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Testing T-Mobile’s Test Drive
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / February 4, 2015UPDATE: Brought the 5S they sent with me to work to test wifi calling (this will be an important feature in my case). Once I found the WiFi Calls option under Phone in the Settings menu, it worked as ...
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Pure Greed, Because They Can
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / July 17, 2013If you've been paying attention to the mobile industry in the last couple weeks, there are a slew of new announcements coming out. Mostly to do with upgrades - and the mobile carriers coming out with ...
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Let’s Price This Mobile Share Thing Out
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / August 6, 2012Last time I brought up shared data, I was talking about Verizon's recently announced Share Everything plans and how they pretty much screw anyone over who doesn't already pay for a lot of minutes. Sin...
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Yet Another Android Device
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / July 31, 2012Just very recently I upgraded both of my devices (phone and tablet) to newer ones from Google. I got an unlocked Galaxy Nexus and a new Nexus 7 tablet. And of course this allowed me to sell off my Gal...
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Screwing Customers is an Art
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / June 13, 2012And let's admit it, cell phone carriers are modern Picasos! Yesterday Verizon Wireless unveiled their "Share Everything" plans. These were supposed to what everyone had been asking for; finally sha...
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Root Your AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II with a Mac, Easily
By ack154 / in Phones & Apps / October 17, 2011So I've come to a situation with my phone (to be explained later) that has all but required me to root it. Well, basically it HAS required me to root it because I have yet to find an actual solution t...
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Where’s My Shared Data Plan?
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / June 18, 2011With the addition of a 4th line on my AT&T bill, I've started to really look at the data usage and how much I'm paying for it. With all 4 of these phones being iPhones, each one requires a data pl...
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More AT&T Shenanigans
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / June 14, 2011I don't know if there's just a problem with my account or what... but AT&T is kind of pissing me off. I was in the area of an AT&T store today and after yesterday's phone debacle, I figured...
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Sometimes, I Really Hate AT&T
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / June 13, 2011Trying to add an additional line to my account tonight... apparently AT&T doesn't want my money. I (did) have the 550 family talk plan and was trying to add an additional line to that - apparen...
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Time to Put Up or Shut Up
By ack154 / in Random Thoughts / March 18, 2011Happened to read a story on Engadget today about AT&T planning on auto enrolling "unauthorized" tethering users in a tethering data plan... The story goes like this: People that have jailbroken...
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