Scosche makes all manner of gear to keep your Apple gadgets charged up. The company has a couple new chargers with one for the car and the other for the home that charge the iPhone and iPad at the same time.
InfoWorld has a piece up on the new iPhone outrage by AT&T and the author has hit on exactly how I feel about Femtocells. AT&T is offering the femtocell as a way give users better connections in homes and offices, which we should already get. The catch is you have to buy the femtocell and pay monthly, which is paying twice for decent service.
A teardown of the iPad by iSuppli has found that the iPad is les profitable for Apple than the iPhone. I guess that makes sense considering that Apple has had years to tweak the iPhone for maximum profit and performance.
are you kidding me? You and that author have NO idea what you guys are angry at.
Read the comments in his “article” to get some perspective.
Femtocells are one part of many that ALL major providers are offering to help their signal. One is adding and fixing their towers. For those who would like better signal INSIDE their home and office (which no provider can guarantee because of building materials and multiple levels, etc.) they can. They won’t force it on you and to ATT’s credit won’t charge you a monthly fee unless you want unlimited minutes using it.
Most houses have dead spots. That’s life. Yes you can complain or you can pick up one of these as ONE solution (you can also buy signal repeaters but those tend to be even more expensive) to that problem. If this doesn’t work for you, fine. Then don’t get it. Who cares? It’ll help my wife and I with our service at our new house and I’m glad that they have finally started offering one (Other carriers have been for year/s).
And as commented on the other article, this has LITTLE to do with the iPhone. This will work for people with shotty ATT service with any 3G phone.
I agree with James –
Shane, did you do any research on the AT&T Microcell before agreeing with this poorly written article on the “iPhone Outrage”? No, no you didn’t…..that’s ok. Let me save you a couple clicks of your mouse and about 2 minutes of reading AT&T’s website, oh and I will use my common sense, so don’t worry about finding yours….wherever it may be.
First off, this has nothing to do with the iPhone, so old man rivers article is already misguided. This is about cell signal coverage, which every single cell-phone out there needs. If this had anything to do with bandwidth, well then yes, the iPhone is a data monster, but its not. Its about service.
Ok, here’s where I save you some reading. You pay for the Micro-Cell, but you don’t have to pay to use it. If you want unlimited minutes while using it, ok its $20/month. If you want to just use your existing wireless minutes from your plan, then go for it, and no extra charge.
Now, here’s the common sense I will give you. First, you state “AT&T is offering the femtocell as a way give users better connections in homes and offices, which we should already get” Which we should already get??? Yeah I agree full service would be nice, but where do you get off expecting that you should get everything you want at 100%. What about the customer out in the boonies that signs up for AT&T service…he then goes home and says to himself, “Ok, now Im an AT&T customer, so I SHOULD GET 100% service now.” This is essentially what you are saying, “Were AT&T customers and we should get perfect service”. Service is dependent on whats around you, and how many towers are around you…which brings me to my last point.
Towers cost money to build. Everybody is complaining and complaining about service, and yet they refuse to acknowledge that AT&T needs more money to build more towers; to give BETTER service. They come along and give a solution to many users problems, a Micro-Cell unit. I personally think this is perfect. I pay $150 now, get a full 5 bars in my home (which I do now because I have the AT&T micro-cell unit), and I further the growth of AT&T’s network. I consider it an investment in their service…ALL YOU CAN SAY IS GIVE ME EVERYTHING I WANT, AND DON’T MAKE ME PAY FOR IT.
Oh and you don’t have to get this unit. You can go along griping about your coverage and be unhappy. How can you be enraged at something that’s optional?
