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Feb 12 16:25:09 <macintoshman> Hi
Feb 12 16:25:14 <techfury90> hai
Feb 12 16:25:32 <macintoshman> I am tired of the cell phone industry ripping people off.
Feb 12 16:25:38 <techfury90> Please explain.
Feb 12 16:25:48 <macintoshman> The phone units are incredibley expensive.
Feb 12 16:25:53 <macintoshman> For example
Feb 12 16:26:18 <LSD`> you can get Nokias for as little as AUD$60 bucks on prepaid here
Feb 12 16:26:23 <techfury90> LSD`, not even that here
Feb 12 16:26:34 <techfury90> you can get kyoceras on virgin for like.. $10 USD sometimes (normally 20)
Feb 12 16:26:40 <macintoshman> My Nokia 6061 has no multimidia, a single tasking os worse than system 7 and it costs 100$ un locked
Feb 12 16:26:57 <macintoshman> Oh
Feb 12 16:27:23 <techfury90> perhaps they can be fairly expensive to manufacture?
Feb 12 16:27:26 <macintoshman> The onley good thing is that it does not weigh much and has verry good screen.
Feb 12 16:27:33 <macintoshman> and it gets good signal.
Feb 12 16:27:41 <LSD`> the nokia I was referring to earlier was the 2310
Feb 12 16:27:42 <techfury90> they're pretty complicated stuff inside.
Feb 12 16:28:21 <macintoshman> I do realise that. But, my iPod has more CPU powwr and costs less. Just ad the radio ciructs.
Feb 12 16:28:35 <techfury90> the radio circuits are where the cost is at :P
Feb 12 16:28:35 <macintoshman> And I seem to be having keyboard issues.
Feb 12 16:28:47 <macintoshman> ah
Feb 12 16:28:58 <macintoshman> Is it the quallacom vs broadcom thingie?
Feb 12 16:29:12 <techfury90> those are two manufacturers of them
Feb 12 16:29:24 <macintoshman> We need a third
Feb 12 16:29:27 <macintoshman> Intel
Feb 12 16:29:28 <techfury90> however, that doesn't have to do with it as much as other factors
Feb 12 16:29:32 <techfury90> there are plenty
Feb 12 16:29:35 <techfury90> nokia makes their own
Feb 12 16:29:39 <techfury90> so does sony ericsson
Feb 12 16:29:44 <techfury90> TI is common among some manufacturers
Feb 12 16:29:45 <macintoshman> But, ARM cpus are cheap,and ram is cheap
Feb 12 16:29:59 <techfury90> the ARM CPU and RAM is usually integrated into a SoC known as the baseband processor
Feb 12 16:30:07 <macintoshman> so why does my phone have less CPU that a Classic and Less RAM than A LC?
Feb 12 16:30:08 <techfury90> usually to reduce costs
Feb 12 16:30:12 <techfury90> actually
Feb 12 16:30:22 <techfury90> all of them are ARM based.
Feb 12 16:30:26 <macintoshman> yes
Feb 12 16:30:33 <techfury90> i'd say that's faster than a classic.
Feb 12 16:30:38 <macintoshman> Slightley
Feb 12 16:30:45 <macintoshman> Takes 5 minutes to render google.
Feb 12 16:30:54 <macintoshman> :P
Feb 12 16:31:02 * techfury90 rolls eyes
Feb 12 16:31:07 <techfury90> you have a really low end phone anyway
Feb 12 16:31:08 <LSD`> meh, you don't browse on a phone
Feb 12 16:31:13 <techfury90> that thing would be free if it wasn't unlocked
Feb 12 16:32:16 <macintoshman> It came free with atnt
Feb 12 16:32:17 <macintoshman> i gtg
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