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cablemonkey

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  1. You're being watched every day all the time, by humans.. When you're in public, when you're at work. When you go to an airport, board a plane, go through the security checkpoint. Your ISP knows when you come to this website or if you go to any other website. Still concerned about your phone?

     

    Can't speak for anywhere else, but the ISP I used to work for didn't log/monitor user activity. Of course, it was a smaller, regional ISP, and that was a few years ago, so who knows what the big guys do now. As for where I work now, you bet all user activity is monitored and logged. From my experience, companies pay a *lot* more attention to what their employees do than ISPs do their customers.

  2. Just curious, did your second phone activate cleanly? My first ebay sourced Victory had a bad ESN (was listed as clean, seller took it back and refunded the cost). I just bought my second, hopefully I'll have more luck with this one. Also, did you do the 4.1.1 update, or leave them at 4.0?

  3. Ting's got a refurb Samsung M370 for $38, not sure if that would fit the bill. I would think you could activate it on sprint just fine if you wanted. Not the best for messaging, but you mentioned the old sanyo flips.

     

    Of course, you can find cheap androids like the optimus S for < $50 as well, i'd think android has some decent parental controls (never looked though to be honest).

  4. It looks like Ting will be getting BYOD for LTE devices pretty soon, at which point I'll be picking up two or three of these off of eBay. My boss and his wife both have 'em and seem to be happy with them. I was going to get everyone Nexus S 4Gs, but since the family now can get LTE pretty much everywhere and BYOSLTED is coming online soon (and the Victory supports Jelly Bean), this makes a bit more sense.

     

     

     

    Pretty soon is ... now:

     

    https://ting.com/blog/lte-sprint-devices-can-now-come-to-ting/

     

    And (how convenient) the Victory is on the initial supported list - which is Samsung only at this point. Funny, I got accepted to beta test this, and they rolled it out before I even got my phone :). Gonna be a fun weekend!

  5. Thats great to hear! Especially since there does appear to be little dev activity for it so far. I just grabbed one off ebay Tuesday night for ~$100. Should be here tomorrow or Saturday.

     

    Even my lowly Optimus S can be flashed to JB (though it wheezes pretty heavily, works better with ICS). It'd be sad if the Victory was stuck at ICS.

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