Hi all,
Sorry for posting - just re-read some posts - I see that the UK model doesn't have the hardware to support the US 3G frequencies - Apologies.
Dennis! West London UK!
hardware supports voice and data on the US GSM/EDGE bands; no support for US 3G bands.
Most definitely works. I'm in California using Touch HD on AT&T for about 9 months now without a problem. As far as 3G, I don't really miss it, nor care about it. Had a Blackberry previously and Motorola Q Global previously and even with the 3G on AT&T surfing web was annoying. So I don't do a lot of surfing the web on the phone. Just isn't practical for me. However!! I'll do an occasional dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Google maps, or surf a few freeware sites. Speed is adequate and always dependent on signal strength. I check multiple email accounts through out the day, send and receive photos. Even able to let my 4 yr old watch a few cartoons from youtub site with any lagging. Now that I've babbled on and on and blah blah blah...hopefully I understood your question correctly - Good luck
Phone will work in the USA fine apart from 3G which has no support at present
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My question in the below snippet is whether T-Mobile will make it so the existing HD2 users with Windows 6.5 will be able to use it, or is it just an application for WP7?
"T-Mobile TV: Oh, and one more T-Mobile pre-load (as the name suggests). As far as we can tell from T-Mobile's announcement, this looks to be T-Mobile's answer to services like Sprint TV, MobiTV, and AT&T Mobile TV, offering a selection of "free programming from ABC News NOW, FOX Sports, PBS Kids, Azteca America, family holiday movie favorites and more." Both live and on-demand shows will be available -- perfect to take advantage of that sweet HSPA+ rollout, eh?"
Then again, will it be something we want on our HD2's?
received from espn: Alerts Unavailable
Dear Sprint / Boost / Nextel / Virgin Mobile subscribers,
ESPN Alerts are no longer available from your carrier. We apologize for the inconvenience, however, our service is available across most other US Carriers.
i used this for all my sports alerts....makes me mad!
There's an app for those
imex99 said:
received from espn: Alerts Unavailable
Dear Sprint / Boost / Nextel / Virgin Mobile subscribers,
ESPN Alerts are no longer available from your carrier. We apologize for the inconvenience, however, our service is available across most other US Carriers.
i used this for all my sports alerts....makes me mad!
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What are alerts?
Can ESPN give some kind of an alert w/o subscription? As in RSS or Twitter or Facebook?
NewZJ said:
There's an app for those
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whats the app?
im used to espn breaking news on my fav sports via text when it breaks..... you go into espn, sign into your account, member services and my alerts, no longer works with sprint now, starting today!
I don't use one personally but my confidence in the market is strong
Wtf! Why would sprint do this?
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billyapd21 said:
Wtf! Why would sprint do this?
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You mean why would ESPN do this? Easy. Because they're a ****ty company. Welcome to the party, if you're not just now figuring that out.
matt2053 said:
You mean why would ESPN do this? Easy. Because they're a ****ty company. Welcome to the party, if you're not just now figuring that out.
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So sprint is the only company they stopped sending alerts too? Why would they single sprint out?
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imex99 said:
whats the app?
im used to espn breaking news on my fav sports via text when it breaks..... you go into espn, sign into your account, member services and my alerts, no longer works with sprint now, starting today!
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Here's a list of some of the best sports apps
http://lifehacker.com/#!5782923/the-best-sports-apps-for-android
I use scorecenter. It's got all the scores and a crawl on the bottom for news, I've never used their mobile alerts.
From their site:
"Why wait to catch the score? Sign up for *FREE ESPN Alerts and get the latest scores, breaking news, and ESPN Fantasy updates sent to your phone. Sign up is easy, you choose the Alerts you want to receive. It's *FREE, and it works on any mobile device that can receive text messages." I guess they should update that to say "except Sprint". I'm sure it's a money thing, I'm sure ESPN is probably pissed at Sprint or wants a bunch of money from them.
I liked receiving texts alerts without opening an app...
I'm testing buzzbox right now, going to see how that works.
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Here's a list of some of the best sports apps
http://lifehacker.com/#!5782923/the-best-sports-apps-for-android
I use scorecenter. It's got all the scores and a crawl on the bottom for news, I've never used their mobile alerts.
From their site:
"Why wait to catch the score? Sign up for *FREE ESPN Alerts and get the latest scores, breaking news, and ESPN Fantasy updates sent to your phone. Sign up is easy, you choose the Alerts you want to receive. It's *FREE, and it works on any mobile device that can receive text messages." I guess they should update that to say "except Sprint". I'm sure it's a money thing, I'm sure ESPN is probably pissed at Sprint or wants a bunch of money from them.
