can vouch for this.
Assuming you're not deathly allergic, as some are.
Not just feet anymore. I work with a product that is accurate within a few centimeters. Civilians have access to it.
Not specifically phones, but some hardware reacted very badly- headings jumping back and forth, resets of the entire GPS, etc.
Source- I work in an industry that heavily relies upon GPS. Our dual GPS/GLONASS products (and our competitors') had major issues during this event.
Intel's refusal to properly support HDMI/DisplayPort to a TV without clipping the black levels makes their integrated GPUs worthless to me. I'm selling my newer laptop in favor of keeping my old one that has ATI graphics for this reason alone.
I just bought one last night. I'm tired of all the little broken things and lagginess of my two previous Android phones and iOS isn't for me. I'm not paranoid about privacy concerns because I have nothing to hide.
Exactly. I live in a university town and the local Radio Shack stocks all sorts of parts, soldering tools & supplies, Arduinos, soldering kits, and other gadgetry. The EE dept's electronic shop is still the place to go for specific parts though.
Not necessarily. Embedded systems, for example, can absolutely rely upon closed-source software for which there is no open/cheaper/comparable alternative. I posted my reply while on break from working on such a very thing. The company's growing rapidly and raking in $$$. I fail to see how they have a "horrible business model".
Because, you know, some businesses don't rely on closed-source software for their continued existence...
So, Spock's Brain wasn't such a crazy episode after all!
I just ditched Google Voice after using it for 2-3 years because it's incredibly unreliable. Missed/late deliveries of texts, incoming calls that don't arrive and go straight to voicemail (with an occasional notification that I even have one!), and messages that won't even send without a reboot. I'm far from the only one either. Sorry Google, but I need my phone to actually work as a phone. I guess I got what I paid for.
Funny- it's Intel's driver for my PRO/1000 GT that's been occasionally causing my desktop to crash and reset when going into standby, according to the minidumps. Maybe it's just Intel that's not ready for Windows 8? Win8 Pro RTM x64 from MSDNAA.
You could put some backup drives in a safe deposit box. With as much as you're storing, it may be beneficial to store just the bare drives.