Buy your phone at a store like best buy with a service plan. There are some cool benefits for this.
1: Any damage that they cant tell was customer abuse wins you a new phone. 1a: This means if they dont have your phone anymore, then you get a nice new one. 1b: If you just say its doing shit, then get yourself a new phone, hoorj!
2: When you do switch carriers, but remember they all suck in some way, you can cash in. Your phone no longer works (with your new carrier) so voila!
around here AT&T uses GSM and Cingular uses one of the DMAs. I look at available networks on my phone and I see AT&T and TMobile but not Cingular. When I was shoping I didnt see anything that said GSM.
Midwest btw. Is there a page that says FOR SURE?
Also, there are quite a few small cell networks in the USA that use GSM. Driving on I70 and I35 between wichita, kansas city, and Denver I pick up on two small carriers on my Tri mode GSM
Dont supose you could give me some info on how I sick the BBB on a company
Tmobile refuses to send me a copy of my contract. I tell them I want to cancel and they say its in breach of contract but can not present said contract. Their service has gone to shit and they also lie lie lie (products that dont work on their network, boxes that lie about phone capabilities)
At&T uses GSM - trust me, they have been fucking up my tmobile reception
Sprint PCS coverage at least here in kansas, oklahoma, and colorado is no better then the GSM coverage of AT&T and Tmobile. Quite often up in Kansas City, home of Sprint, I will be at clubs or even just at westport and the sprint phones have no service, yet I do.
Also, some smaller towns around me have GSM service from either AT&T or Tmobile and no sprint coverage.
Don't forget that on the main Sprint campus in Kansas City, they don't have PCS service. When I was there I could not get a signal anywhere in the building or around it. Go figure.
A little more then a month ago in the middle of a conversation, my Samsung SGH-Q105 went into emergency service only mode. Aparently AT&T had switched over to GSM in my area and all hell started to break loose. I was CONSTANTLY in Emergency Service ONLY mode with my phone and the phone for my second line (Samsung SGH-N105). Customer service from T-Mobile was crap. First they told me it was just maintence and would be done in a day or two. Then they told me it was a well known problem with those two samsung phones and it would be fixed in a day or two. Then it was a well known problem with no ETA on fixing. Through this whole time the people on the Customer Care line kept saying "We do not make gaurantees of service." Finally I couldnt wait for their bullshit so I took my phone into bestbuy where I have a 3 year service plan. I could not go back to the Q105s due to the problems on the network. So, I wanted to switch phones. This was a fucking headache too since T-Mobile refuses to formally admit that there is such a problem. Finally I went into a best buy at a different hour and just said that the phone drops calls and T-Mobile said get a new phone. So, I received the Samsung SGH-S105, the flagship of Tmobile phones currently. Guess fucking what. Even though I got the phone that the retail sales manager told me shouldnt be affected by this non documented problem, Emergency Service Only. On top of that, the box for the damn phone advertises that I can hook the phone to my PDA or Laptop and use it as a modem... such a data cable has not been made by Samsung yet.
Then, I go to Denver for the weekend. The whole time I am in the Denver area my second line (also in Denver with me with my Girlfriend) could not dial me.
There is also the constant billing problems I have. Every month I have to take $2-$3 off my bill for text messages they charge me for. I have 350 and I use say 100 and they charge me for half of them! Then there is a problem where I call in and pay, and I never get charged yet they tell me I am late to pay!
Also, 9 times out of 10, the Wireless Internet, or T-Zones they call it now, does not work. Bad gateway response, server unresponsive, etc. Im glad I do not use that for anything important.
Voicestream and now T-Mobile are notorious for having phone manufactures issue special cippled firmware here in the USA. My Nokia was crippled and so is my S105.
I will say this. I do have a great plan when it does work. Unlimited between my two lines. Unlimited weekends. 800 shared whenever minutes. No long distnace, no roaming, detailed billing. Also, for the internet stuff -- when it does work its by MB not by minute... although Sprint's new unlimited plan is much cooler. Also the fact that my phone will work in damn near every country (tri mode GSM) is very cool.
I realize that no matter who I go to, I am going to have issues. I had a friend with Sprint that would over bill him. His statement said X minutes and they billed him for Y and pointed to a clause that said the statement may not be accurate minute counts. Another friend was getting eronous charges with Cingular aka SwBell aka SBC who then turned off his phone line and internet for not paying a $2000 cellphone bill. My aunt has AT&T and she says half the times when she is in Wichita she can not get a signal. Another friend is on Verizon and said other then the shitty plan, he likes it.
