Northeastern Maryland - DSL 768k $15/mo, Cable 10 mbps $68/mo -- not including phone + TV [Cancost TV is awful, too]. DSL COULD be 40Mbps--and cheaper than cable, but Verizon hasn't figured that out yet.

WAAAAAAAAHH

Gigabit Internet in a few places Sweden. How much does 200/10 cable cost in Finland?

200/100 speeds is $60/mo in Japan. Can we get that speed/price in the US?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

https://www.ziggo.nl/#producten/alles-in-1/ - --Dutch is easy, it's just like English with extra syllables,
Voordelig televisie kijken, internetten en bellen - TV+Internet+Phone
Alles-in-1 Extra € 67 per maand -- 67.00 EUR = 84.8986 USD WHOA!
Internet down 120 Mbit/s up 10 Mbit/s

Is YOUR 120/10 Mbps cable+TV+Phone more than $85/mo? If so, why?

T-Mobile in Netherlands rates:

Internet, 20Mbps + TV w/DVR and antenna + Phone = €24.95 for 6 months, then €37.50 [37.50 EUR = 47.5392 USD] Wow, I'll take that! Why not in the US????

--Dutch is easy, it's just like English with a few extra syllables, http://www.online.nl/home

FLASH: Police will be at the U.S. west coast ports with laser wall guns. Blinded occupiers will fall into the ocean.

Another great advance in police *I*N*N*O*V*A*T*I*O*N*

B00 -- it costs too much. Should be less than $1/megabit broadband speed. Maybe 20 cents per megabit.

I'm not moving to Japan, but really really really really want J:Com 160-megabit-per-second quality service. J:Com is owned by U.S. company, Liberty Global. Cost to J:Com customers is the cable modem needed for that speed--about $60; monthly service for 160Mbps is $60. For $67 a month we could get Comcast at 12% of J:Com's speed, as long as our neighbors aren't online. I'll even take the 60Mbps Dutch service for €60/mo. We have Verizon slow DSL--- 1 megabit for $15.

Give us J:Com speed for slow DSL price! Wait! Where's the "free market" competition in the US?

Or you can get an iPad without any pesky ports.

More fun than your WiFi app, http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsforhim/991e/

Had an old PrimeStar antenna set up to lock onto our ISP's signal about 20 miles away some eight years ago. There are lots of sites and books for less ambitious setups. Rob Flickenger has written several books about setting up wireless networks. The books are ancient [in computer years], but can be helpful. One of them is Wireless Hacks, http://www.freeopenbook.com/wireless-hacks/. Another is Building Wireless Community Networks, http://search.oreilly.com/?q=rob+flickenger. Bob Cringely at PBS wrote a series of columns about setting up wireless networks, some involving climbing trees at the top of a mountain. Plenty of good info from early WiFi hackers.

http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Wifi-Signal-Strainer-WokFi/ - It's not stealing if you're tapping into your own network.
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/AntennaHowTo
http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/ - good links + dead links

Is Spirit still "alive" and able to work?

No micro SD card slot.

Taking the cues from Apple. No removable battery. Can't open easily. Bummer.

iPhone in China? VERY popular. Only they call it the HiPhone, and it's much cheaper.

Nokia phones are nearly indestructible [unless you submerge them when turned on], and they have far better reception than almost any other phone.

US network companies don't want a phone that won't break, and work too well. Customers won't pay for new phones so often. My husband is still using my 2004 Nokia phone--it's rubber. OTOH my son gave me his 2 yr old [permanently locked] iPhone to use as an iPod when the screen and back both cracked.

My 6 year old Nokia phone has multitasking and a camera. My N79 [2008] has a front facing camera, and 5 mpx back camera. N8 same with touch screen, 12 mpx camera. FFC is a standard and doesn't have to be even mentioned. iPhone was one of the last to get one, and last to use FFC for calls instead of just WiFi. Sony Ericcson had a phone for video calls [not just chat] 8 years ago. Phones with FFC have been very popular in Japan since 2005, Europe since 2007, but are the latest new shiny objects in the US.

The best thing for Nokia to do now is to release their phones with a choice of several OS's. When you get your new phone, you pick one--MeeGo, Symbian, Windows, Android--and lock it in. When you get bored or annoyed with your choice, you can switch. Or have dual-boot, or boot from SD card, like I do with my tablet [or computer] so I can have multiply systems.

US isn't the biggest market for smart phones, it's the biggest market for shiny things that don't always work well. I'll keep my N8, thank you.

Jobs should have retired in 2004-2005 when he was first sick with cancer. He hadn't been rational since then. He'd been doing the same things that got him fired the first time, multiplied by 10. In his presentations he made stuff up, then upped it to insane lawsuits. Otherwise we wouldn't be stuck with almost an entire line of disposable electronics made overseas. Macs, R.I.P.

Didn't follow the Buddha's teachings.