ericl.journal » phones http://www.ericl.me Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:56:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Early upgrade program for post-paid smartphone customers http://www.ericl.me/2010/01/early-upgrade-program-for-post-paid-smartphone-customers/ http://www.ericl.me/2010/01/early-upgrade-program-for-post-paid-smartphone-customers/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:02:00 +0000 Eric Longstaff http://ericltech.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/early-upgrade-program-for-post-paid-smartphone-customers Continue reading →]]>

T-Mobile launches early upgrade program for post-paid smartphone customers

If you’re like us, keeping a smart phone for two years really isn’t an option. After about 6 months of ownership the honeymoon is over; after 9 months you begin to obsess over a few battle scars your phone has acquired, and by month 12 you are actively seeking your phone’s demise so you have an excuse to buy the latest and greatest. Starting immediately, T-Mobile will be offering post-paid smartphone customers on a two year contract — or feature phone owners looking to upgrade to a smartphone — two tiers of upgrade pricing… 

via boygeniusreport.com

AT&T and Verizon, pay attention to this. Cater to the geeks and techies that want to replace their smartphone every couple of years or lose them to other carriers.

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Wow, feel bad for the all the people that bought a Droid. Verizon must be pissed to feel so used. About time someone stuck it to a wireless carrier.

]]> http://www.ericl.me/2009/12/google-to-start-selling-own-phone-without-wireless-partner-by-next-year-wsj-com/feed/ 0 Texting costs http://www.ericl.me/2008/07/texting-costs/ http://www.ericl.me/2008/07/texting-costs/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:03:33 +0000 Eric Longstaff http://ericltech.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/texting-costs Continue reading →]]> Just another way the US wireless industry is sticking it to us. Reading This article about the rising cost of texting just makes you sick. One blogger has done the math.

If the same pricing was applied on a per-byte basis to downloading one 4MB song it would cost the user almost $6,000 to download a single song via SMS texting.

]]> http://www.ericl.me/2008/07/texting-costs/feed/ 0 Phones and public courtesy http://www.ericl.me/2008/04/phones-and-public-courtesy/ http://www.ericl.me/2008/04/phones-and-public-courtesy/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:06:01 +0000 Eric Longstaff http://ericltech.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/phones-and-public-courtesy Continue reading →]]> After reading this article I think I want to move overseas. Alas, if people who use mobile phones in public would just show a little courtesy to others around them.  Simple courtesies like realizing that there are others that share the public space with them.

But people need to know they don’t have the right to be on the telephone permanently and constantly,” he told Austrian television. “It’s just not healthy to never be able to get any peace and quiet.

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