I saw a car at the university not to long ago. It was kinda queer. A page from my journal...
I witnessed the world's messiest car... EVAR. I didn't stop and check for the make and model but its an early 90s. There were signs of a few minor wrecks, probably no insurance. The outside also looked like it had not even been in RAIN for years.
However, it was the inside that was HORRIBLE. The back seat and the front passanger seat were FILLED with trash/clothes. The clothes were vissably soiled (dirt, one shirt had a big brown stain probably from pop of some sorts), and the trash ranged from crumpled up fast food bags, papers (one school paper dated July 2000 sun faded in the back window) and produce (orange peels). The trash was stacked above the seats. It looked like it had been packed down in the seats just low enough to allow the driver to see out of the mirrors. The crap in the front seat was pouring over into the driver seat, which had a few current newspapers on the seat. The dashboard was covered with trash, bottles, and dust. The radio was gone and in its place there were newspapers. There was a noticable stench from 5-6 cars away and it was parked very crooked, almost in 2 places.
It was HORRIBLE, and I wanted to CRY that I did not have a camera w/ me... so I shall keep an eye out for it. It had a student parking pass...
So, I was doing my time, paying my dues and doing what I could to bring quality to the lifeless void that is a Best Buy black shirt technician (well, we became black shirts while I worked there). Anyhoo, this "woman" brought in a very old packard bell that was covered in yellow dust. A smoker. Some of the worse shit comes from smokers. As soon as she walked in the door, the AV tech told me to tell her to go away. My manager heard this and got pissy. She later recanted.
She brought her computer up and slapped down her PSP that had 20 or so days left and demanded a new computer because this one would no longer turn on. So I said okay, checked it in and put it in the back. When we opened it, a whole cock-a-roach family came running out. I almost vommited right then and there. It took WEEKs to get rid of those fuckers, adn even then we knew they were not gone.
Aparently about two months earlier this same nasty lady came in to the av area with a vcr for a "cleaning." When the AV tech opened it he found a dead mouse and silverfish. To this day you can find silver fish in that best buy :
Ever notice how a lot of people that dont get out and play and get exposed to germs and scrapes and bruises etc. as a child become very delicate adults?
Also, look at the history of Polio. It was when we cleaned up the streets that the outbreaks occured.
I think you missed the whole using the computer at a lab in school.
Id rather educate people on scary two buttons then to have to be lacking!
I think it is a fair bitch. Like I said and the mods missed, I assumed it was just a bitching session and trollish but shit - I sit down to a Linux Box and I can right click for menus. I can do it in windows. Why the hell am I doomed to one mouse button? It really is a lacking feature on these iMacs for how much is paid for what comes out of the box.
Just sitting down and using it, I found it lacking.
Well, I was in the LAS advice center here on Campus (Wichita State). They had two computers, both iMacs. I beleive they said either 600mhz or 800mhz G3s but they were running MacOSX and it looked like it was the latest version. Did schools get that last big Jaguar update for free?
Im too poor to be a macphile but seriously, browsing with one mouse button in IE was driving me fucking nuts. It took me a minute to find the button that was going to give me a context menu. Sigh. I always thought that it was just an old joke/troll but seriously, why?
I was really wanting to see this iTunes and other iApps but alas, I had not the security access.
If you beleive your cell phone peoples paid $200 on your phone you KID yourself. First, there is the markup. Second, their is the artificial markup. Third, you pay an activation fee. The sign at best buy tells me my phone is $500 if I dont get a cell phone plan but yet whenever they scan the box or whenever they exchange phones under my PSP and I dont get a new contract, that $200 never shows up.
Sure, I want my cellphone and PDA bluetooth'd so that when I come near the two of them sync with my PC so all my shit is together, so to speak.
I also really want the bluetooth earpiece so I look like even more of a loon then I do with my hands free.
I also want bluetooth locks on my door and my car. Oh you say wait until your 1337s hit me and break in... make the encryption key strong enough (can be generated on my box and just sent to phone so the phone doesnt have to gen it) so its not possible. The point of these is so whenever I get to my door, the house unlocks or when I get to my car, its unlocked.
I also want the ATMs and Vending Machines Bluetooth enabled. I just worry about the Vending Machines getting used more by me when I dont have to watch moneys go into it.
Yes, bluetooth enabled TV/Receivers. Truely universal remotes.
