Those names roll off the tongue easily enough though. Except for Hyundai, the other brands have pretty obvious pronunciations. Huawei is a strange construction for an English speaker, comprised of four vowel sounds in a three syllable word, with two of them being consecutive.

In Samsung's case, a big name company was even supplying their hardware designs -- albeit unwillingly.

My ISP gave me a ZTE 3G modem. The 3G router I plugged it into would randomly report that the modem was unplugged, sometimes after a couple days; sometimes after five minutes. After trying every firmware release I could with the router I gave up, unlocked a friend's unused modem from another manufacture, and have been fine ever since.

If you call it Chuck Norris people will just continue to associated their product with cheap, outdated things that no one really wants.

Sigh. Graphics were so much easier to program on the Apple ][.

I actually like Slashdot in its current state: the community is not absurdly large, nor is it stagnant. Most of the comments are fairly intelligent, something I quickly realized when Digg became a phenomenon and was able to contrast both user bases: well structured paragraphs and sentences, versus one line quips. I read many articles that may not be pertinent to me, just because the comments here often help me understand the subject better. There's teens here, but there's also real old schoolers here. It's well balanced and has survived more than a decade; I'm fairly confident that Slashdot will still be thriving in five years while the Reddit users move onto the next fad.

I go to Reddit or The Verge to laugh at trolls or do some trolling myself. I have more respect for Slashdot for some reason.

Yeah, it's against Sashdot etiquette but: LOL.

Pat Robertson and the entire religious right say hi. Zionist Jews also send their greetings.

I've never even seen one, or read someone on a forum or site like this even talk about owning a Chromebook.

Sometimes it takes moving overseas for an American to truly realize how dumb the country's rejection of the metric system was. Then again, that's true for more than just measurements.

If it weren't for Samscum making iPhone knockoffs platforms that didn't merely copy iOS, like webOS and WP might have had a chance in the marketplace.

The main reason is probably to lock you into their store for ringtones and games. Their guise for it all would probably be so-called security. At least that's the impression I got while I was their customer.

Check this out, to actually DOWNLOAD apps from their store they made you pay some sort of extra charge. Paying them money for apps wasn't simple enough. I passed and got busy modifying the firmware in a hex editor.

If you visit a Cricket location you'll see mostly poor folks who can't pass a credit check, and Cricket milks them hard for basic features -- like caller ID. To make matters worse, their coverage rarely goes beyond the city; travel 25 miles out and bam -- no service, no roaming even. It's an all around bad deal. For me I wanted a no contract plan since I hoped to move overseas.

Trying to cancel my account was a pain. The customer service people on the phone kept offering me new deals of some sort -- totally ignoring that I've moved to an area without coverage, and I reiterated that fact repeatedly.

I was with Cricket for a couple years. I bought a new phone from them on one occasion, and when I asked for a data cable, the salesperson asked what I intended to do with it. I answered "sync my addresses" because I knew that was the answer she was looking for . . .

When did Cricket switch from CDMA to GSM?

I stand corrected.

Dick's is the place whee the SWASS hang out.