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I have an Emobile pocket wifi. It's a pretty nifty device with a couple quirks.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2011 14:07 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 00:56 |
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Sheep posted:How much are you paying a month for it, including the cost of the device itself, if you don't mind me asking? And what are the quirks? The device was free on a two year contract. It was 4k a month for the first year, and 5k a month for the second year. The quirks are that if you are on a train and go into a tunnel and lose a signal, you sometimes have to do a hard reset. Also, it may stay connected to a device for four hours and then die of lack of battery. (4 hours is its max.) Since it doesn't use a 3G network, sometimes it can't get signal in places where phones can, and vice-versa. It's not as bursty like 3G but it's not as solid as wired. A happy medium. It's about 3mps download, which sometimes feels slow, but definitely gets the job done. Lately my apartment internet has been weird so I've been turning it on even at home. I use it with my laptop, iphone, and wifi iPad. All can be connected and sharing at the same time. Also, it doesn't have every port open so things like bit torrent don't work on it.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2011 17:04 |
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Emobile pocket wifi is HSDP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Downlink_Packet_Access
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2011 02:28 |
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Consider updating the link in the OP from the old megathread to the new megathread.
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2011 06:20 |
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zmcnulty posted:From a cost-to-user perspective they REALLY need to prioritize iMessage support. Since sending inter-carrier SMS costs 3.15yen/message in Japan, and MMS support basically sucks on the KDDI side, there could be a lot of au<>SoftBank iPhone users sending SMS without even realizing it costs them each time. The sooner they launch iMessage, the sooner all iPhone users can text each other for free regardless of carrier. Sounds like they need to deprioritize iMessage and earn some sweet profits.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2011 05:53 |
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zmcnulty posted:http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20111205_495932.html?ref=rss My reaction: Great! The reaction of my female co-workers: Oh no, now people will talk on the phone in the subway.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2011 07:13 |
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Sashimi posted:I'm moving to Japan in March, and while I've been educating myself about the mobile market over there I can't seem to find anything about how the cost of a phone factors into a monthly plan. The only info I've found so far is on Softbank's iPhone page, which of course only applies to one phone on one carrier. Does this system, where I either buy a phone outright or pay a monthly fee, also happen with other carriers? If so, how do I find out how much a phone would cost since prices aren't listed anywhere obvious? I've got a Nexus that I got from Google as a developer. For unlocked foreign phones, you sign up for the plan at a Docomo shop, but you have to manually change the settings for data as they have no idea how to do it themselves.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2013 07:24 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 00:56 |
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Preparing to move overseas and looking at cancelation of my softbank contract. Half of it is the remaining cost of my iPhone, but half of it is "remaining monthly payments" which makes it look like I might as well just keep the service on until the contract ends, for the amount of money they are charging to cancel. Anyone have insight?
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2013 05:58 |