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Leo @ CES2010
Jan 7th
Hmm…weird that on Leo Laporte’s coverage of CES2010 he mentioned that they tried Sprint’s 4G and all the other phone service providers YET VERIZON’S DATA NETWORK WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD KEEP UP WITH THEIR STREAM….hmmmm….appears as though AT&T’s “better 3g network” commercials are a bunch of malarkey and do not apply in the real world. It’s a shame they have to blatantly lie to keep people from leaving, don’t ya think?
Edit: Streaming Video removed from this post. A static version of the portion mentioned in this post will be put here (if I can find it). If you would like to view the streaming video of Leo’s Show please see it under “Live Streams”.
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Droid Does
Dec 26th
I just stopped by the Verizon Wireless store on the way home. It’s Christmas time so wouldn’t you know, I couldn’t leave without asking if I was eligible for an upgrade. Well, it turns out that “New every two” is for most people but my current plan is eligible annually and my year anniversary was 5 days ago. So….yup, a Motorola Droid just found itself a new home.
I will post a review as soon as I can…
Please Leave a Message After the Beep…….Beep
Jul 31st
“David Pogue has distilled into useful form a long-standing complaint I have (and one reason I have long had a voice mail greeting that asked people not to leave me voicemail): cell phone companies set up the greeting, caller instructions, and playback system prompts in large part to maximize their revenue per user; by his calculations, the “mandatory 15-second voicmail instructions” from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and others is earning those companies something near a billion dollars a year in charges. Pogue suggests that users should “take back the beep,” and to that end provides contact information for the largest cell carriers in order to register a complaint — and, more helpful in the short run, suggests ways in which to make better use of paid-for phone minutes by alerting callers how to bypass the annoying instructions.”
I’ve never really thought about it this way. I mean, I’ve always noticed the message and I’ve always wished I could skip it but I’ve never really thought about the reason it was there.
I thought that on all these plans they always said, “When you call voicemail, it doesn’t count towards your minutes.”
If, however, I’ve been under a vast misunderstanding then this definitely brings up a good point that, shockingly, I’ve never heard arise before.
I suppose we will hear more of this at some point.
America’s Most Reliable 3G Network
Jul 30th
“Verizon has asked a court to affirm its claim to be ‘America’s Most Reliable 3G Network.’ From the article, ‘Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone Group PLC, asked a U.S. court for a judgment that its advertising claims to be “America’s Most Reliable 3G Network” were truthful, which rival AT&T called “misleading” on Monday. In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Verizon said assertions on July 1 by AT&T Mobility LLC, a unit of AT&T, that its advertising was false could not be supported. AT&T, which has its principal business in Atlanta, had filed the challenge with the National Advertising Division of the Council for Better Business Bureaus. Verizon Wireless said its claims of having “America’s Most Reliable 3G Network” and “America’s Best 3G Network” and “America’s Most Reliable Wireless Network” are “truthful, accurate and substantiated” and do not violate the trademark law known as the Lanham Act. It said that AT&T’s challenge “relies on the incorrect premise that speed is an essential element of the standard for measuring network reliability.”"
suraj.sun writes “I can only hope that at some future date a court will decide which light beer truly is the best tasting.”