From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 8:54:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mmcable.com (fe2.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D382F37B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from [129.15.167.229] ([129.15.167.229]) by mail2.mmcable.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:51:32 -0600 From: Mike Meyer Message-ID: <2.0-1971224-395-A-OEWW@smtp-server.mmcable.com> To: Doug Young , Mike Meyer , Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:53:34 -0600 Subject: Re: dialup modem (some off topic stuff) X-Mailer: Eudora 2.0 for PalmOS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young wrote: > From: "Doug Young" >> Nokia seems to be doing something better than Ericsson. I've got one >> of the bitsy fashion phones (because it's the only one available > with >> IR modem capability except for Ericssons) with no external antenna, >> and it's usable in places the Ericsson - with a small external > antenna >> - wasn't. Of course, the Ericsson was pretty much junk anyway, which >> is why I got a Nokia and gave away the Ericssons. > > I have a number of GSM phones around here (up to 5 years old.) NONE > of the ones more than 13 months old that are still functional are > Nokia. That's better than I saw with the Ericsson. They were all unusably unreliable after 3 months. Six failing in a year is enough to convince me to avoid them. The only problem I had with a 9000 in two years of use was breaking the faceplate when I raw into a wooden chair arm with it - and that was just cosmetic, the phone worked fine. It also worked for intermitent use while waiting for replacememts for the peice of junk. That was when I noticed it had better reception than the Ericsson - even though the Ericsson had an analog mode. > After the problems with their DataSuite product & a number of bad > experiences > with Nokia warranty claims they don't have much chance of selling > their particular > brand of trash anywhere I have influence. I also had good luck with the supprt folks, but the communicator line has it's own support group. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message