From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 22 17:40:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D68037B400; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA18990; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:35:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAC9aGdL; Mon Jan 22 18:35:18 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA07349; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:40:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200101230140.SAA07349@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: GSM vs. CDMA (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:40:18 +0000 (GMT) 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 In-Reply-To: <20010123110243.B16070@wantadilla.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 23, 2001 11:02:43 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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