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  1. Welcome, that's something I bookmarked as soon as I saw it posted on XDA myself as well, glad someone else found it helpful!
  2. I'm completely on the same page with this....I tried Swype when I first got the E4G and its a neat concept, but in actual practice isn't nearly as efficient as I can be on a qwerty, with or without Swiftkey....and Swiftkey just makes the latter that much better.
  3. Yeah, many in my area in particular would likely not be savvy enough to have a wireless router to begin with unless either the setup instructions were dumbed down as much as possible or the ISP set it up for them (I'm sure the latter happens more than I probably think about on the surface these days though). And yes, I was just illustrating my frustration at the time, I'm actually not remotely prone to 'Hulk SMASH!' knee-jerk reactions or outbursts at all in actual real-world practice. *g*
  4. I agree completely with the ideology certainly with Sprint attempting to communicate this thought process with its customers. And I know they already do this actually via other methods (case in point, I know I've received email 'mailers' encouraging people to use Wi-Fi at home just within the last few months from Sprint). There are probably other ways they could communicate/get their point across if they're creative enough. Your suggestion early on in the thread about monetizing the incentive is ingenius IMO, particularly in the current economy (not that I have any confidence they'd ever actually do that, but if they did and marketed the approach, think how much they'd stand to gain in conjunction with and as it reflects on the coming NV improvements). But employing an attempted forced approach through default settings is only going to leave a negative impression for most people IMO and would serve to drive a great many away, particularly in the segment of the customer base who are completely non-savvy technically speaking. Your suggestion I just referenced vs. using this methodology is as simple a positive reinforcement vs. negative reinforcement contrast as I can possibly imagine. Or to put it another way and to use a phrase oft-used here in the south, you can catch more flies using honey than vinegar.
  5. While I wholeheartedly agree and am fully onboard with the general principle being discussed in this thread (i.e. offloading to personal wi-fi at home if available), I just had to chime in on the above....because while I think the idea of Sprint offering incentives for people to actively follow this practice is an outstanding idea, speaking as an owner of the Photon Q, if literally every phone Sprint offers behaved the way the Q does by default (until you learn how to turn it off in the advanced wi-fi settings), I for one think you'd end up driving business away. For the first several days I had the phone, that 'feature' was annoying and irritating to the point of almost wanting run over the phone with a steamroller and bashing my head into a wall. When someone pointedly turns wi-fi off, they generally intend for it to remain off unless they turn it back on; the Q will not simply only continually notification-'nudge' you to death to say 'hey, wi-fi is available here', it will eventually continually turn wi-fi back on if you don't respond in kind and use it. Until someone else pointed out on XDA that there was advanced settings there (I was completely new to ICS prior to getting the Q and wasn't used to the menu differential between it and Gingerbread), I was seriously considering returning the phone just based on that issue alone.
  6. The final day and listing of 25 cent apps is now up on Play. The one particularly notable offering is the Prime verison of the 4.0+ Nova launcher. Smart Tools also looks like it might be interesting
  7. Just in case anyone wants/needs a Flash apk, you can find the archives for both 2.x and 4.0 at this link (scroll down past the initial listing of 'Flash player archives'): http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html#main_Archived_Flash_Player_versions_for_developers
  8. I was fortunate enough to get Swiftkey for free when Amazon had it as a Free App of the Day offer sometime roughly a year ago. Even on a qwerty phone, the word prediction and multiple source learning functionality that backs the former up makes things that much faster. Highly recommend it.
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