Comment How about we ban banning. (Score 4, Insightful) 99
Banning toddlers is the dumbest idea I have ever heard, even if they shoot more people than the Japanese. I am tired of the ban obsession.
Banning toddlers is the dumbest idea I have ever heard, even if they shoot more people than the Japanese. I am tired of the ban obsession.
Free to use any carrier.
Except two of the four largest carriers, Verizon and Sprint, and only the gimp part of the AT&T (no LTE).
Sure HSPA+ is lovely and more than an enough, but at best you can really only use 1.75/4 carriers, not any.
Not to mention all the second tier carriers and most the virtual carriers are not an option either.
The Nexus 4 upgrade needs LTE for AT&T (700/AWS), T-Mobile(AWS), and Verizon(700 C Block).
Sprint LTE is useless since they do not provide a SIM card.
Then at least you could claim 2.5/4 carriers, Verizon is only a half until they retire CDMA and proprietary drivers that come with it.
Thank you FCC for the C block being forced open.
Plus your Nexus 4 lost its home, back, and menu buttons to the concept of taking up my big beautiful screen with stupid navigation buttons taking us back to the dark ages of iOS interfaces.
The Nexus 4 also lost its removable battery and expandable storage.
The camera on the Nexus 4 is not even worth talking about.
There is a reason the device only costs $299, it is gimp.
Unfortunately the Nexus line peaked with the Nexus One it seems, I am still cradling both of mine with all the same carrier options as your Nexus 4.
Sorry I am just bitter, Google could have done so much better. The bar was set so high after the Nexus One and each year I am further disappointed.
If [any] patents fall:
FTFY
I am pissed that the Nexus 4 does not support LTE.
I concur.
While I think it is great that Google released a high end phone for $300, I would gladly have paid the normal Nexus retail price of $650 for a Nexus 4 LTE.
Instead I have gone with the Galaxy SIII and a custom ROM to get an AOSP and LTE experience on 2012 hardware.
The inclusion of AWS Band 4 LTE the requires some hacking is interesting.
I was hoping for LTE 700MHz Band 17 personally.
What LTE frequencies would you want supported?
"There's Always Next Year", when the Nexus 5 will have:
4/17/13/7/3/12/25 band LTE and Penta-Band HSPA+
A high quality 16MP CMOS camera sensor with O.I.S and Xenon flash.
A 5" 1080P IPS screen.
A physical QWERTY keyboard as well as physical home, menu, back, accept call, end call, and camera shutter buttons.
Dual EasyPoint Joysticks.
Hey, I can dream!
It will be interesting to see if Google can pull off a multi-band LTE device at the $300-$350 price point later this year.
It seems LTE cannot be ignored given the inclusion on the iPhone 5 and the backlash of complaints (although Nexus 4 sales exceeded supply expectations still).
But if Google "must" include LTE, how will it do it?
Penta-band HSPA+ has been a great feature of the last two Nexus Devices (only took two next years to get that).
In addition to the GSM support, the inclusion of LTE Bands 17/4 would cover AT&T and T-Mobile.
Throw in LTE Band 7 and Canada carriers covered.
The CDMA/LTE Verizon Galaxy Nexus was a headache for Google due to the proprietary CDMA binaries.
But including LTE Band 13 and counting on the 700MHz C Block FCC open rules would allow Verizon LTE coverage.
However, that would be data only on the Red Devil Carrier.
Including LTE Band 25 is tempting, but Sprint does not offer up SIM cards for its LTE device since it has no 700MHz C Block rules to comply with like Verizon.
Looking outside of North America, including LTE Band 3 and Band 20 would complete LTE coverage in handful of Asian, European, African, and the Middle Eastern locations.
I could not find the exact seven bands that the Nexus 4 Qualcomm WTR1605L chip supports.
The WTRL1605L supported bands may reveal what the Nexus 5 would support.
Of course there are rumors that Google is creating an experimental wireless network in Mountain View.
Perhaps like Google Fiber we will see Google's own wireless network rolled out...
Yes, because it's Google's core principle to help the struggling American economy.
Of course not, Google's core principle is help Google. A strong American economy helps Google.
Throwing away tax money on programs that stunt the economy by teaching the lower class to be dependent does not help the economy.
Please... Big companies don't give a damn about economy of any country - they only care about the economy of their business.
The economy of their business is tied to the economy of every country they operate it, they care whether they want to or not.
Again, they help the economy best by keep as much of their money as possible instead of wasting it on taxes.
If you offer them incentives to get out of tax heavens, they'll thank you dearly and start thinking of ways to import Chinese workforce into the US.
Lower minimum wage so that Chinese workforces are not so appealing.
Trickle-down economy means the rich and powerful pissing on everyone and everything below them.
If you lie on the ground with your hands out to the government then it is no surprise a little urine trickles down on you.
The happiest day in any CEO's life would be the day slavery is reinstated. Do you know why the minimum wage is the most common pay grade in Europe? It's not because the people are uneducated. It's because the companies can't lawfully make their wage any lower than that, and they would if they could.
Supply and demand, if you are not worth more than slave wages, what good does paying you an artificially higher wage do?
Nothing, it teaches you that less effort gets you more gain, sucking the tit of the government like a good little baby.
There's just no work here in the UK - the people are fighting for the PRIVILEGE of having a job. And that means a company can open a position for a minimum wage and not worry about people not showing up for the interview. Even better, they can open an "internship" position and get people flocking to their doorstep by simply saying "At some point in the future we might even offer you a paid job - depends on how long we can milk the current economic climate".
Then leave the UK or create your own job opportunities.
Why go work for the man if you are worth more?
In the states there are more job opportunities falling in my lap daily than 100 of me could do.
I can only imagine how many I can find if I looked.
Those who cannot find work are just plain lazy, expecting hand outs.
I say, if having a job is a privilege in itself, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the system.
Having a job is a privilege, has always been aprivilege, and should always be a privilege.
Those who believe they are entitled to anything automatically are the drain on system and the problem themselves.
And unfortunately you can't blame the clueless government on this one, even if it was a contributing factor.
You are correct, a culture of entitlement is to blame; those who think they deserve something for nothing have formed the government and the system that they complain about and bleed dry.
I love working with immigrants from countries such as China, Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, and the like.
I have heard stories of them escaping horrible conditions, even wars, living on things as awful as cat food while working through school.
They work extremely hard and never complain for a moment about their hardships.
Instead they are just abundantly grateful that they have opportunity and liberty.
As a result I see them produce, create wealth, and become very successful.
Meanwhile spoiled little Europeans and Americans whine that they are not handed more.
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