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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:41 am

Here Comes Verizon Wireless 4G LTE
Verizon commercial claiming extensive 3G and 4G network covering most of the USA. If the network performs as at full capacity streaming video should be no problem. Of course, that's assuming that network actually delivers the performance the company promises!
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:21 am

How a 14-Year-Old Built the No. 1 iPhone Game
Kids this smart seem kind of rare nowadays. Most of them are too busy playing video games or listening to mind-bogglingly dumb rap music! :dizzy:
Most 14-year-olds are watching TV, thinking about the school dance and spending way too much time on Facebook. Eighth-grader Robert Nay, meanwhile, used his spare time to build a No. 1 iPhone app. Nay's Bubble Ball, an addictive multi-level physics game, managed to unperch the mega-popular Angry Birds from the number-one spot on the free games list in mid-January. The deceptively simple game gets increasingly more challenging as players move objects around and manipulate the laws of physics to get a ball through an obstacle course to the finish line.

LINK: http://smallbusiness.aol.com/2011/01/26/bubble-balls-robert-nay-how-a-14-year-old-built-the-no-1-ipho/
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:46 am

Lawsuit says AT&T iPhone billing like ‘rigged gas pump’
All the major telecommunications companies rip customers off. It's one huge scam. People are charged exorbitant fees for service that's worth about a tenth of what they get billed. It's ridiculous. I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. They're all a bunch of crooks! They really rip off customers whenever a new technology comes along. The fees for cellular service and data plans are inflated beyond belief!
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A new lawsuit claims that the AT&T iPhone billing overcharges Apple phone and tablet owners and includes “phantom traffic.” The lawsuit was filed by Patrick Hendricks of California and the suit comes after his AT&T iPhone billing seemed high. He subscribed to the $15 data plan for 200 MB of data but he said he was constantly having to pay more for exceeding it. He claims that the overage charges aren’t fair either – he was charged $15 overage even though his usage was 223 MB.

LINK: http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/01/att-iphone-lawsuit/
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:52 am

pcslim wrote:Lawsuit says AT&T iPhone billing like ‘rigged gas pump’
All the major telecommunications companies rip customers off. It's one huge scam. People are charged exorbitant fees for service that's worth about a tenth of what they get billed. It's ridiculous. I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. They're all a bunch of crooks! They really rip off customers whenever a new technology comes along. The fees for cellular service and data plans are inflated beyond belief!
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A new lawsuit claims that the AT&T iPhone billing overcharges Apple phone and tablet owners and includes “phantom traffic.” The lawsuit was filed by Patrick Hendricks of California and the suit comes after his AT&T iPhone billing seemed high. He subscribed to the $15 data plan for 200 MB of data but he said he was constantly having to pay more for exceeding it. He claims that the overage charges aren’t fair either – he was charged $15 overage even though his usage was 223 MB.

LINK: http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/01/att-iphone-lawsuit/

ABSO-FREAKING-LOOTLY!!! And even when you pay the ridiculously inflated service fees, the service is still unreliable!!! :mad002:

But it beats the old technology... I guess...
Telephones Through the Ages

It seems that everyday I am hearing more and more news about new and improved cell phones. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I got my very first one and now I can’t do without it. Many kids these days can’t even remember a time without cell phones.

PICTURES: http://www.vivaboo.com/telephones-through-the-ages/
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:40 am

Verizon iPhone 4 Reviews
I'm still leaning towards Android-based phones, but I'm still undecided! :conf003:
Verizon Wireless is expected to take a bite out of AT&T's sales this month with its new iPhone 4. Verizon's version of the popular smart phone is similar to the AT&T iPhone- with a couple of key differences.

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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:29 am

Smartphones Now Outselling PCs
With coverage getting better and better all the time, smartphones make a lot of sense, but that small screen is rather irksome! Also many of the places I travel still don't have cellular service!
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For the first time in history, mobile products have exceeded computer shipments. According to a report by the Financial Times, manufacturers shipped more smartphones than personal computers in the fourth quarter of 2010. Over 100 million smartphones were distributed in the last three months of 2010, up 87-percent from the year prior. In contrast, PC shipments reached only 92 million units in the same timeframe, up 3-percent from 2009. While certainly a noteworthy turn of events, the data should be taken with a grain of salt, and special consideration should be given to the high turnover of smartphone units. In other words, customers buy new smartphones more frequently than they do PCs, due to the lower costs and rapid evolution of mobile technology.

LINK: http://gear.ign.com/articles/114/1148657p1.html
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:57 am

5 Ways the Verizon iPhone Is Different from AT&T's
Decisions! Decisions! What smartphone should you get or would you be better off just waiting (and saving money in the process)? :conf003:
1. World-Mode CDMA/GSM Chip
2. Dual-Antenna Design
3. New, uh, Vibrator
4. Integrated GPS
5. Lighter Battery

LINK: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379671,00.asp
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:08 pm

Apple to Unveil iPhone Mini?
Smaller and cheaper... :pacman:
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:52 am

7 Reasons Why You Should Buy An Android Phone Instead Of An iPhone
Here they are: 1) Larger screen, 2) Customizable home screen, 3) More powerful camera, 4) Plays HD quality video on your TV, 5) Expandable storage, 6) Faster processors, 7) Uses full bandwidth available on 4G networks. I'm still thinking that this is a case of not enough bang for the buck, but a little more bang and a little less buck and I could be persuaded...
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LINK: http://www.businessinsider.com/7-reasons-why-you-should-buy-an-android-phone-instead-of-an-iphone-2011-2
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:51 am

New 4G network could cause widespread GPS dead zones
Interesting! :conf003:
If a plan to build new 4G mobile phone base stations in the US goes ahead, engineers say GPS satellite navigation systems will be seriously jammed and huge areas of the country will become GPS dead zones. Virginia company LightSquared communicates with satellites using low-power signals in the frequency range 1525 to 1559 MHz, which is close to the frequency range GPS uses (1559 to 1610 MHz). So far this has not caused interference problems but if the planned 40,000 new high-power 4G base stations are built they would use stronger signals in the same frequency range. LightSquared hopes to complete the 4G broadband network by 2015 at a cost of up to $8 billion. The network is expected to deliver mobile phone users download speeds of up to 10 megabits per second. Engineers Scott Burgett and Bronson Hokuf with Garmin International, a satellite navigation systems manufacturing company in Olathe, Kansas, say the stronger signals will be disastrous, seriously limiting GPS reception, causing widespread GPS jamming and depriving vast areas of the US of GPS coverage.

LINK: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-4g-network-widespread-gps-dead.html
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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:47 am

Android Malware Preys on Apps
Serious security problem for Android users. They claim it doesn't work on Gingerbread, but smartphones running older versions of the OS could be in trouble!
The virus is capable of the following : it can place a phone call, read and keep your text messages, send and delete them also, put all of your contact information and send it to a remote server, and also silently download files. It's called the Gemini Trojan, unleashed last December. Now, more than 50,000 Android users have been introduced to its bigger, badder successor. They've all been hacked by the newest Android malware -- deemed DreamDroid.

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Re: Smart Phones

Postby Anonymizer » Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:27 am

Power Your Phone While You Walk
This might be a viable way to keep your portable phone charged in the not too distant future. :bubble:
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