 Matt3All noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! said by Cod:Matt- You are in the very small minority in the Triad area. I know at least 10 people from Winston to Greensboro who love their iPhones and have no issues at all, including me. I constantly get between 1-2mb throughout the Triad area on 3g. I know its hip & cool to hate on AT&T but I do question every time you post how horrible AT&T is... I don't see it in WS/HP/Greensboro. I'm sorry, but I disagree. I know 4 people in various parts of Greensboro who have AT&T service and are very unhappy. I frequently travel from Burlington to Winston and I question your 1-2Mbps claim. I stream Slacker radio and XM Radio and I constantly experience data timeouts and connection failures.
And if it is somehow cool or hip to hate on AT&T, I could care less. I just want a phone that works reliably. I think most people who are happy are light users or just don't want to admit there is a flaw with their precious iPhone. When I really started using my phone a lot more often, I noticed that it just isn't reliable. If you go look at any of the recent nationwide carrier tests, the same problems always crop with, especially with network reliability.
And it's not the iPhone as I initially suspected, because I have an LG phone that experiences the same issues. I'm sitting here with "No Service" as we speak, but 5 minutes ago, I had full bars.
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I'll add, if you look back to my previous posts when I first got my iPhone, I didn't have trouble with service or the iPhone, aside from a lot of dropped calls. The service has degraded to the point I would consider unacceptable. It happened slowly, but now I have problems more often than not, no matter where I travel.
»www.pcworld.com/article/167391/a···_3g.html
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The AT&T network's 13-city average download speed in our tests was 812 kbps. Its average upload speed was 660 kbps. Reliability was an issue in our experience of the AT&T system: Our testers were able to make a connection at a reasonable, uninterrupted speed in only 68 percent of their tests.
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Re: Apple - King of Media Whatever. Last I looked at a Mac Pro they used the i7 processors.
And the fact that the Mac Pro uses A Xeon that is EXACTLY THE SAME as my 1366 but has ECC or support for multiple cpus is not helping your point. |
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said by tiger72:said by Qumahlin:said by tiger72:How is Apple "King of Media" when it took them 3 years to enable the most basic multimedia feature on cell phones for over a decade? The Multimedia Message. Of course, leave it to Apple fankids to forget that, and only point the blame at ATT (which happily allows MMS for everyone else). It's simple. It's not an apple issue. I had MMS on my 2g iphone, I have MMS on my 3g iphone. It has nothing to do with the phone, its ATT...thats why "apple fankids" point to ATT. And friends on ATT had MMS on their nokias and motorolas and samsungs for years, and continue to have them. On ATT. Hrmm, so it seems like that's not ATT's "lack of support". Are you really under the impression the iphone hasn't supported MMS because of Apple? Do you see Apple mentioned in this article? Is Apple the ones running the MMSC servers? Is apple also operating on the side as a MMS aggregator that no one but you is aware of? Ahh, yes the fankid comes out. The fact that ATT had to use a 3rd party solution for the iPhone (which is partially to blame for this mess) is apparently irrelevant. The first 2 years that the iPhone didn't support MMS was fine, but god forbid ATT have issues manually resetting people's iPhone-tagged accounts to direct messages back to the phones a few months after Apple (in their infinite wisdom) finally supports a standard that's been around for over a decade. You do realize MMS is set in the CARRIER profile right? Last I checked Apple was not the carrier anymore than Motorola is a carrier. And last I checked, the carrier (ATT) supports MMS on every other device. If ATT was so concerned about data issues from MMS (which your iphone fanboi blogs like to contend), they could simply do what most network operators do: restrict the content size. downrez photos to 640x480, and limit video to 30 seconds (only on the 3gs of course, the first 2 iphones apparently can't do that very basic multimedia feature either). Is ATT partially at fault for all of this? Yes. Is Apple? YES. Only you fankids think that Apple's infallible hands are clean of this mess. Exactly my point that I have been trying to get across for about a year now. When AT&T said that there will not be MMS/TXT support on the iPhone - Apple should have turned around and thrown a fit and alerted the customers and setup ways to complain to AT&T. Or even better, create their own text messaging service...if they can build an OS I am fairly certain they can build something as trivial as a text messaging service. But Apple did NOTHING and sat back and let the money roll in. I don't understand why people support them? I mean I would only support a company who in turn supports the customer. Also, Apple has basically labeled a good chunk of its user base as criminals. Now, that to me is a slap in the face if I ever saw one. But yet people keep buying Apple products *sigh*.
You could be thinking "well it's not the companies responsibility to lead a petition" - it damn well is. Look at Dish network when the main provider of programming wanted to raise the rates? Dish Network said FU to them and instead of raising the rates by $1 I believe it was only raised about half that after everything was said and done. »www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2···6,00.asp |
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| said by k1ll3rdr4g0n:Exactly my point that I have been trying to get across for about a year now. When AT&T said that there will not be MMS/TXT support on the iPhone - Apple should have turned around and thrown a fit and alerted the customers and setup ways to complain to AT&T. Or even better, create their own text messaging service...if they can build an OS I am fairly certain they can build something as trivial as a text messaging service. But Apple did NOTHING and sat back and let the money roll in. I don't understand why people support them? I mean I would only support a company who in turn supports the customer. Also, Apple has basically labeled a good chunk of its user base as criminals. Now, that to me is a slap in the face if I ever saw one. But yet people keep buying Apple products *sigh*. You could be thinking "well it's not the companies responsibility to lead a petition" - it damn well is. Look at Dish network when the main provider of programming wanted to raise the rates? Dish Network said FU to them and instead of raising the rates by $1 I believe it was only raised about half that after everything was said and done. » www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2···6,00.asp All you have to do is mention 'M$' to the idiots and they'll run to Apple like morons to a big van saying 'free candy' |
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
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See, I'm a "fan" of "fanboi" or "fankind" pronounced fan-kint....
