[gentoo-user] cellphones and gentoo

[gentoo-user] cellphones and gentoo

[James]

Hello,

Well it's time to get a new cell phone (current LG died).

Listening to some hacks, I've decided to get a wifi enabled
cell phone, or a foreign made wifi device, just to have some fun.
Alltell does not seem to support any wifi enabled cellphones.
I may have to switch cellphone providers.

I have a 'flat rate' unlimited plan with Alltell (4 counties
in florida are unlimited) for $59 mo. Alltel's voice network
is rarily congested. Their phones choices:
http://www.alltel.com/phones/index.html

are depressing.

I've been thinking about T-mobile and a plan for voice and 
wireless data access to the internet. (Anyone happy with T-mobile?) 

Motorola and other cellphone vendors have bluetooth support and some 
wifi support built into the phones. Anyone got a wifi enabled cell phone 
working with Gentoo? Another wifi only portable handset?

I also noticed 'kdebluetooth'. Since my portable does not have
bluetooth built in, does any pccard vendor provide hardware
(& driver) that works with gentoo?

I did notice Alltel is selling the blackberry 7250. Anyone 
like this phone and does it work well with Gentoo?

thoughts and suggestions are most welcome.

James

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Re: [gentoo-user] cellphones and gentoo

[Quag7]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:26 +0000, James wrote:

> 
> I've been thinking about T-mobile and a plan for voice and 
> wireless data access to the internet. (Anyone happy with T-mobile?) 

I don't know how they are nationally, but T-Mobile was awful here in the
Tucson area.  Enough that I cancelled and switched to Verizon.

Try: http://www.cellreception.com as a starter to narrow things down.

 -Quag7

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[gentoo-user] Re: cellphones and gentoo

[James]

Quag7 <coldfront <at> frostwarning.com> writes:


> > I've been thinking about T-mobile and a plan for voice and 
> > wireless data access to the internet. (Anyone happy with T-mobile?) 

> I don't know how they are nationally, but T-Mobile was awful here in the
> Tucson area.  Enough that I cancelled and switched to Verizon.

> Try: http://www.cellreception.com as a starter to narrow things down.

nice link....


I'm going to find a portable wifi device, and see how it goes for 
sip/Voip connections...
I'll have to figure out how to map/hook the wifi-to-home connections
over the Vonage line (unlimited LD)....

cheers,

James




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