FreedomPop Gives Your iPod Touch Free 4G Data, Calling

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chomlee

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Wait, let me get this straight. If I were to assume 1 mB is 1 minute of talk time (which is very conservative), it would cost me $10/month and I could have 1000 minutes of talk time and use a service such as google voice to get an actual phone number and replace my phone? Or do they give you a phone number as well?

This could be a real game changer to the cell phone industry.
 

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Wow, just did some research. A typical clean voice bit rate is 12.65 kb/sec. This turns into 95 KB/min which means the 500 MB would give you plenty of talk time and enough to lightly browse the web (For FREE).

Somebody let me know if this would work with google voice. I guess the next hurdle is what is the coverage area?
 

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Amazing. A smartphone data plan that's actually created for the USERS and not to pick clean a c note from the pockets of what seems to now be 90% of the grown population. Keep talking, and I might be persuaded to get myself an iPod touch/smartphone.
 

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[citation][nom]chomlee[/nom]Wow, just did some research. A typical clean voice bit rate is 12.65 kb/sec. This turns into 95 KB/min which means the 500 MB would give you plenty of talk time and enough to lightly browse the web (For FREE).Somebody let me know if this would work with google voice. I guess the next hurdle is what is the coverage area?[/citation]

Ummmmmm how in the world did you come down to 95 kb/min?
 

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[citation][nom]gilgamex[/nom]Ummmmmm how in the world did you come down to 95 kb/min?[/citation]
12.65 kilobits/s * 60 = 759 kilobits/m or 94.875 kilobytes/m
 

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[citation][nom]gilgamex[/nom]Ummmmmm how in the world did you come down to 95 kb/min?[/citation]

12.65 Kilobits/sec * 60 = 759 Kilobits per minute. /8 = 94.875 Kilobytes per minute
 

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Curious how many hoops you have to jump through to get the "certain partners offers and promotions" data of up to 5GB/mo. But at the $10/GB price for paid data, it doesn't immediately seem all that appealing as a paid service.
 

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[citation][nom]teh_chem[/nom]Curious how many hoops you have to jump through to get the "certain partners offers and promotions" data of up to 5GB/mo. But at the $10/GB price for paid data, it doesn't immediately seem all that appealing as a paid service.[/citation]
Well, if you get 2GB extra data for $20, that's 2.5 of data for $20/month which is a good deal (for the US)
 

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[citation][nom]fb39ca4[/nom]Well, if you get 2GB extra data for $20, that's 2.5 of data for $20/month which is a good deal (for the US)[/citation]
That's a good point--that's a pretty reasonable amount of data for a decent price. Especially considering that on the bigger-players, you only get 200MB for $15 and 2GB for $30 (or whatever these "shared everything" plans pan out to be).
 
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Wow. I don't own a cell phone, and haven't for many years . . . but this makes me want to purchase an iPod Touch. I despise Apple. I may have to buy that Touch.
 

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[citation][nom]gtvr[/nom]Which is 95KB, not 95Kb.[/citation]

If you look at the original post, I said 95KB. For some reason gilgamex quoted me as saying 95kb.
 
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