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Quote: Originally Posted by heffeque Imagine how the Russians feel And they provide much better coverage for the population. About 15-20 million people live in Moscow area and they have no troubles with coverage. Yes, there some restrictions …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Besides what Bartfat stated, note that the US mobile infrastructure is considerably larger than the UK. According to the CIA World Fact Book the UK is slightly smaller than Oregon. Quote: Originally Posted…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bulk001 I am not sure but it might have to do with the fact that in the US the telco subsidizes the cost of the phone while it sounds like in the EU many people buy their phones upfront. That said, our costs are still …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DanielSW Apple is probably hugging themselves over all this fragmentation and babble. Can't wait to see what they have in store for the 27th. Android already has posibility to develop ant test applications on dif…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rkhosa The chain is incomplete without a carrier. They are irreplacable. The customer won't buy a fancy gadget for posterity's sake The chain is going to change. Carriers ARE replaceable. In Europe you can buy any p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mjtomlin Removing features and adding their own crap on them, ruining the overall experience. Can you provide a list of features removed by any manufacture?
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Just checked out the reviews of MacMall (the most advertising online store at the site). Looks like a total scam http://www.resellerratings.com/store/MacMall
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee there is no reason that reading from an LCD would be any different or cause any "strain" on the eyes at all relative to other things like ePaper or eInk. Please, don't imagine. Just try it yourself.
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper Well matte screen LCD's do the same, easy to read. No way, man! Try it yourself and you'll find the difference
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Quote: Originally Posted by sflocal Have any of you critical folks even used an e-reader let alone even seen one in person? I have and let me tell you, they are great for the purpose they are designed for. Reading books. Obviously, reading boo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWatchfulOne It has: Syncs very well with Mac Address Book and iCal (Outlook on the PC) Multi-touch with responsive gestures. (Nexus One lacks multi-touch completely.) Allows developers to write native 3rd party …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr developers can probably work around this (offer two versions just by adding more background to a Nexus app to fill the Droid's extra space? why, you'd hardly notice.). but consumers will have to buy the same ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rhetoric.assassin why worry about Android, a fracturing OS on multiple platforms? Why go after RIM? Let the business nerds keep their crummy scrolling ball and worse hardware keyboards. Android and Google repeats Wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 8CoreWhore The problem lies with the 3%. Many of them are tethering to their computers! They are hurting the rest of us. We need tiered pricing. Why should someone who only uses 500MB pay the same as someone using 10G…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper Why buy 100 X-Servers at $1000 each when you can buy one 100 core Dell Server for half the price and use 1/100th of the power to boot? Will the Dell run OS X? Hell no, it's going to be Windows. May be the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Intel’s prices for 1000 units….— W3520 (8M L2 cache, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 2.66 GHz (130W) 4.80 GT/sec Intel® QPI 45nm) $284 — W3540 (8M L2 cache, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 2.93 GHz (130W) 4.80 GT/sec Intel® QPI 45n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lemon Bon Bon. This is a nonsense upgrade. .33 extra for $1200? Are they nuts? Not so easy. The default 2.66GHz costs itself about $500 and 3.33GHz costs about $1500. So the Apple's margin for the upgrade is about…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Went to Frys and got 2x2GB Patriot RAM. Next time try to buy wellknown brand RAM, not lower-end one. Try G.SKILL, Corsair, OSZ
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism A restart every 6 to 7 months. Complete BS. MS issues critical updates that require restarts much more frequently than that. Or are saying that you don’t need no stinking updates? So you state that I'm ly…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Don’t be obtuse. Viruses, spyware, defraging,removing processes from RegEdit from newly installed apps that run in the background at start up/log in, general unraveling of Windows XP after continued use. H…