The Gawker hack has completely disenfranchised their users
That's quite a hack, depriving users of their right to vote...
I'd recommend waiting for the inevitable flood of phone announcements next month at CES. Dual-core phones are coming _soon_.
Yup, that's the fall-back plan. Verizon should announce their LTE (dual-core?) phones then, and my g/f has been bugging me to join her on Big Red for a while. Verizon is evil, but T-Mo is getting lame...
I've been waiting for this phone to renew my T-Mo contract, but the lack of "4G" network capability means I'll probably end up switching to Verizon. Way to fail, Goog-Sung!
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To summarize: Alarmist e-zine for PHB's confirms their suspicions that Facebook and YouTube are, in fact, the devil. Why is this on Slashd...oh, it's samzenpus. Never mind...
Here ya go. I used this to power my G1 while I was down in the Grand Canyon this summer.
http://www.scosche.com/products/productID/1905
There was no T-Mo signal, but was using the GPS.
"People get confused about Net neutrality," Schmidt said. "I want to make sure that everybody understands what we mean about it. What we mean is that if you have one data type, like video, you don't discriminate against one person's video in favor of another. It's OK to discriminate across different types...There is general agreement with Verizon and Google on this issue..."
And what if Verizon decides to prioritize a particular type of data that Google just so happens to use a lot of, at the expense of slowing down other types of data like P2P traffic?
Verizon: We'll speed up latency-sensitive data streams, like online video.
Google: What a coincidence! YouTube uses that kind of data.
Hulu: Hey, our users use video too.
Verizon: Ah, but that's not the kind of video we're prioritizing.
PirateBay: Torrent traffic seem to be almost completely blocked.
Verizon: Quiet, you.
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Like traditional "analog" cigarettes, the vast majority of the "smoke" is water vapor.
I rooted my G1 for wifi tether, which I believe is still a root-only function, and to work on a little WEP hacking app.
A stock Android phone is still a ways from a real Linux computer, even on parts that have little if nothing to do with the actual cellular phone functions of the device.
Tethering is awesome, as many non-iPhone smartphone users have known for years.
I used to tether my Sprint Treo with PDANet, when I swore I'd never pay Comcast another red cent. My sister uses PDANet on her G1 to avoid signing up for an internet connection she doesn't use much, and I used my rooted G1 to look up geocaches on the road from my g/f's laptop. The rooting process is pretty painless now, so I'd imagine that it's just a matter of time before the telcos start clamping down with usage caps.
HOLY MACRO!