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TOTA Mobile/Wireless/Celluar/VOIP Thread (pg. 114)
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Oh my god. N97.
Load status: blown
One problem: Dual LED flash. Disappointing, and likely to keep me from buying it. |
My GOD cause of the flash?????
That's a nice phone man....
You have sex with your N86 don't you??? |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
My GOD cause of the flash?????
That's a nice phone man....
You have sex with your N86 don't you??? |
Yep, because of the flash. The dual LED flash system just can't hold a candle to a proper Xenon flash. My phone completely replaced my digital camera, and does a damn good job of it.
I agree, it is a very nice phone. I'll probably change my tune in a while, we'll see.
Lastly: Yes, I make sweet, sweet love to my N82. She likes it rough. I like her so much I paid for her surgical cosmetic alterations (black to silver/steel clothing). HOT |
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| Orko |
Cale, you have mad issues.
On a related note, did you guys read that Nokia is jumping ship from Japan? WTF? Apparently the 4th largest market in the world, and they are going to stop selling phones there! |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Cale, you have mad issues.
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I beg to differ!
Also yeah, but Nokia has less than 1% market share in Japan. Look at the competition they have from all the amazing phones Japan has. They'll continue selling Vertu phones, but that's it.
Also, obligatory "LOL VERTU." |
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| Orko |
| Then who the dominates in Japan? So confused. |
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Lastly: Yes, I make sweet, sweet love to my N82. She likes it rough. HOT |
So you're putting the headphone jack to good use then eh??? |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Then who the dominates in Japan? So confused. |
Sharp/NTT DoCoMo, Toshiba, etc. Not your usuals.
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
So you're putting the headphone jack to good use then eh??? |
Dude, trust me: The 3.5mm is MORE than enough, aw yeah |
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| dEsidEL |
a good read.. we're not out of the woods yet, but how quickly things change..
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What has the iPhone done to Canada's Wireless-Space?
With the Holiday Season about to kick off, Apple has already started to flex its advertising muscle.
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Dilshan Kathriarachchi
PCWorld.ca
Monday, November 24, 2008
Considering the innovation and creativity going into those ever trendy iPod commercials, the iPhone ads borrow the same larger than life theme in propelling itself beyond the role of a regular mobile phone. The entire line of amazingly well-structured iPhone ads end with one simple yet powerful slogan, "...This is gonna change everything". A statement that is probably true more so in Canada than anywhere else in the world. When the iPhone 3G was launched in Canada just four short months ago, it truly did change everything.
It's hard to imagine and even harder to swallow that just a few short months ago checking your email on the go was a distant fantasy for those of us without a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile device. Even then, it was in most cases just your work email on a corporate phone. Today, email on the go is no longer a privilege but practically a right for every mobile subscriber. Just like voice mail and caller identification, it's implied that access to email be available on any decent mobile plan in Canada. So what really changed in the last few months to bring about this change? Access to data.
Canada at one time was a land reputed for exorbitant mobile data rates. How expensive? Try dishing out 5 cents for every kilobyte of data you use. So expensive in fact that many of us simply ignored the Internet connectivity on our mobile phones since taking advantage of such functionality on a regular basis had never been financially viable. All around the world for many years the mobile phone has functioned in the dual role as both a telephony and Internet device. Yet Canada was significantly falling behind in new mobile technology benchmarks assessed predominantly on access to mobile data-related services.
The iPhone in its very essence contradicts such restrictive data policies. Whether its mobile browsing, email, downloading applications and songs, or even checking the weather; every thing the iPhone does, it relies on mobile data one way or the other. This is one reason Apple picked exclusive carriers in each country so affordable data plans can be negotiated for its iPhone users. When it came around to Canada's turn, Rogers who still carries the iPhone exclusively in the maple state had to bring down its data charges to unprecedented levels. The cost for accessing one megabyte of data on the go dropped from an exorbitant $50 down to roughly half a penny on the most data-friendly plans overnight!
Wireless carriers such as our very own Rogers, Bell or Telus calculate their market success by an indicator known as ARPU (Average Revenue per User). It represents the average revenue a specific operator is getting from each of its subscribers. Historically Canadian wireless carriers have enjoyed extremely high ARPU numbers that placed them within the top three globally. This maybe one reason why the carriers stuck to their tried and tested core business of voice and text veering away from other value added services deemed excessive. Unfortunately data services for the longest time were considered to be a value added service and out of mind when it came to re-evaluating their pricing to reflect technology and market changes.
What the iPhone triggered would be a landslide where data services would start contributing more and more towards the ARPU with it ultimately poised to grab a bigger chunk than even voice and text. Therefore it's no surprise that Rogers linked its unprecedented 84 per cent rise in income last quarter predominantly on the success of the iPhone and therefore establishing mobile data services as a profitable and rewarding endeavor even here in Canada.
With the introduction of the iPhone's touch interface and other at-the-time ground breaking features, this device has truly set the benchmarks for what Canadian wireless consumers expect off their mobile devices. For a country that was once famous for its bare basic mobile phones, the flood of devices such as the LG Dare, HTC Touch Pro, Samsung Instinct and the upcoming BlackBerry Storm signals a new age of choice and options for the Canadian consumer.
Looking back a few years from now we would be gushing over a new round of flashier devices and even more innovative uses for our phones. A new wireless space where voice plans would slowly phase out over time giving way to third-party VoIP services for which our wireless carriers would bill us on data usage over minutes. Similarly the individual cost of mobile IM, Picture Messaging and Email would undergo a significant downward spiral encouraging greater use and billed for nett data use as opposed to per action as it is now. All-in-all Canada's wireless space has been irrevocably pushed into the third-generation of mobile communications and the catalyst responsible for this revolution would always be remembered as the Apple iPhone 3G, the phone that could.
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source:
http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/c...bd16702/pg0.htm
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| VERTiG0 |
| I suppose the iPhone is good for something afterall, and not just as a coaster or a paperweight. |
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Dude, trust me: The 3.5mm is MORE than enough, aw yeah |
Like throwin a hotdog down a hallway.... |
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
I suppose the iPhone is good for something afterall, and not just as a coaster or a paperweight. |
Plus you can get a zippo lighter app...
You can do all the flipping tricks... |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
Plus you can get a zippo lighter app...
You can do all the flipping tricks... |
Somebody showed me some beer application once, where you "drink" the beer and you can "throw" the rest of it out of "the glass."
I was like "that's stupid, you're stupid, get out of here."
Discuss. |
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