Visa rolling out payWave mobile phone payments in NY subway and taxis
Prometheus Xex
^^^^^^^^^^^
That's funky.
VDub
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Originally posted by VERTiG0
Ladies and gentlemen, hell hath frozen over.
I really feel like quoting all of those previous posts but I'm not going to...
You know what's there...
Playa24_7
^ lol
Jem_hadar
quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Ladies and gentlemen, hell hath frozen over.
What the christ jesus?!
E2EK1EL
Just saw an old Indian lady walk into FedEx and shipped out 6 units of IP4 32GB to India. Talked to the workers and they told me she’s been here once a week w/ the same amount since launch. Market Value in regions of China, Middle East, Russia, India and etc were $2000 and now $1500CAD each. These resellers line up every day at the Apple Stores @ 4am. This is why there’s a shortage of IP4s in Canada, they don’t even get activated and used on our Carriers.
Apple use to only sell their products w/ cards only, but some stupid lady in the states complained how she can’t buy an iPhone or iPad w/ cash. This was Apple’s method of tracking where these inventories are heading …
Also we have 5 carriers that support the IP4 and demands world wide is still retard.
Foxconn makes 137,000 units / day and it's still not enough
E2EK1EL
Suck it, Consumer Reports! JD Power ranks iPhone 4 highest
As noted by Fortune, J.D Power and Associates has ranked the iPhone as the phone with the highest customer satisfaction rate. The iPhone 4 got a score of 800 or out of 1000 beating number 2, LG with their score of 731.
Originally posted by VDub
I really feel like quoting all of those previous posts but I'm not going to...
You know what's there...
Word status: eaten
Abercrombie
Ok I have an update from a few weeks ago. I was disapointed that I could not replace my $25/500mb add-on to a $30/6gb, without extending BOTH my voice and data to 3 years.
Aparently Rogers had a change of heart or policy.
They left my voice plan alone, replaced my 500mb with 6gb for only $5 extra more per month, on a 3 year contract for the data only. I can live with the 3 year commitment. It's the voice plan I didn't want them to touch.
:)
E2EK1EL
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Originally posted by Abercrombie
Ok I have an update from a few weeks ago. I was disapointed that I could not replace my $25/500mb add-on to a $30/6gb, without extending BOTH my voice and data to 3 years.
Aparently Rogers had a change of heart or policy.
They left my voice plan alone, replaced my 500mb with 6gb for only $5 extra more per month, on a 3 year contract for the data only. I can live with the 3 year commitment. It's the voice plan I didn't want them to touch.
:)
They lied to you again lol
6GB plan is 3yr contract of data only
E2EK1EL
Ironic this story was posted today after my visit @ FedEx
Brits line up to ship iPhones back to where they were made
This morning we told you about the China iPhone grey market where iPhone 4s would be purchased in New York and shipped back to China only to get sold at higher prices. Well, according to Cult of Mac the same is happening in Britain. People are lining up early in the morning to purchase unlocked iPhone 4s to only sell them back to the place they were made, China.
To express how long these lines are, the picture above is not from launch day but from a couple days ago. Also, what about all the time and energy these line waiters are spending? The shipping costs? They must be spending a ton to get these things back to the place they were born.
NYT looks at China’s grey market iPhone 4 trade
There’s a furiously healthy grey market in the iPhone in China — we wonder how it works? Turns out it is quite complicated, involving early morning queues at US Apple Stores, backstreet sales deals at stores in Chinatown, unlocking, shipping and later sale in China, where the devices actually get made.
The interesting tale is available at the New York Times, which tells us it works like this: “People wait in line at an Apple store to buy the newest iPhone for $600, paying a premium to skip the AT&T contract. They then sell the phones to middlemen, usually at electronics stores in Chinatown, for about $750.”
Once the iPhones reach China they sell for as much as $1,000; but this thriving little industry is set to collapse when the iPhone 4 hits China this weekend.
Apple’s attempts to thwart this trade have failed so far: it has had challenges refusing to sell phones to Asian customers, for example, and its two units per credit card scheme is also easy to avoid.
But for low paid Chinese workers this trade could be a god send:
““Many workers make a few dollars an hour working in restaurants or factories,” he said. “If they wait in line for an hour at the Apple store to buy and sell phones, they can make $300 in a single morning.” For many, he said, this is equivalent to an average week’s pay.”
