1. long battery life for reading e-book
2. good video quality if i want to stream 1080p from an intranet (in network) media server
3. dual band wifi
4. good support/easily rootable
5. 10 inch screen (for readiability-or else I would have gone with the Kindle HD above- those 1.1 inches make a difference on reading-trust me)
Not needed but would be nice to have
4. lte enabled- can I just slip in my S3 SIM when I want and have it work? Even better free internet like the Pixel anyone? Also what does a contract with a cell enabled tablet usually enabled cost around per month for say 2GB/month?
How much is your budget?
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How much is your budget?
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Internship pending a fulltime offer. I'm willing to put some in the pot if it is worth the investment (ie I can put in my existing SG3 SIM card into it during travel), I can dual band 1080p stream from my media server. etc
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just about to buy
1. does it have wifi ?
2. WM5 - so push would work
3. Anyone know who to unlock (does it use c550 unlocker) ?
rgds
no Wifi
Push enabled
no idea how to unlock
the keypad is bad, the TV is pretty poor....unless you want to watch in a wide open space near a town centre....
the DAB radio is pretty good.
tx. a pity about the wifi
is the tv service limited to virgin only or after an unlock any tv can be streamed?
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is the tv service limited to virgin only or after an unlock any tv can be streamed?
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will work on any network. It uses DVB like freeview not GPRS
It must post back to Virgin or something so they can charge PAYG customers the monthly rate, it (the TV) may not work with another network's SIM in it.
The TV service will work regardless of SIM.
However it uses cryptkey encryption, similar to satellite services.
Therefore, every so often Virgin/BTmovio will change the crypt code and the TV will stop. When this happens you will need to reinsert the virgin chip until the TV re-opens, after which you can put in your other chip.
Note:1. for PAYG you will have to start paying after 3 months, except for BBC1 which is always open.
2. DAB radio will always work (well, whilst DAB is still broadcast in the UK )
rgds
NO A2DP bluetooth audio (manual says it does, but Virgin must have removed it for some reason) :-(
Lobster feedback
Had mine for a few weeks now - very pleased for the money, replacing a trusty but declining C500. SIM unlocked (paid) and running on BT mobile (Vodafone).
TV is watchable (just); radio is great; otherwise an excellent value up to date smartphone, albeit with some minor (to me) keypad handling issues.
Best features:
- radio
- screen quality
- price
A few small niggles:
- no case yet and the plastic over-screen gets scratched easily
- ITV1 won't register now (says Virgin bites not available, try later)
- bit of a pain having to plug the wired headset in as an antenna (which seems to get tangled easily - looking for a way to keep this tidy)
Amazed there's such little interest in the phone at this price...
with the tv i dont like the fact there is no full screen view or at least not that i can find...
the radio is great. the tv channels are very limited but hey do the trick now and then
My views on Lobby.
I would also have liked the ability to screen capture from TV to use as Wallpaper.
Great phone, though. I like the bulkiness. It's also different to the norm. Very clear screen & talk. easy to get around. pretty awesome DAB quality. TV is watchable if really bored.
Surprisingly good piccys from a 1.3. Very adequate. They blow up to monitor size ..... just.
Downloaded Emails from Hotmail with ease.
Definitely better than any phone I've had to date.
Nice feature being able to record sound from external source and use as a ringtone.
My lobby over the last 5 months
I got this phone in December - Virgin pay monthly contract.
Good points
- Screen resolution
- Battery life (normal use)
- Lots of great applications can be installed
- DAB radio - this is the best feature.
Bad Points
- Non really
- TV not great - few channels
This is my 3rd Smartphone (MPX200, MDA Compact) and cannot fault it. It is was a flip-phone (clam shell) then I'd be even happier. Still, you can't have it all.
What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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Europe doesn't have LTE And tether sucks battery faster than any game
But I don't need any kind of mobile connectivity anyway on my Prime, HSPA tether is enough
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What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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anyone who buys a 3G tablet likes wasting money or has so much they don't know what to do with free Wi-Fi/USB/Bluetooth tether from smartphone is the only way to go even my 55 year old father knows as much
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What is the big deal of a 3g prime I tether at 4 LTE speeds all day.
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Yea, I hotspot from my phone now, but if money was no object I'd prefer the setup I previously had with my xoom.
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Yea, I hotspot from my phone now, but if money was no object I'd prefer the setup I previously had with my xoom.
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It would be nice, if money was no object. But given that it is, I'm happy tethering my phone; I don't have cause to use my tablet outside of Wi-Fi enabled areas enough to warrant another data plan.
in maine we will not have 4 lte anytime soon, so up here getting some thing lte is a waste.
Because companies like Verizon and At&t limit you to 2GB a month and there's no way you could share the connection with your phone AND tablet for a whole month and not go over that limit?
