Comments on: T-Mobile: Buy a shiny new Android G1… just don’t use it much.

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:26:07 +0000

Forget all that – you can sum up Android’s reliability with one quick look at that image: the digital clock says 2:47pm, whilst the analogue says ten past nine! ;)

By: aperson

aperson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:38:04 +0000

This cap has been lifted.

By: Aneurin Price

Aneurin Price — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:23:43 +0000

1GB per month is a common transfer limit for home ADSL connections. This is a *phone*. The capped rate is still pretty decent compared to a normal non-3G mobile phone (ie. a couple of times the bandwidth). What exactly is the problem here?

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:48:15 +0000

I have a T-Mobile Dash, and I currently use more than 1GB a month, on a non-3G network… (I synch my phone wirelessly, and all my calendar and contact data is on an MS Exchange server) I think that this limit is too small. 5 GB might be appropriate, but 1 is just not enough.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:00:53 +0000

1 bit = 0.125 bytes

So 50 Kilobits per second = 6.4 Kilobytes per second

Now that’s what I call Crippling a connection.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:36:56 +0000

Kbps = Kilobits

KBps = Kilobytes

Most bandwidth metrics are in bits.

Most storage metrics are in bytes.

50kpbs = 50 Kilobits Per Second.

(Wich puts you at a little under a late 1990’s modem. 56.6 kbps.)

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:28:45 +0000

This sounds a lot like the complaining that happened when Comcast said they were gonna limit bandwidth to 250GB a month and people went apeshit… but then most people realized that 250GB a month is a f’ing lot of bandwidth. Don’t be so dramatic w/ the cap and then say that oh my god 50kbs a sec is so slow.

Gimme a break.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:54:55 +0000

Is that 50 Kilobytes, or Kilobits? Because if it’s Kilobytes, that’s not bad at all, and a reasonable limitation on a cell phone – that’s still plenty fast for web pages, although YouTube might suffer a bit. Sure, I wish it was really “unlimited”, but protecting the new 3G networks is important too.

If it’s kilobits, though, screw ‘em, I’ll wait for the next Android phone. That’s the whole point – there’s lots of ‘em…

By: RyanK

RyanK — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:25:24 +0000

Personally, I think that was put in more to protect T-Mobile’s emerging 3G network from becoming overloaded.

It just says ‘may’ not will. It just gives them the ability to reign in rampant usage, while allowing them to expand their network.

If i had to bet on it, I’d say that it won’t be enforced unless its necessary (like, its having an impact on the network) and in time they will raise those limits or lift them completely.

I seem to recall similar agreements in my cable broadband connection and they relented under the demands for higher bandwidth.

Plus, remember, this is an OPEN platform… so if T-Mobile screws over its customers.. switch to sprint or another carrier once your contract is up.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:04:52 +0000

I’d rather have them bandwidth limit the device than to charge me massive ‘excessive data usage’ fees like AT&T would.