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Windows Vista SP2 is live, ready to download {Engadget}
May 26th 2009 8:06AM Why is that?
I have both a MAC and Vista and prefer the latter. Have not had a single issue with 64-bit vista. Running it for two years now.
HTC Touch Pro2 brandishes Verizon logo, poses for camera with Cedar {Engadget}
May 24th 2009 11:59PM What is verizon's fixation with doing that? Just let the phone be. They don't need to screw it up by trying to customize it to squeeze a few extra $$ out of users.
Verizon Wireless to light up LTE in 20 to 30 markets in 2H 2010 {Engadget Mobile}
May 15th 2009 10:07PM Actually it's a great point. Sprint has been promising a 4G network for years now. Yet we're still waiting. Then they throw out more promises and you expect us to believe them. You do realize that LTE is going to absolutely destroy WIMAX. The technology is so new it is still being developed. Once Verizon and AT&T start those roll outs, it's game over for wimax and their 2mb, sorry 6mb, data service. As it stands HSDPA easily surpasses any live wimax service. I have easily clocked 14mb using it overseas.
But anyway, Wimax is a moronic choice of technology to deploy in here, considering the large area it needs to cover. One would have thought that Sprint learned a thing or two from their mistake of choosing 1900mhz to operate on.
Why would I be bashing sprint? Sprint is company offering a service and is rightfully judged on it as well as their customer service. Clearly they fail in both. Though it is funny to look at any sprint forum only to see their users fighting over sero plans and other cheap discounts. The other carriers obviously don't want those types of customers.
The point about FIOS is that a fiber optic cable that is physically being installed into the ground, is being rolled out faster than a wireless network. That is a disgrace. Though I don't blame them entirely. Considering that cable companies now own part of that wimax network, Verizon and AT&T have nothing to worry about. They'll stuff it up like they stuff everything they touch up. And then try to overcharge people for it. Cementing their future in chapter 11.
Verizon Wireless to light up LTE in 20 to 30 markets in 2H 2010 {Engadget Mobile}
May 15th 2009 5:00PM The problem with Sprint and their so-called 4G is quite simple to define. Where the hell is it? Oh wait, Baltimore. What a great roll out, not. Fios is being rolled out faster than sprint / clearwire whoever's 4G network.
So this rhetoric that they are rolling out to 130 cities has zero credibility. We'll have 5G networks and sprint will still be 'rolling out their 4G network'.
Verizon Wireless to light up LTE in 20 to 30 markets in 2H 2010 {Engadget Mobile}
May 15th 2009 4:52PM They might as well just stick to what they do best. Severely limiting service. As you said, why even bother going to a world standard if you are only going to restrict what people can or cannot use. They should just pull a TDMA and use their own standard.
I am sure it will be some sort of lame excuse like 'trying to maintain network integrity'.
It would be like Shell saying only xyz brand cars are permitted to use our fuel. Regardless of the fact that most vehicles manufactured to run on 87 octane.
Verizon Wireless to light up LTE in 20 to 30 markets in 2H 2010 {Engadget Mobile}
May 15th 2009 4:40PM Who said they had to provide these features in every single cell zone? As it stands, they already don't. Just look at AT&T's 3G coverage map. Now lets compare any carrier in the states to the services of carriers operating in similar sized countries like Australia. Where 99% of their population has 3G coverage, with data rates approaching well over 21mb. We could even go down the handset route where we are severely limited by what the carriers choose. With a larger population we should have 5 times the handset choices of lets say the UK, yet we have less.
Economics 101. The more equipment a carrier buys the cheaper it is. So these 'population based' excuses simply hold no water. All large cities should have had the latest and greatest. Instead we have 3G networks that are a joke. You can compare a range of large cities or even smaller cities abroad and they usually have much better cell services. I actually achieve greater throughput using a sat service in NYC than I do on a AT&T or Verizon handset. Yet the same 3G handset overseas, in more densely populated cities, achieves 5 times the throughput.
