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Wow, we have many more carriers here. There are 4 major ones and a lot of smaller ones that use already existing infrastructure of those 4 said carriers. Plus there are western carriers that want in. From western brands we have Orange. Also Vodafone and T-Mobile have 50% in two others.
However there are extremely stupid regulations forced on them that contribute to shitty plans.
However there are extremely stupid regulations forced on them that contribute to shitty plans.
HTC Pyramid spotted in the wild, still headed to T-Mobile this summer
In the next 24 hours we expect HTC will unveil their first handset with a dual-core CPU. The device is codenamed the HTC Pyramid and is rumored to appear on T-Mobile later this year and could be arriving on Sprint as the EVO 3D. We got our first glimpse of the Pyramid last week in some leaked renders and now we have some real pics of the device thanks to GSMArena and Techblog.gr.
Our friends at TmoNews received a new tip that says the T-Mobile version should now be in stores by June. Earlier rumors suggested May, so the device could have been pushed back a month to ensure it ships with Android 2.4. David also says the Pyramid will have a 800 x 480 display, but everything we have heard points at a higher qHD resoltuion (960 x 540).
Hopefully we will have more details later in the week.
Rumored specs of the HTC Pyramid include:
In the next 24 hours we expect HTC will unveil their first handset with a dual-core CPU. The device is codenamed the HTC Pyramid and is rumored to appear on T-Mobile later this year and could be arriving on Sprint as the EVO 3D. We got our first glimpse of the Pyramid last week in some leaked renders and now we have some real pics of the device thanks to GSMArena and Techblog.gr.
Our friends at TmoNews received a new tip that says the T-Mobile version should now be in stores by June. Earlier rumors suggested May, so the device could have been pushed back a month to ensure it ships with Android 2.4. David also says the Pyramid will have a 800 x 480 display, but everything we have heard points at a higher qHD resoltuion (960 x 540).
Hopefully we will have more details later in the week.
Rumored specs of the HTC Pyramid include:
- Android 2.4 with HTC Sense 3.0
- 1.2 GHz processor dual-core Snapdragon (MSM8x60)
- 4.3-inch SuperLCD display with qHD resolution (960 x 540)
- 8 megapixel primary camera and 1.3 megapixel front-facing cameras
- 768MB of RAM
- HSPA+ (14.4 Mbps)
It's only poorly rated by people who know nothing about it, it has like 30 million users and 300 million opinions. The US is the land of my opinion is the same as the next mans. To me it's the best carrier left, good prices good service, it's just good all around. They can use some better phones from time to time but they get some legit stuff.
Business isnt exactly booming for them over there, while other networks continue to make a profit, shows some reflection of the service they offer. I've never heard a good word about T-Mobile USA, everyone complains about the poor service and value for money.
It doesn't help that compared to the EU, American and Canadian networks suck hugely in comparison. Every thing there is an extra. Pay for texts or pay for calls, or pay for data, pay for MMS. You even pay to receive text messages from overseas. You're call tariff charges are high too.
I'm with T-Mobile UK, for £43 a month, I get £225 of calls, texts, mms, I never break £100. I get unlimited data free. Im not charged anything extra on top of my £43 for international calls and texts, and I don't pay to receive calls and messages from overseas either.
Its suprising to see how behind the times it is in North America when it comes to Mobile networks. I noticed the same thing applies to your Internet services aswell.
It doesn't help that compared to the EU, American and Canadian networks suck hugely in comparison. Every thing there is an extra. Pay for texts or pay for calls, or pay for data, pay for MMS. You even pay to receive text messages from overseas. You're call tariff charges are high too.
I'm with T-Mobile UK, for £43 a month, I get £225 of calls, texts, mms, I never break £100. I get unlimited data free. Im not charged anything extra on top of my £43 for international calls and texts, and I don't pay to receive calls and messages from overseas either.
Its suprising to see how behind the times it is in North America when it comes to Mobile networks. I noticed the same thing applies to your Internet services aswell.
Our isp and our wireless providers all suck. Everything you said deals with every company not just t mobile. Actually I get unlimited text and data and like 3000 mins shared between four people for about $200 a month, we split that and I pay about $50 a month for my service which is way cheap. If I was to go solo through verizon it'd be upwards of $100+
Man... tell me about it. It's bad enough here that for the most part people want plans and choices similar to the USA.
