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Comment Work visa (Score 1) 390

Readers from Slashdot's home country are the minority here.

What do you recommend that readers from Slashdot's home country do to qualify for a work visa in order to leave minority status?

you lied

What I wrote was "if the carrier detects you putting a voice-only SIM in a phone with a smartphone IMEI, the carrier will automatically subscribe you to a data plan (source: Slashdot article 'AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad.')" I thought the link to an article whose title includes "AT&T" would make it clear that I was referring to AT&T. T-Mobile USA is useless in areas without its signal, and carriers in countries other than the United States are useless without some way of getting a work visa.

Comment Re:Hosts requires root requires wipe requires back (Score 1) 390

Then you didn't look hard enough

Guilty as charged.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460

The thread is 341 pages, and search is down. I read the first few and last few pages, and one user reported that it put his device (not a Nexus 7) into a bootloop. How should I determine whether or not it'll do the same to a Nexus 7 running Android 4.3? Or, returning to the previous question, how should I back up first in case it does?

I've used bin4ry's script to root several phones and a couple tablets. One tablet being a Nexus 7.

Was this a Nexus 7 running Android 4.3 or Android prior to 4.3?

Comment FAT patents (Score 1) 390

Only because dickheads like HTC keep making phones which dont have removable SD cards and batteries because they believe the moron that told them that is why iPhones sell.

That or the fact that if you make a phone with an SD card slot and sell it in Slashdot's home country without licensing certain file system patents from Microsoft, you will get sued for patent infringement, and you will lose.

Comment That's an AT&T and USA problem (Score 1) 390

My carrier is AT&T.

Why can't you switch your carrier to be no longer AT&T?

AT&T does NOT sell the Nexus 5. So I have to buy one for $350 from Google. On the flip side I just bought an iPhone 5s for $199.

You bought your iPhone 5S for $199 plus whatever the current early termination fee is. It just looks like $199 to customers within the United States because unlike T-Mobile, AT&T refuses to itemize the phone subsidy. How much does service for your iPhone 5S on AT&T cost over the next 24 months, compared to a comparable plan on T-Mobile for a Nexus 5?

Comment iPhone was before Android and played DRM iTunes (Score 1) 390

I've never understood why anyone would buy one that didn't already have at least one OSX machine.

Because they bought a first-generation iPhone before Android was released, perhaps? Or because iPhone was the only serious phone that could play iTunes Store music before iTunes went DRM-free?

Comment T-Mobile coverage (Score 1) 390

Anonymous Coward wrote:

I use a voice-only T-Mobile SIM in my smartphone without issue.

Not everybody has the money to move to a place where T-Mobile has adequate signal coverage. The other three major carriers either cram (AT&T) or don't use SIMs and outright refuse to activate voice-only service on handsets (Verizon Wireless and Sprint).

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