you sure about that?

If you said "We need feminine gender detection interlocks" then I'd be able to respond that I agree with at least one of your brilliant ideas.

One reason exaggerating the signal reporting ain't cool is that the weaker the reception a phone gets the more it beefs up the transmission power. So for example some of us want to know whether or not if we keep our phone overnight by the bed it gets a significantly lower signal than if it's by the window so that we know where we ought to leave it when it's sleepy time but if this phone reports a full signal in either location (but the transceiver behaves differently) then not having that information may lead to unideal nocturnal positioning. You dig?

Wonder if AT&T had anything to do with that. Anyway, nice to know they kept their distance from my Nexus One, crapware and misleadingware alike.

In addition to being a bigger market sales-wise of phones with Android on them, the Android application market is much less saturated than Apple's, for now at least, which I believe is a good thing for aspiring developers.

man I hate you guys..

I think that's what they call this, the Pope making an issue out of Internet transparency out of nowhere.

Most if not all of the comments in this thing that aren't defending the government or just attacking Google for involving themselves in politics and breaking laws only make minor concessions that Google is a "little less trash" than Baidu in terms of functionality and advertisements. If I were their government I wouldn't have crafted those comments any differently. Even if ChinaSMACK is apparently in the US, would it not be in there interests to go a little soft on the Chinese government? Just a little? C'mon. Ten bucks says they're not blocked by the Great Firewall even though Google Blogs is.

I did my own research interviewing Chinafolk. Granted I was using Google Buzz and so were they but still. Read it. Without flying to Shanghai or wardialing internationally for opinions that might be about the closest you can get to the truth in this matter.

good information.

Worth noting, on the human end of this, if you ask someone born in Hong Kong if they're Chinese, the answer is often no while they judge you as being ignorant.

As a frustrated AT&T subscriber in NYC (I suppose that's a bit redundant) I would like to shock the government with some tests of America's fastest 3G network in midtown Manhattan during the day but this website with all that fancy javascript and registration stuff doesn't seem too friendly for this.

Currently I use dslreports but I'm not sure if AT&T somehow throttles or bursts or shapes data that appears to be speed tests nor do I know if the random data this site blasts out gets compressed through AT&T. The only speed test for my phone I know is reliable is by tethering through WMWifiRouter and downloading a Debian iso. Not very convenient and I'm just mesmerized that the likes of PCWorld actually claims that in NYC their testing of AT&T averaged >1500Kbps / >700kbps down/up when yesterday I got 16kbps and 32kbps with ridiculous latencies on the street in the 50s and 40s both around 1pm and then 6pm. I guess they're testing on Mondays at 2am.

Any other mobile friendly sites for testing would be appreciated along with any other at&t rants.

always appreciate your go-there humor, grub

first and only theory i'm buying here so far..

Sounds right to me -- provided you're also on wifi.

These numbers are misleading. AT&T doesn't need to spend as much money to be as productive in infrastructure expansion as its CDMA competitors because their engineers can talk and surf at the same time.