A typical data plan here is about 50$/Month (this is from Telus, but the other 2 providers offer pretty much the same thing)
For that you get:
- 200 anytime minutes
- 500 MB of Data
- Early Nights and Weekends starting 6pm (only if you sign for 2 or 3 years, but 2 years the phones are maybe only 100$ cheaper than the outright price, so you're forced in a 3 year contract)
- You choose 1 of these 3: "Double anytime minutes" ... "Unlimited nationwide talk and text messaging with your 5 Favourite Numbers" ... "Unlimited outgoing and incoming text, picture and video messages"
This doesn't include Voicemail or caller ID... so you're adding another 8$ for Caller ID, and another 7$ for Voicemail... unless you get it part of a package that includes unlimited SMS/MMS for 15$ all together.
So it's about 65+tax = 70-73$/month ... which is about £45/month. (Oh and if you want 6gig of Data it's another 30$ for that... )
Not to mention - it's not always the best network as there are black holes in a good number of places. So, yeah - we'd probably prefer to be the USA at the moment....
A typical data plan here is about 50$/Month (this is from Telus, but the other 2 providers offer pretty much the same thing)
For that you get:
- 200 anytime minutes
- 500 MB of Data
- Early Nights and Weekends starting 6pm (only if you sign for 2 or 3 years, but 2 years the phones are maybe only 100$ cheaper than the outright price, so you're forced in a 3 year contract)
- You choose 1 of these 3: "Double anytime minutes" ... "Unlimited nationwide talk and text messaging with your 5 Favourite Numbers" ... "Unlimited outgoing and incoming text, picture and video messages"
This doesn't include Voicemail or caller ID... so you're adding another 8$ for Caller ID, and another 7$ for Voicemail... unless you get it part of a package that includes unlimited SMS/MMS for 15$ all together.
So it's about 65+tax = 70-73$/month ... which is about £45/month. (Oh and if you want 6gig of Data it's another 30$ for that... )
Not to mention - it's not always the best network as there are black holes in a good number of places. So, yeah - we'd probably prefer to be the USA at the moment....
I think the main difference here is the EU government force mobile networks with legislation to make them offer this amount of service for this price. Theres even another legislation coming soon that is forcing them to reduce the cost of calling a mobile phone from a landline phone as other things there are gonna inforce. I even think EU legislation prevents mobile network charging a roaming fee in europe, though im not certain on that.
So Amazon just went down a few notches in my book.
They launched their own app store for Android just now. Which is cool. They plan to offer one paid app for free every day. Also cool.
Check it out on the web - http://amazon.com/appstore or get the actual AppStore app itself here - http://amzn.to/getandroidappstore
Here's the problems.
1. You need a credit card tied to your Amazon account even just to get the free apps
2. It only works in the US right now.
So todays free app is the new Angry Birds RIO which is exclusive to the Amazon store, it's not in Android Market. I played it yesterday on my cousins iPad and it rocks. So I was looking forward to getting it.
But I can't use the Amazon App Store since it doesn't work outside the US right now. No worries, I thought - I'm sure a hacker will be uploading the APK file soon. Which they did. TURNS OUT - apps in the Amazon store can check that you've obtained them through their service. So the ripped APK of RIO checks the app against the Amazon store, and won't let you play it once it finds out you got it somewhere else. FAIL.
Amazon, you fail on many levels.
If they are expecting people to use their App Store rather than Android Market, which seems to be the intent - they aren't off to a very good start.
My prediction for within the next 6 months? Amazon bring out a Kindle tablet running Android to compete with the NookColor - with included Amazon App Store, but no Android Market. Not that it matters too much, cos they ain't gonna be able to stop people from rooting it anyway.
They launched their own app store for Android just now. Which is cool. They plan to offer one paid app for free every day. Also cool.
Check it out on the web - http://amazon.com/appstore or get the actual AppStore app itself here - http://amzn.to/getandroidappstore
Here's the problems.
1. You need a credit card tied to your Amazon account even just to get the free apps
2. It only works in the US right now.
So todays free app is the new Angry Birds RIO which is exclusive to the Amazon store, it's not in Android Market. I played it yesterday on my cousins iPad and it rocks. So I was looking forward to getting it.
But I can't use the Amazon App Store since it doesn't work outside the US right now. No worries, I thought - I'm sure a hacker will be uploading the APK file soon. Which they did. TURNS OUT - apps in the Amazon store can check that you've obtained them through their service. So the ripped APK of RIO checks the app against the Amazon store, and won't let you play it once it finds out you got it somewhere else. FAIL.
Amazon, you fail on many levels.
If they are expecting people to use their App Store rather than Android Market, which seems to be the intent - they aren't off to a very good start.
My prediction for within the next 6 months? Amazon bring out a Kindle tablet running Android to compete with the NookColor - with included Amazon App Store, but no Android Market. Not that it matters too much, cos they ain't gonna be able to stop people from rooting it anyway.
Looking for the link right now.
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