That’s where you buy a $600 phone (like the iPhone) for $200, with the understanding that you’ll pay the cellphone company the rest over It also became the first carrier to eliminate the infuriating 15-second recording of voicemail instructions every time you try to leave a message - a waste of your time and your callers’ airtime.Īnd T-Mobile also ended the Great Cellphone Subsidy Con. As I wrote then, it eliminated the two-year contract you can now quit T-Mobile whenever you like. Credit Spencer Platt/Getty Imagesīack in March, T-Mobile burned every possible bridge it had with the other cellphone carriers. T-Mobile said that in the second quarter of 2013, it signed up 685,000 new customers - more than Verizon, AT&T and Sprint combined. It’s actually not all that mini in fact, it’s about as long and tall as the original (6.1 by 2.3 inches) - but it looks like someone sliced the original in half with Then came the Big Jambox, a shoebox-size $300 version with big enough sound for a backyard.
It pumps out surprisingly loud, clear sound - for its size, which is It’s a sharp-edged rectangular box, $150, that comes in a choice of colors. The Jawbone Jambox was one of the earliest hits. A Bluetooth speaker neatly remedies that enormous quality difference between audio and visual. Every time some company offers a new tablet, laptop or phone, you can bet that it has a better, sharper, brighter screen - but what about the sound? It’s Every company and its brother has been cranking out compact, colorful, battery-powered wirelessĪnd no wonder: these things really are awesome. In consumer tech, we may remember this as the year Bluetooth speakers finally outnumbered insects on the earth.
revealed that the enemy is us? The year Miley Cyrus absolutely, positively stopped playing an adorable child actress? How will people remember 2013? As the year of the government shutdown? The year the N.S.A. The Jambox Mini is available in nine colors and five perforation patterns of shiny aluminum.
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