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Comment on Please DO NOT have fun in our store! by Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:35:20 +0000

Thankfully camera phones in general, and the iphone in particular make it easy to take the needed shots in store.

Much better than the old days of feeling like a criminal with my point & shoot, looking both directions down the aisle before I take a shot.

Comment on Please DO NOT have fun in our store! by Al

Al — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:27:40 +0000

Whilst I agree about the fun aspect, I worked in a Fashion store (high end) for 14 years. I agree with the “Apple argument”, however, I honestly cannot count the amount of times I caught buyers/rival companies photographing our products just to manufacture/copy them for their own labels. Some were really blatent about it, some were going to extremes of concealing cameras and distracting the staff or taking items to the changing rooms to do it. The buying teams for these trips work to a budget- it is much cheaper to photograph product/details then copy them that way.
The long term result is lost sales.
For example if a UK company wants to open a store abroad, trading on their unique attention to detail or brand identity, then find another company doing EXACTLY the same thing…. that would surely affect sales, wouldn’t it?
Further to that, if the photographer is taking photos just for the reasons you stated, the best course would be to ask the store manager first- just common courtesy. For the record, a fun and professional service would ALWAYS keep me coming back. Nobody really likes being told what to do! Anyways, great article, thanks.

Comment on Please DO NOT have fun in our store! by Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor

Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:11:33 +0000

Fun post Jason! I saw this a lot when I was working in retail in the 80’s with stores in the Santa Monica Place mall, where the Japanese tour busses stopped each day by the droves, put up signs in their stores in both English and Japanese not to take pictures. I saw it a couple weeks ago at the Holister in SOHO when the only comment made to me while I was there, “Sir, no pictures allowed.” Its fairly funny in hindsight.

Comment on Clear Spot from Clear not so great by Lee in SA, TX

Lee in SA, TX — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:50:28 +0000

Forgot to mention. I have tested this Cradlepoint PHS300 using my Sprint 3G Novatel Ovation U727 USB Modem. Works great. Same speed experienced with it in Cradlepoint as when it was plugged in direct to laptop. Still slower than 4G Wimax from Clear, but hey, at least I’ve now got the option when I’m outside of Clear’s coverage area.

Comment on Clear Spot from Clear not so great by Lee in SA, TX

Lee in SA, TX — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:48:30 +0000

Okay, heard from Cradlepoint tech support. They said “turn off traffic shaping option” which I did have turned on. Apparently was a default setting. No change in speed. Back to the drawing board. Still better speed than depending upon my 3G card, and it is flexible in allowing Blackberry, iPhone, iPod Touch, etc to connect at the same rate as my laptop. Just tested with a friend’s Blackberry, was able to connect instantly, he was extremely pleased with the speed. We transferred a 5.6mb video file from my laptop to his Blackberry in less than 5 seconds. Wow!

Comment on Clear Spot from Clear not so great by Lee in SA, TX

Lee in SA, TX — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:56:51 +0000

I’ve been running Clear in San Antonio, TX since they soft launched on November 1st. I was one of the first couple of dozen activations. Yay me! Love the CLEAR 4G service and speed.

I just bought a Cradlepoint PHS300 (not from Clear) and it worked great, straight out of the box. Just got it 3 days ago. Updated the firmware just because it (the router) prompted me to do so on that status page, plus updated the firmware on the CLEAR Motorola USB modem also.

I bought the car power adapter just in case I needed to charge on the go. I’ve got those for all my cell phone, bluetooth and my laptop, cause I spend a lot of time going mobile.

Anyway, my one pet peeve about this device, is speed. I can get twice the speed if I plug the USB modem direct into my laptop, as compared with plugging the USB modem into the Cradlepoint PHS300 and connecting the laptop to it wirelessly. Doesn’t matter how far apart the two are during the test, nor the signal strength for CLEAR. I get 1/2 of whatever speed I could get, compared with going direct.

Anyone else having this experience? I’ve contacted Cradlepoint tech support and am awaiting a response.

Comment on Clear Spot from Clear not so great by David Park

David Park — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:58:28 +0000

Yes, this seems to follow the cellular model here in the U.S.: Your cellphone is locked to the provider (unlike how it works in Europe, where phones are unlocked) so that they can make back the difference (if any) between what they paid for the device and what you paid. The same thing is happening with MiFi on 3G networks right now.

The MiFi seems to be cooler than the ClearSpot because it has the 3G receiver built into it as opposed to having to plug the receiver into it like it seems that you have to do with the ClearSpot. One piece of circuitry would probably use power more efficiently as well. But the current configuration probably works best until WiMax becomes ubiquitous or until the devices have automatic 3G/4G switching technology!

Comment on Clear Spot from Clear not so great by JimmyzATL

JimmyzATL — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:20:43 +0000

Clear is all the rage here in Atlanta. We had some bumps early on, but as of Sept 18 2009, things are amazing!

Comment on Clear Spot from Clear not so great by kmr

kmr — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:56:05 +0000

I am in India, is there any way to make the local USB modems to work with PHS300.

Who should be contacted to make a request to add the local Inidan USB modems compatibility.

Their support team does not seem to be interested to listen it appears?

Is there a way?

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