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11-28-2009, 09:06 AM
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11-28-2009, 09:07 AM
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I always wondered how that target thing worked..... 
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11-28-2009, 09:10 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by REWahoo
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I hate this type of foolishness. If it's a list then show me a list. If it's an excuse to make me look at (and wait for) a bunch of web pages then I can live without it. I never get past the first page of these things before my blood boils.
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11-28-2009, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by donheff
Martha:
I do this with my Blackberry Storm for access at my weekend house where there is no other Internet access available. snip
By the way, it works very well. I hook it into a wifi router and anyone else visiting with a laptop can connect. Gets 250K - 450K. The feature to turn on and off is called Blackberry broadband connect or something like that.
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Ooh, ooh - sorry for hijack questions...
Can you still get phone calls while you are tethered?
I currently have an aircard through Sprint. Never have figured out what I need to let others logon wirelessly but would love to...
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11-28-2009, 10:40 AM
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 Being tech-inept, it took me years to realize that 99.99% of the time when people are using their phones, they aren't making a phone call.
Good thread. Im giving myself an iPod touch soon. Skipping the iPhone because I still think my basic Motorola T-Mobile-to-go phone is sexy cute albeit affordable. May also continue carrying the Kindle which has more or less paid for itself because I use the included no-cost wireless.
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11-28-2009, 10:43 AM
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Pro I-phone: one less thing to carry & charge.
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11-28-2009, 10:48 AM
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One perk of living in the boonies is that a lot of the features of an iPhone won't work here, so there's no temptation to succumb to technolust. 
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11-28-2009, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by CuppaJoe
I’m giving myself an iPod touch soon. Skipping the iPhone because I still think my basic Motorola T-Mobile-to-go phone is sexy cute albeit affordable.
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I too will continue to use my neat clamshell t-mobile to go phone and will be giving myself the Touch. Makes sense for my situation
Good primer to learn about the apps
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11-28-2009, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by CuppaJoe
Good thread. Im giving myself an iPod touch soon. Skipping the iPhone because I still think my basic Motorola T-Mobile-to-go phone is sexy cute albeit affordable.
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I have a Motorola flip phone and a cheap Sandisk mp3 player instead of an iPod, but reading this thread is feeding my desire for an iPhone.  I will have to start battling the impulse to buy one.
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11-28-2009, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Danny
I too will continue to use my neat clamshell t-mobile to go phone and will be giving myself the Touch. Makes sense for my situation
Good primer to learn about the apps
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This is what I did. Second day with the iPod Touch. It's a fun device. I'm having a good time using the Pandora app. If I get around to it tomorrow, I'll load up Skype. NPR app is also nice. Plus all of the podcasts/iTune U. Lot's of stuff to do (and not enough time to do it)...
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11-28-2009, 10:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Martha
I am thinking of going to a blackberry plus data plan. Verizon told me that the cost will be $30 for the blackberry data plus another $30 for an "unlimited" data plan where I can tether my blackberry to a computer, much as I do the aircard. So, the total cost is the same as my aircard alone and will do the same thing as near as I can determine. Anyone ever explore using a blackberry that way?
This is maybe too much of a highjack, sorry OP.
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Yes. I used to have an aircard but now have a Blackberry (my data plan is $45 a month) and tethering (which is $15 a month). The tethering works fine, just like the aircard, same software. You can theoretically do it through Bluetooth but I found that slow so I connect it with the cable.
That said I'm getting an iPhone when one of two things happens:
1. Verizon or someone who has a tethering plan gets the iPhone or
2. ATT has a tethering plan. ATT has said it will have one but not yet.
I currently have a BB Storm (the first version) and its touchscreen typing is really, really awful. I know because I have an iPod Touch and there is just no comparison. Touch is so much better. Hence wanting to have an iPhone.
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11-29-2009, 04:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Katsmeow
Yes. I used to have an aircard but now have a Blackberry ...
I currently have a BB Storm (the first version) and its touchscreen typing is really, really awful...
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I have a Verizon Aircard. It is plugged into a Router in our RV creating a network that connects our two laptops to the Internet (and others when allowed).
We, also, have two Blackberry Storm2s. We elected not to subscribe to the Tethering option because it would have been an unnecessary and less effective duplication. The BBs have Internet access either through BIS or via Wi-Fi.
BTW, the Storm2's touchscreen keyboard is a joy to work with... once you get used to it --that took several days.
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~(perhaps by) Yogi Berra
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."~ Lau tzu
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11-29-2009, 08:38 AM
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once you get used to it --that took several days.
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On second thought:
Fat Finger Phone Frustration | People Of Public Transit
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~(perhaps by) Yogi Berra
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11-29-2009, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by w2r
i have a motorola flip phone and a cheap sandisk mp3 player instead of an ipod, but reading this thread is feeding my desire for an iphone. I will have to start battling the impulse to buy one. |
give in, give in......;d
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11-29-2009, 11:49 AM
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I have a Motorola flip phone and a cheap Sandisk mp3 player instead of an iPod, but reading this thread is feeding my desire for an iPhone. I will have to start battling the impulse to buy one. |
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Originally Posted by vicente solano
give in, give in......;d
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OK...somewhere else around the ER forum I stated that I don't have, want, or need a 'phone' that does all this cr*p. But after reading through this thread, and exploring iPhones and Droids, and related apps on the 'net....I decided what the heck, I'll go check 'em out.
