Maybe I want one

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/story/2012-07-03/nexus-7-tablet-review/56005986/1

Apple planning biggest change to iTunes since 2003 - chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/chi-apple-planning-biggest-change-to-itunes-since-2003-20120628,0,3114669.story

FW: Apple

From: Robert

 

It’s true, I’ve fallen away from the Church of Apple.  I’m sort of an Apple apostate.  I used to be very zealous about computers and a lot of things.  I’m much less zealous about anything these days.  All those PC versus Mac days are long gone for me.  I was on the Mac side back when but not for at least the last 20 years or so.

 

I don’t have anything against Apple or people who buy Apple products.  I even buy stuff from Apple for my daughter.  It’s good stuff.  It’s just not for me personally.  And I’m definitely not in the cult of Apple.  I’m more like a post “Cult of Apple” survivor now.

 

Whenever anyone asks me, “What phone should I get?”  I consider who is asking.  If it is someone who is not very technically inclined, I immediately say, “Get an iPhone” or “Get a Mac”.  Mostly because I don’t want to be providing any assistance or technical support to their cheaper and harder to use Android phone or PC.

 

I can dislike Apple and be still be friends with Apple fans or fanboys or fangirls.    LOL.

 

Samsung Galaxy S III is an iPhone contender: review

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2012/0620/Samsung-Galaxy-S-III-is-an-iPhone-contender-review/%28page%29/2

Apple iPhone 5: All Eyes on WWDC Monday for Release Date

http://www.vision2mobile.com/news/2012/06/apple-iphone-5-all-eyes-on-wwdc-monday-for-releas.aspx

Please check out the video.

What's Next

http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/06/a-touchscreen-with-keys-that-rise-and-disappear/?hpt=hp_t3

InformationWeek Mobile Edition - OPINION

http://mobile.informationweek.com/80269/show/c00470304a44b46aff232bbaf2d7c56d/

iPhone 5

http://mobile.informationweek.com/80256/show/5dfc83e2d6b6f705a514afd12a74a005/

RE: Prepaid iPhone

2 years seems like a good time period to have a phone..  I am still quite happy with my iPhone 4 after 22 months.  I think that I will have to wait an additional 4 months for the iPhone 5 to come out.  Even so, I am not sure how badly I want to upgrade since I am still quite happy with the 4.  I will most likely upgrade.

Best wishes,

John Coffey

 

From:  Robert

 

I’m getting ready to drop my $80 monthly post-paid, off contract and move to a pre-paid $50 dollar, unlimited text, voice and data plan with a $600 phone soon.  I can only stay with a phone for 18 months before I start climbing the walls so I don’t want to buy the phone on contract.  Contracts just suck all around for me.  So I’ll buy the phone off contract and drop the traditional carrier.

 

This is the one I’m looking at:

 

http://straighttalksim.com/

 

I’m going to try them out for a month.  If I’m still happy, I’ll move my primary number over to them.  They say they don’t support 4G but everyone on the boards say their phones operate at 4G.

 

http://androidandme.com/2012/05/opinions/7-reasons-to-shred-your-wireless-contract-and-switch-to-pre-paid/

 

 

Bob

 

From: Coffey, John R

 

It doesn’t make sense to sell a $500 phone on a prepaid plan.

 

Best wishes,

John Coffey

 

From: Robert

 

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9V3RTV01.htm

Snappers review part 2

Snappers review part 1

Water-proof, life-proof: the Motorola Defy+ [Review] | gearburn

http://gearburn.com/2012/05/water-proof-dust-proof-life-proof-the-motorola-defy-review/

IPhone 5 Release Date 2012: Apple Fans Predicting A Dud - International Business Times

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/328166/20120414/iphone-5-release-date-apple-news-rumors.htm

iPhone 5 News, Opinion & Release Date | iPhone 5 News Blog

http://iphone5newsblog.com/

Snappers

There is a game called Snappers on the iPhone.  I don’t know if it is available for android.   It is a puzzle game that is similar to nuclear fission.  

 

I love the game.  Some of harder puzzles have taken either several minutes of trial and error or several minutes of thinking or some combination of both for me to figure them out.

 

iPad 3

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225552/New_iPad_shortchanges_users_on_battery_life_says_expert

 

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/319114/20120325/new-ipad-3-yellow-tint-problem-retina.htm

46inch_iphone_dont_believe_the_hype

http://www.pcworld.com/article/252346/46inch_iphone_dont_believe_the_hype.html

galaxy-tab-10-1-vs-ipad2-smackdown

http://deviceguru.com/galaxy-tab-10-1-vs-ipad2-smackdown/

 

RE: Fastest wireless in SLC?

I have gotten 4Mb just from my office.  Somebody I know with a 4S phone got 5Mb from the Salt Lake Community College, where I only got 3Mb with my iPhone 4 from the same location.  His phone showed a “4G” network even though his phone is not technically 4G.  Until recently I could only get about .5Mb.   - John Coffey

From: Witmer, Robert

 

4G

1^st Verizon – 8 Mb

2^nd T-Mobile – 5.281 Mb

3^rd Sprint – 3.412 Mb

 

3G

1^st AT&T – 2.7 Mb

2^nd T-Mobile -

3^rd Verizon - 0.694 Mb

4^th Sprint -

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsburger/53699958-53/network-verizon-download-lake.html.csp

 

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/53668633-80/map-bit-download-speeds.html.csp

 

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home3/53599322-200/network-speeds-mobile-verizon.html.csp

I ordered a refurbished iPad 2 from Apple for $349.

Apple waited till a couple of hours after the iPad 3 announcement to drop the price on the iPad 2.