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more about #service more comments → Jacubious: It could be worse, you could be stuck with Canadian pricing. #wireless more » NaldoKlient: It's simple make the stock market illegal, cap profits at 10% for companies that send american jobs overseas and layoff workers here in the states. Ge... more » UnderLoK: I'm on a family plan with 3 other people and long story short, it's $35'ish a month for unlimited everything. People really should leverage the famil... more » Rob Shapiro: Visit www.metropcs.com This company is in a handful of states and does what every telecom should - they offer unlimited voice, data and text for a fl... more » Digo: The cost per minute/text might be cheaper but that's because here you are charged for both making and receiving them, in much of the rest of the world... more » dioskouris: Yea. I remember when I came here from Jamaica for college, I spent 2 1/2 years without a cell phone because of how exorbitant the fees in comparison t... more » The Lab: This argument makes the assumption that telecoms can only have either a fixed price plans OR a variable plans. That is not the case, Sprint could off... more » Communist Pope: Fortunately, Sprint grandfathered its "Fair and Flexible" plans (the one referenced in the write-up) if you had one before they discontinued them. Don... more » diesel828: America this, America that. I take it, Chris, that when you refer to America you're doing so in comparison with other countries, namely the ones in Eu... more » dragon:ONE: Ugh. And prepaid still bends you over. For example... Page Plus, a Verizon MVNO. 1200 minutes, 1200 text messages, $29/mo. Sounds reasonable. But the... more » crackel: There's no incentive to charge less. Everyone "needs" a cell phone, and there's only 4 1/2 companies than can reasonably do so. Therein lies the probl... more » GiltProto: I'd think that it's the carriers who risk averse to varying revenue from month to month. Of course they'll say that their rate structure is preferred... more » Jaredu: I bought my G1 for 425.99 and I'll be buying my Xperia X10 for around $850-$1000. I'm enjoying my $24/mo bill on tmobile with unlimited everything :)... more » cardboredbox: or the fact that one company needs to provide service over the amount of land equal to 50 European countries #wireless more » Spoony Bard: I guess that's the end of the road for my Suunto SPOT watch. We had some good times.... Wait, did we really? #msndirect more » -
#cellphones
Why U.S. Wireless Pricing Sucks
The New York Times ran a story today that helps explain why the American cellular industry is so screwy. In short: It's our fault. More » -
#gps
Microsoft Pulling The Plug On MSN Direct In 2012
While it's probably not the first casualty of the Google GPS navigation bombshell, the fact remains—Microsoft is pulling the plug on their MSN Direct service on January 1st, 2012. More » -
#warranty
ThinkPad's $100 a Year Warranty Service is Actually Pretty Good
Boing Boing Cory relates this tale using his $100/year global support service for his Lenovo laptop and actually liking what eventually happened. Wha?? More » -
#service
Laptop Mag Determines Acer, Dell and HP Have the Worst Tech Support
Laptop magazine went through the painstaking process of calling the tech support of every major notebook manufacturer. And they timed their waits before asking one of two very basic questions. The results may not surprise you. More » -
#iphone
How to Send Full Resolution Photos from Your iPhone
If you email photos from your iPhone using the standard "share" button, it shrinkifies them to a squee 800x600. But if you copy and paste them into the email app, you'll get the full delicious resolution. [Geek Stuff via Lifehacker] -
#keyboard
10 Ways to Make Your Keyboard Slightly Less Disgusting
Your keyboard is probably a SuperFund site waiting to happen—luckily there's more than one way to skin a biohazard. Inc.com has 10 ways to clean your keyboard, blow dryer being their wiliest, if lightweight, method. [Inc.com via Lifehacker] -
#evernote
Evernote Lets You Sync Your Office Docs to Your iPhone
The latest update to Evernote adds a new feature to its premium version: adding, syncing, and accessing your Word, Excel, Powerpoint docs, or any other file you throw at it, on any device or platform. -
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#warranty
Green Umbrella Gives You One Extended Warranty For Almost All Your Gadgets
Green Umbrella has a very interesting service plan: a all-in-one extended warranty plan that covers all your gadgets for three years. You pay $9.99 a month, and it'll cover most of your home electronics (TVs, Computers) and appliances (Washers, Dryers, Refrigerators, Microwaves) as long as they come with at least a 90 day warranty if you purchase after you sign up, and 1 year if you purchased before. The downside is that they don't cover cellphones, and they don't cover accidental damage. More » -
#dotmac
.Mac Down For MobileMe Transition
It's official. .Mac is down for the MobileMe transition as of about 9ish Pacific time. It's a little more than an hour past the start of the 8PM-2AM window, so things should be on target for coming back up before 2AM. Our only question at this point is why those four languages are the only ones on the .Mac maintenance site? Are they the four largest .Mac countries? Is someone at Apple a huge WW2 buff? [Mac] -
#iphone
Apple's Three Ultimate iPhone Plans
We covered Apple's three simple service plans this morning, but we didn't touch on Apple's top-tier voice plans. The only difference between these three behemoths and the ones we did cover are the minutes: 2000, 4000, and 6000, which go for $119, $169 and $219 respectively. You'd think for that price, Apple + AT&T would throw in at least some more text messages. Nope, still 200 base. This does change up the total cost of ownership a bit though. More »