Bluetooth enabled appliances. Control the hot and cold from my PDA, start the oven, etc. (Again, like all of these, you just need strong encryption. ALso, bluetooth is short range so I war chalking shouldnt be much of a problem?)
Where in Mexico? I know in Puebla she could just hit La Fayuca and have all the copied cds or cds loaded with mp3s she could possibly want for 25 pesos.
Unlimited download?! AMEN. T-Mobile has been offering wireless internet for a while but has data limits in the 10MB range/mo. That is scary. Now, if Sprint would just offer a decent affordable cell phone plan I would be very ready to ditch T-Mobile. (Im looking for free weekends, no roaming, unlimited mobile to mobile minutes, free long distance).
I do have to wonder what the TOS on this is considering their record with Sprint Broadband Direct (which I thought looked pretty damn cool).
Fuck - I was out of town all week and I totally missed this. Really, there needs to be a clean way to pick any day and read the news posted for that day. Every site should have such a feature. It would be very nice to read the top headlines of "normal news", top headlines on the shack, top headlines on slashdot etc.
So no - not everyone knew about this yet - I did not :
It supports j2me and this is what tmobile had to say
As for J2ME downloads, we do not currently have our Java plaform up and running. In theory, you should be able to simply hyperlink to a.JAD file from a WML page and by following the SUN OTA recommended best practices, download the.JAR directly from the device using HTTP. Please note that this is not a supported feature just yet as we are still working on network infrastructure pieces. Try at your own risk.
(You can find that on their developers forum)
I wonder if I can use these nokia phones in the USA w/ Tmobile (who uses GPRS and GSM) because here in the US of A, Tmobile has next to no (2) Nokia phones supported./. is being really weird slow for me right now, so if you check my post history (or scroll down) you should find my post and link to the s105 - I think it has a twin on the sprint network
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Whose ass did you pull that number out of? How the fuck does it cost them $400 to put my name into the computer?
My advice to this is well this
Buy your phone at a store like best buy with a service plan. There are some cool benefits for this.
1: Any damage that they cant tell was customer abuse wins you a new phone.
1a: This means if they dont have your phone anymore, then you get a nice new one.
1b: If you just say its doing shit, then get yourself a new phone, hoorj!
2: When you do switch carriers, but remember they all suck in some way, you can cash in. Your phone no longer works (with your new carrier) so voila!
around here AT&T uses GSM and Cingular uses one of the DMAs. I look at available networks on my phone and I see AT&T and TMobile but not Cingular. When I was shoping I didnt see anything that said GSM.
Midwest btw. Is there a page that says FOR SURE?
Also, there are quite a few small cell networks in the USA that use GSM. Driving on I70 and I35 between wichita, kansas city, and Denver I pick up on two small carriers on my Tri mode GSM
Dont supose you could give me some info on how I sick the BBB on a company
Tmobile refuses to send me a copy of my contract. I tell them I want to cancel and they say its in breach of contract but can not present said contract. Their service has gone to shit and they also lie lie lie (products that dont work on their network, boxes that lie about phone capabilities)
At&T uses GSM - trust me, they have been fucking up my tmobile reception
Sprint PCS coverage at least here in kansas, oklahoma, and colorado is no better then the GSM coverage of AT&T and Tmobile. Quite often up in Kansas City, home of Sprint, I will be at clubs or even just at westport and the sprint phones have no service, yet I do.
Also, some smaller towns around me have GSM service from either AT&T or Tmobile and no sprint coverage.
Don't forget that on the main Sprint campus in Kansas City, they don't have PCS service. When I was there I could not get a signal anywhere in the building or around it. Go figure.
A little more then a month ago in the middle of a conversation, my Samsung SGH-Q105 went into emergency service only mode. Aparently AT&T had switched over to GSM in my area and all hell started to break loose. I was CONSTANTLY in Emergency Service ONLY mode with my phone and the phone for my second line (Samsung SGH-N105). Customer service from T-Mobile was crap. First they told me it was just maintence and would be done in a day or two. Then they told me it was a well known problem with those two samsung phones and it would be fixed in a day or two. Then it was a well known problem with no ETA on fixing. Through this whole time the people on the Customer Care line kept saying "We do not make gaurantees of service." Finally I couldnt wait for their bullshit so I took my phone into bestbuy where I have a 3 year service plan. I could not go back to the Q105s due to the problems on the network. So, I wanted to switch phones. This was a fucking headache too since T-Mobile refuses to formally admit that there is such a problem. Finally I went into a best buy at a different hour and just said that the phone drops calls and T-Mobile said get a new phone. So, I received the Samsung SGH-S105, the flagship of Tmobile phones currently. Guess fucking what. Even though I got the phone that the retail sales manager told me shouldnt be affected by this non documented problem, Emergency Service Only. On top of that, the box for the damn phone advertises that I can hook the phone to my PDA or Laptop and use it as a modem ... such a data cable has not been made by Samsung yet.
