AllenAyres
I type Like navaho
Registered: 03/10/00
Posts: 25452
Loc: Texas
You've got at least 2 that I know of David is a handful tho, he just pours drool from his teething. He went through 3 warddrobe changes yesterday
Originally Posted By: Gizmo
Most quadband phones should work just about anywhere you go; you should stop by a kiosk for your provider and see what they recommend.
I did, verizon, the guy said the company they worked with in mexico has issues so verizon stopped using them. We may try the international calling card route - when we tried that for a paris trip the card worked, but all instructions from the operator were in french, which made the call impossible
btw, you can usually get these "discount"/(stolen) phones on ebay from places like dubai and china
I'm not talking about anything stolen You go there, buy it legally from an electronics shop and return home with it Actually, you have to sign some paper before entering Turkey (in the Airport). I don't know the procedure in the U.S., but in here, you have to register the phone with a telecom company in order to use it Btw, I heard that from a Associate Prof. in my Uni.
Unless work buys it I won't be getting one. I get upset if I have to pay $39 for a phone.
It's a phone - you make a few calls, a few text messages and that's it for me. I spend 80% or more of my time within reach of a 5MB Cable modem or T1 workstation computer - I certainly am not going to spend $600 on a toy just so I can "look cool" and be annoyed as heck with the slow speed of anything Web or Java on the unit.
As for watching a video on it, come on - that too is just an annoyance. I'd much rather watch a movie on HDTV or even a 40" TV, or at the Theater than on a little window that I have to have glasses on and squint and can't really share with anyone unless you want them leaning on your shoulder (not too much fun watching movies alone).
Gizmo
Wizard
Registered: 01/10/00
Posts: 5134
Loc: Portland, OR, USA
well for me, I like to go out, and run around; but with the type of (self employeed) work I do I have to be available; and we have hotspots everywhere here, so a "smart" phone with a web browser to replace my PDA (I need WPA vs WEP in some places) would be grand...
There are a lot of addon programs that aren't supposed to work but do work. Plus a lot of hidden OX stuff too. It's got an SSH server in there. You can add an ssh client. Apache would not surprise me at all. There's a nintendo emulator that I've seen. It's really cool. Looks good and runs very smooth.
Gizmo
Wizard
Registered: 01/10/00
Posts: 5134
Loc: Portland, OR, USA
Well, if it's based on OSX it's underlying system is linux, so it wouldn't suprise me what you can port over to it... Likely has an ARM processor, and there is a lot thats already coded to work on that (hell, a NDS has the same thing)
Well I don't have one but my boss has one (the company bought it for him) and he says he is about to go back to his blackberry perl
Seems there is no voice recognition on the unit, the e-mail need IMAP (similar to POP3) to get all his mail but we don't run it on our Exchange Server.
Some other pet peeves too (personal annoyances more than faults of the unit I suppose)