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Do you like your cell phone?

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It is fantastic.

5633 votes / 18%

A few nits, but it's pretty good.

8499 votes / 27%

It suits my needs.

7120 votes / 23%

It aggravates me, but not enough to switch.

3399 votes / 11%

I hate it.

1966 votes / 6%

I don't own a cell phone.

1873 votes / 6%

I only hate everybody else's cell phones.

1936 votes / 6%

30426 total votes.

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Re:Quick Tethering Quiz (Score:5, Informative)

by DeathFromSomewhere ( 940915 ) writes: on Saturday February 18, 2012 @01:37PM (#39086321)

A lot of people on this site seem to make the incorrect assumption that prices are based on cost in some way. They're not, prices are based on what people are willing to pay. Of course for commodities what people are willing to pay tends to fall in line with costs, but mobile broadband isn't a commodity just yet. For your example, people are willing to pay more to use their laptop on a cell network then their phones. Thus the higher prices.

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Re:Who needs smartphones (Score:4, Informative)

by TheRaven64 ( 641858 ) writes: on Saturday February 18, 2012 @01:55PM (#39086421) Journal

I run OSMAnd on a cheap Android phone. It stores the maps on the SD card, so you don't need a data plan to use it. Very useful when travelling (international data is stupidly expensive), and when you are in the places where you are most likely to want GPS - away from the mobile network.

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Spectrum is scarce (Score:4, Informative)

by tepples ( 727027 ) writes: <tepples.gmail@com> on Saturday February 18, 2012 @08:12PM (#39089051) Homepage Journal

With the costs for fast connections constantly dropping
It's not the backhaul they're concerned about as much as the spectrum. Each tower can have only so many Mbps going through it for each MHz that a carrier owns.
It's not like they aren't making enough, and have had several years now, to upgrade their towers.

Conventional wisdom is that NIMBYs make it hard to put up more towers.
I wish I could get Windows 7 to let me access it for programming / debugging (it's apparently an involved process)
So you're trying to get the Android Debug Bridge to work, but it's "an involved process" to find properly signed drivers for it because Microsoft's anti-rootkit strategy relies on end users not being able to act as their own CA for signing kernel-mode drivers. Does installing Xubuntu make it any easier?
I'm going to wait until someone makes a compiler for Android for the various languages I like
It's not a compiler, I'll grant, but there is SL4A.

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Re:Quick Tethering Quiz (Score:5, Informative)

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Spectrum is scarce (Score:4, Informative)