Posts by zaren

I finally pulled the trigger on a pre-paid Android smartphone last week, and now there's talk of a cheap / pre-paid iPhone? Well, they'll have to get it down to $25 a month to get me really upset, I guess. Otherwise, I'm good with my...

Quote: Originally Posted by euler Any chance this is just a battle of two companies battling for market share? Sure... if there was a second company that was a challenge for market share.

Quote: Originally Posted by Joe hs $39.99 just for voice, and you still have to pay for the phone? I'm not even joking when I say this: why has no one "rebelled" and put a stop to this US cellphone extortion? As a european,...

Quote: Originally Posted by hubel I feel sorry for you Americans sometimes. You are seriously being ripped off with your phone plans. For £10 a month (approx $16.00) you can get 250 minutes, Unlimited texts and Unlimited data with no...

Quote: Originally Posted by dualie Virgin Mobile in the U.S. is $40/month with a recently introduced 5GB cap. I dumped it and went back to my Sprint $60/month unlimited plan. Besides, Virgin's USB dongle is crap, with an antenna jack...

hoping that with two carriers, someone might be interested in competitive pricing. *sigh* I guess I'm still not worthy of an iPhone, since I can't afford their plans. I guess I"m gonna have to go with Virgin Mobile and $25 a month...

Quote: Originally Posted by tonton Likewise. Who listens to audio through the TV speakers these days? Unless you're going from every video device you have into the TV then out again to the receiver. Unfortunately, that's not easy to do...

500,000 square feet (the size of this data center) is just under 9 football fields (including end zones). That's a LOT of space.

Quote: Originally Posted by Zaphodsplanet Okay, I'm sorry but WHAT IN THE HELL is up with the dude interviewing Ballmer. Looks like he's wearing a sweater he took out of his sisters closet, then stole his grandmothers glasses.......

So, 68% of the "top apps"... 57 of the top apps... out of how many hundreds of thousands of apps... What if they picked the top 100 apps, and there were no other apps that phones home? Then their percentage would be cut...