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What's your excuse now T-mobile.
http://www.androidcentral.com/uma-technology-android-22-now-available-kineto-video
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I have an unopened Vibrant sitting there right now, if it gets UMA, I will stop waiting for Froyo and open the damn thing in a heartbeat.
I was asked by 3 different reps if I ever used uma and if I had wifi last month.. I was very mean and rude, staying I didn't want to downgrade my phone and I couldn't use it on the vibrant... So maybe its on the way... Plus look at the phone they are demoing... Vibrant..
Did you notice in the video he's using a Vibrant? I wonder if this will be part of the Froyo update for Vibrants from T-Mobile?
Clearly he has: Vibrant, Froyo (according to their required specs), Sims 3, UMA support.
Cool.
laristech said:
What's your excuse now T-mobile.
http://www.androidcentral.com/uma-technology-android-22-now-available-kineto-video
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What "excuse"? It's CLEARLY running on a T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant. Android 2.2 for the Vibrant nor this UMA tool has been released yet.
Always focusing on the negative. It's sickening.
heygrl said:
What "excuse"? It's CLEARLY running on a T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant. Android 2.2 for the Vibrant nor this UMA tool has been released yet.
Always focusing on the negative. It's sickening.
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Its thought a third party though. The company that dev the software is not part of t-mobile.
They have already released it for 2.1, but they just released it for 2.2.
laristech said:
Its thought a third party though. The company that dev the software is not part of t-mobile.
They have already released it for 2.1, but they just released it for 2.2.
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Which other US carriers have existing UMA infrastructure? AT&T, Sprint or Verizon? How does none of the above sound? Better yet, which US carrier preloads their Galaxy S with Sims 3, Avatar, MobiTV and the Kindle app. I'll wait
UMA on the Vibrant would be incredible. This is the only feature I miss from my old Blackberry.
The downside of course is the battery. My regular use gives me about 20% by the time I get home. I dead to think what would happen with wireless on.
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Tpavey said:
The downside of course is the battery. My regular use gives me about 20% by the time I get home. I dead to think what would happen with wireless on.
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Your 3G and cellular radio would be off, so in theory you'd get better battery life from UMA.
Being on WiFi increases battery standby 10 fold. The only thing that drains battery is leaving it off when the screen is off and leaving it on when you're not connected to a hotspot.
Please someone explain what uma does/is...
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jamesyl said:
UMA on the Vibrant would be incredible. This is the only feature I miss from my old Blackberry.
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I agree!
Tpavey said:
The downside of course is the battery. My regular use gives me about 20% by the time I get home. I dead to think what would happen with wireless on.
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You will actually save battery life because your radio will not have to travel over a long distance to the cell tower.
I had UMA with my old Blackberry and it saved turns of battery when I was using it.
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Please someone explain what uma does/is...
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UMA sends voice, data, text, everything over the wifi in your house. Kinds of like VOIP but not VOIP.
Thanks laristech! Greatly appreciated!
And sweet! Sounds like it could save a lit of battery this way
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Part of my issue is that I work in hospitals which means poor building penetration and inconsistent wireless so I would likely need both on with my phone doing a lot of switching. Not the phone's fault.
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Part of my issue is that I work in hospitals which means poor building penetration and inconsistent wireless so I would likely need both on with my phone doing a lot of switching. Not the phone's fault.
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Switching from 2G from WiFi resulted in my calls being dropped 50% of the time. It's even worse with 3G
jamesyl said:
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Same here. Absolutely loved it when I went to the mountains and was one of the few people that could use their cell phones.
Yeah, I loved it on my Blackberry. I still have good 3g signal at home, but UMA is the bomb, like having a femtocell without having to buy some overpriced extraneous hardware.
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UMA on the Vibrant would be incredible. This is the only feature I miss from my old Blackberry.
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+1 on this
I'm looking for a app that I can use to provide wifi to my GF itouch when were not around wifi. Or is it a wait to be rooted type deal?
- Fly like a G2
ezcape said:
I'm looking for a app that I can use to provide wifi to my GF itouch when were not around wifi. Or is it a wait to be rooted type deal?
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Wait to be rooted.
You can search in the dev section for access to the wifi AP settings and there is something supposedly but I haven't tried it myself.
Just wait for th OTA update!!
Received an OTA update to my GF G2 & she now has Wifi tethering & the wifi calling application.
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Received an OTA update to my GF G2 & she now has Wifi tethering & the wifi calling application.
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Proof or it didn't happen.
Mods please ban troll
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So quick to pull out the troll hammer....
http://picasaweb.google.com/art.quijada/G2#
Ok so if you have recived OTA then why didn't you get the download link and post it here so others may update as well?
