Ritley
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Ya, gotta read the fine print. Add $15 per line if you get the 20gb or larger bucket, $25 per line if below that. Still competitive for the right combination of lines and data pool though
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Yeah that is probably it. Well, it isn't the end of the world by any means. Like I said when I have it docked and charging, it is quite simple to touch it once every 10 minutes. Hell, I only had it lock on me one time while driving home today and it didn't even occur to me that I had been playing with it that much.
Vaclav
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Am I missing something his article doesn't elaborate unless I'm missing on Mobile reading.
Ritley
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And for the subsidized phone, it's $25 more per month. That's $600 over the life of the contract, more than the subsidy gives. What a ripoff. If you are on the lower data pool it's only $15 more per month, or $360 over the life of the contract which is close to what the actual subsidy is.
Sprint is managed by a bunch of retards. I can just imagine them in their conference room high fiving each other for coming up with something more convoluted than their Framily plan
Sprint is managed by a bunch of retards. I can just imagine them in their conference room high fiving each other for coming up with something more convoluted than their Framily plan
So I just got a new HTC Desire 816 running what I think is Android 4.4 and I have a question. On my old phone when you swipe down from the main screen it would show all the little boxes to turn on/off GPS etc. Is there a way to make it default to these boxes instead of having to hit the top right button first?
Denamian
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IIRC, on stock you get the quick settings by pulling down the notification shade with 2 fingers. Don't know if HTC messed with that though. Another possibility is pulling it down from one side or the other, which is a common feature on most roms.
Worked for me as well. Thanks
I would look into flashing a new ROM because this phone has more bloatware then a 1990's Compaq computer but I heard there is a chance you can brick your phone doing it. I guess I can just deactivate and hide the apps (like 10 different Google readers) and be done with it.
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i guess this goes here. shit pisses me off.
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Two Countries, Two Vastly Different Phone Bills
By ANNA BERNASEK
AUG. 23, 2014
If your monthly cellphone bill seems high, that may be because American cellphone service is among the most costly in the world. A comparison of two similar plans, one in the United States and one in Britain, reveals a marked difference.
Both plans include a new iPhone 5S with 16 gigabytes of memory. Both require a two-year commitment and allow unlimited voice minutes and unlimited texting. The plan offered by the British provider, Three UK, offers unlimited data and requires no upfront payment. With Britain's 20 percent tax included, the plan costs 41 pounds a month, or $67.97 at current exchange rates.
The plan provided by the American carrier, Verizon Wireless, has an upfront cost of $99.99 and then $90 a month, not including taxes. Spreading the upfront cost over 24 months and adding 17 percent tax - typical for the United States - comes to $109.47 a month. But while the British plan includes unlimited data, the American plan does not. It includes two gigabytes a month, with an additional gigabyte free during an introductory period.
To put that in perspective, two gigabytes of data allows streaming about 15 minutes of music a day and watching about 10 minutes of video a day, according to the Verizon Wireless Data Calculator. If you run over, you'll see it on your bill.
So why the $41.50-a-month difference in price? Several factors are involved, but an important one is regulatory policy. Britain has forced companies to lease their networks to competitors at cost. The United States has not, allowing a formidable barrier against competitors.
"The United States lacks meaningful competition in its cellular market sector, which leads to higher cell plan prices than a growing list of other countries," said Sascha Meinrath, founder of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation.
In a 2010 study, the institute found that the minimum cost of a complete cellphone package, which features voice, data and text, was $59.99 a month in the United States, compared with $32.40 in Britain.
"Over the next decade," Mr. Meinrath said, "U.S. consumers may overpay by over a quarter of a trillion dollars for worse levels of service than customers in other countries receive."
By ANNA BERNASEK
AUG. 23, 2014
If your monthly cellphone bill seems high, that may be because American cellphone service is among the most costly in the world. A comparison of two similar plans, one in the United States and one in Britain, reveals a marked difference.
