| 2011/9/19-10/18 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:54176 Activity:nil | 9/19 Why are most latest smartphones called "<model> by <manuf>" rather than
"<manuf> <model>" like in the older models? E.g. "Droid X2 by
Motorola", "ThunderBolt by HTC" and "Revolution by LG", vs. "Motorola
Citrus", "HTC Trophy", "LG Cosmos Touch". Is is just a matter of
being fashionable?
\_ I have an iPhone 4
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| 2008/3/4-7 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:49328 Activity:nil | 3/4 I'm thinking of moving to a shack in Montana. Can I turn
my tmobile cell phone number somehow to Skype ?
\_ Yup
\_ Has anyone done this? Will they forward this to another
number?
\_ I recommend insulting your shack well.
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| 2007/6/29-30 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:47119 Activity:nil | 6/29 For every single iPhone sold, Nokia/Motorola/LG/whoever
will sell 1000 or so phones. Why aren't they worth a gajillion
dollars?
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| 2007/4/27-5/1 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:46470 Activity:nil | 4/27 Anyone from the Beijing area here? My mother-in-law is on a trip
there. She bought a SIM card there and put it in her cell phone. She
said the number is 1XXXXXXXX (total 9 digits). What should I dial on
my home phone in order to call that number? I tried 011-86-1XXXXXXXX,
but I always got a tone that sounds like a busy signal. Thanks.
\_ Try removing the leading 1. Many include the long distance dialing
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| 2007/4/19-21 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:46379 Activity:low | 4/19 I've been on verizon for a few years now, and haven't had many problems,
but I don't like their selection of phones. I'm considering Cingular.
Does anyone have any significant pros/cons for a Verizon to Cingular
switch? Thanks.
\_ You can't ask anything about phone companies and expect a consistent
answer. It's like a game of the musical chair. Company A gives you
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| 2006/9/21-25 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:44489 Activity:kinda low | 9/21 Why is caller-id so expensive? $6.17 per month? Don't we have a
right to know who's calling us? It's like your ISP strips out
the From field of your email, and charge you half of your ISP
fee for that info. This is ridiculous. In the age where we
want to offer free wireless internet access to everyone
because it is 'essential', shouldn't phone service be free? Or
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| 2006/8/15-17 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:44011 Activity:nil | 8/15 Other than Nokia 8801 (a bit pricey at $650) are there any other
cell phone *currently* on the market with a steel shell? My old
Motorola is steel and I don't want to replace it with plastic
crap. I need a GSM phone. Thanks!
\_ No. -luddite
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| 2012/5/16-7/20 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:54390 Activity:nil | 5/16 Can anyone tell me what Greece is hoping for by rejecting austerity?
From here it seems like the austerity is a pretty generous attempt
to keep Greece from imploding entirely. Are they hoping the
Germans will put them on eternal state welfare, or what?
Also, why would an outright default mean they must leave the Euro?
Is it just that they won't be able to pay basic gvmt services
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| 2010/12/15-2011/2/19 [Science/Electric, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:53983 Activity:nil | 12/15 I'm planning on traveling to Europe and I was wondering if there's
any reason I shouldn't be able to use a US power tap/strip (no surge
suppression) with just a plug adaptor (i.e., no voltage conversion).
This would be for use with electronics that accept 100V-240V. While
the power strip is intended for use at 120V, it's just wires, right?
(Also, this power strip has no power LED or similar.) If anything,
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| 2009/12/6-26 [Science, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:53570 Activity:nil | 12/5 If Harry Potter is rewritten in a modern style using science
instead magic, and using real people and references instead of
fiction, what could it include? I'll start:
-Slytherin Pureblood = Nazi Ayran
-Muggle = melting pot
-Dobby = Black slavery, illiterate
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