Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:40:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), keichii@peorth.iteration.net, brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles), kris@FreeBSD.ORG (Kris Kennaway), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GSM vs. CDMA (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) Message-ID: <200101230140.SAA07349@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010123110243.B16070@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 23, 2001 11:02:43 AM
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> > In case this wasn't obvious: don't expect your GSM phone from > > outside the US to work in the US, Canada, or Mexico. The US > > GSM system uses a different set of frequencies, so unless your > > phone is multifrequency as well as multimode, it won't work. > > You've jumped into this discussion relatively late (I hope). We've > already discussed this, along with the frequencies. Yes, I saw that. I was more thinking about who you would be pissing off if you turned one of these things on in the U.S. near a military base. > > Actually, I've only seen a couple of phones that are capable of > > multimode _and_ multifrequency, and they were very expensive; you > > might as well just have two phones... > > 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 :-) Nokia has the 5185i; have you looked at it? Most of the service agreements for the triband phones in the U.S. give them the "right" to reprogram your phone on you: basically a forced "upgrade". Verizon is particularly nasty about that, but for a flat rate and no long distance charges, I'll overlook a lot, at least until the first time they zap WinCE onto the thing... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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