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On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:13:46 -0500, "Rocky" <wookiee@att.net> wrote:

>
>"Rocky" <wookiee@att.net> wrote in message 
>news:Wb6dnYuYPImB1fHNnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@giganews.com...
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>> "William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote in message 
>> news:k4hen1$ngj$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>> Using anything shortens its working life.
>>>
>>>> I can vouch for the remark made but I can give you more details too:
>>>
>>>> I use smartphones, tablets and laptops to listen to internet radio all 
>>>> the
>>>> time and I've only had one device that suffered because of that.  What
>>>> happened to that particular device is the WiFi quit working and it 
>>>> doesn't
>>>> even work after a factory reset.
>>>
>>> Who knows why the WiFi quit? The radio could have failed simply because 
>>> the
>>> chip went bad.
>>>
>>> HP has had problems with the radios in some of its notebooks.
>>
>> Yes, I've heard that and I've even seen one person that no longer has WiFi 
>> on their HP notebook but they claimed it was the switch itself that quit 
>> working so I try not to use the hardware WiFi switch on an HP notebook.
>>
>> Me, I've had a power plug fail on an HP ZD7000 notebook and that was 
>> common for that particular notebook.
>>
>> I've also had a DVD fail on an HP DV8000 notebook but when the second DVD 
>> failed too I went back to the first DVD and it has been working fine since 
>> then.  I doubt if I'll ever figure that one out unless if it was a problem 
>> with the connector.
>>
>> Other than that, I've seen a lot of videos on youtube with problematic HPs 
>> where if it isn't the WiFi that goes out it is the video.  Case in point:
>>
>> HP 's Worst Laptop Ever - Pavilion ZD8000 -
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2stqQtQePcM&hd=1
>>
>> Oddly enough I skipped getting the HP ZD8000 because I went from an HP 
>> ZD7000 to the HP DV8000 where the ZD8000 looks more like the ZD7000 than 
>> the DV8000.
>>
>> FYI the only device I had that lost the WiFi was a Pharos Traveler 137 
>> that I got real cheap when a place was getting rid of them so I wasn't too 
>> upset when the WiFi quit on that.
>>><http://www.pharosgps.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=001_PTL137_8.00><
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>FYI I recently copied a bunch of songs up to a micro SDHC card and I can 
>still use bluetooth A2DP to play those songs through the speakers connected 
>to a laptop with bluetooth.  So that means even though the WiFi quit working 
>on the device mentioned above the bluetooth still seems to work OK so they 
>must not be using the same transmitter or same receiver.

They don't.  The antennas are separate, even.

> http://www.mobileburn.com/definition.jsp?term=A2DP