3G tablet plans cost too much. I just tether to my Galaxy Note as well.
My area doesn't have LTE support. The service providers only just installed new towers a few months ago, and before that my devices were struggling for a signal. What's the point in an LTE device if the most you'll get is hspa?
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I am with T-Mo so LTE is not an option, though speeds are acceptable. I would be willing to shell out a bit for 3G on the tablet for the convenience factor. Since I already have a wi-fi only TP though I am not going to buy another tablet just for 3G.
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Because companies like Verizon and At&t limit you to 2GB a month and there's no way you could share the connection with your phone AND tablet for a whole month and not go over that limit?
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Prior to my contract with Verizon its unlimited and they offer 10 gigs for $50 now which is more than enough. Downloading avg of 18mb a sec its wonderful. Tethering is a dream with my gaze rooted.
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anyone who buys a 3G tablet likes wasting money or has so much they don't know what to do with free Wi-Fi/USB/Bluetooth tether from smartphone is the only way to go even my 55 year old father knows as much
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It depends on how you use your tablet. If you're home or around places with decent Wi-Fi 80% of the time I agree with you. I travel a lot and anyone who does knows you can't depend on Wi-Fi. At hotels, restaurants, or airports.
So you can either get a 3/4G tablet or tether. Tethering is a pain in the ass. Get out the phone, turn on sharing, connect the tablet, disconnect the tablet, turn off sharing. Forget the latter any your phone's battery is hosed. It's hosed anyway because you can literally watch it run down when Wi-Fi sharing's enabled.
Here's some of the advantages of 3/4G:
- Your tablet's always online and can receive e-mails and messages continually.
- You can just flip it open and use it without having to wait for a gazillion background process to all finish competing for the Wi-Fi signal at the same time.
- Your phone's battery is spared the torture of Wi-Fi (or BT) sharing so it's available for calls when you need it.
- You can split your data across multiple devices. For $20 a month on AT&T (they think it's a non-smartphone) my tablet uses 6ishGB of data. I use 4-6GB on my phone too. I'd get flagged and put on a tiered plan if I didn't have seperate devices so it's actually cheaper to have two data plans.
While it's not for everybody it has its advantages. I wouldn't personally own a non-3/4G tablet.
A dialogue between me and my employer.
Employer: Why didn't you get a tablet with 3G/4G built in?
ME:*holding up phone* Do you want to expense two data plans?
Employer: Point taken.
I can leave my wifi tether on literally all day and do very little harm to the battery. Tmobile G2 (HSPA+ 15down2up)
Also there is no conflict with Tmobile's data and phone services. I can answer a call without interrupting my connection.
The trick is to be reasonable about your expectations.
IE: dont stream HD youtube all day, or you'll kill the phone.
I use a 4G (has 3G support) Hotspot device instead of buying additional data plans for various devices.
While I could tether to my phone which is still 3G, when I am in the field, I normally need my phone while using data at the same time and tether would also reduce the battery of the phone quicker as well.
With the 4G hotspot, I can tether up to 5 devices at the same time which includes not only tables, slates, netbooks, notebooks, regular desktops with a WiFi adapter but also even my phone which still has 3G.
In my field kit, I carry a battery unit which will power the 4G hotspot for more than 14 hours continuously, so I can do data for longer than most of the device I could connect to it without AC power.
I can and have many times provided data access to people who were with me who had only WiFi enabled devices securely as well.
Most of the time, I just turn the hotspot on, and stick it in my pocket and have hi-speed Wifi available where I am walking.
I don't use free Unsecure WiFi hotspots.. only secure WiFi connections
Seems to me that Splashtop might be a big drain on data plan. Our only high speed internet is a Verizon 4g Mifi. We had one with 10g data plan which we just got a few months ago. Last month we went through 90% of that in like10 days. We figured someone had hacked into our network, because our history on our old sprint air card only showed an average of like 8g/month. A few days ago we decided to make some other changes, dropped the hot spot on husbands Droid and bought a second Mifi with 10g/month plan. But we just went thought over 3g on that Mifi in just a few days. The only thing I can think of is that I was using Splashtop Remote to run my Mac from the couch... we were not streaming any video or downloading big system updates or anything along those lines that might account for the big drain....
What did you expect. Just about any remote desktop app is going to use up bandwidth.
To clarify what the guy above said.
Splashtop is streaming essentially a 720p video from your computer to your tablet (along with keyboard/mouse input and audio). If you are doing that over your 3g/4g thats a lot of data. Typical compressed 720p video is 300 to 500 mb per half hour. So for every hour you use splashtop you are going to use probably between .5gb and a 1gb depending on how well they compress it. At least in the HD versions. If you are using a standard edition splashtop at a low framerate (if you can even set that, i don't remember) then you could save a lot of data. Splashtop is really meant to be used on wifi networks rather than over the internet, but they give you the option to do internet because some people have great uncapped internet.
