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hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > God! sounds crap! Why the hell would anyone want CDMA then? God bless the > french for inventing GSM, who invented CDMA? So if you were on a phone call, > would you not receive push notifications until you hung up the call? > On 13 Jan 2011, at 08:28, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> No worries. I'm learning too. CDMA only 1 signal or data stream can get in >> at a time so let's say you are deaf and you make a phone call. that's a data >> stream. your captioning software is another. that cannot work as that's 2 >> data streams. >> >> on a gsm network I can have my email, my captioning program, my twitter, my >> texts and my phone call running and no issues as long as the network does >> not mind. lol! >> >> S >> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Chris Moore wrote: >> >>> Sorry for coming across a bit thick here. But firstly I am unable to open >>> that URL to read the article and secondly we don't have CDMA over here in >>> the UK. Why do CDMA phones cause problems for users who are hard of >>> hearing? Would using something like a Phonak Bluetooth streamer get around >>> the issue? What are the advantages of CDMA over GSM? >>> >>> Chris >>> On 13 Jan 2011, at 04:16, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>> >>>> Why would they be on a CDMA network in the first place then? If I was >>>> hard of hearing, I would find this to be a big deal and would do research. >>>> And you have 30 days to get out of your contract so, the blame would be >>>> on them if their stuck in a contract on a carrier that uses CDMA. >>>> >>>> JMO >>>> >>>> Ricardo Walker >>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >>>> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>> >>>>> lol. I'm not the one that came up with the subject line but what about >>>>> those that cannot afford to switch as they are locked in to a contract. >>>>> I'm just surprised that no one discovered it until now. I'm not hard of >>>>> hearing at all, Ok maybe a bit, but yeah I guess using an app on VZ that >>>>> would alow closed captionaing on the iphone during a phone call would be >>>>> close to impossibil. >>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I don't mean to sound like a jerk but, what do you mean? This has >>>>>> always been the case for CDMA. Its not exclusive to the Verizon iPhone. >>>>>> So why would something which is the status quo be impact full? The >>>>>> hard of hearing will do what they been doing, use GSM until LTE is fully >>>>>> deployed. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >>>>>> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> How will this impact those of us with hearing troubles? read more: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://ow.ly/3COMr >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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