... although Sprint's new unlimited plan is much cooler. Also the fact that my phone will work in damn near every country (tri mode GSM) is very cool.
Then, I go to Denver for the weekend. The whole time I am in the Denver area my second line (also in Denver with me with my Girlfriend) could not dial me.
There is also the constant billing problems I have. Every month I have to take $2-$3 off my bill for text messages they charge me for. I have 350 and I use say 100 and they charge me for half of them! Then there is a problem where I call in and pay, and I never get charged yet they tell me I am late to pay!
Also, 9 times out of 10, the Wireless Internet, or T-Zones they call it now, does not work. Bad gateway response, server unresponsive, etc. Im glad I do not use that for anything important.
Voicestream and now T-Mobile are notorious for having phone manufactures issue special cippled firmware here in the USA. My Nokia was crippled and so is my S105.
I will say this. I do have a great plan when it does work. Unlimited between my two lines. Unlimited weekends. 800 shared whenever minutes. No long distnace, no roaming, detailed billing. Also, for the internet stuff -- when it does work its by MB not by minute
I realize that no matter who I go to, I am going to have issues. I had a friend with Sprint that would over bill him. His statement said X minutes and they billed him for Y and pointed to a clause that said the statement may not be accurate minute counts. Another friend was getting eronous charges with Cingular aka SwBell aka SBC who then turned off his phone line and internet for not paying a $2000 cellphone bill. My aunt has AT&T and she says half the times when she is in Wichita she can not get a signal. Another friend is on Verizon and said other then the shitty plan, he likes it.
Ive seen more then one abused computer from smokers. The key is the yellow dust. When its yellow, you know its from a smoker.
I saw a car at the university not to long ago. It was kinda queer. A page from my journal...
... EVAR. I didn't stop and check for the make and model but its an early 90s. There were signs of a few minor wrecks, probably no insurance. The outside also looked like it had not even been in RAIN for years.
I witnessed the world's messiest car
However, it was the inside that was HORRIBLE. The back seat and the front passanger seat were FILLED with trash/clothes. The clothes were vissably soiled (dirt, one shirt had a big brown stain probably from pop of some sorts), and the trash ranged from crumpled up fast food bags, papers (one school paper dated July 2000 sun faded in the back window) and produce (orange peels). The trash was stacked above the seats. It looked like it had been packed down in the seats just low enough to allow the driver to see out of the mirrors. The crap in the front seat was pouring over into the driver seat, which had a few current newspapers on the seat. The dashboard was covered with trash, bottles, and dust. The radio was gone and in its place there were newspapers. There was a noticable stench from 5-6 cars away and it was parked very crooked, almost in 2 places.
It was HORRIBLE, and I wanted to CRY that I did not have a camera w/ me... so I shall keep an eye out for it. It had a student parking pass...
So, I was doing my time, paying my dues and doing what I could to bring quality to the lifeless void that is a Best Buy black shirt technician (well, we became black shirts while I worked there). Anyhoo, this "woman" brought in a very old packard bell that was covered in yellow dust. A smoker. Some of the worse shit comes from smokers. As soon as she walked in the door, the AV tech told me to tell her to go away. My manager heard this and got pissy. She later recanted.
She brought her computer up and slapped down her PSP that had 20 or so days left and demanded a new computer because this one would no longer turn on. So I said okay, checked it in and put it in the back. When we opened it, a whole cock-a-roach family came running out. I almost vommited right then and there. It took WEEKs to get rid of those fuckers, adn even then we knew they were not gone.
Aparently about two months earlier this same nasty lady came in to the av area with a vcr for a "cleaning." When the AV tech opened it he found a dead mouse and silverfish. To this day you can find silver fish in that best buy :
You can see this on a smaller scale
Ever notice how a lot of people that dont get out and play and get exposed to germs and scrapes and bruises etc. as a child become very delicate adults?
Also, look at the history of Polio. It was when we cleaned up the streets that the outbreaks occured.
