Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:22:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: keichii@peorth.iteration.net, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GSM vs. CDMA (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) Message-ID: <20010123122223.G16170@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200101230140.SAA07349@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:40:18AM %2B0000 References: <20010123110243.B16070@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200101230140.SAA07349@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Tuesday, 23 January 2001 at 1:40:18 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> 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. Hmm. Yes, I wonder what would happen. I wonder how long it would take them to work out what was going on. >>> 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? I have now (http://www.nokiausa.com/5185i). It doesn't do GSM. According to Nokia's emetic popup, which requires an explicit click to close, "TriMode" means AMPS, 800 MHz CDMA, and 1900 MHz CDMA. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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