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AT&T Will Roll Out 'HD Voice' Support Later This Year
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kudos to you for throwing around the FUD acronym here - seems it's the thing now on MacRumors. congratulations. and how am i spreading FUD? go look what a 4 bay Pegasus Thunderbolt device will cost you. $1,099. that's what i am talking about. not some petty single bay enclosure. what capacity is your $100 mSATA SSD drive anyways? 128GB drives are toys in the world i live in. even a 256GB...heck...even a 512GB external drive is a toy to me. i don't care how fast the read/write speed is...what good is it if it's a capacity standard from 2006
i have a Windows Home Server with (5) x 2TB drives. to use the Thunderbolt port in a similar setup would cost me $2,299. a Thunderbolt hub costs $399 - RE Belkin device. i'm not talking about an adapter - i'm talking about a hub. after all...the beauty of Thunderbolt is the ability to have many many devices without a slow down right? oh wait, i just checked. ok so there is a Lacie hub for $199. ohhhhh what a deal
i laugh when i see these regular SeaGate and Lacie external drive + enclosure thunderbolt products in 3TB sizes for $349. i try to see the logic of using regular 7200rpm hard drives via a Thunderbolt port...but there is none. the bottleneck has never been USB 3.0 - it has always been the read/write speeds of the drive itself.
Thunderbolt has not realistically caught on after nearly 2 years of being out. i see a limited number of products at absurd price points. Thunderbolt cannot be compared to the CD when it first came out, or the USB port when that came out. they gained instant popularity. Thunderbolt is struggling
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They can have my grandfathered unlimited when they take it from my cold dead hands. They take it, I'll jump to T-Mobile, and by the time that happens, there won't be a difference. So they best leave me the hell alone.
THIS won't charge us a dime as it's a feature and doesn't have that ability. ATT may decide to charge but I don't believe they are.
What dropped calls? If you have them maybe you should of picked a better provider in your area.Does this fix the dropped calls?
I will enjoy it when it is available but don't need to make up silly reasons why. It will sound better, all you need to say.
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Ok... so does this mean that when AT&T does do VoLte that we'll actually have low pings and unthrottled data still? I'd still like to pull 50down and 25 up during calls.
With HSPA, they throttle the speeds to about 1mbps during a call with pings ranging between 500-600.
Don't believe me, test it out!
With HSPA, they throttle the speeds to about 1mbps during a call with pings ranging between 500-600.
Don't believe me, test it out!
I'd like to hear some plan for Verizon to transition to VoLTE. If they do that, then the whole HD vs non-HD seems to me like it would be a lot easier for them to accomplish. Not to mention that it opens the door to simultaneous voice and data (at least when LTE is in use).
I wonder how one it took them clowns top make up HD calling. You know it's a gimmick to get suckers to pay out the ***. I bet it even eats up your CAP. You know, the other gimmick to make more money off of us.
Oy vey!
Oy vey!
You are correct. There is no logic in using a thunderbolt HDD. The thing is, Seagate adapters all use mSATA, which allows you to combine it with an SSD, so yes, you are spreading FUD due to your lack of knowledge. I can't say I blame you though because nobody reports on this.
Nope. The joke is that you'll only get it with the iPhone 5S
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Don't worry they are going to copy Verizon in that stunt. Starting with the iPhone 5S launch if you get a subsidy on your iPhone (any model) you forfeit your grandfathered unlimited data.
Newbie question (and I'm too lazy to look it up myself): Does anyone know what current smartphones support "HD Voice"?
Yes, it is great. (Unless they screw unlimited users, again!) And maybe they have been working on it. But the timing is suspicious. They could've announced it earlier in the year. But, to me, it's just their way of getting mentioned in the news right after T-mobile's press conference, where AT&T was bashed.
again with the FUD acronym - you really love slinging that around don't you?
i am well aware that the Seagate allows the hook up for a SSD. but again, let's return back to logic for a second. explain to me what is the point in throwing on a 128GB SSD to that Seagate 3TB HDD. say i want to go grab a blu-ray rip of a movie. it's stored on the 3TB and has to be pulled off of the 3TB drive. there is no benefit there - money has been wasted.
writing to the 3TB drive could be beneficial, ONLY...and ONLY if it writes to the SSD first and then automatically writes to the 3TB drive
i am well aware that the Seagate allows the hook up for a SSD. but again, let's return back to logic for a second. explain to me what is the point in throwing on a 128GB SSD to that Seagate 3TB HDD. say i want to go grab a blu-ray rip of a movie. it's stored on the 3TB and has to be pulled off of the 3TB drive. there is no benefit there - money has been wasted.
writing to the 3TB drive could be beneficial, ONLY...and ONLY if it writes to the SSD first and then automatically writes to the 3TB drive
what a joke. Why would they leave? AT&T actually has coverage versus TMobile.
Only reason why VZW and AT&T are waiting this long is because they want a seamless transition between VoLTE and their current voice networks (EDGE/HSPA/1x)
coverage to one person means something else to another based on where they live
i believe 94% of Americans are within T-Mobile's coverage area
but i agree, AT&T's coverage is better than T-Mobile's due to several factors, some of which are:
1) number of towers - AT&T has more of them
2) tower placement - towers constructed and owned by AT&T were placed at the best locations for coverage way before t-mobile leaving t-mobile forced to select inferior sites (independent tower operators just rent the tower to all of them though)
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Rogers has this I'm Canada, it is a noticeable difference. It's much better, but it's not a feature I really care about. I wouldn't have bought a phone because it supported Hd voice. It also sounds a little weird because I'm so used to the way it used to be.
Does this fix the dropped calls?
You want to fix the drop calls, go to a pay phone. All carriers have dropped calls.
Available to all, except if you have an Unlimited Plan. Also $5.99 for existing users. Sounds about right for the devil, I mean AT&T.
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They both need it to work.
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They both need it to work.