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Maybe it's a good idea, but you can't help thinking one day it will bite you when you really need it. It's borderline form over function. I'm not sure what you lose is offset by what you gain, ie, slightly more battery and a cleaner machine bottom. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It’s quite possible, but CDMA will be around for many years to come. Even though Verizon is claiming to start LTE shortly it’ll be years before it has the coverage that CDMA2000 currently has, in that time CD…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macslut It's not being hypocritical to point out that you're acting like a jerk when you're hurling unwarranted insults. There you go again....anyway, it doesn't matter if CDMA and Verizon represent .0000001% of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mcloki At the heart of it there's something wrong with having to pay for Touch upgrades. I mean even if you have to pay for it Apple could charge .99 cents and be done with it. It just smacks too much as a money grab c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macslut No, I guess not, if you want to be a jerk and hurl personal insults instead of simply correcting misinformation. I wasn't talking necessarily about adding. As the iPhone would be sold through Verizon, o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macslut Wow, intense much? You're right. I had read the whitepaper PDF and other documents on the Infineon chipset and believed it supported CDMA. It doesn't, it supports WCDMA...not the same thing. I'm sorry if …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cameronj Go back to Econ 101. Or the USSR. Or high school. Or back into the womb and disappear. Personally I'm pretty pissed that Porsche has a monopoly on Porsches. They're such nice cars, if only there were s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AjitMD I suspect that the reason Apple manufactures in China has to do more than manufacturing cost of $6.50. Automation reduces the impact of labor cost significantly. The big difference is tax avoidance via transfe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macslut I believe it always has, but of course the firmware doesn't. I've never understood the claims that it would be an issue of cost for Apple to support CDMA...other than the exclusivity/subsidy deal with AT&T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PG4G No. Developers need API's written by Apple to give access. For example, bluetooth has always been in every iPhone but access was not allowed. Simply, developers have no way to talk to that chip directly and circum…
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Quote: Originally Posted by al_bundy why? it's normal to buy twice the storage at the same price as time goes on few months ago i priced out some HP servers with 32GB of RAM. They take up to 64GB. The 32GB cost $1500 while 64GB would cost $…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H No, they aren't the prices you'd pay. For you to get those components from somewhere like digikey would probably cost you more than the unsubsidised price of a new iPhone, if you could get them at all. The pri…
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Quote: Originally Posted by majortom1981 Does thisa mean that the 3gs has an fm radio thats disabled but can be enabled via 3rd parties? Only if the right pins were connected in hardware. Probably the critical one would be the antenna connecti…
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Great, now to dig up the jailbreak software for 3.0 so my iPod touch actually stays useful.
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism I find that the best solution for those long trips without a a power cable is my notebook’s battery. When my iPhone gets low I just plug it into my notebook via the 30-pin-to-USB cable and I get many, many ch…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You post makes no sense at all. None! You haven't shown the advantage of having several rechargeable batteries as opposed to external ones. None! Don't be childish here. If you have nothing useful to say…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross The iPhone is no bigger than most smartphones, and smaller than some. We're all very happy to know that you think you're sexy. No, its much bigger. The Nokia E55 is much smaller that an iPhone. Doesn't t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Denton And I suppose that you have 4-5 extra batteries that you charge-up in advance for your Nokia so you can last a full 3 days without plugging in to the wall? You know as well as everyone else that there are power…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram That's ridiculous. (1) How often do you take 22-hour flights? (2) Even if/when you do, and assuming an aggressive 6 hours of battery life, don't you, according to your own argument, have to carry three e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rokken Unfortunately he's not gonna get Pre because his pocket is even too tight for the giant iPhone, not to mention the thicker Pre. I don't know why this isn't brought up more. The iPhone is a truly large phone. …