My experience with Wifi Calling on Bell has been poor. Often have calls where the other end can't hear anything I say. It happens when the Internet is tied up with anything else, I disabled the feature after a few annoying weeks.
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Verizon's Wi-Fi Calling Coming to Galaxy S6 on Monday, iPhone 'Early Next Year'
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So how does Apple having most money play into Samsung getting this feature from Verizon first?
Verizon really treats Mac
Verizon tends to treat Apple and customers as third party citizens. Look at the recent shenanigans they have been implanting to Apple customers.
Verizon tends to treat Apple and customers as third party citizens. Look at the recent shenanigans they have been implanting to Apple customers.
This!
Thank you for teaching her how to manage money at such her age to make her a better adult in the long run!
Blatant generalization. In the West Coast, where AT&T purchased the old McCaw analog cellular networks they are just as good as Verizon. In fact, Verizon keeps getting overloaded in the cities.
I can name one large rural stretch of California where AT&T secured an exclusive lease on towers on a military base and for at least a decade, AT&T was the only carrier with service period.
Another example: At a major California university, AT&T and Verizon secured leases on the campus clock tower, and they were the only carriers available in the dorms (big concrete buildings). Again, this happened back in the analog days. The other carriers literally got stuck on a light pole.
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It's a well-known fact large dinosaurs are very slow moving.
Nothing, and that's the point. The implication that Verizon limited testing and Samsung paid for early access makes them bad companies is ridiculous. Apple has been significantly limiting their hardware for a very long time because of profits.
This statement seems a bit like hyperbole to me.
I shouldn't have to root the phone in order to remove Verizon's crap.
Another huge issue I had with android were App permissions, that were way more extensive/intrusive than the exact same App on iOS. This was my favorite "Allows thee app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation." LOL, yea right.
There were cool things about the Note 4 but overall it wasn't a good experience.
That's not entirely right. Apple's selling point isn't on the specs or hardware, but rather the experience. That's how they can get away with asking the same (or more) for products that feature less powerful hardware. Anecdotally, in my short time with the Note 4, I found it to lag and not be smooth despite that "more powerful" hardware it featured. I was really surprised.
I bet one of the reasons Apple didn't feel the need to pay for early access is because they have already sold millions of iPhones already. They don't need to pay Verizon for early access to wifi calling to sell phones they are already selling them. Samsung however isn't doing as well. So they think that having early access to wifi calling will help them sell more phones during the holiday shopping season.
It would be 9.2 and I don't think so. Haven't heard any rumors about that happening
Why is it ridiculous that those kinds of business deals have been around for a long time?
Because for many it does a good job and perhaps better than some other carriers?