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Philly burbs
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HEY HEY HEY.
That's a van with no windows, driven by an unregistered sex offender with "free candy" on the side.
If you're gonna get it, get it right!
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join:2003-12-19
Alfred, ME
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Re: iPhone data is crazy said by Chaldo:The way the iPhone processes DATA is crazy. I believe if I used a iPhone excessively for a month I would pass the 5GB cap, because of the way it processes its data. Does the iPhone use a different definition of MBs and GBs for data than any other piece of equipment? 
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join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | reply to shortyd999
Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! Yeah, well, hope in one hand and shit in the other. Let me know which one fills up first...
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join:2002-03-05 | reply to Chaldo
Re: iPhone data is crazy Jailbreak, then purchase 3G Unrestrictor. It's really great for being able to stream video over 3G using Joost. Not that I'd know from personal experience or anything. 
Depending upon how much video you want to watch, and how much you want to listen to Slacker I'd bet you could go over 5GB in a month. You might even be able to just by streaming Slacker at work for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week.
And we haven't even started talking about tethering. Of course I wouldn't know anything about that either.
Just an iPhone user here trying to make the most out of the $30 paid to AT&T for 5GB of data transfer each month... 
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join:2005-01-03 | reply to theeinstein
Re: Take it DOWN said by theeinstein:Hey... Lets all send as many MMS messages as possible on the 25th and see what happens... AT&T's feeble network is nothing short of disgusting!! I'm down. I can send a lot of MMS from my G1 running on AT&T. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | MMS why? Why is MMS so important? Can't you use email? Most/all cell providers have email to text/mms gateways.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Time
Re: Apple - King of Media said by Time:If Apple was going to sign with any CDMA provider, it'd probably be Sprint, especially given the fact that they've really turned that company around over the last year or so. I have both Sprint and AT&T, and the customer service I receive from Sprint is leaps and bounds above AT&T. I had some signal issues when I got my Sprint phone, but they just put up a new tower down the street, and the network is zoooooooming fast (for wireless). If I could get Sprint's data speeds with AT&T's local call quality, that'd be the perfect wireless service. Cold day in hell will Apple go on a non-800 mhz carrier. 1/3rd of its fanbase would be gone by their address not qualifying for service, the other 1/3rd would quickly leave and curse Tmobile/Sprint/Apple forever. |
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| att I like AT&T. I do not really have a need for MMS either...I might use it once a year, haha. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to flyingjoey
Re: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! said by flyingjoey:If Apple were to come out with a CDMA version of the iphone I'd be the first 1 to get one. Also what's stopping apple from making a universal iPhone... really... CMDA/GMS/LTE/WiMax iphone. The technology exists... I'd pay an extra 100 bucks for an iPhone U4Gs. Better hope for a hydrogen or ethanol powered fuel cell iPhone then. Your going to have to carry a bottle of barcardi 151 everywhere you go and top off your phone 4 times a day. |
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join:2003-07-05 | reply to Metatron2008
Re: Apple - King of Media said by Metatron2008:Whatever. Last I looked at a Mac Pro they used the i7 processors. And the fact that the Mac Pro uses A Xeon that is EXACTLY THE SAME as my 1366 but has ECC or support for multiple cpus is not helping your point. Obviously you've never looked at a Mac Pro then.
Your point is that Macs are too expensive. Either you're a Windows fanboy, or you are simply angry that another individual has more cash to drop on a desktop than you do. When I bought my Mac Pro, I knew I was getting a desktop that used quality parts with an OS that is 10x more stable (and less of a resource hog) than the piece of shit Vista is. Windows 7 is obviously a different story, and I've got my copy pre-ordered and a bootcamp partition waiting. You like PCs, I like Macs, get over yourself.
As far as your comment earlier:
And other devices that handle media? You mean the same way pcs handle media, or things like Wii, Xbox 360, PS3? Please consult a grade school English teacher regarding reading comprehension. I said "PORTABLE" devices.
Music seller? The slowly collapsing music industry now makes you a king of media? What the hell does the "collapsing music industry" have to do with Apple and iTunes? I mentioned the fact that iTunes is the largest "music store" with the most customers, and that is your response? Considering Apple sells not only music, but movies, podcasts, and TV Shows, I'd say "yes", they are the king of media in combination with their highly popular portable (there's that word again) devices. |
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MRCUR
join:2007-03-09
Columbia, PA | reply to patcat88
Re: MMS why? Well sure, the problem for most though is two fold: 1) Most average consumers don't understand that. I've been using that for a while now and it works perfectly. 2) Getting replies is obnoxious. You get them in an email. Nor do most people understand how to do this TO the iPhone user, or they're just too lazy to bother typing in an email. |
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MRCUR
join:2007-03-09
Columbia, PA | reply to ViviTheMage
Re: att What's sad is a lot of people on Friday/Sat could suffer (really slow/crashing network) from the people who will send tons of MMS stuff just for the heck of it.
I hacked MMS onto my 3GS a week ago and haven't used it much since - especially since I can only get MMS from AT&T users. |
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Palo Alto, CA | I've been able to send pictures to friends and family Since Day 1.
It's called e-mail folks.
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join:2000-07-08
North Little Rock, AR | Just dont use it for business! Be sure that none of those MMS messages are for business use since Apple states that the Iphone and all apps for it are strictly for personal/entertainment use and using the phone or apps for business use is strictly against the TOS, even the business apps sold through Itunes. »www.dailytech.com/Report+Apple+S···6303.htm
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