Recent content by tedsc

The value of the EDS plan (I am on it too) is unlike the BYOD plans, the phones are subsidized at no cost to you so a $600 phone can be purchased for $200. You can still bring your own device to EDS if you want and it will work just fine if Sprint compatible but you won't get the $400 subsidy...

It's not better for us this way. I have been with Sprint for 3 contract cycles now. You are correct that the phone subsidy was never itemized on the bill, but the new plans have the exact same bill, then tack a phone payment price on top at roughly $20 a month x 4 phones so my bill will go...

I just logged into Sprint today as my wife is eligible for a new phone and to my surprise the subsidized phone model looks to be going away. So to buy a new phone now I can pay full price up front or tack on a monthly fee per phone. Keep in mind my bill for services does not decrease so it...

There is a problem with tech podcasts that is not unique to the AC podcast. The problem is a fundamental disconnect between the journalists doing the reviews and many real world users. I hear comments about phablets, Sprint, user replaceable battery features that to me are all clear...

Your point about manufacturing capability is valid. I suspect HTC can do 2 a year though. Their was time where HTC was criticized for releasing too many handsets a year. The Apple comparison is more problematic. I would say HTCs direct competition is in the Android ecosystem where the bar is...

The first Nexus was called the Nexus One and it was not a 1 inch screen. All of the non-Samsung Nexus devices - Nexus 1, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 all correlate to Nexus phone generation not screen size. I am not sure why you are bringing Nexus tablet naming convention into the Nexus phone...

Samsung is clearly the current king of the Android universe. Many believe Samsung accomplished this position by investing heavily in advertising. That is certainly part of it, but I think Samsung has done other things well too. They struck the compromise approach between form and function (an...

The Nexus 4 was not a 4 inch device. It was the 4th generation Nexus phone and was followed by the Nexus 5 as the 5th generation Nexus. So the next Nexus would presumably be the Nexus 6.

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Nexus 6 will be called "Skin Jobs" in homage to Blade Runner.

Re: Google Maps offline for deaf people? Update, I found that you can type "Okay Maps" into the search bar for the same result as the voice command. This is not mentioned in the "Tips and Tricks" section of Google maps however, I found it on a third party site.

I went to cache a map to day for offline use and couldn't find anyway to do so without using the voice command. This is inconvenient for me because I dislike voice commands but it occurs to me that killing the old menu option means people who do not talk CAN'T use offline mode anymore. That...

That was actually not my complaint. I am glad to see the LG G Pro 2 has a replaceable battery, perhaps they will proliferate that thinking to the G2 replacement later this year. I also hope HTC follows along.

My first Android phone was an HTC Evo. It was my phone for the duration of my contract, then it was my media device for a year. In it's 4th year it became my daughter's phone after her phone broke prior to upgrade eligibility. In all that Evo went through a lot and even though it was on it's...

We went into a Sprint store the other day to renew 2 of the 4 agreements on my plan. They pitched me the new Framily plan. I listened to the pitch and it seemed to me the disconnect is that I always counted the phone subsidy as part of my monthly cost even though it is not itemized. The way I...