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August 1, 2010 at 6:14 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #585941August 1, 2010 at 6:14 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #586244
KSMountain
ParticipantAlmost *all* of my friends are “wealthier” than their parents were with just a few notable exceptions. Here I’m using a simplistic materialistic definition of wealth.
I suppose for someone who is not in that boat they might perceive our future more pessimistically.
Things are so different now. People have tv’s in their car’s now, but won’t let their kids bike to school. When I was a kid here in SD we used to walk from Clairemont through tecolote canyon all the way to the airport. We would bike to camp Pendleton and back. Not a lot of *that* is going on anymore…
So in that sense imo, we’re all poorer.
July 31, 2010 at 3:39 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #584821ParticipantWelcome back TG. You’re more than an artifact to me.
July 31, 2010 at 3:39 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #584914ParticipantWelcome back TG. You’re more than an artifact to me.
July 31, 2010 at 3:39 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #585449ParticipantWelcome back TG. You’re more than an artifact to me.
July 31, 2010 at 3:39 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #585556ParticipantWelcome back TG. You’re more than an artifact to me.
July 31, 2010 at 3:39 PM in reply to: Gone with the Globalization, that is the US Middle Class #585859ParticipantWelcome back TG. You’re more than an artifact to me.
ParticipantAnd that video was hilarious.
ParticipantAnd that video was hilarious.
ParticipantAnd that video was hilarious.
ParticipantAnd that video was hilarious.
ParticipantAnd that video was hilarious.
ParticipantI got a Motorola Q on the first day it was out. I bet many of the folks on here know exactly what that is/was.
I think it was one of the first true smartphones…
Anyway, I had my original unit until just last week when I went straight from the Q (on Verizon) to the iPhone4 (on AT&T).
What a quantum leap, phone wise anyway. The phone is amazing. I just with the greatest of ease took a couple of videos of my cat and evidently I can upload them to youtube with like 1 click. By comparison, just getting the photo app to launch and be ready to take a picture on the Q was like 30 seconds, by which time you got so frustrated it was like “oh, forget it, whatever”.
Uhhh, on the other hand, I had ZERO, count ’em, ZERO bars of signal in my house with the iPhone.
Everywhere else in the world it seems to get 4-5 bars, regardless of how I hold the phone.
The Verizon signal in my house was never great, but was always adequate. So there’s an up-to-date apples-to-apples comparison: I went from say 2-4 bars to 0 bars when switching from Verizon to AT&T.
I bought a “microcell”, which was an epic pita in its own right. This did successfully increase the bars in my house to 2-5, usually about 4. Great! But it cost another $165 just for that thing. It has already taken down my wi-fi network twice in its first 24 hours. Definitely not great.
Another thing I like already about the phone is iBooks. I have the book I’m currently reading on the phone. So when I had to do the stupid 20 minute wait at the Dr’s office (and then wait again in the treatment room) – no problem – I just read my book. You can’t really do that with a simple text/photo phone.
So my review is:
Phone: Fantastic
AT&T: Sucktastic
Death Grip: OverhypedParticipantI got a Motorola Q on the first day it was out. I bet many of the folks on here know exactly what that is/was.
I think it was one of the first true smartphones…
Anyway, I had my original unit until just last week when I went straight from the Q (on Verizon) to the iPhone4 (on AT&T).
What a quantum leap, phone wise anyway. The phone is amazing. I just with the greatest of ease took a couple of videos of my cat and evidently I can upload them to youtube with like 1 click. By comparison, just getting the photo app to launch and be ready to take a picture on the Q was like 30 seconds, by which time you got so frustrated it was like “oh, forget it, whatever”.
Uhhh, on the other hand, I had ZERO, count ’em, ZERO bars of signal in my house with the iPhone.
Everywhere else in the world it seems to get 4-5 bars, regardless of how I hold the phone.
The Verizon signal in my house was never great, but was always adequate. So there’s an up-to-date apples-to-apples comparison: I went from say 2-4 bars to 0 bars when switching from Verizon to AT&T.
I bought a “microcell”, which was an epic pita in its own right. This did successfully increase the bars in my house to 2-5, usually about 4. Great! But it cost another $165 just for that thing. It has already taken down my wi-fi network twice in its first 24 hours. Definitely not great.
Another thing I like already about the phone is iBooks. I have the book I’m currently reading on the phone. So when I had to do the stupid 20 minute wait at the Dr’s office (and then wait again in the treatment room) – no problem – I just read my book. You can’t really do that with a simple text/photo phone.
So my review is:
Phone: Fantastic
AT&T: Sucktastic
Death Grip: OverhypedParticipantI got a Motorola Q on the first day it was out. I bet many of the folks on here know exactly what that is/was.
I think it was one of the first true smartphones…
Anyway, I had my original unit until just last week when I went straight from the Q (on Verizon) to the iPhone4 (on AT&T).
What a quantum leap, phone wise anyway. The phone is amazing. I just with the greatest of ease took a couple of videos of my cat and evidently I can upload them to youtube with like 1 click. By comparison, just getting the photo app to launch and be ready to take a picture on the Q was like 30 seconds, by which time you got so frustrated it was like “oh, forget it, whatever”.
Uhhh, on the other hand, I had ZERO, count ’em, ZERO bars of signal in my house with the iPhone.
Everywhere else in the world it seems to get 4-5 bars, regardless of how I hold the phone.
The Verizon signal in my house was never great, but was always adequate. So there’s an up-to-date apples-to-apples comparison: I went from say 2-4 bars to 0 bars when switching from Verizon to AT&T.
I bought a “microcell”, which was an epic pita in its own right. This did successfully increase the bars in my house to 2-5, usually about 4. Great! But it cost another $165 just for that thing. It has already taken down my wi-fi network twice in its first 24 hours. Definitely not great.
Another thing I like already about the phone is iBooks. I have the book I’m currently reading on the phone. So when I had to do the stupid 20 minute wait at the Dr’s office (and then wait again in the treatment room) – no problem – I just read my book. You can’t really do that with a simple text/photo phone.
So my review is:
Phone: Fantastic
AT&T: Sucktastic
Death Grip: Overhyped -
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