I am getting headaches trying to give cheap calendar sharing in outlook xp since you cant do netfolders anymore :
Can Evolution do something similar to netfolders or easily do contact list and cal. sharing?
Aparently we can not discuss this on the apple slashdot realm with out being told we are trolling
What bullshit.
I think you missed the whole using the computer at a lab in school.
Id rather educate people on scary two buttons then to have to be lacking!
I think it is a fair bitch. Like I said and the mods missed, I assumed it was just a bitching session and trollish but shit - I sit down to a Linux Box and I can right click for menus. I can do it in windows. Why the hell am I doomed to one mouse button? It really is a lacking feature on these iMacs for how much is paid for what comes out of the box.
Just sitting down and using it, I found it lacking.
Well, I was in the LAS advice center here on Campus (Wichita State). They had two computers, both iMacs. I beleive they said either 600mhz or 800mhz G3s but they were running MacOSX and it looked like it was the latest version. Did schools get that last big Jaguar update for free?
Im too poor to be a macphile but seriously, browsing with one mouse button in IE was driving me fucking nuts. It took me a minute to find the button that was going to give me a context menu. Sigh. I always thought that it was just an old joke/troll but seriously, why?
I was really wanting to see this iTunes and other iApps but alas, I had not the security access.
Fuck, the way the Tmobile networks have been acting up, I would LOVE to be able to use the AT&T networks around here ... won't let me tho
If you beleive your cell phone peoples paid $200 on your phone you KID yourself. First, there is the markup. Second, their is the artificial markup. Third, you pay an activation fee. The sign at best buy tells me my phone is $500 if I dont get a cell phone plan but yet whenever they scan the box or whenever they exchange phones under my PSP and I dont get a new contract, that $200 never shows up.
Sure, I want my cellphone and PDA bluetooth'd so that when I come near the two of them sync with my PC so all my shit is together, so to speak.
... make the encryption key strong enough (can be generated on my box and just sent to phone so the phone doesnt have to gen it) so its not possible. The point of these is so whenever I get to my door, the house unlocks or when I get to my car, its unlocked.
I also really want the bluetooth earpiece so I look like even more of a loon then I do with my hands free.
I also want bluetooth locks on my door and my car. Oh you say wait until your 1337s hit me and break in
I also want the ATMs and Vending Machines Bluetooth enabled. I just worry about the Vending Machines getting used more by me when I dont have to watch moneys go into it.
Yes, bluetooth enabled TV/Receivers. Truely universal remotes.
Bluetooth enabled appliances. Control the hot and cold from my PDA, start the oven, etc. (Again, like all of these, you just need strong encryption. ALso, bluetooth is short range so I war chalking shouldnt be much of a problem?)
Please, someone start this REVOLUTION already ):
Yeap -- Its fucking great
Dont really need bandwidth!
Where in Mexico? I know in Puebla she could just hit La Fayuca and have all the copied cds or cds loaded with mp3s she could possibly want for 25 pesos.
This would not be a problem if we would just blow up the moon like I have said time and time again!
I was wondering this myself :
Unlimited download?! AMEN. T-Mobile has been offering wireless internet for a while but has data limits in the 10MB range/mo. That is scary. Now, if Sprint would just offer a decent affordable cell phone plan I would be very ready to ditch T-Mobile. (Im looking for free weekends, no roaming, unlimited mobile to mobile minutes, free long distance).
I do have to wonder what the TOS on this is considering their record with Sprint Broadband Direct (which I thought looked pretty damn cool).
Fuck - I was out of town all week and I totally missed this. Really, there needs to be a clean way to pick any day and read the news posted for that day. Every site should have such a feature. It would be very nice to read the top headlines of "normal news", top headlines on the shack, top headlines on slashdot etc.
So no - not everyone knew about this yet - I did not :
I have a Samsung S105 w/ Tmobile
.JAD file from a WML page and by following the SUN OTA recommended best practices, download the .JAR directly from the device using HTTP. Please note that this is not a supported feature just yet as we are still working on network infrastructure pieces. Try at your own risk.
/. is being really weird slow for me right now, so if you check my post history (or scroll down) you should find my post and link to the s105 - I think it has a twin on the sprint network
It supports j2me and this is what tmobile had to say
As for J2ME downloads, we do not currently have our Java plaform up and running. In theory, you should be able to simply hyperlink to a
(You can find that on their developers forum)
I wonder if I can use these nokia phones in the USA w/ Tmobile (who uses GPRS and GSM) because here in the US of A, Tmobile has next to no (2) Nokia phones supported.