From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 22 17:55:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDD737B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:55:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4A75D6A918; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:25:27 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:25:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GSM vs. CDMA (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)) Message-ID: <20010123122527.H16170@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010123110243.B16070@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:42:36PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 18:42:36 -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > 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. Well, the phone I use works in the USA, but I suppose you mean the Nokia. Yes, I considered that, but remember that a second phone can be very expensive. I've also looked at the US Nokia phones, and they're noticeably different from the GSM ones. 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