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IcelandDreams 2008-04-23 17:26
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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 173713)
No one is really Canadian. It's like a virtual membership to some countercultural geek club. And who would admit to such a thing, anyway?
Dem's fightin words. :)

Like many Italian heritage folks living in Woodbridge (burb in Toronto) for many generations, indeed, they claim to be Italians instead of Canucks. Unless until of course the Jays beat Atlanta, again.

Welcome to Canuckistan, pioneers in wireless communications so we'll just leave it at that for another hundred years.

Then there are the Vestur Íslendingar (West Icelanders) still out west.

two cans and a string works as well as a cell phone up here. data you say? hahahaha. Where's my WiMAX//......

AbelMN 2008-04-23 17:29
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I probably should not support German Providers, but since 1 1/2 year I buy prepaid sim cards from your TV commercial guys for I think 10 $ / 30 minutes on arrival in Dulles Ap.(T-mobile shop) . Enough for a short stay and supports US GSM networks. (AT&T and others. Works even in London NC.):eek:

Mara 2008-04-23 18:15
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Just a quick count of cell phones T-mobile offers on their web site today:
- Nokia: 9
- BlackBerry: 11
- Motorola: 10
- Samsung: 10

There are some "T-mobile branded" phones as well... but I didn't count those.

Overall Nokia is fairly evenly represented there based on model count. Only that all Nokia's are "free" and BlackBerries the most expensive...

No Nokia premium (N or E series) phones are there.

Texrat 2008-04-23 18:17
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Originally Posted by Mara (Post 173733)
No Nokia premium (N or E series) phones are there.
and THAT is the sad aspect...

TheRealBubba 2008-04-23 18:54
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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 173713)
No one is really Canadian. It's like a virtual membership to some countercultural geek club. And who would admit to such a thing, anyway?
I just shovelled a snot-load of snow this morning, and am feeling particularly countercultural (and deprived of shiny-phone purchasing opportunities..)

Texrat 2008-04-23 19:37
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If the measure is anything like my Springtime snots, that's a LOT of snow!

My sympathies, Canuck brother. :D

IcelandDreams 2008-04-23 19:38
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Originally Posted by TheRealBubba (Post 173751)
I just shovelled a snot-load of snow this morning, and am feeling particularly countercultural (and deprived of shiny-phone purchasing opportunities..)
Bring some of that snot over here. I've got a bet going that despite the +10-+20C we're having this week I say we get one more big'un. I win the last snow of the year bet every year... It took me 15 hours to pump the snow melt off the pool cover. Lot's of fluffy stuff this past winter.

Shiny phones? When Nokia makes a rotary dial cell phone I'll buy it. Or until the cell providers up here wake up and notice that the rest of the world has moved way beyond what we romantically call a cell phone network. Gee, I know a tiny country with a total population of 300K that has a better and cheaper system than here.

Tablets R Us.

b-man 2008-04-28 03:12
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Originally Posted by TheRealBubba (Post 173751)
I just shovelled a snot-load of snow this morning, and am feeling particularly countercultural (and deprived of shiny-phone purchasing opportunities..)
Ha ha ha ha!!! It's ben in the 70's and 80's ware i live> witch is in northwest OHIO (us)

igor 2008-04-28 04:11
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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 173709)
Marconi ripped off Tesla. :p
Yeah, he must have learned how to do it by observing Bell vs Meucci and Edison vs Tesla (again, poor guy).

Texrat 2008-04-28 04:46
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Originally Posted by igor (Post 175436)
Yeah, he must have learned how to do it by observing Bell vs Meucci and Edison vs Tesla (again, poor guy).
Hey, at least Tesla won in the AC/DC war. ;)

On Marconi v Tesla, some history for those interested: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html


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