From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 22 16:43:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF3437B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:42:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA54402; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:42:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:42:36 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GSM vs. CDMA (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) In-Reply-To: <20010123110243.B16070@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: :That depends on where you live. Triband GSM phones aren't overly :expensive, there just aren't many of them. I have a Motorola L+, :which has different names in different parts of the world. It works :just about everywhere I have taken it, and it costs no more than its :two-band competitors. It's just a POS. I really hate the user :interface, and as soon as Nokia comes out with a triband phone, I'll :buy one. I did consider using the Motorola only in America and the :Nokia in the Real World(tm), but I found that jumping from one :interface to another was more of a nuisance than I thought. It was :relatively simple, though, since I just needed to swap SIMs :-) Have you considered getting the US version of the same phone you use in the US? Still means you need two phones, but only one UI. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message