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To: slacker711 who wrote (68758)	9/17/2007 4:55:51 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

So far, the only wireless technology that means anything to me is the wifi router in my house. I pay $5 a month for wireless web on my Sprint phone, just to check on stock quotes once in awhile. The rest is a bunch of crap that I wish I didn't have. It just gives companies like Sprint a chance to screw up my monthly bills. They billed me $30 last month for incoming emails from 75557, some bogus messaging service that keep popping up on my cell phone. $5.99 for each incoming textmail. They told me I had to contact the service provided to make sure the service stops. Honest to God, it makes me so mad I just want a voice only phone.

To: slacker711 who wrote (68758)	9/17/2007 7:43:31 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

FWIW, this has been my experience as well....I love Google Maps. gigaom.com iPhone Drives Google Maps Usage, YouTube Lags Written by Om Malik Monday, September 17, 2007 at 3:16 PM PT \| No comments iPhone just might be the best thing that has ever happened to Google Maps -– it has made them popular like never before and has driven the usage substantially. This information comes courtesy of Marissa Mayer, Google’s (GOOG) vice president of search products & user experience. She was a fellow judge at the TechCrunch 40 conference in San Francisco and came on The GigaOM Show as a guest for one of our future episodes. She said that Google Maps usage shot up sharply after the release of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone back in July. “Maps usage hasn’t stopped rising,” she said during our conversation. Steve Jobs had bragged about Google Maps for iPhone as the best map application, and the usage patterns bear that out. How about YouTube, which is getting heavy promotion on television as part of Apple’s ad campaign? Meyer said YouTube on iPhone has not caused any major upsurge in video viewing. No surprise there. I’ve watched YouTube on my iPhone maybe once or twice. Most of the time when you want to watch videos you are stuck with a pokey EDGE connection –- and who needs that? The lesson for other video aspirants: Make sure your applications run on 3G networks, otherwise people won’t care two bits.

To: slacker711 who wrote (68758)	9/18/2007 11:49:21 AM
From: Stock Puppy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

they do care about user experiences....and the internet over EDGE is painful. There is a difference in the pain you feel when your prick your finger on a pin and when a not so skillful samurai practices his art on you. While I've only played a bit with an iPhone, and a lot on my 'berry, I would equate the former pain to the iPhone and the latter to my 'berry. Have the experienced what a pain in the %@#$@ it is to look up something on google maps with the 'berry ????? click type twiddle click boink click twiddle boink boink click boink boink OK that was the first step...