Both plans include a new iPhone 5S with 16 gigabytes of memory. Both require a two-year commitment and allow unlimited voice minutes and unlimited texting. The plan offered by the British provider, Three UK, offers unlimited data and requires no upfront payment. With Britain's 20 percent tax included, the plan costs 41 pounds a month, or $67.97 at current exchange rates.
The plan provided by the American carrier, Verizon Wireless, has an upfront cost of $99.99 and then $90 a month, not including taxes. Spreading the upfront cost over 24 months and adding 17 percent tax - typical for the United States - comes to $109.47 a month. But while the British plan includes unlimited data, the American plan does not. It includes two gigabytes a month, with an additional gigabyte free during an introductory period.
To put that in perspective, two gigabytes of data allows streaming about 15 minutes of music a day and watching about 10 minutes of video a day, according to the Verizon Wireless Data Calculator. If you run over, you'll see it on your bill.
So why the $41.50-a-month difference in price? Several factors are involved, but an important one is regulatory policy. Britain has forced companies to lease their networks to competitors at cost. The United States has not, allowing a formidable barrier against competitors.
"The United States lacks meaningful competition in its cellular market sector, which leads to higher cell plan prices than a growing list of other countries," said Sascha Meinrath, founder of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation.
In a 2010 study, the institute found that the minimum cost of a complete cellphone package, which features voice, data and text, was $59.99 a month in the United States, compared with $32.40 in Britain.
"Over the next decade," Mr. Meinrath said, "U.S. consumers may overpay by over a quarter of a trillion dollars for worse levels of service than customers in other countries receive."
BrutulTM
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As much as I hate to defend our shitty cell carriers, infrastructure costs here are an order of magnitude higher than in the UK. If you want to claim nationwide coverage in the US you have to literally cover millions of square miles where the population density is too low to make it economically viable. UK carriers do not have that issue.
That said, Verizon and ATT are still evil, monopolistic shitbags.
That said, Verizon and ATT are still evil, monopolistic shitbags.
Didn't the telecoms get an insane amount of federal grant money to build said infrastructures on the condition that they treat them like public utilities and allow other venders to use them like the British model? I vaguely remember this happening to the cable companies like 30 years or so ago but then after the cable companies got the funds and built the network they said, "Just joking" and jacked the prices up.
On a side note. Keep in mind that I am coming from an S2 in terms of android versions but what is the target and sun looking icon up top in my picture? I am assuming the target with the line through it is because I have GPS / location settings turned off. as for the sun, every once and a while it rotates around. Is it the auto brightness feature and when it spins, it is "calculating" or something?
I am OCD as hell and anything I can do to remove all the fucking icons up top like LTE, the two icons above, only show a % for battery etc, let me know.
On a side note. Keep in mind that I am coming from an S2 in terms of android versions but what is the target and sun looking icon up top in my picture? I am assuming the target with the line through it is because I have GPS / location settings turned off. as for the sun, every once and a while it rotates around. Is it the auto brightness feature and when it spins, it is "calculating" or something?
I am OCD as hell and anything I can do to remove all the fucking icons up top like LTE, the two icons above, only show a % for battery etc, let me know.
Izo
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Mrs. Izo got her iPhone 5s looted at her office. Find iPhone app says the iPhone is offline. Is there any way to force it online or whatever? Sent the 'lost' alert and sound. Queued and no tracking info.
How secure are these iPhones anyway? Is it totally unusable for the thief or can he simply reflash it? I hope the fucker gets a brick.
How secure are these iPhones anyway? Is it totally unusable for the thief or can he simply reflash it? I hope the fucker gets a brick.
Oldbased
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That 2 finger swipe down works on my Blu even. I'm guessing most of this shit is a android thing more than a brand thing.
Any other cool shortcuts? Like when scrolling, I ALWAYS select shit by accident, have to hit back and pray I can scroll again without opening up random gay shit.
Any other cool shortcuts? Like when scrolling, I ALWAYS select shit by accident, have to hit back and pray I can scroll again without opening up random gay shit.