@Dashrender said:

I've never used Verizon as my own service, mainly because their price is significantly higher than the rest. But I had to give up my cheaper Sprint plan for something that actually worked! Moving to AT&T was cheaper than Verizon, because of GSM compatible with most European carriers and therefore roam-able, and worked well in my home (Verizon, like Sprint does not work in my house).

Thats why I like TMobile. Uses any GSM towers that it can, included AT&T and whatever is local in the country that you are in. And at home it always works because they have full WiFi calling. So I never have to worry about it at my home, any family member's homes or other places that I go regularly.

Safe from StageFright... Yes. But what about the other iOS flaws?

I was wondering if something like this was ever going to happen.

I, too, am concerned that results on my phone are not as good as the results on the computer. I often get search pages that are nothing but ads and unable to find things that, on a computer, are easy to search for. I've never been happy with mobile-only pages or mobile-altered search results.

Great idea, I wonder how well it will work. Very interesting for sure.

@Dashrender said:

That's pretty much inevitable though, right? Look at any technology and you can pretty much apply this same logic to it. Though the time frame can fluctuate wildly.

Yup, pretty much.

BQ's website is still featuring the phone with Android...

www.bq.com/gb/products/aquaris-e4-5.html

It's been more than a decade. If Microsoft hasn't figured out mobile phones by now it is best to just give it up.

ES File Explorer seems to work for me on Android 4.0

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And I want any call to that device to go to me, not to whoever is holding it.

You don't really (at least easily) have this ability now.

So how would AD made this any different?
By turning the device into a multi-user device. That's AD's function, to make things easily multi-user.

So they did. I had not seen any talk or mention of it anywhere.

@scottalanmiller Many have the technology in place since they sell femtocells but I'm not sure why the never full implement it down to the phones directly. I guess it's too much work on their part to make it work on every phone. But I could see them just making an android app/plugin and one for iphones. They don't need to worry about RIM too much.

I'm surprised iOS doesn't have this built in yet. As Macbooks already do this under the Battery Menu. However on mobile OS people that run those Battery Doctor (and the more popular Advanced Task Killer) type apps end up getting less life out of the battery. Many apps take so little battery running in a suspended state in the background that fully closing them multiple times means the processing to get it going multiple times a day again would use more power..

This has been speculated about for quite some time. Makes a lot of sense.

Was bound to happen eventually.

@scottalanmiller said:

I still have a BB. <insert sad face>

LOL...ah my first phone that pocket dialed people!

Very true. It is already quite amazing that Blackberry still exists at all.