Louis rips CTIA and Samsung to shreds - because they deserve it

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/fNuu9ZEZqiQgan61zbpXoA

Sadly it doesn't.

• At least not on my devices.

#CTIA support outside of #Smartphoes, #Tablets and #PTT radios is basically nonexistant.

https://wanderingwires.net/notes/abjhde4319gew8zw

Weekly output: Starlink on United, spectrum policy, Google updates (x3), Ecosia, Charter to buy Cox, user-groups talk

I’m flying to San Francisco tomorrow evening only to turn left at SFO so I can spend the next two days in Mountain View for Google I/O–my 12th trip to cover Google’s developer conference.

(This past week also involved flying, but only for fun; Patreon readers got a breakdown of the long miles-and-points game that led up to my bucket-list 747 flight.)

5/13/2025: I Tested Starlink on a United Airlines Flight: It’s Fast and Steady Once You Get Past the Ads, PCMag

The strange sequence of airports on my calendar two Thursdays ago–DCA-ORD, ORD-ORD, ORD-IAD–yielded this recap of my experience trying out Starlink inflight broadband on a United Airlines-marketed Embraer 175 regional jet.

5/14/2025: CTIA conference shows how FCC spectrum auction authority is becoming telecom’s Groundhog Day, Light Reading

This post also started with reporting the week before from the wireless trade group CTIA’s 5G Summit in D.C., which I continued by quizzing Public Knowledge’s walking telecom-policy database Harold Feld.

5/14/2025: Google Unwraps Android 16 Design Details: Springier Animations, With a Side of Improved Battery Life, PCMag

I got an advance briefing from Google about its I/O announcements, which turned into three posts–the first covering some of the more important user-facing parts in Android 16 and Wear OS 6.

5/14/2025:Google Tips Big Security Upgrade for Your Phone in Android 16, PCMag

The second part of my coverage focused on the security changes in Android 16. If you’d like to know more, Citizen Lab researcher ‪John Scott-Railton took a closer look at them in a Bluesky thread.

5/14/2025: Gemini Everywhere: Google Expands Its AI to Cars, TVs, Headsets, PCMag

Of course AI will figure in Google’s I/O news, so part three of my advance coverage outlined Google’s ambitions to put its Gemini AI platform on some less-obvious screens.

5/16/2025: This Search Engine Uses Its Earnings to Help the Environment. New Dashboard Lets You Track Your Impact, PCMag

I’ve written about the environment-minded search site Ecosia a few times over the past few years, which was apparently enough times to get their PR folks to offer me a heads-up about this announcement.

5/16/2025: Charter to Buy Cox: We Have Questions About What This Means for Your Plan, PCMag

This was the one post I didn’t have anywhere on my cloud of probabilities for this week, but I had enough free time Friday to write up Charter Communications’ deal to buy Cox Communications and turn the second- and third-biggest cable broadband providers into the biggest cable ISP.

5/17/2025: May 2025: Rob Pegoraro: 2025 in Tech: what fresh hell is this?, Washington Apple Pi/Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group

I made my more-or-less annual appearance before these three user groups (last summer’s was via Zoom), unpacking some serious concerns I have about the state of tech but also sharing some reasons for optimism. And as I’ve done in earlier IRL appearances, I showed up with a bag of tech-event swag and gave away almost all of it.

#5GSpectrum #Android16 #BrendanCarr #CharterCommunications #Cox #CTIA #Ecosia #google #GoogleIO #IO #OLLI #PATACS #spectrum #spectrumAuctionAuthority #Starlink #UnitedAirlines #userGroup #WashingtonApplePi #WearOS6

Weekly output: next-gen philanthropy, new FCC priorities

If you’re reading this somewhere around the greater Washington area and a) want to say hi in person and b) want to come home with some of the tech-event swag I’ve accumulated over the last two years, head out to Fairfax Saturday afternoon for the joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society, Washington Apple Pi, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. The event starts at 1 p.m., and my talk unpacking 2025’s tech plot twists begins at 2 p.m.

5/6/2025: Millennials Are Shifting What Counts as Philanthropy, Worth

I wrote my first piece for this publication in more than a year. I shouldn’t have taken that long, but it seems I needed to run into one of Worth’s editors at an AI conference in Vegas to renew those ties.

5/7/2025: In Setting Priorities, New FCC Chair Happy to Be ‘Moving on Trump Time’, PCMag

I spent Tuesday afternoon at the wireless-industry trade group CTIA’s conference in D.C. and decided that FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s friendly conversation with CTIA CEO and president (and former FCC chair) Ajit Pai was the newsiest bit for PCMag readers.

5/12/2025: Updated this post to add a mention of the other host of Saturday’s event, the longstanding Apple users group Washington Apple Pi.

#AjitPai #BrendanCarr #charity #CTIA #donations #GenZ #millennials #philanthropy #spectrumPolicy

@chr1st1an thanks.

I did hear about @shiftphones / #shift in the past, but that #HeadphoneJack / #HeadsetJack is kinda non-negotiable.

• I can understand why no phone supports #OMTP instead of #CTIA for the #Headset but that is fixable with a cheap, passive adaptor...

Still, for others this may be the option...