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Jeez, chill with the troll crap.
tubaking182 said:
Ok so if you have recived OTA then why didn't you get the download link and post it here so others may update as well?
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If you tell me how to do it, I'll be happy to!
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If you tell me how to do it, I'll be happy to!
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it's an OTA update i dont think there's a link, correct me if am wrong
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Ok so if you have recived OTA then why didn't you get the download link and post it here so others may update as well?
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Calm...
So much anger in your posts...
The OTA is legit. It's all good.
U can wifi tether? All i saw was usb tethering... where is wifi?
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Yes there is wifi tethering.
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The ability to use a wifi tether is really all I'm looking for right now. When I rooted my G1 and installed BarnacleWiFi from the market, that just opened up a whole bunch of options for me. I would connect my iPad to my phone and surf at the airport and other places where wifi wasn't free. At work I could do it and access sites which were locked down by the firewall, but I needed to access when I had to work on an agent desk and didn't have my laptop handy. Being able to tether with wifi is HUGE! I didn't know the G2 couldn't do this when I bought it, but I still would have bought it anyway. I can still tether with a USB and then use Conectify on my laptop to create a hotspot for others if I wanted to, but not having to drag out the laptop to create a hotspot was just toooo awesome. I'm really hoping the OTA update comes in soon. I won't even wait for a root solution on the G2 if they are able to enable that on my phone.
Using one of the many posted temp root methods will allow "wifi for root users" app to work perfectly. I tested myself last night. Use the newest one posted on the google code page.
Anyone that received the ota update already, pm me, it can help the cause! If you have the notifaction saying update but haven't done it yet even better...
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Proof or it didn't happen.
Mods please ban troll
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Dam! Calling me a troll once again. Since I haven't been banned I guess the Mods don't think I'm a troll .
You don't even use a G2 so why does it bother you so much?
Its funny how EVERYONE that says they got the OTA update shows proof that they have it by uploading pics showing the update. But the funny part is, they ALL post the same EXACT
pics that ive seen in other threads from a user claiming they have the update. I smell.......bull
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ocdetails said:
The ability to use a wifi tether is really all I'm looking for right now. When I rooted my G1 and installed BarnacleWiFi from the market, that just opened up a whole bunch of options for me. I would connect my iPad to my phone and surf at the airport and other places where wifi wasn't free. At work I could do it and access sites which were locked down by the firewall, but I needed to access when I had to work on an agent desk and didn't have my laptop handy. Being able to tether with wifi is HUGE! I didn't know the G2 couldn't do this when I bought it, but I still would have bought it anyway. I can still tether with a USB and then use Conectify on my laptop to create a hotspot for others if I wanted to, but not having to drag out the laptop to create a hotspot was just toooo awesome. I'm really hoping the OTA update comes in soon. I won't even wait for a root solution on the G2 if they are able to enable that on my phone.
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The VISIONary app will allow a 1 click root and u can wireless tether very simple and easy with the press of a button.
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Its funny how EVERYONE that says they got the OTA update shows proof that they have it by uploading pics showing the update. But the funny part is, they ALL post the same EXACT
pics that ive seen in other threads from a user claiming they have the update. I smell.......bull
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So you've seen the pics from at least 1 user showing you the wifi tether but you still say it's bull.
The OTA was stopped by TMO due to it being released before they wanted it. Only TMO employees and demo devices (used by vendors)received the updates and not all of them received it. TMO has halted all OTA updates to the G2 until the tethering data plan is ready to launch. From what I've heard you're looking at $10-$15 per month for tethering w/a cap of 5GB just like the broadband cards. Give it about 2-3 weeks and you'll see an official release.
Before you ask how I know this...well lets just say I work w/TMO released and unreleased devices. I get to test them out and use them before the release date. I can tell you the myTouch 4G, otherwise known in the blog world as the myTouch HD, will have wifi tethering and wifi calling out of the box. The wifi tethering data feature will be ready before/or on the launch of this phone in November.
PS. Don't ask me for pics of unreleased devices...not gonna happen since I like my job.
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The VISIONary app will allow a 1 click root and u can wireless tether very simple and easy with the press of a button.
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This is good news...many people will be happy to see/use this.
That's what the tech rep supervisor for tmobile told me. He said the G2 isn't designed for that feature like the MyTouch HD is. He said even with the apk the hardware wouldn't support that on the G2. Is he right or wrong?
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I dunno. I don't trust tmo anymore.
I would assume he is wrong. Why wouldn't this phone be able to do it? Doesn't it just need wifi to be able to do wifi calling? Is that a stupid assumption?
