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    HTC Hardware keyboards

    in HTC

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    Reminds me of those original XBox controllers. They had the big ones then made those little dainty foo foo ones called the XBox S Controllers. The original fit my hands well and worked well then they did away with them. My damn fingers hit the wrong key on those virtual keyboards all the time then the screen real estate they take up is horrible.

     

    They need to make a snap on keyboard for the phone and have the best of both worlds and fit everybody.

     

    Someone made a bluetooth slide out keyboard for the iPhone 4 about a year ago. It was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. I just wish I could find it again. So it is possible to make snap-on keyboards for phones. Maybe someone will finally start doing that for some of the newer Android phones.

    Virgin and Boost prepaid may get 4G love with Wimax?????

    in WiMax

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    If you mean by permanent until 2015 then I would agree with you that VM and BM will stay with Wimax. However if you mean that sprint will keep Wimax for VM and BM past 2015, then I disagree. Eventually everyone will migrate to LTE but for VM and BM, I hope Sprint is not planning to move them to LTE until 2015. Even Clearwire at some point probably in 2015 will tear down the Wimax network and refarm that spectrum to add additional LTE carriers.

     

    To be honest, VM and BM customers should not be complaining since even AT&T and verizon don't offer 4G service to its prepaid customers and should be happy with getting 4G Wimax service or a decent Wimax footprint. The majority of the big markets are covered in the Wimax network. Tmobile offers its HSPA+ network and other prepaid carriers like MetroPCS and Cricket are offering LTE service for its customers but their LTE networks are negligible. MetroPCS has only about 16 LTE markets and I believe Leap only has 1 or 2 LTE markets.

     

    I agree with you Eric. Once Clearwire transitions it's entire footprint to LTE, there won't be any reason for them to keep WiMax going. When the time comes to turn it off, they will offer their existing customers slightly lower prices to get newer data cards to switch to for LTE and then those who refuse to switch, they will just lose their service. WiMax is just going to be too costly to maintain once LTE goes live, and then Clearwire can use that extra capacity to pump out better data speeds for LTE.

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    "Bit Measuring Contest" - Odell

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    Don't trust Wikipedia with everything. Network links are quoted in binary. If in doubt on Speedtest and other apps, change their reporting from kbps to mbps. You'll see that all of them figure 1024 kbps = 1 mbps. The only place of significance that uses the 1000 bits / kilobit (power of 10) is hard drives so they can sell you an inflated size.

     

    I like my inflated size hard drives, lol. At least my format size shows like what the box says. :lol:

    HTC Hardware keyboards

    in HTC

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    In a sordid twist, HTC has announced that they will be going away from hardware keyboards. Very disturbing news indeed as that was the reason I picked the HTC EVO Shift 4G for my Sprint phone.

     

    “As a company, the QWERTY keyboard we’re moving away from in general.” “We feel that putting too much effort into that [QWERTY] would take away from our devices.”

     

    I personally feel that HTC is making a mistake, as hardware keyboards is how they made their name to begin with.

     

    Source: http://www.phonenews.com/htc-shifting-focus-away-from-hardware-keyboards-in-device-designs-20191/

    "Bit Measuring Contest" - Odell

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    Hard drives used to use powers of 2 years ago. Then they changed and most operating systems didn't follow suit until Mac OSX Show Leopard in 2009. It was weird when I discovered that was how Apple saved hard drive space.

     

    Edit: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't even thing Windows changed to power of 10 for hard drive sizing in the operating system yet.

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