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iPhone going to T-Mobile? Perhaps.

June 11th, 2010 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology


Since Verizon had a spokesperson report that they were not going to be carrying Apple products, the financial analysts (why does it seem that these guys are always the ones with alleged secret product information? answer: they’re not.) are saying that T-Mobile could be the next US carrier to get the iPhone. Both carriers are GSM/UTMS carriers, and it would be a minor hardware change if anything.

This is something that we’ve been saying for a long time now. This isn’t new news at all. What is also not news are the ‘analysts’ claiming that Verizon will have it by the holiday season, even though there is not one single bit of evidence to support that claim either.

In the mean time, the iPhone 4 does look pretty cool and AT&T has offered upgrade pricing to pretty much everybody that has been with them for more than 6 months.

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T-Mobile’s network NOT at 7.2 HSPA yet.

January 21st, 2010 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology


Despite some rumors to the contrary, T-Mobile has not actually upgraded their network to the higher speed 7.2mbps HSPA.

CIO Magazine has an article about it

“”[W]e are continuing to increase backhaul in-line with our network upgrades to support these faster speeds. We have not released additional details at this time, but I’ll keep you posted on T-Mobile network news as we have more details to share.”"

That’s about where AT&T is now with their upgrade. Both carriers have completed the initial software upgrades necessary to support 7.2 HSPA but they’re both still working on adding additional backhaul capacity to support the higher speeds.

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Earthquake in Haiti.

January 13th, 2010 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Life

Please be careful of Haiti relief effort scams! Mere hours after news of the earthquake hit CNN, we started seeing scams popping up via email and hoaxes on Twitter. Unfortunately, it is very easy to hide an official looking “phish” type of page on Twitter because of the URL shortening tools like bit.ly and tinyurl.

Google has put together a good page on how you can help.

The Tweet going around about “text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts” is TRUE.

It is also TRUE that T-Mobile is waiving International charges on calls to/from Haiti.

The text message donation thing doesn’t work on ALL carriers, though. Here’s a list of supported carriers. It’s run by mgive.com.

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Now that the honeymoon is over….

October 31st, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

I’ve had my T-Mobile MyTouch 3G for a little while now, and initially I was very excited about. And then the “new factor” wore off, and my opinion has changed quite a bit.
I don’t think that Android is really ready for prime time just yet. Perhaps Android 2.0 will include a lot of bug fixes, and maybe it’s just the MyTouch hardware, but things feel like they were rushed. A few examples:

* The built in email application is just terrible. It makes a complete mess of IMAP folders, is unable to view certain attachments (PNGs come out blurry and Android doesn’t have a native PDF viewer!) and since Android seems unable to accept self-signed or “non-standard” SSL certificates, I am completely unable to send email. You heard that – I cannot send email. There was also a bug where you couldn’t use ‘special characters’ in email passwords. Unacceptable on a smartphone.
* The Music Player is very basic. No EQ at all, which is a bummer, but it works ok.
* No included video player.
* The camera takes nice photos, but the camera application is still extremely slow to use, even with Donut (Android 1.6)
* I frequently have applications complain about running out of memory, or the Market apps simply crash. Google Maps runs out of memory and shuts off.
* Yes, you can have multiple apps at once, but any more than two or three apps going, and Android can’t keep up. if I have my IM app open (another flaky app) and I get an inbound call, I am disconnected without warning. Actually, the IM app frequently disconnects without warning anyway and I lose all open conversations. If I have Pandora going and I get a text message, it takes 15-20 seconds for the Messaging application to come open, and sometimes that will cause Pandora to stutter. If an incoming call comes in, forget it. It’s game over at that point.
* The Google apps usually work just fine – but I don’t use Google services.

Overall, it’s still a cool little platform and I think there’s potential, but it feels like it was rushed to market. T-Mobile also switched around their rate plans, and they are now unsuitable for our family. We’re getting close to our included minutes, but switching to the new “Get More” plans will be a substantial price increase and we’d also lose MyFaves. Sadly, it looks like we’ll be going to AT&T after all. The iPhone 3GS supports the new faster 7.2mbit HSPA, which AT&T is rolling out in several markets by the end of the year. We just happen to live in the market they’re upgrading first.

Such is live with the wireless industry!

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“Donut” update arrived last night!

October 4th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

For me, it did. Other people got it a couple of days ago. I’ve had it installed for about 15 minutes and the first thing that I noticed is that the camera is quite a bit faster. That’s nice. Except… the “Take Photo” button has been moved to the lower left hand corner if you’re holding it in portrait mode. This is actually a little more cumbersome for me, especially in Landscape mode. But, it sure is faster, which is nice.

More to come!

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