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2010-01-06
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Originally Posted by HangLoose
This is where it is good to occasionally keep exporting your data from Google just like backups are a good idea. But you do make an excellent example of the argument.
Data breach in one service is one thing...
Another thing is if your entire on-line life is in one service provider.
What if someone finds your google account password?
Or if google wakes up in a bad mood and just decides to lock you out from your account? (like happened to me) Or if it just decides that I have violated one section of the TOS (that I bet very few people pay attention to) and it kicks you out from its services forever...
I am a big google fan and I like many of its products... But once I realized how much info they are gathering, maps, videos, news, ads, search, desktop and now they are following me on my pocket, I decided that it is better, for me, a more fragmented on-line life for a bit more privacy and assurance that I wont be locked out when I want to upload my pics or read the news...
But that is me...
Sometimes I tend to look over my shoulder to check if someone is following me... Paranoid android.
Originally Posted by colnago
Once again, you confuse marketing presence for wireless towers. I understand that you intend to mean that you expect better service given that there is such a large marketing presence, but that's irrelevant to how much they've invested in towers and map coverage. Have you complained to Verizon yet, so that they're aware of your coverage issues? In my case, I live and work along the Route 91 corridor from Springfield, MA, to Hartford, CT. I rarely see a lack of 3G signal, much less any loss of signal at all.
But given "an entire town" with such a heavy Verizon presence (3 Verizon stores, one of first towns in the state to get Fios, etc), I shouldn't get total loss of signal in 4 different areas, within an 8 mile radius...nor go from full bars 3g to no signal, and then to 1x, without moving the phone an inch while it sits on my desk. Again, less than 2 miles from a tower where I get -53dBm signal? With 37 towers and 200+ antenna within 4 mile radius, 1-2 of them would have to be Verizon?
One would also think that they would get better than "half bars" in the parking lot outside the Verizon store? That said, other phones in the store were not losing "half signal" just by picking them up off the cradle "inside the store".
Originally Posted by colnago
That's an excellent way to extend your ability to reach farther towers. I'll have to look into that myself too. Thanks for the link!
I think its the "Phone", and posted these findings after making an antenna "mod":
http://androidforums.com/motorola-dr...light=homemade
Originally Posted by colnago
I didn't say it was a baseline, simply stated that mileage may vary given that our differing experiences are purely anecdotal.
...unless we live in the same area, I don't see how you and your brother's experiences would be considered the baseline.
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2010-01-06
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did you read all the post and the questions people posed?
i was addressing those posts.
i'm not gonna spend ages writing a pretty arguement with lots of quotes,
i'll say my 2cents, if it helps someone who asked or raised any of the points in this thread then fine. if it doesnt then oh well, nothing lost on me.
i was addressing those posts.
i'm not gonna spend ages writing a pretty arguement with lots of quotes,
i'll say my 2cents, if it helps someone who asked or raised any of the points in this thread then fine. if it doesnt then oh well, nothing lost on me.
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2010-01-06
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#164
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i thought you were having a pop at the thread for like no reason- yeah its a lame thread to be honest i am getting tired the snow is getting high and i cant be bothered to sleep because no point getting out of bed tommorow- no chance in going to work..
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2010-01-06
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Originally Posted by colnago
Wild. I used the Droid for two weeks in Kentucky and it is not exactly a metropolis
But given "an entire town" with such a heavy Verizon presence (3 Verizon stores, one of first towns in the state to get Fios, etc), I shouldn't get total loss of signal in 4 different areas, within an 8 mile radius...nor go from full bars 3g to no signal, and then to 1x, without moving the phone an inch while it sits on my desk. Again, less than 2 miles from a tower where I get -53dBm signal? With 37 towers and 200+ antenna within 4 mile radius, 1-2 of them would have to be Verizon?
One would also think that they would get better than "half bars" in the parking lot outside the Verizon store? That said, other phones in the store were not losing "half signal" just by picking them up off the cradle "inside the store".
I think its the "Phone", and posted these findings after making an antenna "mod":
http://androidforums.com/motorola-dr...light=homemade
...unless we live in the same area, I don't see how you and your brother's experiences would be considered the baseline.
EVERYWHERE I went I had 3D coverage and places my G1 has one bar (N900 no bars), I get 3G and can watch HQ video on Youtube and Jetflicks.Verizon is great where I live, but I kept waiting on Tmo to get better and Verizon is $20 more a month. Might bail now, since I use my N900 with wifi only and as a media player. When we go to England from now on, I will get a prepaid sim for the N900 and use it.
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2010-01-06
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Originally Posted by mysticrokks
Ah your in London, I read in BBC news today that you guys were getting hammered with snow.
i thought you were having a pop at the thread for like no reason- yeah its a lame thread to be honest i am getting tired the snow is getting high and i cant be bothered to sleep because no point getting out of bed tommorow- no chance in going to work..
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Originally Posted by ysss
They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
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2010-01-06
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abit of snow and this country shuts down i tell ya- but to be honest its pretty thick out there. jeas
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2010-01-06
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well i've got to look forward to ppl in england *****in down the fone at me looking for their engineer. well i don't actually but the guys who work with me do while i put my headfones on and work on other things haha.
i honestly think that if people put the same passion into being productive as they do their arguements and lets be honest there's alot of made up numbers and fake facts being branded about, we'd all have better devices.
if you want to know what i think on android, i think it's ok. it's not gonna make me into someone i'm not and it won't fit all my needs but it looks good and it works in most area's.
my opinion on maemo5. it's pretty new (it's like windows xp compared to windows 2000. same name same principles, but a major rebuild. also took 2 service packs to become stable) , application side looks interesting. i can see where it's gonna be headed n i think it's going to be pretty powerful.
it has it's flaws, doesn't fit every need. looks good and works in most area's
i honestly think that if people put the same passion into being productive as they do their arguements and lets be honest there's alot of made up numbers and fake facts being branded about, we'd all have better devices.
if you want to know what i think on android, i think it's ok. it's not gonna make me into someone i'm not and it won't fit all my needs but it looks good and it works in most area's.
my opinion on maemo5. it's pretty new (it's like windows xp compared to windows 2000. same name same principles, but a major rebuild. also took 2 service packs to become stable) , application side looks interesting. i can see where it's gonna be headed n i think it's going to be pretty powerful.
it has it's flaws, doesn't fit every need. looks good and works in most area's
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Never argue with stupid people.They lower you to their level then beat you with experience.
Humility is something we should all taste.
Never argue with stupid people.They lower you to their level then beat you with experience.
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2010-01-06
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Yah.. Android is fine. Makes a better PHONE that the N900, is all. 
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2010-01-06
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Originally Posted by colnago
You mean Motorola and Verizon?
I'm saying Nokia "most likely" doesn't have the same resources that Google has (market value/product offerings/business model). Given the "DROID" ad campain, I think its obvious which company is looking to take iPhone market share.
its all about how a phone works, not how and why its made, not the politics behind it, not what may be in the future (we cant have em today).
yeah sure what you say is perhaps interesting but the only thing of any relevance to how a device works or makes you feel was a games console(arnt we talking about phones???)
thats the FACT