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[Venerable Bede]

I'll sacrifice 150kbps for that kind of reliability, especially with WiMax around the corner.  Right?  It's still coming soon, right?  Eee ghads.

i've had quite a few people in a few meetings tell me that wimax is right around the corner. . .in the meantime, they are also trying to get the FCC to get moving on auctioning more spectrum. 

[vansmack]

i've had quite a few people in a few meetings tell me that wimax is right around the corner. . .in the meantime, they are also trying to get the FCC to get moving on auctioning more spectrum. 

Yes, Sprint is saying 2010 for WiMax in SF, but it's too late.  My two year Mobile broadband contract is up and since we have to move to Comcast anyway, there's no way I'm going to wait any longer for 4Mbs when I can have 15-21Mbs.

I guess my next handset will have to be WiMax running Win7 Phone Series...

[vansmack]

Apple Sues HTC Over many things, mostly Android

This tells Smackie one thing: Apple is worried, and tried to hit a manufacturer to scare other manufacturers off adding an Android phone to their lineup.  Most interestingly, they didn't sue Google directly (deep pockets? part of an agreement? Existing litigation?  Either way, it's telling).

[vansmack]

Smackie is 10 hours or so into his first Android Experience (HTC Hero on Sprint) and I must say, I'm impressed.  Very impressed.

But one HUGE thing that I find an unacceptable oversight - one sound option for "notifications."  The same sound file for a new text, a new email, a new voicemail message or a calendar update is plain silly.  I need a different sound for each and it doesn't make sense to not have that option in 2010.  Anyone know if that is fixed in 2.1?

Otherwise, I love the customization options available to me from HTC Sense - a great expansion on what I saw in the original Android OS.  For my first non-WinMo phone in years, this is quite the treat.

EDIT: One other annoying thing - requiring me to have a Gmail account (not just my google account email address) to download from the app store. I relly don't want or need another email adress in my life....

[Venerable Bede]

New Phones Still Sold With Old Versions of Android

why can't the phones' software be upgradeable remotely?  is that simply the nature of the construction of the phone; the software has to be hard-wired into the programming?

[vansmack]

No, its a manufacturer/carrier issue. Some manufacturers who skin their phones with different interfaces, so they don't approve the upgrade until the skin is ready. That's why my HTC is on 1.6 - the HTC sense skin is not rready  for Android 2.1 (but will be next week)

[sweetcell]

THANK GOD.  i was losing sleep over this!

[vansmack]

So why is Opera making such a fuss about this before it has even submitted to Apple for approval?

The answer is simple.  To build fan support ahead of the approval process so Apple has no choice but to approve it.  So long Safari....

Haha.

http://my.opera.com/community/countup/

[vansmack]

2 years?!?!

"AT&T's CTO John Donovan claimed that Verizon was jumping the gun with its first-on-the-scene LTE rollout, suggesting initial devices are "going to drain the battery like crazy, and [they're] going to be a fat brick," noting that "2012 will be the time when you'll have decent handsets."

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/23/atandt-says-verizons-first-lte-phone-is-going-to-be-a-fat-brick/

I'll take my WiMax handset from Sprint this summer thank you very much.

[vansmack]

I'll take my WiMax handset from Sprint this summer thank you very much.

HTC EVO 4G from Sprint:



Android 2.1 with HTC Sense and WiMax.  Available this summer.

By the way, built in HotSpot for connecting up to 8 laptops/tablets/devices to use WiMax.

[chaz]

Wow.  They really packed everything in there. 

[sweetcell]

HTC EVO 4G from Sprint:

<snip>

By the way, built in HotSpot for connecting up to 8 laptops/tablets/devices to use WiMax.

well hello, my next phone!

[vansmack]

Did I mention the front camera for video conferencing and the 8MP rear camera for 720p video recording?

[godsshoeshine]

too bad its on sprint. might have been my next phone

[Got Haggis?]

i'm sure the wimax data plans will be insanely expensive