A metal casing is inherently much more expensive to manufacture than mold injection plastic. Deburring, de-flashing, triming process between plastic and metal (metal in cast or machining method) is also night and day difference. While you may prefer a metal shell, but I am sure most consumers don't want to pay extra…

How?! I am confused! Enlighten me.

Google should buy the Tmo network and hook it up with all the fiber backbones they're snapping it, heck, Tmo is the most Android friendly, they have Motorola Mobility, why not an actual mobile network?! Heck, Tmo is smart enough to run itself, just need a parent company that has vision, understand the mobile…

Great, my comment regarding "having no idea" about either company is regarding the business direction of each company, not about the cellular technology of each network. I am questioning anyone outside of the upper level management in ATT and Tmo who claims to fully understand the rationale of ATT's attempt to take…

They should then litigate the Congress for moving funds out of social security to pay national deficit. Any private company does that to their pension fund will get slapped with a law suit so fast their head would spin, but not the damned congress.

That's total BS, ever worked on any development program, when someone's working on something and found a clever way of doing something, they don't jump right onto the patent search engine and see if anyone else has already done it unless they want to patent it specifically.

The same thought pops up in my mind, not about the fact that the Chinese are skirting the Great Firewall, but how come Americans now have to endure the same BS the Chinese government is putting their citizens through? Wasn't that just yesterday we were feeling sorry for/making fun of the Chinese regarding a censored…

I worked for various network, cellular equipment makers as both design engineer and design project manager, so I am also quite familiar with network design details and my original comment was specifically targeted at clueless consumers blindly chasing over market hype of 4G LTE networks despite of poor QoS and…

Dude, like you really know what's going on inside of these companies. One of the most expensive part of expanding a network is getting the spectrum needed, getting a slice of spectrum in top 128 markets sound like a great bargain. I don't even know what you're talking about in that first sentence of yours. You…

Love the self congratulatory pad on your own back, keep up the good work of generating internet FUD.

I guess people change their name for much less important reasons than that, still though, I wonder what do his parents think about this whole deal. But I guess it would give him about 15 seconds of fame, but hardly any leniency in a court of law.

You assume people ACTUALLY CARED to stay in touch with YOU!! A big assumption on too many people's part on FB.

Yeah, I bet you wouldn't say that if you were on a plane when this happens!

Are you serious, have you never used a Blackberry before iPhone even showed up on the market? Did it not do contextual dialing right out of emails from the beginning? Maybe RIM should be suing Apple for that idea.

Or we could all be paying $10,000 for shitty Mac's today...

not maverick for sure.

You guys must be watching a different show, I saw the season opening for the whole series, thought it was the worst rubbish ever and never looked back! Then again, I am amazed people actually watch shows like "desperate housewives" etc, etc.

Seriously, in this world?! This ever increasingly globalizing world, this is your impression? If I am as lacking in imagination as you are, it would be very hard for me to understand why anyone would want Verizon service, as almost everyone I know professionally travels internationally with their cell phones at…

I agree, I have my personal account on T-mo, and business phones on Tmo and ATT, at most metro areas I have been to, Tmo actually has more consistent service when coverage is available. My average DL rate on the Tmo HSPDA+ is 3-5mbps, my ATT Blackberry Bolt 9700 squeaks by at an average of 1-2 mbps. ATT does…

Philip.J.Fry, you, my friend (despite the mis-adventure of traveling to the future), obviously don't travel outside of the US and have a business need for a phone when outside of the US. With quad band GSM, one has the best possibility of having the same phone and get a local SIM card to take advantage of lower local…