Very cool -
::4G Envy::I noticed after a few minutes of inactivity it goes into a power save mode that then produces around 700k down and 20k up! After about a minute of being awake again it climbs back to around 1mbps down and consistently 1.2-1.5 Mbps up.
That's interesting ... I wonder if they downstep to 3G to conserve 4G bandwidth until you actually need it, but keep apps connected. Hmmm.
It trickle charges nicely off my laptop's USB with tethering enabled, actually climbing to fully charged. I did a complete Ubuntu update with reboot and all. Yeah man, I'm scoping out T-Mobile 4G maps for some exotic day job experiences. But here's a nice zing for good old itto - I already purchased it and it was being delivered when the AT&T news broke out! Curses!!
That is hot. My middle son does that all the time (tether and charge). I had my first experience with that the other day when, surprisingly, I had my phone and my old notebook but not my pad. Hook up and boom. Sweet. Back packs and cliffs baby.
I hope that merger doesn't happen. Two companies would command over 80% of all US wireless traffic. Bad for consumers me thinks
As an AT&T serf I wish it would (it would instantly double the density here in hell) but get the idea of too bigness. That said, it seems to be a natural cycle ... startups, acquisition, consolidation, startups to fill the voids left by consolidation ... might take longer than you'd like, but it could bring innovation.
But the "contract?" There is none. I pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited data, txt and 1000 minutes ($69) and can ad $10 more if I want to talk unlimited too. Cool thing they're doing these days is offering insurance without contracts at $6 per month ($130 deductible). Totally worth it, especially when I mount it to a mountain bike for GPS
That's really great - I'm into phones a lot right ATM and that does seem like a pretty good deal. What is the actual coverage for 4G where you are? Sprint is ALL BRAGGY about the fact that they're the first with 4G in the valley. The only problem, is that it's something like 3 antennas right by the airport
so if you live in the dead zone, you're good to go. They say we're probably at least a year before there's realistic coverage around here
I'm curious to know if the iPhone has anything like the "
Genius Button." Press the button and say "find coffee shops nearby" and a map appears with push pins. Selecting one goes into GPS mode while you walk/drive there.
Nuts is right, there's no hardware or built in app/service like that, but there are a boatload of apps. And also agree, most people don't use voice dialing or control, even if they know it's there. PinkHat for example - she has the benefit of our entire contact library at her command... yet she tells me I'm an idiot for not filling my "favorites" fields on the phone
I tell her that with VoiceD *everyone* is a favorite. I use it all the time, but don't really remember all the other commands or apps that listen to commands, pretty much only dialing.
But all that said, it's a pretty cool demonstration of processing power and services mashup.