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its now a story: http://www.androidcentral.com/espn-text-alerts-shut-out-sprint-network#comment-126800
Update: And just like that, we get a tip about what's really going on. Here 'tis:
It's not a "money thing" in the traditional sense. They didn't give us a real clear picture of what's going on, but ESPN offers these messages free of charge to ESPN.com members, and Sprint is going to start charging their customers for each individual text message, regardless of having an unlimited messaging package. ESPN really isn't going to put up with it being "free," yet not free.
This stinks. ESPN alerts were nice because they gave you the scoring plays. If I choose alerts for the Yankees and A-Rod hits a 2 run homer, it will show he hit a 2 run homer and R.Cano scores, the same with football alerts.
I have already paid my membership but will not be re-subscribing to espn insider or doing any espn fantasy leagues.
There are other alerts out there, I will just have to search for something else. It stinks, these are FREE apps (I pay for espn's extra services and in my mind pay sprint for extra premium $10 fee).
It seems like things are continuing to get worse at Sprint - I lost premier status upgrade, I lost espn alerts, who knows what will happen with the network (if they will go LTE or Wimax). Every time I try to use my mlb at ball app to listen to the game, the game keeps cutting out every 10-15 seconds and network speeds seem to be getting slower and slower.
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Dear Sprint / Boost / Nextel / Virgin Mobile subscribers,
ESPN Alerts are no longer available from your carrier. We apologize for the inconvenience, however, our service is available across most other US Carriers.
ESPN Alerts are available to subscribers of:
- Verizon
- AT&T
- T-Mobile
- Alltel
- nTelos
- Cellular South
- Cellcom
- US Cellular
- Rural Cellular (Unicell)
- East Kentucky Network
- Centennial
- Immix
- Cincinnati Bell
- West Central Wireless
- BlueGrass Cellular
- Cellular One of East Illinois (ECIT)
- ACS Wireless
- Cox Wireless
- GCI Communications
- Inland Cellular
- Nex-Tech Wireless
- Revol Wireless
- Thumb Cellular
- United
- Illinois Valley Cellular
- Cricket
- Hawkeye (Chat Mobility)
- Hawkeye (NW Missouri Cellular)
- Pioneer Cellular
- Pocket
- Simmetry Wireless
- Union Wireless
According to this article, Sprint is charging the content providers, i.e. ESPN, Yahoo, etc. more per message sent. They aren't doing anything to the individual users.
Hey XDA!
I was wondering which is the cheapest/most effective use for a cellphone?
Currently I pay around 200ish, for 2 people with internet and limited texting for both people, and other 2 people with no texting/internet and 700 minutes.
I feel like I'm paying too much, and was wondering which provider would be great.
Btw: I live in California, USA.
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Hey XDA!
I was wondering which is the cheapest/most effective use for a cellphone?
Currently I pay around 200ish, for 2 people with internet and limited texting for both people, and other 2 people with no texting/internet and 700 minutes.
I feel like I'm paying too much, and was wondering which provider would be great.
Btw: I live in California, USA.
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Asking which cell carrier is "best", "cheapest", or "most effective" is, simply put, meaningless. These are all fairly relative terms (ex: MetroPCS is "cheap" but also "terrible"). Plus, California is WAY too large to say which provider you should use. I also live in California and have T-Mobile but that doesn't mean the service will be good in your area.
Do the research yourself. Cell service providers all have maps of their coverage - it's available on their websites. Interestingly, they also have information on how much their plans cost (weird, right?). It's more work but you're going to get a better answer.
I hate to sound harsh but by asking such a question here you're going to get the following:
-Anecdotal evidence supporting/renouncing different carriers. Quality varies from city to city for each carrier and one person's experience (good or bad) doesn't say anything about the network in your area.
-A bunch of people (and personally, I would be in this group) who will suggest different MVNO prepaid options. These are fine (and sometimes the "best" option) for certain cases but might not always suit your needs. Plus, you lose roaming agreements on prepaid.
-That guy who keeps posting his video about how Verizon throttles him.
I am "that guy" and it a lot more than one video, but any way.
I would just look around and take your time to pick the best for you.
To ludtrofl- I would post my "video", but I don't think he would run into the issue and it would get all the verizon fans bashing me "again" insted of trying to help the OP.
Wish you well OP in your hunt
I'm looking for a good VPN that will get me fast speeds. The best I've tried is hotspot shield but its VPN is in California and I need a VPN out of north america (Europe is good). Hot spot gives me around 8-9mbps which is great but for what I need I need a VPN that connects out of north aamerica. I've tried many that do have vpns in other countries but don't give me the speed I need (I usually get 1-1.5mbps with those). I use it to stream video from NBA game time which is meant for people out of the USA or Canada that cannot see NBA games on their TV (I just don't have sports channels)