Poor Sprint, Verizon is creeping closer to their plans
Oh boy. Looks like Verizon is not quite happy with that Sprint’s commercial where they claim to offer a better plan for $69.99. Which is still true up to this point — you generally have to choose limited anytime minutes on Sprint with unlimited anything else or unlimited talk and sms but not data on…
Continue reading…Nokia: any hope for US significance?
Ah, poor Nokia. It’s marketshare keeps on slipping (according to IDC), and the US market share is just tiny, compared to the world-wide (7.8%). Yet the management seems to claim that US market will be the priority, and that company will be “listening to carriers”. At the same time there will be no new CDMA…
Continue reading…Google Voice: hold off on upgrading
So, the updated version of Google Voice application for Android (and most likely other version as well, but I haven’t tried the blackberry one) now has a new “faster” dialing. What was happening before, is your phone would call web service, then dial your Google Voice number, and connected you wherever you were trying to…
Continue reading…Only Apple can teach people how to handle the phone
So, I did check co-worker’s phone for the “reception issue” where grabbing the phone by the sides results in gradual 4-bar signal strength loss. In his case it started with 5 bars and ended with 1, still being able to receive the call, though placing a call took a long time. Yes, the antenna problems…
Continue reading…Bad day for mobile data users
It was expected for a while now, but still, anouncement that AT&T will no longer offer unlimited data was kind of unexpected. For now the new “improvement” is only for 3G iPhone and iPad, but I am sure it will be expanded further to all other models of mobile devices. After all, they go from…
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