Banal Leakage – Ep #025
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Episode 025
– We’ve Reached Silver :
iTunes link: Banal Leakage
- – This is the 25th episode; let’s go for Gold later this year.
- – The first official day of summer arrived yesterday; warm temps, sun, pool time and nice calm nights; my favorite time of the year. Just keep those cold fronts away and let the freezing rain storms be on hold for a few months.
- News – Story 1: T-Mobile Lets 1 million test drive an iPhone 5S on their network
- News – Story 2: Amazon dives into the smartphone pool with Fire Phone
- News – Story 3: Six California’s – proposal to split the Golden State into 6 separate states
- RANT: Single apps that did multiple things, now splitting into multiple apps
- SHAMELESS PLUG: My wife and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary
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– T-Mobile has been shaking up the mobile carrier landscape; they are working with Apple to provide a 7 day free trial of their service; a $750 hold on a credit card is required; any damage to the trial iPhone 5S will be credit card dinged, too; so far, well over 12,000 have signed up; tempting for anyone that’s curious about trying out their coverage; most carriers have a 14 day or 30 day return policy, although some do require you pay for any service use like calls, texts and data; I’d be curious to see how their subscriber numbers are after they’ve reached the 1 million mark.
– Link to article: T-Mobile iPhone 5s 7 day test drive has over 12k takers
– another Android phone that’s a decent phone, but the critics are pretty much “meh” on this one; Amazon Prime users get unlimited music listening, but that applies to every Prime customer, not just those that by the new Fire Phone; unlimited Amazon Cloud storage for photos is a plus; 5 cameras captures a 3D like view; runs Fire OS 3.5, which is a modified version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean; no Google Play store, which could be a deal breaker for anyone that’s switching from a regular Android phone; no Bluetooth LE, which means limited support for wearable devices like Fitbit and other connected gear; could be a good phone after a few updates.
– Link to article: Amazon Fire Phone
– there is a proposed ballot initiative that supporters of splitting Calif into 6 states; northern Calif has been the forgotten step child over the years and they have long proposed splitting into a new state called Jackson; the 5 other states are: South California, West California, Silicon Valley, Central California and North California; the complications that this could bring are just mind boggling; changes to federal laws, new stars on the flag, migrating current state laws into their respective states; budgets assigned, highway funding; I get that some that live in less populated areas feel shut out and orphaned; but will creating 5 new states be the right answer?; as a California native, I don’t think I can get behind this. Maybe split the state into Jackson and the rest stays California.
– Link to article: Six Californias – Split the state into 6 states
– Foursquare is now search only; they split the checkin function off to a new app called Swarm; Path took their messaging part out of their main app and moved it to Path Talk; Facebook split off it’s messaging app, as well as having a separate photo app; this is confusing to me; I’ve been using Swarm for checkins and I admit to missing the integrated functions that Foursquare had; Path is a nice social media app on a smaller scale; perhaps they want to branch out and compete with these Snapchat and Yo apps that only keep messages around for a day; I don’t quite get what they are trying to accomplish by off loading functions to a separate app.
– Saturday was 6 years since we married; and it was also 13 years since our first encounter; we met at a friend’s kegger house party; she gave me her number, we went on a date a few days later; except for a break up in late 2002/early 2003, we’ve been together since; rough times and good times; lots of travel; home remodel projects; we work good together 92% of the time.
Happy Anniversary to you and Reba! I hope you enjoyed your trip to San Fran!
I can’t believe CA wants to split into 6 different states. I think that’s pretty stupid. I get the Northern California wanting to be Jefferson because that’s been a back and forth for a long time now, but these others? That I just don’t get. Oh CA, always doing some cracked out stuff.
The San Fran trip starts tomorrow. Very excited.
Yeah, this is just plain odd and not needed. That’s right, you used to live up there. Cracked up describes it well.
We switched from AT&T to T-Mobile a few months back and both got iPhone 5s’s as a result. On the whole I’m happy with the move. The coverage is _slightly_ spotty in some areas and noticed that there are a couple of dead zones in Phoenix now that we’re on their towers. But that’s few and far between. We’re saving money as a result of the switch and that was the sole reason for moving after all 😉
Oh, and heartfelt congratulations on your wedding anniversary mate. That’s awesome.
My switch from Sprint to AT&T was two fold.. saving money and getting better service, which I’m happy to say both are a positive. I looked at T-Mobile, but coverage here in Salt Lake was spotting in some areas and I wanted to ensure we weren’t going from one spotty carrier to another. Also, the being able to simultaneously make a phone call while using data was a plus for AT&T.
Thank you, sir. Much appreciate the congrats.