Oh, but oh my God. Call T-Mobile and tell them to disable your voicemail for the time you're gone. Because if someone calls and leaves you a voicemail, you get charged for it as if you'd picked up the damn phone.

That happened to a friend, but when she complained, they told her that she got charged because she sent it to voicemail instead of letting it ring out. If the phone was off or she le it ring out, she didnt get charged.

If you have an iPhone, you can put in in airplane mode, but turn on the wifi. You can use phone eh when you have web access, but it won't ring

there are also a couple apps that give you wi-fi talk ability. MagicJack has an app, Talktone. And Skype. Not sure of international working/charges. But it works in dead cell zones on campus.

I don't know if any of those apps allow you to use your phone's assigned number over your carrier's wires, do they? That's what I was referring to--T Mobile allows you to use the full functionality of your phone just the same over their network or over wi fi--just that wi fi minutes don't count against your total.

I have GrooveIP installed on my Nexus in place, but that only works for me because I already have a Google Voice number I've handed out. It won't mimic my cellphone.

just that wi fi minutes don't count against your total.

Mine do. Blegh. But it is a hugely helpful feature. My network reception at home is so crappy it makes a huge difference. My only quibble is if you leave the wifi area (like I leave home in the middle of a call) it drops instead of switching to network.

When I went online, there was an option available to me for "free wi fi minutes" and I just added that to my account, and I'm free and clear. I don't know if it's because of the package I have or what, but I like what I can get for my dollar. And what I can get for no dollars at all.

Swype is out for ICS! Thank dog!

I used Swiftkey for a little, and I'd highly recommend it over any tapping keyboard I've used. Its predictive capability, even without the ability to mine much of my typing, certainly made things a *lot* faster. Even before you start typing the next word, it suggests things for you based on the last word. And, hey, sometimes that was what I wanted. Because of how English works. Even mine.

But Swype is back on my phone, and I'm on it like a crack whore on my pipe. Booyah!

WSJ: Google caught circumventing iPhone security, tracking users who opted out of third-party cookies

Google has been caught circumventing iOS's built-in anti-ad-tracking features in order to add Google Plus functionality within iPhone's Safari browser. The WSJ reports that Google overrode users' privacy settings in order to allow messages like "your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy" to be relayed between Google's different domains, including google.com and doubleclick.net. This also meant that doubleclick.net was tracking every page you landed on with a Doubleclick ad, even if you'd opted out of its tracking.

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In the iPhone case, it's likely that Google has gone beyond lowering the quality of its service for its users and customers, and has now started to violate the law, and certainly to undermine the trust that the company depends on.

I don't know WTF Google is doing.

I am getting more and more disturbed by their behavior.

My sister boycotts them, and I ask her why any of the other 1000lb gorillas are less bad, and she says it's because Google promised to not be evil.

I'm not sure why she thinks any massive corporation is making promises they're going to keep on a personal moral level. The idea is so laughable and irrelevant I wasn't paying attention from the start.

I saw an ad for a bank on TV where they filmed random people on the street and asked them to read from a script. The script was the standard customer "service" responses you get. They were about as believable as the people you get on the phone. sigh