 dnoyeBFerrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI
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| Really? Why is there a lot of money to be made here? Every passenger probably already has the internet on their phones. Plus internet at home. I wouldn't mind some integrated features that operate over wifi. However, don't expect me to pay yet another internet bill.
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 MajestikWorld TravelerPremium
join:2001-05-11
Tulsa, OK | Just want to go from point A to point B. Haven't turned on my car radio in over three years.
IPhone is all I really need with my car.
Don't want any monthly payments for a car I'm only in one hour per day during the week and 0-60 minutes on weekends.
The next car I get I only want something like OnStar for remote starting from my cellphone.
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
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Pandora / Google Maps |
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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
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said by dnoyeB:Why is there a lot of money to be made here? Every passenger probably already has the internet on their phones. Plus internet at home. I wouldn't mind some integrated features that operate over wifi. However, don't expect me to pay yet another internet bill.
I agree. Makes more sense to just allow in-dash systems to connect to and work thru Bluetooth or WiFi connections to smartphones to update traffic info, map updates, SMS to speech, etc. Who needs another system tied to 1 cell carrier in the car. Better to connect to many different cellphone models using multiple carriers.
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Everybody's phones already do that. With Bluetooth syncing, I don't see the need for a separate bill for your car.
I do however expect these car manufacturers to strategically block such Bluetooth syncing so if you don't pay for the in-car service, you can't just run it from your phone (without an auxiliary cable of course) |
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MikePremium,Mod
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Pittsburgh, PA
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| LTE phones are set as low cap as possible.
I can literally hit the cap on my iPhone in about 15 seconds of downloading. That's over $1 per second.
I think the concept is the car can be off the cap. Else you're paying $90 a month for data just to listen to Pandora on the way to work.
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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Re: Really? said by Mike:I can literally hit the cap on my iPhone in about 15 seconds of downloading. That's over $1 per second. You either have a ridiculously small cap, or I call BS. The theoretical peak speed with LTE is 300mbits. 15 seconds * 300 mbits is still just over 500megabytes. And you are never going to get anywhere near 300mbits. If you get 5% of that you're doing really good. |
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| Sounds about right. I usually speed test around 20mbps down/up over Verizon "4G". |
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MikePremium,Mod
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Let me do some actual math then...
Last speed test was 27mb down. 27 / 8 = 3.375.
300 / 3.375 = 88.88888888888889 seconds.
Changes everything.... right?
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bgraham
join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY Reviews:
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said by Majestik:Just want to go from point A to point B. Haven't turned on my car radio in over three years.
IPhone is all I really need with my car.
Don't want any monthly payments for a car I'm only in one hour per day during the week and 0-60 minutes on weekends.
The next car I get I only want something like OnStar for remote starting from my cellphone.
I agree. I don't need to have to pay for all this crap they add into cars these days and that I never use.
I don't need DVD players, GPS, cars that park themselves or any of these useless sensory gadgets that add $5G to the price of a car. |
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cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | said by bgraham:I agree. I don't need to have to pay for all this crap they add into cars these days and that I never use.
I don't need DVD players, GPS, cars that park themselves or any of these useless sensory gadgets that add $5G to the price of a car.
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RokHed
join:2000-09-09
Pennsville, NJ | reply to Mike
You do realize this article is about Sprint right? They dont have caps. |
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MikePremium,Mod
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| Yes it's about Sprint.
Sprint barely has LTE so it will also have to fall back on their miserable 3G network. Else this service will be pretty useless if you can use it in only a fraction of metro areas.
Eventually every carrier will jump on this and pick their brands to be friends with.
This is just a taste of what's to come.
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RokHed
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Pennsville, NJ Reviews:
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| Their footprint is still small. However Network Vision is reported to be on or ahead on their deployment schedule. They are basically deploying an entirely new network. So yes as a Sprint customer I do agree that their 3G is pretty poor. The Network Vision upgrade is supposed to ease that problem as well. That still dosnt change the fact that they are unlimited which was the point I was commenting on. |
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