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vandyman said:
And that could be the reason for the delay, because of stock..
Nobodys knows, not even the shadow.;)
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The more I think about it, I bet it was several issues that caused the delay. Stock, GW/ISIS, crotchety old execs who probably made the call to delay from their GNex...
 
In the interest of fun and lighthearted things I think I'm going to buy this paper and make a mini book of my forays into Star Wars.
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Yup, I think you guys have converted me. I can't wait for Episode 5. :D
 
Did anybody get anything done darn the time out? Like clean the toilet, get bath, etc.:p

I went for the Black cherry ice cream.:)
 
ItsASamsung said:
While a lot of you are complaining about Verizon I thought I might change up the mood here a bit and focus on everything that I like about Verizon:


  • Having a grandfathered unlimited data plan
  • Having the most reliable network with the best coverage
  • Having my data unthrottled
  • Having blazing fast 4G LTE in almost 200 markets
  • Top customer service out of the big 4 carriers
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Not AT&T ;)

Feel free to add to the list. :)
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Download 80GB worth of data in 2 weeks and see if they don't throttle your data. That's what happened to me.
 
What are the chances of a Verizon announcement or release when this thread is locked by the Mods? How many of us wouldn't know until it reopened?
 
I am kind of in the dark on this Google wallet thing.

Is there market places using it yet? And how will we tell if it does?
 
alee0729 said:
NFC is used for a bunch of things e.g. credit cards, transit passes, inventory control tags, etc. You'll find it's pretty much all around you, even if you never see a sign for Google Wallet. You'll never see a sign for "NFC".

Mobil Gas Speedpass, Caltrain/BART Clipper transit cards, etc. are all NFC-enabled technologies. Most checkout counters where I am (NYC) are all NFC-enabled so you can tap to pay with your Chase, Citi, Amex, etc. card which all have NFC tags embedded in them.

Google Wallet is really just 2 things -- a refillable debit card, and a proxy to your Citi card if you have one. And whoever wants to write these proxies to physical cards.
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also- this may have been posted before but you can use NFC for all sorts of other cool stuff, like such as this:

NFC Task Launcher 2.4 - Demo - YouTube
 
Apologies to everyone again. I wouldn't normally get sucked into a troll - just had some ish happen at home that involved a creepy phone call and cops in my house (not a fan of either.) Still no excuse.

My penance...I will purposely leave my GN @ home the first day I get it.
 
tom76 said:
FWIW...i'm listening to a podcast with @cassdroid and others and apparently there was still an issue with 4g reception that may have been causing the delay... @Miami1683 who as far as i know is/was a member of tbh and someone our beloved P3 sent a gnex to mentioned having 5 bars 4g with the razr and no bars with the gnex on build 4.0.2 ...after answering a question i sent in he said the 4g reception was much improved with 4.1...could the delay be still software related... @Miami1683 never mentioned nor did the others about GW v ISIS...take it for what it's worth!
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You have a link to that podcast? I would be interested in hearing it. Thanks!
 
Just logged into my account... there are 5 FIVE different flippin' Xyboards available, now. And we can't get just one Nexus!!! :mad:
 
HanSolo said:
Yeah that's the one. Some guy called and reserved it, supposedly, before I did.
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I think that guy was in the store while I was there. The person I was talking with said something along the lines of "That guy already reserved one," and pointed to somebody wandering around the store.

Either way, they've got them (or it...not sure how many they actually have) at the store. Verizon just needs to say the word and I should get a call to pick one up :D

Oh, and one other funny thing while I was there: there's also a kiosk in the mall for Verizon. Went over there and talked with the two people for a few minutes. Said they had just done training on it earlier today...one of them was waiting for the phone himself.

Funny part? They didn't have a demo there! Verizon Wireless didn't have the phone, but Radio Shack did! At the same exact mall! (They were visibly upset that they didn't have one, and were being upfront with me about everything else, so I have no doubt they were telling the truth.) I talked with them for another few minutes, then said I was going to check at Radio Shack. Went back a few minutes later and told them I had seen one over there, and they were like :eek: which I got a bit of a kick out of :D
 
gapi said:
I am kind of in the dark on this Google wallet thing.

Is there market places using it yet? And how will we tell if it does?
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My understanding is any Point-of-Sale terminal with NFC capabilities will be able to process a payment using either Google Wallet or Isis. It's transparent to the user.

But on the payment side, the transaction processing fee goes to whomever payment method is set up. Kinda like it doesn't really matter to you if you use a Visa or American Express to pay, but the retailer has to pay fees back to the credit card companies for the "privilege" of using thier service. Amex charges higher fees, so that's why a lot of retailers don't accept them.

There a more and more places that are using NFC. I see them popping up quite often now. My local grocery store, department stores, etc.
 
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