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Ugh. I'm a tech rep myself for tmo(taking a leave of absence at the moment), and I hate it when I hear stories like this. Look, he's wrong about the wifi calling app needing some kind of special hardware to do wifi calling. With the software, the phone is perfectly capable of it. The question is if tmo will choose to bring the wifi calling app(and possibly drivers?) to the G2 or not.
Either way, I'm willing to bet that the app will find it's way onto these forums and we'll have it working on the G2 in no time.
Sounds like he was suckering you into buying a mytouch.
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The reason for my call was to get rid of the G2 and upgrade to mytouch. My phone doesn't have reception inside my house and I had wifi calling I would be able to make and receive calls. He told me exchanging or working out a deal to get the mytouch isn't possible at all and that I won't be getting wifi calling for the G2.
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The G2 is capable of Wifi calling and it will be included in the OTA update thats going to start rolling out tomorrow. I was told the update for the MyTouch 4G and the G2 will begin rolling out tomorrow but I just got an OTA Maintenance Release on my MyTouch 4G about 10 minutes ago. I've seen the wifi calling work on the G2 as well as the wireless hotspot. You will definitely have them both.
20feettall, do you work for tmobile? Or going by info you might have found online?
Your comment gives a sigh of releif.
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Yea I work for T-Mo
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Yea I work for T-Mo
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Lets see if this ota is for real this time
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Oh I hope you're not screwing with us.
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ultma75 said:
Lets see if this ota is for real this time
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It's definitely coming, think about it. TMo just announced the tethering plans and the tmo comet, mytouch, and optimus t launch tomorrow all with WiFi hotspot out of the box. I've seen the updated software running on the G2, one of my best friends is a field rep for HTC.
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I wouldn't get anything out of screwing with you. Just sharing the little bit of info I have.
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Hopefully true need my wifi calling.
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Hopefully true need my wifi calling.
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I will say that my experiences with WiFi calling on the Mytouch 4G haven't been good at all. The call quality is terrible sometimes, to the point where the person on the other end of the phone can't hear me at all. I haven't tried it since getting the ota update tonight. I hope it works better now.
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i hope your right, although im a bit skeptical.....
either way, got logcat ready
Do we need to pay extra on our monthly bill to use the wifi call feature?
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it will happen starting tomorrow. if the update blocks even temp root idk.. ill wait a few days before i accept update and see what people report.
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Do we need to pay extra on our monthly bill to use the wifi call feature?
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No you don't because its not uma calling. You will just be using the wifi signal to make calls instead of the tmo network.
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The reason for my call was to get rid of the G2 and upgrade to mytouch. My phone doesn't have reception inside my house and I had wifi calling I would be able to make and receive calls. He told me exchanging or working out a deal to get the mytouch isn't possible at all and that I won't be getting wifi calling for the G2.
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Just speak with retentions and tell them you don't have service at home so they need to let you out of your contract..which they have to do providing you can prove it....then say if you had a phone with wifi calling like the mytouch instead you could stay with tmo
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so ive been tethering for like two months with no issue via my rooted glacier.
just got a text from tmobile..
889: Free T-Mobile Msg: Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi sharing access may be blocked unless you add a Phone Tethering & Wi-Fi Sharing plan available at my.t-mobile.com
should i be worried? can they really cancel it on a rooted phone? what gives.
well they blocked it now.
its just normal web browsing which is odd.
AIM still works, and i can still browse via tor. or manually putting an s to make it https. but that isnt practical for browsing.
any ideas? different browser perhaps? i wonder how they are determining that i am tethering.
ugh, any ideas would be appreciated..how annoying.
I talked to my brother and he said its probably my user agent. So I'm going to get the ref control add on and change it so its sending what my phone sends and see if that works. Ill let y'all know how it works.
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Keep us posted of the user agent change, I'd be curious to know this myself. Data packets should be entirely agnostic to their network unless are they doing deep packet inspection or specifically monitoring non-port 80 traffic, or port 80 traffic with different user agent strings.
Any luck with your attempts?
I Posted this back in Nov. tether workaround
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I Posted this back in Nov. tether workaround
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I've been tethering my myt4g with my streak 7 and havent gotten any message like this.. If I do get it though how would your workaround method work on another android device?
Isn't free tethering still available if you use the android-wifi-tether app? or the one built into CM? I heard you only get charged if you use the stock wifi tethering app
No worries for you, its only looking for desktop user agent strings to block. At home I hotspot to my mt3g from my mt4g and then tether the 3g to the desktop. Its never got a warning yet. Can you believe Sprint might be buying T-mobile out? I'll be canceling that service, again.
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I've been tethering my myt4g with my streak 7 and havent gotten any message like this.. If I do get it though how would your workaround method work on another android device?
