Jasonisms

Dear T-Mobile ,  A couple of months ago I decided I was tired of the intermittent service and decided to call in every single time I dropped either voice or data services to report the outage. Now, as you can imagine, without voice service I couldn't call so I had to wait, sometimes a few minutes, and sometimes a half hour or so, until I gained service back and could make the call. After about the fourth time the customer service representative in "retention" offered me a new phone, any handset I chose, to try for 20 days and see if my service was better. We talked about it, I asked what she had in mind since I wasn't interested in a bare-bones entry-level phone. She said, since I'd been such a good T-Mobile customer, she would make available any  handset I was interested in. I informed her I had been eyeballing the HTC One S and the Galaxy SIII , but couldn't decide which was a better piece of hardware. We talked over the merits of each and I also men...

I went down to the TMo store today and held a myTouch4G alongside a G2. The myTouch4G feels more plasticky than the solid feeling G2 however all the Galaxy S phones as well as the Droid X and the newest Palm's feel plasticky to me as well, so I won't complain about that too much. According to the sales guy there at the store, the innards (yes, I said "innards" and am not getting a misspelling notice which makes me wonder) are pretty much the same between the two devices. Both have 1ghz proessors, however the G2's is de-clocked (underclocked?) on purpose to allow for greater battery life. From what he said, there's also a secondary 3D graphics processor in the G2 which helps it maintain those lightning fast speeds. I'm not sure if that's true or not. The mTouch4G does not have the Snapdragon (Scorpion) proc but it is at 1ghz instead of the 800mhz of the G2 and comes with a front-facing camera for video-chat. I'm not sure if that's a sel...