Using the AT&T website, I found their local stores and headed out...'in search of'....
Went to the official "AT&T AUTHORIZED RETAILER" here in town....AT&T's website says that iPhone is available there....LIE!!! The CS folks were very nice, polite, and congenial! I told them that I was interested in an iPhone.....he says "Yes...we are too! And hopefully someday we'll have them here, but we're not a 'company' store, so we don't get to carry them." I told him what I read on the AT&T website, and he said only the 'company stores' have them.
So I headed to the next town over, to the AT&T "company store". Yes, they have them! But the place was packed! Minimum 30 minute wait! Sorry...I don't stand in lines for cr*p I don't need. So I left and went to the coffee shop...no lines...no crowds!
2 strikes and they're out! I'll stick with my Motorala flip-phone from Tracfone! (and I already have an iPod) Besides...this way I'm saving a passel of money that I can waste on something I really do want....if I ever decide that I actually want something!
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11-29-2009, 01:21 PM
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Goonie, thanks!! Maybe remembering your experience will help me to battle the craving to surrender to my impulse (to buy an iPhone)!!! 
Vicente, I don't know - - maybe I will give in! I am trying really hard not to. 
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11-29-2009, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Goonie
OK...somewhere else around the ER forum I stated that I don't have, want, or need a 'phone' that does all this cr*p. But after reading through this thread, and exploring iPhones and Droids, and related apps on the 'net....I decided what the heck, I'll go check 'em out.
Using the AT&T website, I found their local stores and headed out...'in search of'....
Went to the official "AT&T AUTHORIZED RETAILER" here in town....AT&T's website says that iPhone is available there....LIE!!! The CS folks were very nice, polite, and congenial! I told them that I was interested in an iPhone.....he says "Yes...we are too! And hopefully someday we'll have them here, but we're not a 'company' store, so we don't get to carry them." I told him what I read on the AT&T website, and he said only the 'company stores' have them.
So I headed to the next town over, to the AT&T "company store". Yes, they have them! But the place was packed! Minimum 30 minute wait! Sorry...I don't stand in lines for cr*p I don't need. So I left and went to the coffee shop...no lines...no crowds!
2 strikes and they're out! I'll stick with my Motorala flip-phone from Tracfone! (and I already have an iPod) Besides...this way I'm saving a passel of money that I can waste on something I really do want....if I ever decide that I actually want something! |
So how many coffee shop visits equal an I-phone? You really wanted a cup of coffee? Of course a cuppa doesn't have an ongoing service fee.... But the coffee gets lost quicker than the I-phone... Don't care for crowds either, at all.
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11-29-2009, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by calmloki
So how many coffee shop visits equal an I-phone? You really wanted a cup of coffee? Of course a cuppa doesn't have an ongoing service fee.... But the coffee gets lost quicker than the I-phone... Don't care for crowds either, at all.
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Well, let's see.....iPhone 3Gs is $199 plus activation fee to get started...then add in monthly phone service at about $39/mo plus data service at $30/mo. So just for the iPhone alone (not counting activation fee) would be 99 coffee shop visits (including the tip)....monthly combined service (excluding taxes & fees) is $69.95, so that would be about 35 coffee shop visits (per month, with tip.....420 additional visits per year).
That would be 519 coffee shop visits the first year, and only 420 visits each year after that...without figuring in the taxes, activation fee, and other miscellaneous monthly fees for the iPhone....or the purchase of apps! And since the coffee shop is only a couple of blocks from home, it is normally directly on my route to or from home to wherever I'm going or from where I've been, so gas and vehicle maintenance costs are near $0 extra cost.
With the iPhone I could communicate with friends, learn stuff on the internet (much of it useless), and get entertainment. At the coffee shop I can communicate with friends, learn stuff (most of which is useless), and get entertainment (piped in music, the comedy that goes on between customers, waitresses, cooks, bus-boys, and owners).....and I don't have to continually recharge the batteries! 
Now if there were an app that would let the iPhone brew a real cup of coffee.........
Oh, and "yes" I needed the cup of coffee! 
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11-29-2009, 06:00 PM
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With the iPhone I could communicate with friends, learn stuff on the internet (much of it useless), and get entertainment. At the coffee shop I can communicate with friends, learn stuff (most of which is useless), and get entertainment (piped in music, the comedy that goes on between customers, waitresses, cooks, bus-boys, and owners).....and I don't have to continually recharge the batteries!
Now if there were an app that would let the iPhone brew a real cup of coffee.........
Oh, and "yes" I needed the cup of coffee! |
Here I was thinking you were in a Starbarks drinking that high dollar froo-froo blend. So you know I had to look for an I-phone app for you - first thing that pops up isn't an Apple product, but may be of interest: Pomegranate Concept Phone Makes Coffee and Shaves You! | Concept Phones
Now if you were a Starbonks fan you could avoid lines with this free app: iPhone + Starbucks - GENOCO by Phil Lu
Or you could find a coffee joint with this app: Coffee Finder review - Apple iPhone Applications - Know Your Mobile
I'm sure there's a virtual coffee app out there - there's beer, lighters and smokes - but we gotta get you a real brew function... cheap comes with time.
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