Hope this helps clear this up.
Thanks for the info jacobrv.. I might be missing something here. Sorry to be so clueless about this. But, I am doing this at home, connected to our router. The router gets the internet service from the Mifi...(ACtually, what I have is one router connected to the Mifi, and a second router downstairs connected to the Ethernet and setup as an access point.)_ In theory should Spashtop not be using any Bandwidth and basically just be using the LAN network...
Well, if both devices (computer and tablet) are on the local network then it "should" use that and not go out to the internet. One thing I would try is to remove your Google account from splashtop, if you put it in, and see if they still find each other. They use your Google account to match up your devices over the internet, so without it, it should only look at the local network. If that doesn't help, or if you never put in your Google info in the first place, then I don't know.
That's pretty much all I've got. I mean, another thing to try would be to turn off all internet devices (mifi's/modems/etc) and try then. If they can no longer see each other, then obviously they were using the internet. But then the question becomes, why can't they see each other on the local network?
I am trying to decide which version to get. I currently use my iphone4 to check mail, stocks, news, facebook, internet radio, play some games, etc. I usually update all my apps when I am at home on wifi since 3g is slower. I never use it as a hotspot. My 3g service is unlimited but LTE will not be so. So the dilemma...
1) I can get the 3g version now. My bill will be about the same price. It has 1gb of ram.
2) I can wait a few weeks and get the LTE version here in Korea which will have 2gb of ram. My bill will definitely increase, I will lose unlimited data. I never had LTE so not sure if its worth it but I don't watch videos on my phone so I can't see why I need it. In my eyes the 2gb of ram is what is better.
Is LTE going to change my world for what I do? Worth the extra money? Is 1gb vs 2gb going to be very noticeable also?
What would you do in my shoes? Don't just think about the whole ohhh you got quad core with LTE and DMB (that I'll never watch)!
1)How much is money important to you? How much do you use your phone for surfing the web? The question whether you need LTE is for only you to decide...no one else can help you since it depends on how the individual uses the phone. If you feel that 3G is holding you back, then by all means LTE is the way to go. If you are happy with 3G then there is nothing that LTE will really give you but bigger bills. Honestly from what you have said, I don't think you need LTE.
2)No. Right now, 2GB RAM has no significant advantage over 1GB RAM and that will be true for at least another year.
In my opinion from a random internet stranger, there is no need to get the LTE version at all.
Sony might soon release a second version of the Xperia Z Ultra.
Interestingly, the refreshed Xperia Z Ultra won't feature an updated processor or any such improvement. In fact, it'll actually loose a much-loved feature: 3G and 4G LTE mobile data connectivity.
Recently-leaked benchmarks indicated that Sony is working on a Wi-Fi-only version of the 6.44-inch phablet, according AnTuTu. It'll still have cellular connectivity; it just won't boast the 4G LTE radio found in the original Xperia Z Ultra.
If true, Sony is likely catering to users who still want call-and-text functionality but prefer to browse the Internet when only connected to a Wi-Fi router. These type of users typically try to save money - and they probably want a phablet that's more tablet than smartphone.
There isn't anything else missing in this rumoured version of the Xperia Z Ultra. As for when you can expect to see it, G4games reported that a similar Sony device passed through the US Federal Communications Commission in November. That means it could launch very soon.
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Looks like a attempt at introducing a (possible) cheaper "tablet" version of the ZU. Personally, i do not see the appeal, as half the fun, is having a portable "tablet" with phone / 3G / 4G capability, that one can carry on you with ease. One without 3G/4G may be cheaper on the monthly data connection, but a smartphone without 3G/4G is kind of a step backwards.
If you only use it where there is (free) wifi, one can most likely just use a normal tablet ( home, work ... ). Maybe its just me, that does not see the potential in this?
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http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/126...-z-ultra-phablet-pops-up-in-leaked-benchmarks
Looks like a attempt at introducing a (possible) cheaper "tablet" version of the ZU. Personally, i do not see the appeal, as half the fun, is having a portable "tablet" with phone / 3G / 4G capability, that one can carry on you with ease. One without 3G/4G may be cheaper on the monthly data connection, but a smartphone without 3G/4G is kind of a step backwards.
If you only use it where there is (free) wifi, one can most likely just use a normal tablet ( home, work ... ). Maybe its just me, that does not see the potential in this?
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I cant, if you are worried about data costs just disable the apn?
I don't see the point if Sony will release those model ?????
yeah I read about this. America FCC had denied the use of mobile connectivity for the Ultra. I have no idea why... possibly Apple has filed a lawsuit against Sony for making a device thats better looking than an iPhone??? yeah... thats my bet