Are you guys fan boys much? i mean seriously, if you sell me an iPhone and tell me that i have unlimited data and a specific amount of voice minutes and then i go home, WITHIN sight of a major tower and my phone drops calls left and right, that is a huge issue. if i buy service from you there is a reasonable expectation of service. I’m not talking about five bars, you tool, I’m talking about being able to make a simple voice call without having to redial twice.
then AT&T comes along, tells me hey we can fix your connection woes, but you have to pay AGAIN for the service you are already paying for. Yeah I’m not going to be happy about it. moron, read the post does he ever say 100% service. It’s idiots like you that keep services like this in business. Why in the world should i be happy to pay twice in any form for service I already bought. That’s like buying a new car that dies every 30 miles in the middle of the road, and then the dealer telling me they can sell me a nifty gadget that will stop that for an extra $200.
@TrollHater Your car comparison is flawed.
It’s more like you just went to your nearest Toyota dealership and purchased a Highlander because you needed all that extra space to haul your stuff around and then have walked back into the dealership 2 months later because you saw an ad for a Prius and demanding that Toyota pay you for the difference in gas mileage between your Highlander and the Prius.
The AT&T lovers have a point with their perspective, so do those that purchase a phone, promised that they will have service where they live and then they go home, sit in their car and the service slips in and out, but works sometimes. In your home it works in one half of the house, acceptable, then one day you find it does not work anywhere in the home. In fact, the only place it works is two blocks away. You spend days, months, years trying to get AT&T to understand your problem and then finally, a supervisor tells you that they no longer use the towers near your home, that they were T Mobile’s towers and AT&T can no longer share them. What do you do now? You have two choices, one is to move, the other is to change carriers, which will cost you about $300. Why do you keep the carrier? Well, you like the phone and the service is good on the way to Mexico, in isolated areas. Better than Sprint or Verizon. So, it becomes a balancing act between what you want and what you get. The only kicker here is the promises you get when you buy the phone, the maps that show what service you will get and actually the maps are in error due to the reason provided in the text above.
TrollHater –
Guess what, every single day peoples cars break down AND THEY PAY TO FIX THEM, unless its under warranty of course. So until AT&T offers a “cell coverage” warranty, your analogy is as dumb as you are. SNAP!
Actually, lets go back to that analogy…So you are the driver that does not pay $200 to get his car fixed, so you go on breaking down every 30 miles. Ok fine. I will pay $200 once, never break down again, and you go on being miserable in your crappy car. And you call me an idiot.
E-man you’re an AT&Tool. How do you know they need more money to by cell towers? You either don’t know, or know that they don’t. But since you’re an idiot you won’t admit it. The only way to tell is not by your stoopid analogies, but by looking at the competition. Verizon charges exactly the same as AT&T. They spend their megabucks building out their 3G network. Guess what? Their coverage and technology are way better than AS&Shole’s. Verizon then tells everyone about it. How does AS&S respond? The spend their megabucks saying “Hey look, we have a map too!” and compare their 0G coverage to VzW 3G, instead of building out their network. The fact is they are happy to sell us the phones knowing the overload it will put on their notwork and refuse to build out the infrastructure needed to support those phones. Now, e-man, let’s hear another of your idiot analogies.
phonetic –
Hey the analogy’s were made by Bill and TrollHatter not me. I simply expended on them.
So how do I know? Anyone with a brain stem knows that building towers costs money. Yeah ATT spends money on advertising just like the rest of them, and yes they should focus that money more on expansion, but of course they still need more money to expand. ANY BUSINESS NEEDS MORE MONEY TO EXPAND. I don’t need to look at their ‘books’, or talk to their business development team to know…building towers costs money, and more would help.
So since you’re so curious on how I know things, I ask you, how do you know they “refuse to build out the infrastructure needed”? To quote your gibberish “You either don’t know, or know that they don’t.”
Also on a personal note, Im only defending ATT because I hate the growing acceptance of you “haters”. People that bitch and moan about things that really don’t affect them directly, but feel that the public needs to know how enraged they are. Notice I never compared AT&T to another carrier, or said that they were better than anybody. All I did was explain the reasoning behind AT&T offering a solution to many people problems. But of course those haters out there feel entitled to everything…as long as its free.
If your so into Verizon, why are you even posting here…oh yeah, you’re the self indulgent hater that wants everyone to know you have an opinion.