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John McKee

Member since: Jan 10th, 2006

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Clear iSpot review (Engadget)

Aug 10th 2010 1:37PM As much as Clear touts their 4G speeds I am barely able to get more than 2.8 Mbps out of their service. On the other hand I can pull down 5.5 Mbps and send up 1Mbps on my iPhone with AT&T.

They may be the first with "4G" service but if they can't best AT&T 3G service in speeds or coverage it kind of seems like a silly thing to brag about.

Samsung Craft to be MetroPCS' first LTE handset, Dallas-Ft. Worth added as a launch market (Engadget)

Aug 6th 2010 12:47PM Not terribly surprising since they are based in the D/FW area, as is the US headquarters of their LTE supplier Ericsson, along with the world headquarters of AT&T and major offices or US headquarters for almost every other telecom company. D/FW will almost certainly be a launch market for LTE on Verizon and AT&T as well.

Ask Engadget: what's the best graphing calculator for under $200? (Engadget)

Jul 8th 2010 11:19PM I still have and use my, has to be a decade old at least, TI-89. It is a great calculator, CAS is amazing and can be used on the SAT, I would say it gave me quite a few extra points on the SAT.

It's a sharp learning curve but once you get used to it you will never want to go back to a normal calculator. It's so amazing that the ACT and some professors will ban it on tests though.

Time names Engadget one of the best blogs of 2010 (Engadget)

Jun 28th 2010 8:40PM Time, as in the Time of the former AOL Time Warner, AOL being the owner of Weblogs Inc, owner of Engadget?

Congrats?

Clearwire WiMAX to cover 120 million prospective HTC EVO 4G owners by end of year (Engadget)

May 6th 2010 12:30PM I live a block from a Clear tower and had 5 lights of signal and was lucky to get 1.5Mbps on my Clear modem. I regularly receive over 3Mbps on my iPhone.

Over two months of complaining yielded no improvement in service although now I only get 1-3 lights of service and the same speeds. I will be dumping clear shortly, don't assume that Clear is going to result in faster internet service than AT&T 3G in what should be almost ideal conditions.

Qualcomm adding the kitchen sink to Gobi, including EV-DO Rev. A, dual-carrier HSPA+, and LTE (Engadget)

Mar 25th 2010 7:21PM My Sony VAIO P has Gobi. It would be really great to have Gobi in it if Sony had put a SIM card slot in it and not locked it to Verizon.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fine computer and I'm fine with my Verizon account with it but it seems stupid to needlessly neuter it's capabilities because of a marketing agreement with Verizon.

I wonder how many device manufactures will really take advantage of the multi-carrier possibilities of Gobi and instead use it for flexibility on their end and lock it to whomever makes THEM the best deal, not consumer flexibility.

Switched On: Giving fax the axe (Engadget)

Mar 23rd 2010 11:52PM I'm in my late 20's, I get that we have moved on from faxes from a technological and productivity standpoint but frankly I still like them.

It;s all just so tangible, you stick the piece of paper in one machine, it is duplicated on the other, there is almost instant indication that said process has happened. No confusion over spellings of names or domains, in most cases just 10 easily communicated and verified digits to communicate.

I get so many emails and phone calls in my personal and professional life, so much to keep track of and follow up on an instant physical document is just easier. Yes, it might be wasteful or not environmentally friendly but it is an easier concept to deal with, even if it is tossing it in my trashcan or putting on credenza to deal with when I have a chance.

Samsung makes Skype for new LED lit HDTVs official (Engadget)

Feb 25th 2010 8:26PM I think it is kind of funny, the idea just 20 years ago that we could actually buy a flat screen HDTV that hands on the wall that could easily video conference around the world in high resolution was simply mind blowing. Now that it is here and more than we could have ever imagined 20 years ago it is so, anti-climatic.

Flash 10.1 might just not be a battery hog on Android (Engadget)

Feb 24th 2010 8:10PM Right, H.264 which can be hardware accelerated by Flash 10.1. Playing H.264 video was never a debate, Flash doesn't add anything there not accomplished by HTML5, it was the things that Flash can't hardware accelerate that have come under fire. Play a complicated flash game for 17 minutes and then we can have a proper debate on the issue.

Opera Mini on iPhone is fast, but why? (Engadget)

Feb 17th 2010 10:28AM I think where they might have issues with this argument is that IE was notoriously non-standards compliant and forced developers to code their sites specifically for IE, breaking compatibility with other browsers. On the other hand, Mobile Safari is just a pretty face to WebKit which is basically the defacto standard for full featured mobile browsers today. Webkit isn't really harming users access to information nor publishers audience like IE was.