Isn't free tethering still available if you use the android-wifi-tether app? or the one built into CM? I heard you only get charged if you use the stock wifi tethering app
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No worries for you, its only looking for desktop user agent strings to block. At home I hotspot to my mt3g from my mt4g and then tether the 3g to the desktop. Its never got a warning yet. Can you believe Sprint might be buying T-mobile out? I'll be canceling that service, again.
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The good thing is if this plans out correctly those of us with T-Mobile will be able to exit the contract w/o a ETF. I hate the fact of having to use ATT or BigRed.... Wait a tick. Cincinnati Bell uses the same frequencies @ T-Mobile where i live. So i could use them and keep my phone....
Lmfao, this was the ONLY way SPRINT could get some of their old customers back. Bad part is they are going to lose more than ever. And ruin another company..... run off even more customers and then sue them for cancellation fees. Lmfao all to pay for some dumbass races and yes I think Sprint ruined Nascar too.
Sorry that's my rant....
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Lmfao, this was the ONLY way SPRINT could get some of their old customers back. Bad part is they are going to lose more than ever. And ruin another company..... run off even more customers and then sue them for cancellation fees. Lmfao all to pay for some dumbass races and yes I think Sprint ruined Nascar too.
Sorry that's my rant....
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NASCAR Being runied has nothing to do with Sprint i was blown to kingdom come before Sprint touched them IMHO.
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It was on a downward spiral no doubt, but Sprint wanted it like Indy. Now there is no competition in the sport I liked it more when they used STOCK cars.... I grew up racing and the sprint cup is a disgrace.
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I can tether too. I never get a message, but I don't ever use the stock app. Seems like a bad idea.
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It was on a downward spiral no doubt, but Sprint wanted it like Indy. Now there is no competition in the sport I liked it more when they used STOCK cars.... I grew up racing and the sprint cup is a disgrace.
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Personally i followed LeMans racing. I followed NASCAR back in the day when i was younger, but heck i'm only 28. I like the various class of cars in LeMans, it brings a new dynamic to racing. I might have car that can do 30-40MPH faster than the next guy but it cannot pass him, it doesn't do any good. I also like grass root dirt tracks, those are a blast to go watch.
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Lmfao, this was the ONLY way SPRINT could get some of their old customers back. Bad part is they are going to lose more than ever. And ruin another company..... run off even more customers and then sue them for cancellation fees. Lmfao all to pay for some dumbass races and yes I think Sprint ruined Nascar too.
Sorry that's my rant....
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Do we know anything would actually change for us?
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I know I'm an ex-sprint customer already...... I know what they treated me like and I will not stay.
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Man I actually like sprint just because of thier anti throttling policies I just got a new computer in January and I've probably downloaded about 25gigs worth of torrents in the past two months using wireless tether and they haven't said a thing to me I had a mytouch before but I only had 2g were I live so I switched to sprint and got a hero and never looked Back and my bill is only about ten$ more.
Ps no I don't have a Droid x I installed a tweaked build that makes it think it's a Droid x lol
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20010423-85.html
http://www.investmentu.com/2011/March/sprint-and-tmobile-telecom-merger.html
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/03/my-t...rgeracquisitionbuyoutsalepurchasetransaction/
Just a few with info on it. (Sorry mods, not to be off topic) I suppose just wait it out and see what happens.
To the OP: Did you find anything further?
Use the Wireless Tether app instead of the stock app. You shouldn't get any warnings/messages. I have 3 different Android phones I use (I switch SIM cards out whenever the phone I'm using currently bores me) and I haven't gotten any warnings/messages yet and I tether to my computer everyday.
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/05/t-mobile-adding-unlimited-wi-fi-calling-to-android-devices/
just thought i share this.
So it doesn't charge your minutes? Sweet, but I have unlimited already, so yeah. xD
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This only works on post paid right?
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not sure i guess we will find out more details on wed.
You beat me to it, but yes pretty cool. You can only expect this sort of feature from Tmobile until they are bought out by evil AT&T.
Though I have unlimited calling, I must say this is very generous of them. I am sure this will appeal to many corporate people who often travel internationally.
Love it...till it's here.
I bet now we will see an upspike of people going back to 2.2 due to the fully working Wi-Fi Calling haha.
On 2.2.1 it works but you can't make normal outgoing calls...pretty major bug.
It didn't say it was free, but also did say anything about a charge. I can't see them giving that away for free. I think I remember it was like $10 a month to have it unlimited.
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If it is free for prepaid plans also, it is really awesome thing. But, I don't think so.
i think it got postponed
Which app on which phone's
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i think it got postponed
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Yup.. nothing on the T-Mobile site